Moutabbal - Palestinian Baba Ghanoush - smoked eggplant salad

Ingredients

• 5 eggplants (about 1.5 kg before cooking)
• 200 g Tahini (of 100% whole or pealed sesame)
• 100 g freshly sqeezed lemon juice, out of 3-4 small ripe and juicy lemons
• 5-10 g salt, by flavor
• optional: 2-3 cloves of garlic, pressed
• fresh leaves from a few stalks of Nana mint, freshly chopped
• 10-20 g 100% extra-virgin olive oil (a drizzle)
• optional: 20-50 g fresh pomegranate seeds
• optional: 10-20 g pure syrup of dates or of carob (a drizzle)
• optional: 1-2 ripe tomatoes, diced
• optional: 1 small purple onion or spring onion, chopped
• optional: a pinch of sumac