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Sabich
Vegetables

Sabich

Pita with tahini sauce, fried eggplant and hard-boiled egg, topped with amba, schug and salad.

⏱ 7 min🧩 2 parts

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Tahini sauce

  1. 1
    Mix the tahini and lemon juice and season with salt.
  2. 2
    Gradually add cold water while stirring, until the sauce is smooth, pale and pourable.
    💡When you add the first water, the tahini thickens and looks like dough: that's fine. Keep adding water and stirring, and it loosens into a smooth sauce.

To assemble

  1. 3
    Heat the oil in a deep pot and fry the eggplant slices in it until golden, and drain on paper towels.
    ⚙ Deep-fryingStoveSlotted spoonCandy/oil thermometerDeep pot for frying
    💡Fry eggplant for sabich until golden and completely soft, and drain well: it soaks up oil, and the paper draws out the excess.
    💡Keep the oil at 170–180°C (340–355°F): too cold, and the food soaks up oil; too hot, and it browns outside before the inside cooks. Without a thermometer, dip the tip of a wooden spoon in the oil: when medium bubbles form around it right away, the oil is hot enough.
    💡Don't overload the oil: every piece that goes in cools it down. Fry one piece as a test, then the rest in several batches, and transfer to paper towels.
  2. 4
    Open the pitas and spread tahini sauce inside.
  3. 5
    Arrange the eggplant and slices of hard-boiled egg in the pita.
419calories
19 gprotein
28 gcarbs
23 gfat
● protein 19%● carbs 28%● fat 53%

Per serving (283 g), of 4 servings

For the Tahini sauce · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (3) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Deep pot for frying · Also works: Electric deep fryer (None) · Wok (Less oil, less stable)
  • Slotted spoon · Also works: Spider strainer (None) · Tongs (For large pieces)

Helps, not needed: Candy/oil thermometer

By the steps, as the recipe is built now: another version or addition can change the list.

🧩 Parts

⚙️ What you can change

  • Possible additions: Olive oil for grilling · salt · Paprika · Amba · Schug · Vegetable salad · Pickles · Salting the eggplant before frying (minutes) (30) · Hummus in the pita · Eggplant rounds (thickness) (1 cm) · Pan-frying (minutes per side) (3–4) · Raw tahini in the pita · Tomato · Cucumber · Red onion · Parsley · Boiled potato · Tortilla toastie · Oil for brushing the toastie
  • Potato cooking time (minutes): 20
  • Toasting time in the sandwich press (minutes): 4–5

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