Eggplant Cinnamon Jam

Flavor Profile

Won 1st place in the South Florida Fair's 2020 culinary competition

Tastes like a fig Christmas cookie with its sweet, rich, and nutty flavor.  This intoxicatingly fragrant conserve is filled with tiny, crunchy seeds.  

Suggestions for Uses

• Serve over pancakes, crepes, or French toast

• Use it to top chocolate desserts (also good with pomegranate molasses on top)

• Spread it on a savory turkey sandwich

• Eat with cheese and crackers

• Use it as a dip for warm pita bread or with crusty bread and wine 

• It can be used as a condiment for skewered lamb or chicken or to dress up a good burger

• It's also good as a base for a flatbread pizza with fontina, brie, or soft spreadable goat cheese

• Serve it as part of a summer dinner composed entirely of bowls of appetizers, dips, olives, salads, and, well-chilled wine.  Put everything in bowls and let guests help themselves 

• Coat lamb or chicken with this jam in a tagine 

• Try it on toasted sourdough for dinner, with goats cheese and a drizzle of pomegranate molasses 

• Serve with roast pork or as a condiment alongside another roasted meat dish