
Baingan Bharta
A whole aubergine is charred directly over a gas flame until the skin is blackened and the flesh inside is soft
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A whole aubergine is charred directly over a gas flame until the skin is blackened and the flesh inside is soft

Börek are Turkish pastry packages filled with various ingredients: meat, cheese, or vegetables

The okra is washed, dried thoroughly and trimmed, then cut into 2 cm pieces

Aubergine cubes are salted to weep, fried hard in olive oil to deep gold, and reserved

Onion is softened in oil; garlic, ginger and curry powder bloom

Cooked chickpeas (tinned for speed, OR overnight-soaked and home-cooked for the best texture) toss with diced red onion…

A deeply complex, rich sauce combining charred tomatoes with smoldering chipotle peppers, garlic, and red wine

Whole black urad lentils and a small handful of red kidney beans are soaked overnight, then pressure-cooked or simmered…

Dried chickpeas soak overnight (never cooked, chickpeas must remain raw)

Dried chickpeas (or a chickpea-fava blend) soak overnight

Fasolada is the Greek bean soup that's often called the country's national dish, a slow-cooked pot of haricot beans…

Pita breads are torn into pieces and toasted (or fried) until crisp and crunchy

A torn pita is brushed with olive oil and grilled or fried until golden and crisp

The Saudi take on foul medames, somewhere between the Egyptian original and the Yemeni daal-like versions

Fried green tomatoes are the South's answer to using up the last of the summer tomato patch before frost, firm unripe…

Ful medames is the breakfast Egypt has been eating since pharaonic times, dried fava beans slow-cooked overnight into…