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Eggplant Panini – with a twist

March 15, 2022 By sue Leave a Comment

Eggplant Panini - with a twist

It is summer vegetable glut time again when I am desperately looking for different ways to use the vegetables to get some variety (see more ideas at the end of this post). I heard someone say that you could use slices of eggplant/aubergine to replace the slices of bread in a panini or toasted sandwich and decided that that was worth trying. Cut 1cm slices lengthways of your eggplant. Top slices with your favourite toasted sandwich filling - I used cheese and rhubarb relish. Place second … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Kitchen, Recipes Tagged With: Aubergine, Eggplant

Eggplant Lasagne Recipe

February 25, 2021 By sue Leave a Comment

Bake until golden

This eggplant lasagne recipe is a great way to use a late summer glut of eggplant (or aubergine). You can use a combination of whatever vegetables you have available - I had not quite enough eggplant and courgettes that were still producing so I used those. It uses lasagne sheets broken into pieces and stirred through the mix, which keeps it simple and all in one pan rather than bothering with layering the vegetables and pasta. Of course you can do that if you prefer or use any type of pasta you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Kitchen, Recipes Tagged With: Aubergine, Eggplant

Chinese Eggplant with Spicy Garlic Sauce Recipe

January 29, 2021 By sue Leave a Comment

Chinese Eggplant with spicy garlic sauce

After having a delicious but simple eggplant dish at a Chinese restaurant, I decided to see if I could replicate this at home. I found a few recipes online but didn’t have some of the ingredients so this is my version of Chinese Eggplant with Spicy Garlic Sauce. 1 medium eggplant or several smaller ones 1 spring onion 2 cloves garlic 1 red chilli 1/2 inch fresh ginger 1 tbsp soy sauce 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar 1/2 tsp sugar Oil Chop eggplant into small pieces. If you like … [Read more...]

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Layered Eggplant & Capsicum Salad

May 28, 2020 By sue Leave a Comment

Layered Eggplant & Capsicum Salad

This layered eggplant & capsicum salad is a tasty and colourful way of presenting late summer vegetables. I love the use of fresh herbs and the combination of Middle Eastern flavours. Although the recipe gives quantities, just go with what you have. The first time I made this I didn't have any capsicum ready in the garden and I'd used the last of my frozen capsicum so I used a jar of preserved capsicum. 3 medium red capsicum (but use whatever colour you have) 1 kg eggplants (the long … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Kitchen, Recipes Tagged With: Aubergine, Capsicum, Eggplant

Finally Success Growing Eggplants

May 7, 2020 By sue Leave a Comment

Eggplant success

I have previously posted about my variable success growing eggplants or aubergines, and how some years I throw them out in disgust at the end of the season after only managing to produce one or two eggplants. Each year I plant them again in the seemingly vain hope that I will get a bumper crop. I've tried them in different positions in the garden, in self-watering pots, in my glasshouse, and sometimes achieved a reasonable harvest. This summer though I hit the jackpot! I was later than usual … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garden Tagged With: Aubergine, Eggplant, Recipes

Roasted Eggplant with Curried Yoghurt

January 24, 2020 By sue Leave a Comment

Roasted eggplant with curried yoghurt

This year I tried planting a grafted eggplant and we also had a very warm spring so I have, for the first time ever in the whole time I have been gardening, been able to harvest large 'professional' looking eggplants very early in the season. It is such a delight to be looking for lots of different recipes for using them. This delicious recipe is from Ottolenghi's 'Simple' - thanks Darja for the recipe book :-). 3 large eggplants (~1kg) 100ml canola oil 200g Greek-style yoghurt 2 tsp curry … [Read more...]

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Tomato, Eggplant & Ricotta with Zoodles Recipe

January 4, 2019 By sue Leave a Comment

Tomato, Eggplant & Ricotta

This Tomato, Eggplant & Ricotta with Zoodles recipe is a variation on Jamie Oliver's Happiness Pasta recipe in his Everyday Superfood Cookbook and it certainly gave me happiness enjoying it in the sunshine with a glass of red wine. It is a perfect vegetarian meal to wow guests with, especially if you have grown the vegetables and made the ricotta yourself. 2 eggplants (or aubergine) 40g pine nuts 2 cloves garlic 3 shallots 1 bunch fresh basil Olive Oil 800g tomatoes (can use frozen … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Kitchen, Recipes Tagged With: Aubergine, Eggplant, Ricotta, Tomato

Harissa Roasted Eggplant

June 28, 2018 By sue Leave a Comment

Harissa Roasted Eggplant

This Harissa Roasted Eggplant recipe is from Jamie Oliver's Everyday Superfoods cookbook. It is just so amazingly delicious and a wonderful plant-based meal that I just had to share it with you. I'd love to say that I'd grown the eggplants myself but I only managed to grow smaller sized ones this year. I've made lots of recipes with my eggplants but this one uses them as the centrepiece so it is good to use the larger sized ones (but you don't have to). 1 red onion 2 cloves garlic Olive … [Read more...]

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Baba Ghanoush Recipe

February 22, 2017 By sue Leave a Comment

Garnish and serve with pita bread

I have just harvested my first eggplant from the garden so my thoughts are turning to Baba Ghanoush recipes and all the other delicious things I can make using eggplant. I was quite surprised to have an eggplant so early as it hasn't been a good summer and in previous years it has been well into autumn before the harvest began - see my earlier post on growing eggplant or aubergine. Baba Ghanoush (or eggplant dip) is a popular appetiser throughout the Middle East. Over the next few posts I … [Read more...]

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Growing Eggplant or Aubergine

April 6, 2016 By sue Leave a Comment

Lebanese eggplants

I hadn't had much luck growing eggplant previously. It seemed a bit of a lottery as to whether I'd get any eggplants at all: some years I'd get a few and other years none at all. There would nearly always be flowers but few or no fruit. A few years back when I  was clearing out the remains of my summer vegetables, I was about to pull the eggplants out in disgust (again) when I noticed that there were some little fruit setting. I left the plants there and was rewarded with quite a good crop of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garden, Plants Tagged With: Aubergine, Eggplant

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