Breakfast
Roasted aubergine with tahini yogurt
Tender roasted aubergine with cool tahini yogurt makes a savoury breakfast or brunch.
Servings in this printout: 4
Ingredients
- 1 aubergine
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 150 g Greek yogurt
- 1 tbsp tahini
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp chopped parsley
- 20 g toasted sesame seeds
- salt and black pepper
Method
- Preheat the oven to 220 °C. Halve the aubergine lengthwise and score the cut faces in a crosshatch pattern.
- Brush with oil and season with salt and pepper. Roast cut-side up for 25–30 minutes.
- Mix the yogurt, tahini and lemon juice. Thin with a splash of water if needed.
- Serve the aubergine with the tahini yogurt, parsley and sesame seeds.
Nutrition per serving
Nutrition values are approximate estimates, not laboratory analyses. Products and portion size affect the result.
- Net carbs
- 4.35 g
- Total carbohydrates (incl. fibre and polyols)
- 8.06 g
- Protein
- 5.56 g
- Fat
- 14.49 g
- GL estimate
- about 2 / serving
Confidence · Low Some values or assumptions in the calculation are uncertain.
The calculation also uses comparison values from similar foods or food groups. Small amounts of carbohydrate were left out of the calculation.
Estimate details and sources ↗
How was the estimate calculated?
The serving’s GL is calculated from ingredient data. Confidence describes the evidence behind the calculation. Your blood sugar response may vary.
- munakoisoa · Food group average
- Greek yogurt · Food group average
Calculated ingredient-based estimate per serving, not a measurement of the prepared meal. All supported positive carbohydrate amounts are included. An unmatched individual portion under 1 g available carbohydrate per serving may be omitted only while all such portions total less than 2 g per serving; the omitted amount is disclosed. This is an editorial tolerance, not a clinical precision limit.
Small portions omitted: 0.4 g available carbohydrate per serving.
Research sources and technical details
Source names and technical notes appear in their original form.
- munakoisoa ·
vegetables-category-mean-gi-66 · fineli-362-2026-10-25 - Greek yogurt ·
dairy-category-mean-gi-35 · fineli-34611-2026-10-25
Carbohydrate data sources
- MUNAKOISO · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
- OLIIVIÖLJY · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
- JOGURTTI, MAUSTAMATON, KREIKKALAINEN, RASVAA 7 %, LAKTOOSITON · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
- TAHINI, SEESAMTAHNA, EI LISÄTTYÄ SUOLAA · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
- TÄYSMEHU, SITRUUNATÄYSMEHU, LAIMENNETTU · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
- PERSILJA · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
- SEESAMINSIEMEN, KUORINEEN · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
GI and calculation sources
- International tables of glycemic index and glycemic load values 2021: a systematic review · Very broad category proxy. It may poorly represent individual non-starchy vegetables and is shown with low confidence. (Low)CATEGORY_MEAN
- International tables of glycemic index and glycemic load values 2021: a systematic review · Category mean, not a measured GI for the recipe's cream cheese. (Low)CATEGORY_MEAN
Notes
You can roast the aubergine the night before and reheat it in the morning.