ROAST AUBERGINE TACOS
Ingredients
- 200g/7oz cherry tomatoes
- halved
- 1 small red onion
- chopped
- 1 red chilli
- chopped
- 1 jalapeño chilli
- chopped
- 4 garlic cloves
- 100ml/3½fl oz white wine vinegar
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 aubergine
- stem removed and cut into finger shapes
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp black pepper
- 4 garlic cloves
- roughly chopped
- 4 fresh thyme sprigs
- 150g/5½oz blanched hazelnuts
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter
- 250g/9oz halloumi cheese
- cut into slices
- 200g/7oz natural yoghurt
- pinch sumac or zatar
- 6 corn tortillas
- 2 tbsp chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves
- 1 lime
- cut into wedges
Directions
- To make the burnt tomato salsa
- preheat the grill to high. Place the tomatoes
- red onion
- chillies and garlic on a baking tray and cook until blackened. Place all the charred ingredients and the vinegar in a food processor or blender and blend to make a chunky salsa. Season with salt and pepper and set aside.
- Preheat oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6.
- Brush the aubergines with the olive oil and place
- cut side-up
- in a roasting tin. Sprinkle with the salt and pepper and top with the garlic and thyme. Roast in the oven for 30 minutes
- or until just cooked through.
- Meanwhile
- place the hazelnuts in a single layer on a baking tray. Toast in the oven for 8 minutes. Leave to cool slightly and then transfer to a food processor and pulse until roughly crushed.
- Remove the aubergine from oven. Discard the garlic and thyme and cut the aubergine into bite-sized pieces.
- Melt the butter in a frying pan or grill pan over a medium heat. Add the aubergine pieces and cook for 7–8 minutes
- or until golden brown. Transfer to a plate and keep warm in a low oven.
- Place a grill or griddle pan over a medium heat and grill the halloumi slices for about 2 minutes on each side
- or until golden brown.
- Mix together the yoghurt and sumac (or zatar) and set aside.
- Warm the tortillas in a frying pan. Divide the halloumi
- aubergine
- burnt tomato salsa
- hazelnuts and parsley evenly between each tortilla
- top with yoghurt and finish with a squeeze of lime.

