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Roasted Aubergine & Millet Salad with Hot Chickpeas and Feta — Green Kitchen Stories

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Roasted Aubergine & Millet Salad with Hot Chickpeas and Feta — Green Kitchen Stories
Aubergine typically will get a nasty rep for its bitter style and being difficult to prepare dinner with. It’s true that when it’s not cooked proper it does style fairly horrible. However when all stars align and you prepare dinner your aubergine completely, the buttery gentle inside and barely burnt tones are extra pleasurable than all of the greens at an L.A farmer’s market mixed. Truly cooking aubergine isn’t difficult in any respect, roughly 97% of all dangerous tasting aubergines are merely undercooked. After we roast aubergine we be sure to actually crank up the warmth and roast it till it seems black-ish on the skin and is tremendous tender and buttery gentle inside. We then toss it in a marinade or French dressing to let it take in taste. 

On this salad we’ve got mixed roasted aubergine with scorching chickpeas and scorched feta cheese – all roasted on the identical tray! We pair the nice and cozy components with thinly sliced fennel, candy grapes, colourful cherry tomatoes, leafy greens and a fluffy millet combine that we toss in pesto French dressing. It’s really scrumptious with a mixture of heat and chilly components and a big selection of textures. 

We now have been collaborating with Swedish/Italian firm Zeta for the previous few years and preserve their vary of beans, grains, olive oils and vinegars shut at attain. After they launch new merchandise and innovations they typically ask us to prepare dinner one thing enjoyable with them. They only launched a brand new natural millet combine with buckwheat, amaranth, inexperienced peas, black quinoa, durra and sesame seeds. It is a actually good combo and cooks in just below 10 minutes. Fast, tasty and provides a sense of sustenance to any salad or meal. 

In case you have adopted alongside right here that millet is considered one of our favourite pseudo grains. It is gluten free and has been rising in Scandinavia for greater than 3500 years (Nordic Bronze Age)! It is wealthy in minerals, cooks tremendous quick and has a satisfying fluffy and gentle texture when cooked.

Clearly, for those who do not reside in Sweden and cannot discover Zeta merchandise you need to use one other grain combine on this recipe or just use plain millet. Benefit from the recipe and take a look at the little recipe video under.

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