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Eggplant Caponata 💜
Ingredients
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- 3 eggplants
- extra-virgin olive oil (for deep frying)
Wash and cut the eggplants into small pieces. Add a good amount of olive oil into a pot. When the oil is hot, add the eggplants in small doses. Deep fry them for 4/5 minutes until golden. Drain the fried eggplants and place them over a plate covered with baking paper to assorbe the oil in excess.
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- 2 celery
- 1 onion
- 400 g tomatoes
- 200 g jarred pitted green olives
Cut the onion, tomatoes, celery and olives.
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- 50 g pine nuts
Add the pea nuts in a pan and let them roast for a couple of minutes.
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- 50 g salt-packed capers
- extra-virgin olive oil
- salt
Add oil into a pot and when hot, add the onions. When golden, add the celery, olives, capers, roasted pea nuts, tomatoes and salt. Stir between each step.
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Cover and let it cook over low heat for 15/20 minutes.
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- 2 tbsp sugar
- 3 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 40 g tomato paste
Meanwhile, add white vinegar, tomato paste and sugar in a glass. Mix well with a spoon.
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- basil
After 15/20 minutes of cooking time, add the vinegar sauce into the pan. Increase the heat and rinse for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and add the fried eggplants and a good dose of basil.
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Mix well all ingredients and let the dish cool down.
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Caponata is a dish to be served at room temperature, so store it in the fridge for some hours (ideally overnight as the dish will taste better the next day!).
Enjoy your meal!
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