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A thick sauce or spread made from pureed aubergines and sesame seeds, typical of eastern Mediterranean cuisine.
‘The food is tasty, cheap and plentiful: olives, hummus, baba ganoush (aubergine dip), falafel, kibbeh (lamb meatballs), fasoula, tabouleh (cracked wheat salad).’
‘For $3.50, you can get stuffed vine leaves, baba ganoush or hummus, served with a thick coating of delicious olive oil.’
‘Sandwiches are filled with hummus or baba ganoush.’
‘Pita bread, hummus (chickpea dip), baba ghanouj (eggplant dip), and tabbouleh (a salad of parsley and bulgur or cracked wheat), have become mainstays on health food menus.’
‘They're all excellent, from subtle versions of hummus and baba ghanouj to a rollicking, red-peppery eggplant relish cryptically dubbed ‘eggplant with sauce.’’
‘Sometimes I find a dip, like a homemade hummous or baba ganoush on the menu.’
‘Hummus, baba ghanouj, and foul mudammas (fava beans stewed with tomatoes and onion) arrived decked with apple slices, crisp-fried spinach, and sesame seeds.’
‘One has to explain that while Tazka delivers real humus (four leva) and baba ganoush (four leva), ours weren't quite as tasteful as what we're used to.’
‘A plate of crisp pitta toasts, mounds of home-made chickpea cream and roasted aubergine baba ganoush with chopped egg makes for a satisfying light meal.’
‘Share hot and cold mezzes such as hummus and baba ghanouj or steamed mussels with preserved lemon or a new selection of Mediterranean-style marinated raw fish.’
‘Most baba ghanouj dips in town depend on garlic, or lemon, or quantities of sesame-based tahini sauce for their character.’
‘We had a veritable feast of Middle-Eastern dippy things: baba ganoush, fouls medames, tabbouleh.’
‘So did the eggplant spread known as baba ghanouj, which was further distinguished by its understated touch of lemon.’
‘We had already bathed in the smoky, garlicky bliss of Mary's superb baba ghanouj.’
‘It was about the baba ghanouj, the puréed eggplant that's a staple in any Lebanese fast food joint - and there are three of them in this town.’
Origin
From Egyptian Arabic, from Arabic bābā, literally ‘father’ + ghannūj, perhaps a personal name.