Aubergine salad

Serves: 7
Course: Side Dish
Cooking Time: 0 hr 40 mins

Ingredients

  • <ul> <li>l3 aubergines, cut into 2cm dice</li> <li>100ml olive oil</li> <li>Salt and pepper</li> <li>4 cloves garlic, crushed</li> <li>2 punnets cherry tomatoes, quartered</li> <li>1 green pepper, seeded and diced</li> <li>1 red pepper, seeded and diced</li> <li>Big bunch flatleaf parsley, chopped</li> <li>75g stoned green olives, quartered</li> <li>1 red onion, finely diced</li> <li>Bunch spring onions, finely chopped</li> <li>Splash red wine vinegar</li> </ul>

Preheat an oven to 200 degrees/gas 6. First, drizzle the diced aubergine with a quarter of the olive oil, sprinkle with salt and roast in the oven on two parchment-lined trays for 20 minutes. Remove from the oven, mix in the crushed garlic and cook for another five minutes. Next, place all the remaining ingredients in a bowl, add the roasted aubergine, check the seasoning and toss everything together with the rest of the olive oil and a good splash of red wine vinegar.
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Food cooked and styled by

Domini Kemp

and Gillian Fallon

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Domini Kemp

Domini Kemp

Domini Kemp, a contributor to The Irish Times, is a chef and food writer