Aubergine

greenbee

I cook mine up with lots of other vegetables into a ratatouille-type stew which can then be used as the base for vegetable stew, pasta sauce, soup, chilli or curry. It gives a bit more of a 'meaty' texture to vegetarian food, and I find that if there are lots of strong flavours in with it, you don't taste aubergine, it just picks up the flavours from the rest of the food. If you really don't like it, I suggest you chop it up fairly small, and make a VAST amount of whatever you're making so that its an insignificant ingredient!

I make all these kinds of things in the SC, and I think it benefits from the long slow cooking which helps it absorb flavour.

Or you could just make your OH eat aubergine all week and not eat it yourself...

jackieglasgow

greenbee wrote: »

Or you could just make your OH eat aubergine all week and not eat it yourself...

:T:rotfl:Seriously considering it!! I think you're right the best option will be to mix it in with something else and hide it. I'm making vegetarian spag bol this week in the SC with Lentils and beans instead of soya mince, so might chuck it in that, one last question, do you know, if I grate it, will it "melt away" and disappear? That would be even better.....

Jackie

ubamother

if you !!!!! holes in it and bake in a pretty hot oven until all collapsed, the inside turns into a sort of puree mush - which I think tastes much better than when it is sliced up and cooked. You could add the mush to all sorts - esp your curry and it would disappear into it really well.

misskool

you can peel it and then chop it up really small and mix it into anything that's got a strong sauce. That should hide it.

Otherwise make baba ghanoush and get OH to eat all of it

Patchwork_Quilt

Aubergine does melt if you cook it for long enough and it doesn't taste of much, either. I suspect if you put it in curry, you will hardly notice it.

buxtonrabbitgreen

I am not keen on aubergine either. But it is not bad as lasagne. Fry the slices and then layer it with the sauces and lasagne sheets. Then you can feed it to the oh and freeze the rest then keep feeding it to him till it's gone.

greenbee

misskool wrote: »

you can peel it and then chop it up really small and mix it into anything that's got a strong sauce. That should hide it.

Otherwise make baba ghanoush and get OH to eat all of it

I LOVE baba ghanoush... so jackie, if you do make some, feel free to send it down here...

foxgloves

I like aubergines & grow them in the greenhouse, but my partner wasn't keen on them. A while back, I thought I'd try disguising one, so I sliced it up and fried the slices in olive oil with lots of garlic until they were really brown & caramelised. He was watching TV at time, I took a slice in on a fork and said 'Try this. What do you think it is?' He said it was delicious but had no idea what it was & was really surprised when I told him. I tossed the whole lot into a load of spaghetti, mixed in some grated Parmesan cheese & he not only scoffed it down but said he'd like to have it again. Meatfree so pretty cheap meal. Result.

Jnelhams

I stayed in a hotel in Milan once, and their restaurant was running Aubergine Week....
Without word of a lie, every meal featured Aubergine, Aubergine Porridge, Grilled Aubergine, Aubergine Soup, Aubergine Pasta, Aubergine Cake, Aubergine Ice cream??!!
Needless to say, the local takeaway had a lot of trade.

rockie4

This is really tasty and I'm not a great lover of aubergine!

Aubergine & Chickpea stew

1 onion, finely chopped
1 or 2 cloves garlic, crushed
400g tin tomatoes
squirt tomato puree
1 large aubergine, cubed
1 400g tin chick peas, drained and rinsed
fresh coriander
Method
Finely chop the onion and garlic.
Cook in a little water for 5 mins.
Add the tomatoes, puree and aubergine. Simmer gently for 15 mins.
Add the chickpeas, cook for another 10 mins. Stir in the coriander.
Season to taste, I use stock granules instead of salt.
Serve.
This is good on it's own or with rice / couscous.

Makes enough to split into 3 portions if you're not as greedy as I am.