🇬🇳 Guinean Cuisine

Sauce Aubergine

Eggplant Sauce

Prep Time 35 min
Servings 4
Difficulty Easy
Calories 338 kcal

A smoky, melt-in-your-mouth eggplant sauce cooked with tomatoes, onions, and dried fish, creating a thick, flavorful stew that pairs beautifully with rice.

Ingredients

  • 4 large eggplants
  • 200g dried fish, soaked and deboned
  • 3 tomatoes, blended
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 2 scotch bonnet peppers
  • 1 bouillon cube
  • Salt to taste
  • 300ml water

Instructions

  1. 1 Grill eggplants over open flame or under a broiler until skin is charred and flesh is soft.
  2. 2 Peel off charred skin and mash the flesh.
  3. 3 Heat oil and sauté onion until golden. Add blended tomatoes and cook 10 minutes.
  4. 4 Add mashed eggplant, dried fish, peppers, and bouillon cube.
  5. 5 Add water and simmer 15 minutes until thick. Serve over rice.

Did You Know?

Charring the eggplant over an open flame is essential — the smoky flavor is what transforms an ordinary sauce into something extraordinary.

From The Culinary Codex — http://theculinarycodex.com/dish/guinean/sauce-aubergine/