Easy Recipes With Aubergine

From Aubergine Lasagne to Aubergine Pizza Bites and Aubergine, Harissa and Halloumi Salad, we often find ourselves reaching for the versatile veg whenever we're craving something meat-free, healthy and wholesome. Great for soaking up oodles of flavour, it can be cooked up into curries, blended into dips or simply enjoyed on its own. Delicious baked, fried and even stuffed, it's a firm favourite in the

Family, which is why we've got 24 cracking aubergine recipes for you to make the second you have the chance. With the likes of Grilled Aubergine, and Aubergine Cutlets up for grabs, here's a selection of our favourite ways to cook the spongy vegetable.

Halloumi, aubergine, harissa and pomegranate seeds are a match-made in heaven. We love this halloumi salad, it's healthy, filling and perfect for lunch, dinner or as part of a feast.

Our Favorite Eggplant Parmesan

Aubergine is infinitely better grilled, and this one comes with a simple but addicting tahini dressing. The Mediterranean vibes will have you feeling like you're relaxing along the coast, and we are always up for that.

Scrambled eggs, smoky aubergine puree, chorizo, spinach and tomato salsa make up this tasty breakfast burrito. We've tried to make it as healthy as possible using wholemeal tortillas, and lots of healthy, veggie-packed sauces and flavours. It's well worth the effort for weekend brunching.

How do you successfully accomplish steak night without the steak? Sub in creamy aubergine for a grilled mash-up of the classic French combo. An Argentine herb sauce, chimichurri, transform aubergine and potatoes from vegetable sides to a complete, fancy dinner.

Best Aubergine Recipes

Pasta all Norma is an easy Sicilian pasta dish with aubergine that is essentially pan-fried and lots of ricotta salata. A quick marinara sauce is made for this dish, which uses the oil that the aubergine is cooked in and adds such great flavour to the sauce.

If you're someone that typically enjoys aubergine in parm-form, we hear you. But when you don't feel like setting up a dredging station, the air fryer will give you a slightly crunchy outside with the much-loved creamy inside. Plus, it only needs a little bit of oil to help all of the seasoning stick.

We love using a mandoline to slice the aubergine because it's easy and makes evenly sized slices. You can totally slice them by hand instead, just make sure they're all the same thinness so they bake at the same rate. Speaking of baking, we recommend you keep a close eye on these chips!

Vegan Aubergine Chickpea Bake (middle Eastern)

We like our baba ghanoush GARLICKY. If you don't, skip grating the raw clove in at the end. Without it, you'll have a more subtle (slightly sweet) garlic flavour that will make everyone very, very happy. Accompanied by crudités and pita chips, you really can't go wrong.

For those nights when we really need a vegetable in our lives, we turn to these aubergine steaks. They grill up quickly with minimal prep for a delicious weeknight dinner! Perfect for your next meatless Monday.

After a super comforting dinner? This aubergine pasta bake with a balsamic tomato sauce is topped with plenty of melted cheese, making all kinds of yummy to eat.Say hello to my gluten free stuffed and baked aubergine recipe! It's vegan and low FODMAP too and it's the perfect mid-week meal.

Courgette And Aubergine Antipasti

Sooo many people ask me for recipes that are not only gluten free, but vegan and low FODMAP too. Impossible, right? My stuffed and baked aubergine recipe begs to differ!

So, what are they? I packed my aubergines full of chopped olives, cherry tomatoes, Violife’s Greek white block and topped them with gluten free breadcrumbs, fresh chives and

People who say that vegan food lacks flavour have definitely never tried this recipe. The punch of olives paired with Violife’s distinctive Greek white block is a match made in heaven.

The Best Quick & Easy Vegan Sticky Aubergine –

That’s not even mentioning the lovely, soft aubergine flesh, bursting cherry tomatoes and finally, freshly cut chives – it’s a perfectly tuned harmony of flavours.

Having been regular buyers of dairy free cheese for several years now, there’s one mega-important thing we look for apart from taste – meltability.

The meltability factor and every type of cheese we’ve ever bought from them melts like an absolute dream. Mark even used to take a bag of grated Violife with him when we went out for a pizza!

My Gluten Free Stuffed + Baked Aubergine Recipe (vegan, Low Fodmap)

But yeah – you’ll have wonderful melty chunks of cheese hidden inside your stuffed aubergine and if you haven’t eaten the rest of the block whilst making this recipe (quite hard not to do) then you’ll be able to crumble some on top too.

I know it sounds silly, but it’s such a joy to finally find dairy free cheese that can be used like actual cheese! What can I say? It melts, it crumbles and it tastes like real cheese.

Mark and I always have a ‘meat free Monday’ once a week (even though it seldom happens on a Monday!) so this recipe is now one of our go-to midweek meals for life.

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