I never appreciated eggplants properly until I fell in love with Greek cooking! When cooked well, they become buttery, soft and so moreish. They work beautifully roasted and warm, grilled or baked then cooled in a salad like in this Keto Eggplant Salad.
I’d suggest using smoke almonds if they are easy to get – they add a beautiful complexity to the flavour, but this is just as delicious with normal roasted almonds or even raw almonds.
While you wouldn’t normally want to spend 40 minutes on a salad, it is mostly passive time with the eggplant baking. It’s perfect to get in the oven while you are cooking something else. I think this Keto Eggplant Salad would be perfect made into a larger batch and taken to a summer barbeque!
Keto Eggplant Salad
Using some simple ingredients, this beautiful salad is so fresh yet hearty. Perfect with a grilled steak, lamb chops or fish.
Ingredients
Roast Eggplant
- 1 eggplant
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 5 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
Salad
- 1 cup continental parsley
- 1/3 cup smoked or roast almonds roughly chopped
- 8 mini roma tomatoes halved
Dressing
- 1/2 cup greek yoghurt
- 1 teaspoon dried mint
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 180C / 356F.
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Dice the eggplant into 1cm chunks. Toss with olive oil, garlic powder, salt and pepper and place in a small baking dish. Bake for 30 - 35 minutes until tender and caramelised, stirring halfway through.
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Meanwhile, roughly chop the almonds and halve the cherry tomatoes. Combine sauce ingredients.
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Once the eggplant is cooked, let it cool slightly then toss with remaining salad ingredients. Dollop minted yoghurt dressing on top and serve warm or cold.
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With 17g of carbs in a single meal this is far from Keto, you realise that most people on Keto only have 20g carbs a day, right? Unless this was your only meal for the day you would most likely , if not definitely go over your daily carb intake.
Hi Danielle
Are you familiar with how fibre and net carbs work?
This is 7 grams of net carbs, because the ingredients are so high in fibre (which we need in our diets). You’ll see the fibre listed on the nutritional panel.
I don’t believe in eating as low carb as possible at the sake of nutrition, and 7 grams net carbs for a substantial, filling salad is very manageable. You’ll also see it mentions to serve it with some grilled meat, meaning the total meal would be around 7 – 8 grams of carbs. Again, very easy to fit into a standard 20 – 25 grams of carbs per day.