Roasted aubergine with tamarind and coriander

Tara’s kids are always asking which of them is her favourite child. ‘I have a favourite daughter,’ she says, to her only daughter, Scarlett. ‘And definitely a favourite oldest son,’ she says to Scarlett’s twin brother, Theo. ‘And, of course, my favourite youngest child will always be Casper,’ she says to the little one, before he punches the air and runs off to make some noise. When it comes to vegetable ‘favourites’, though, no such qualifications are needed: it’s aubergines all the way. S