Malidzano- A summer eggplant delight

We in our country usually spend our summers at home or nearby lake Ohrid which is about 120 miles from the capital of Macedonia-Skopje and in those hot summer days no one likes to over eat a lot of
carbs or foods that consist of fats and sugars.

Thats why the great and ingenious peoples
 of the Balkan peninsula have invented a hand full of summer spreads usually consisting of bell peppers, eggplants or regular green peppers that u can combine with some delicious sheep cheese or some beautiful greek feta cheese so u can ease you`re craving and in the same time don`t collapse under the hot summer sun eating calorie rich foods.
My grandma was the expert in making the Malidzano that im going to present today and a master of 

concocting weird summer dishes that her grandma and her grandma created centuries ago.

In the spirit of easy summer dishes and cool summer drinks i present to you one of my favorite comfort foods that i loved growing up in my small town of Skopje. The grandpa of the all famous Ajvar....The Malidzano ( I know it sounds Italian but it isnt )
How to make the perfect Green Ajvar
The quantity given in the recipe is for more jars

Ingredients:

1. 20 pieces of eggplant
2. 4 kg of green bell peppers 
3. 1 liter of sunflower oil 
4. 200 milliliters of wine vinegar
5. 200 grams of sugar
6. 800 grams of ground walnuts 
7. 150 grams of mustard
8. salt by taste

Preparation:
First of all bake the peppers and eggplants
Second , after baking them clean them from the seeds and skin. Third, the cleaned peppers and eggplants get grounded in a meat grinder ( its the easiest way believe me )
Add the liter of oil to a big until it boils and add the cleaned and ground peppers and eggplants.Fry them for an hour and a half.At the very end of the frying add the vinegar, ground walnuts, mustard , sugar and salt
While the Malidzano is still hot, put it in pre prepared and cleaned jars.
The best thing of preparing this easy dip is that u will most possibly have to call to help a few of your friends for the preparation so its not just preparing a common Balkan delight but also the whole day spent with your closest friends and family with a few glasses of wine and a whole lot of love :)