Zaalouk with Grilled Bread & Herbed Beans

Smoky Moroccan eggplant-tomato zaalouk beside lemon-herb butter beans and charred bread.

💪 Where's the protein? Right here — 18g

Butter beans (12g)
Whole-grain bread (5g)

🍃 Sugar-Free Option

No added sweeteners in this recipe — it's sugar-free as written. Any sugars in the nutrition panel come from whole vegetables, grains, and fruit only.

Ingredients (all organic)

✓Eggplant, 1 large
✓Tomatoes, 3
✓Butter beans, 1 cup
✓Cumin + smoked paprika
✓Garlic, 3 cloves
✓Lemon + parsley + cilantro
✓Olive oil, 1.5 tbsp
✓Whole-grain loaf, 2 thick slices

Dotted ⓘ ingredients have photos and store locations in the field guide.

How to Prep

1Char the eggplant whole until collapsed; scoop the smoky flesh.
2Stew with grated tomato, garlic, cumin, paprika until thick.
3Warm butter beans with lemon, herbs, and oil.
4Grill the bread; swipe through everything.

🔪 Starting from raw? The basics (1)

Beans: canned or from dry

Canned is fine everywhere — drain and rinse; one 15-oz can is about 1½ cups. From dry: soak overnight and simmer 60–90 minutes until fully tender.

#mezze#summer#high-fiber

📍 Buy the ingredients — Chicagoland

Every ingredient above is stocked organic at these local spots:

Whole Foods Market — Lakeview
Fresh Thyme Market — Bucktown
Pete's Fresh Market — Bridgeport
Mariano's — Throughout Chicagoland
Dill Pickle Food Co-op — Logan Square
Sugar Beet Food Co-op — Oak Park

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26g protein

Zaalouk with Grilled Bread & Herbed Beans

Ingredients (all organic)

How to Prep

📍 Buy the ingredients — Chicagoland

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