Raw Bac-un - Eggplant

Ingredients

• 1 large eggplant
• ¾ cup olive oil
• ¾ teaspoon paprika
• ¼ teaspoon cayenne
• 2 tablespoons agave nectar (or raw honey)
• 4 tablespoons Ume Plum Vinegar
• Salt to taste (optional)

Preparation

Thinly slice your eggplant, lengthwise (think about how bacon strips look). I use an old cheese slicer and mine turns out great. You could probably accomplish this with a vegetable peeler too. Alternately, you could make ‘round’ bacon by slicing the other way.

Remaining ingredients make up the marinade. Mix up these to make the marinade. Marinate egglplant strips in the marinade for 2 hours.

Place on dehydrator sheets. Salt bacons (optional) and dehydrate for 9 hours. Turn bacon over and dehydrate another 9 hours. Around 110 degrees.

TIPS: I actually dehyrdated mine longer. You can judge for yourself if you want them even crisper. They will still have an “oily-ness” to them even after dehydrated. If you don’t want this, then you can put less oil in the marinade or “blot” your bacons after they come out of the dehydrator.

A variation on the bacon was that I dehydrated some grounded pine nut to make a pine nut spread and I spread some of the spread on to the bacon. Creates a unique taste to the bacon.

http://www.goneraw.com/recipes/418-Raw-Bacon-