Pasta in basil oil with aubergines, broad beans, red onions and chillies

There has been one version or another of this dish on Paradiso menus for most of the restaurant’s life. It is, I think, a kind of pre-planned ‘pasta with whatever’s in the fridge’ dish. At one time or another, just about every vegetable in the store has had a night out with the basil oil and some pasta. This recipe is one of my own favourite combinations. I think I could eat pasta with aubergines, chillies and olive oil for the rest of my life and you’d hardly hear so much as a whimper of a