Favorite Ways with Eggplant / Aubergine?

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I am recently being tempted by fancy vegetables. So I found myself with some cute little stripy eggplants from my local Indian shop and some baby pointed peppers from the supermarket.

Decided to try and adaptation of eggplant ravaiya from the NYT recipe app.

Took a photo of everything in the pan ready to be simmered. Have a feeling the finished product won’t look as nice!

Everything simmered into a nice creamy sauce, but the stuffed vegetables seemed a bit unwieldy, so I cut them in the pan into more manageable pieces. Tastes good too. Would make this as a dinner party ‘fancy’ dish, and it’s vegan to boot.

Ravaiya is the Gujarati variant of Bharli Vangi. I made it at home and it turned out very well (in my humble opinion). Next time I would use smaller aubergines.