ROAST AUBERGINE TACOS
ROAST AUBERGINE TACOS
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.