Eggplant with tomato chilli oil
Ingredients
- 4 eggplants, cut into 2½cm rounds
- 6 cloves garlic
- 1 tbsp chives, roughly chopped
- 350g unsweetened coconut yoghurt
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 lime – zested
- 2 tbsp sesame seeds
- 2 cinnamon sticks, roughly broken
- 1 dried chilli
- 1 whole star anise
- 3 shallots, finely chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 2 tsp maple syrup
- 1 tsp sweet paprika
- 2 tsp chipotle flakes
- 1 tsp gochugaru
- ½ tsp tomato paste
- 2 cans tomatoes
Steps
- Heat the oven to 230C. Put the aubergines in a bowl with the oil and salt, and mix well.
- Spread out on a large, flat, parchment-lined baking tray and roast for 20 minutes.
- Turn the tray, flip over each aubergine round, add the garlic and continue to roast for another 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, mix ingredients from yogurt to salt in a medium bowl and set aside.
- Spread out sesame seeds, cinnamon, habanero and star anise in a frying pan and put on a medium heat.
- Toast, shaking the pan every now and then, until the seeds are golden brown. Tip the seeds on to a plate.
- Add the onion, salt and two tablespoons of the oil to the pan and return to a medium-high heat.
- Fry, stirring, until the onion turns golden brown. Remove from the heat and add more oil.
- Add the garlic, maple syrup, paprika, chipotle, gochugaru and tomato paste, stir well.
- Grate the tomatoes on the large holes of a box grater. Add the pulp to a sieve and leave to drain for a minute.
- Add the drained pulp to the pan with the chilli oil, mix, then return the pan for two minutes.
- Discard the habanero, cinnamon sticks and star anise.
- Tip the sesame seeds into a mortar with salt and roughly crush, add to the chilli oil.
