Name: Warm Aubergine Salad with Garlic Yogurt and Caramelised Walnuts
Yield: A Starter for 6
Ingredients: 4 large tomatoes, thinly sliced; 1 large red onion, sliced into rings; 50 g/1¾ oz rocket (arugula); big handful of fresh basil, roughly shredded; 1 tbsp groundnut oil; 3 small-ish aubergines (eggplants), cut into 1 cm/½ in.thick rounds; rapeseed (canola) oil, for frying; salt; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; pinch of salt; 8 garlic cloves, finely chopped; 1½ tbsp brown sugar; 120 g/4 oz. scant 1 cup walnut quarters (or halves); 1 level tsp ground turmeric; ½ tsp chilli powder; ½tsp cornflour (cornmeal)

Preparation info

A Starter for
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Salmagundi

By Sally Butcher

Published 2014

About

This is absolutely one of the favourite starters we offer at out supper clubs. It has little to do with any vestige of culinary talent that we may possess, and everything to do with the fact that garlic sauce tends to make everything a little bit wonderful and a lot better. Shame we can’t just pour garlic sauce on the troubles of the world and make all the bitterness go away...