A recipe for when you don’t want to cook

A showstopper vegetarian main, fatteh means “to stack up” in Arabic. There are countless varieties of fatteh but the most popular one, specially in Saudi Arabia, is an aubergine and mince fatteh, aka fatteh bātinjān wa lahm mafrooma.

I love a well-made aubergine fatteh, but sometimes life seems too short for a well-layered fatteh when the craving is unbearable, so here is my very laid-back – in fact lazy – meat-free aubergine fatteh, where you just dollop all of the prepared