Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, aubergine sauce with saffron rice. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook aubergine sauce with saffron rice using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Aubergine Sauce with Saffron Rice:

1. Prepare 500 g eggplants (aubergines), about two small ones, roughly chopped
2. Make ready 1 large bell pepper, roughly chopped
3. Prepare 250 g onions (1 big onion), diced
4. Make ready 1 small piece of ginger root, finely sliced
5. Get 2 cloves garlic, minced
6. Make ready 75 g olives, diced
7. Get 1 tablespoon capers
8. Make ready 800 g crushed tomatoes (two cans)
9. Prepare 1 vegetable stock cube
10. Prepare Few teaspoons of sugar
11. Make ready to taste Sweet paprika, chili flakes, salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper
12. Get pinch sumach (optional)
13. Make ready 1-2 teaspoons garam masala
14. Get rice:
15. Prepare 1 1/2 cup long grain rice, uncooked
16. Prepare 1 big pinch saffron
17. Prepare 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
18. Prepare 2 handfuls unsweetened dried barberries or cranberries
19. Get 1 tablespoon granulated sugar

Steps to make Aubergine Sauce with Saffron Rice:

1. Heat some oil in a wok over high heat. Add eggplants in a single layer (you may have to do this in batches). Fry until browned (not cooked through). Remove from wok and set aside in a colander
2. Add some more oil to the wok and toss in the bell pepper until charred. Set aside in the same colander
3. Next, reduce heat to medium, oil the wok if needed. Add the onion and fry until golden brown, then add ginger and garlic. After about 1 minute, add capers, olives and crushed tomatoes
4. Transfer all the vegetables from the colander into the wok. Simmer over low heat for 40-45 minutes with the seasoning: sugar, stock cube, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, chili flakes, garam masala, sumach and sweet paprika
5. In the meantime, cook the rice in 3 cups of water and a pinch of saffron. Cover until ready to eat
6. Finally, prepare the berries: heat some butter in a small frying pan. Add barberries and sugar. Toss berries for about 2 minutes and take off heat
7. To serve: scoop some rice in a bowl, top with crispy berries and the vegetable sauce. Enjoy :)

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