
Baked aubergine rounds with cherry tomatoes, served cold
Aubergine rounds baked until meltingly soft, then cooled and topped with finely chopped cherry tomatoes, olive oil and basil. A very simple summer cold dish.
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Aubergine rounds baked until meltingly soft, then cooled and topped with finely chopped cherry tomatoes, olive oil and basil. A very simple summer cold dish.

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Genuinely crispy roast potatoes: parboiled, shaken to roughen the surface and roasted with rosemary and garlic until deeply golden and crunchy.

Creamy, velvety mashed potatoes: potatoes boiled in their skins, riced while hot and beaten with warm milk and cold butter, with no lumps and no gluey texture.

Silky chickpea hummus with tahini, lemon and garlic: the classic Middle Eastern dip, ready in fifteen minutes, with the trick that makes it genuinely smooth.

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