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Eggplant Caponata

This Mediterranean favorite makes great use of all the vegetables from your summer garden. Making it a day in advance enhances the complex blend of flavors.

Courses: Dips and Spreads, Side dish
Serves: 8 people

Recipe Ingredients

1/4 cup 59mlOlive oil
1/4 cup 59mlDry white wine
2 tablespoons 30mlBalsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon 5mlCinnamon
1 teaspoon 5mlEggplant - peeled, and (large)
  Cut into 1/2" cubes
1   Onion - coarsely chopped (medium)
1   Green bell pepper - stemmed, cored, (medium)
  And diced
1   Red bell pepper - stemmed, cored, (medium)
  And diced
2   Garlic cloves - peeled, and
  Finely chopped
1   Small can cut tomatoes - (14 oz) - drained
3   Celery stalks - coarsely chopped
1/2 cup 73g / 2.6ozNicoise olives - pitted, chopped
1/2 cup 80g / 2.8ozGolden raisins
2 tablespoons 30mlCapers

Recipe Instructions

In a 5-quart or larger pressure cooker, heat olive oil, white wine, red wine vinegar and cinnamon over medium-high heat.

Add eggplant, onion, peppers, garlic, tomatoes, celery, olives, raisins and capers and stir to mix well.

When mixture begins to come to the boil, close the lid and bring pressure to the first red ring (8 pounds pressure) over high heat. Adjust heat to stabilize pressure at the first red ring. Cook for 8 minutes.

Remove from heat and use Natural Release Method (take the cooker off the heat and set it aside to allow the pressure to subside naturally).

Serve hot, cold, or room temperature. When used as a filling, it is best to drain off or reduce excess liquid.

This recipe yields 8 to 10 side dish or over 12 hors d'oeuvres servings.

Source:
Kuhn Rikon at http://www.kuhnrikon.com

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