Grilled Aubergine in Honey and Spices

Name: Grilled Aubergine in Honey and Spices
Yield: Serves Four
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: juice of 1 lemon; salt; fresh bread, to serve; 5 ml/1 tsp ground cumin; 75 ml/5 tbsp clear honey; 5 ml/1 tsp harissa; 5 garlic cloves, crushed; 5 cm/2 in piece of fresh root ginger, peeled and grated; 2 aubergines (eggplants), peeled and thickly sliced; olive oil, for frying

Preparation info

Serves
Four

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Complete Guide to Traditional Jewish Cooking

By Marlena Spieler

Published 2016

About

Fire-grilled aubergine, dressed with garlic, ginger, cumin, honey and lemon gets an additional kick from Harissa, North African hot pepper paste. Long Japanese or small round Italian aubergines are excellent varieties to choose for this dish, as are the more usual large, oblong aubergines.

Ingredients

2 aubergines (eggplants), peeled and thickly sliced
olive oil, for frying
5 garlic cloves, crushed

Europe
Italy
Main course
Vegetarian
Mediterranean

Method

Preheat the grill (broiler) or a ridged griddle pan. Dip each aubergine slice in olive oil and cook in a pan under the grill or in a griddle pan. Turn the slices so that they are lightly browned on both sides.
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