Recipe of Pomegranate-Eggplant Relish - Food Recipes

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Pomegranate-Eggplant Relish

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Serving Size : 1
Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Condiments Sauces And Preserves Pasta & Pasta Sauces Restaurant Vegetables

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1/3 c Olive oil 1 md Eggplant -- diced medium 1 md Red onion -- diced small 2 tb Minced garlic 1 c Tomato juice 1/3 c Pomegranate molasses Salt and pepper -- to taste 1/4 c Roughly chopped fresh mint 1 Pomegranate -- seeds of In a large saute pan, heat oil over high heat until hot but not smoking. Add eggplant and cook, stirring, until well seared and quite soft, about 5 to 7 minutes. Reduce heat to medium, add onion and cook, stirring, for 2 to 3 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Add tomato juice and pomegranate molasses, bring just to a boil, reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, season with salt and pepper, stir in the mint and pomegranate seeds and serve hot or cold. This relish will keep, covered and refrigerated, for about 6 days.
Serving size: About 4 cups. From John Willoughby and Chris Schlesinger's New York Times News Service "Pucker Power: Sour Tastes Can Sound a Sweet Note for Discriminating Cooks" 01/31/96 article in "The (Louisville, KY) Courier-Journal." Pg. C6. Electronic format by Cathy Harned. From: Intercook - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -