Aubergines Calabrese

Name: Aubergines Calabrese (Melanzane alla Calabrese)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons light olive oil; 2 cloves garlic; 6 plum tomatoes or ripe ordinary tomatoes, peeled, seeded and diced; freshly ground black pepper; 2 red chilli peppers, seeded and sliced thinly; 6 mint leaves, chopped; 1 sprig parsley, chopped; 2 aubergines, weighing approx. 450 g/1 lb each; coarse salt

Melanzane alla Calabrese

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Leaves from The Walnut Tree

By Ann Taruschio and Franco Taruschio

Published 1993

About

Ingredients

2 aubergines, weighing approx. 450 g/1 lb each
coarse salt

Europe
Italy
Calabria
Side dish
Starter
Gluten-free
Spicy
Vegan
Mediterranean

Method

Good as a first course or as a vegetable with simply cooked meat.

Wash the aubergines and slice lengthwise, about 1 cm/½ in thick. Sprinkle the slices with salt and leave in a colander to drain for