Makdous is a dish made from oil-dried eggplants. As part of Iraqi and Levantine cuisine, they are tiny, spicy eggplants filled with walnuts, red pepper, garlic, olive oil, and salt. Makdous is a Syrian eggplant preserved in olive oil, a kind of famous Syrian home in Lebanon, Palestine and the Levant in general, where it is prepared for it in the fall. Eggplant is filled with walnuts, garlic, sun-dried peppers, salt and sometimes with chilli powder and pickled with olive oil.
