Vegetarian Aubergine & Chickpea Masala Pies with Cucumber and Mint Dip 🌱 (plant based swaps)
Vegetarian Aubergine & Chickpea Masala Pies with Cucumber and Mint Dip 🌱 (plant based swaps)

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VEGETARIAN AUBERGINE APPETIZERS AND SIDES Sicilian Eggplant Caponata (Vegan & GF) Roast aubergine and veggies on a baking sheet or skillet, and you'll get an amazing Italian dish perfect to share. Plus, it's naturally gluten-free and vegan! Put the aubergine slices onto baking paper lined trays and spray with a little oil. To stop the aubergine from soaking up too much oil, you coat it in a thin layer of cornflour first which also produces nice crisp edges during pan-frying.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have vegetarian aubergine & chickpea masala pies with cucumber and mint dip 🌱 (plant based swaps) using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Vegetarian Aubergine & Chickpea Masala Pies with Cucumber and Mint Dip 🌱 (plant based swaps):
  1. Take 1 tablespoon veg oil
  2. Make ready 1 sheet ready rolled puff pasty
  3. Prepare 1 pack Spice Tailor Chickpea Masala
  4. Take 1/2 aubergine chopped into small cubes
  5. Make ready Pinch black onion seeds
  6. Prepare Egg or milk for pasty wash (use coconut oil for plant based swap 🌱)
  7. Prepare Dip ingredients
  8. Take 3 tablespoons Greek yogurt (use soya yogurt for plant based swap🌱)
  9. Make ready 1 tablespoon cucumber - small diced
  10. Prepare Pinch sea salt
  11. Take 2 teaspoons mint sauce

The list of Persian rice dishes has no ending. This one is not a particularly authentic one although there are some regional rice dishes that are layered with aubergines such as the bademjan polo of Qazvin (a city to the west of the capital, Tehran). And aubergine is such a versatile vegetable! You can use aubergine in everything from curry recipes to vegan recipes, in noodle dishes and salads, in dips and threaded on skewers.

Steps to make Vegetarian Aubergine & Chickpea Masala Pies with Cucumber and Mint Dip 🌱 (plant based swaps):
  1. Pre heat oven to 180deg C - Heat a little oil in a pan and fry the aubergine for a few minutes on a medium heat till slightly crispy on the edges.
  2. Add in your spice tailor spice sachet and fry gently til fragrant
  3. Add in the base sauce sachet, stir to combine and heat til bubbling - Now pour on the main sauce sachet with the chick peas in.
  4. Add 50ml water, stir to combine and simmer on a low/medium heat for 10 minutes so the sauce reduces slightly - Leave the mixture to cool down for 10 minutes.
  5. Cut your pasty sheet into 6 or 8 equal pieces, brush the edges with egg or milk.
  6. Place the chickpea masala mix into the centre of half of the pastry sections you have cut out (the other half will be the lids)
  7. Drape over the other half of the pasty sheets and crimp the edges with a fork to seal - Brush over the top with your egg wash, sprinkle with black onion seed and cut a couple of slits to let steam escape.
  8. Bake on a baking sheet for 25 minutes or until golden and hot. - - Serve with my - quick mint & cucumber dip. Simply combine all the dip ingredients in a small bowl - Easy peasy!

And aubergine is such a versatile vegetable! You can use aubergine in everything from curry recipes to vegan recipes, in noodle dishes and salads, in dips and threaded on skewers. Or stack it up with circles of goats' cheese for a classy starter (try our best vegetarian entertaining recipes here). Everything from stuffed eggplant to eggplant curries, there is a recipe for everyone. Most recipes are gluten free or gluten free adaptable.

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