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Serve with pita chips for scooping.
EASY

Spiced eggplant, tomato and chickpea stew with garlic yoghurt

Celebrate the humble eggplant in this comforting stew.

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez

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Three-treasure pasta.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s three-treasure pasta

This simple pasta gets the best out of fried potato, eggplant and capsicum – three vegetables that go fantastically well together.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Baked chickpeas with eggplant.
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These slow-baked chickpeas capture a sunny taste of the Greek Islands

Fudgy baked eggplant and chickpeas combine with a spice-scented tomato sauce in this dish, served on feast days.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Carolina Doriti
Neil Perry’s classic baked moussaka.
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Neil Perry’s classic baked moussaka

Think of this as a kind of Greek lasagne, only with meltingly soft slices of eggplant replacing the pasta sheets.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Eggplant caviar on bruschetta.
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Eggplant caviar on bruschetta

Big-flavoured, meat-free and cheap to make, this works as a dip served with crunchy toast or as a sauce alongside grilled or roasted ingredients.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Serve with rice and green.
EASY

Japanese miso-glazed eggplant rice bowl

Nnasu dengaku makes for a quick and comforting vegetarian dinner.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
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Give the Italian-American classic of pasta alla vodka a shake-up by adding fudgy roasted eggplant.
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A classic vegetarian pasta dish gets some extra va-va-voom

Fudgy roasted eggplant adds a little “something something” to this creamy Italian-American pasta dish – roasted eggplants alla vodka.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Red curry barramundi.
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Adam Liaw’s red curry barramundi

Barramundi is a great fish for curries. It takes flavour well, has a nice soft texture, and is sustainable to boot.

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Eggplant shawarma with sumac pickled radishes and tahini.
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Eggplant shawarma with sumac-pickled radishes and tahini flatbreads

All the fun of a flatbread-wrapped bundle of fragrant Middle Eastern goodness, but make it meat-free.

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
20-minute pizza alla norma.
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Hold the phone. You can have pizza alla Norma on the table in 20 minutes.

A cheeky shortcut helps this vegetarian pizza come together in a flash.

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook