Went on a bit of an experiment here, a healthy but filling, feel-good lunch: baked sweet potato topped with grilled ganoushed eggplant, topped with yoghurt, paprika and pomegranate! A super mix of sweet and savoury. Don’t forget to tag me or send me your recreations if you make this. I would love to share! Serves 4…
Category: Eggplant
Veggie Maki Rolls
This maki roll is made with an assortment of semi-boiled asparagus, julienne cut carrots, cucumber and sliced avocado on a creamy cheese base. The sushi rice was actually korean rice, that was a shorter grain and extremely sticky! I simply used a tbsp of MIZKAN sushi seasoning to season the rice enough to get that…
Vegetarian Moussaka
Moussaka is a traditional Balkan and Middle Eastern dish that includes eggplant, potato and meat. You could certainly compare this to lasagne, as it is served in a similar way, but this dish has no pasta. Instead, it has a bottom layer of eggplant and meat doused in an aromatic tomato sauce then leveled with…
Eggplant Teriyaki
Teriyaki is a Japanese cooking technique used on cooked meat or vegetables, which are then glazed with soy sauce, white rice wine (mirin) and sugar. The end result is a delicious contrast of sweet and savory. Today, you get an assortment of ready-made Teriyaki sauce to make this technique easier to redo at home. Here…
Sizzling Szechuan Eggplant with Organic Jasmine Rice
A sizzling hot plate of Szechuan eggplant is comfort food for me. Even though I grew up with Cantonese food, Szechuan cuisine has heavily influenced Chinese food here in Hong Kong. In 2011, UNESCO named Chengdu, the capital city of the Sichuan province, a city of gastronomy due to the sophistication of their cooking methods…