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Griddled eggplant with chickpeas and leaf salad

  • Time to make: 35 mins
  • Serving: 8 people
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 1 eggplant, sliced thickly
  • 2 red capsicums, quartered
  • spray oil
  • 400g can chickpeas in spring water, drained, rinsed
  • 1 red onion, sliced
  • 2 cups baby rocket
  • 2 cups baby spinach
  • 1 ½ cups watercress
  • ¾ cup fresh mint, chopped
  • Dressing
  • 2 tablespoons tahini
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2-3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 lemon, juice
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Heat a griddle pan. Spray eggplant and capsicums with oil. Grill in batches until lightly browned. Halve eggplant slices.

    2 Place grilled vegetables in a large serving bowl. Add chickpeas, onion and salad leaves with half the mint. Toss well.

    3 To make dressing, mix dressing ingredients together with 2 tablespoons water to blend. Pour in small bowl to serve or toss with salad and use remaining mint to garnish salad and/or dressing.

    Variations

    Make it low FODMAP: Omit onion and garlic and use garlic-flavoured oil in dressing.

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