June 17, 2008: Mushroom Too Eggplant Stew

Our Oxfam 'World inward Your Kitchen' calendar has been relatively successful hence far. The focus is actually on uncomplicated recipes, alongside relatively few ingredients that accept less than one-half an hr to throw together, which is ideal for a lazy workday dinner. June's process was from Ghana: mushroom in addition to eggplant stew. I was a chip skeptical of this recipe - it seemed to survive relying solely on onion in addition to a pinch of chili to flavor upwards the vegies. I ended upwards adding inward a few teaspoons of garam masala towards the terminate of the cooking to boost the gustatory modality a bit.

It turned out to survive a hearty, warming mush for a winter's evening. The extra spices were likely necessary - I recollect it would stimulate got been also bland for me otherwise. I'm non certain I'll rush dorsum to larn inward again, but it was uncomplicated in addition to reasonably tasty - total of chunky mushroom bits swimming inward a mashed upwards eggplant sauce, alongside crispy onion bits providing the only textural interest. We opted to serve it on meridian of to a greater extent than or less quinoa, which worked pretty good - yous actually necessitate something to soak upwards the liquid.

Mushroom in addition to Eggplant Stew

1 eggplant, diced
225g mushrooms, sliced
2 tomatoes, chopped
1 onion, sliced
1/2 teaspoon chili flakes
150ml vegie stock (you tin purpose the liquid yous boil the eggplant inward if yous desire to)
oil
salt
2 teaspoons garam masala

Boil the eggplant pieces for 10 minutes or hence until they soften upwards in addition to and hence drain them (keeping the boiling H2O if you're using it for stock). Mash it upwards into a coarse mush.

In the meantime, saute the onion inward stone oil for 5 minutes in addition to and hence add together the mushrooms, tomatoes, chili in addition to salt. Fry the mix for 10 minutes or hence until the mushrooms in addition to tomato plant stimulate got softened.

Now stir inward the mashed eggplant in addition to stock in addition to simmer for at to the lowest degree 10 minutes patch your quinoa/rice is cooking. Stir inward the garam masala nearly a infinitesimal earlier yous desire to serve it all up.