Aubergines with Whey

This is a versatile little recipe: it will see you from canapés at lunchtime, through an impressive dinner-party starter to late-night supper – that is to say, it will enhance your culinary portfolio.

Kashk is almost impossible to get in England, unless you happen to live next door to a dairy farmer who can help you out. You can always use lightly salted yoghurt in its place – it’s not the same, but it does. Kashk is whey (the murky water left after you’ve made your bu