Aubergine kadaifi nests with red pepper salsa

Really great salsa which suggests multiple future applications. Pastry from the end of the earth making a really nice change from filo. Great filling.

This was a good excuse to finally visit Persepolis in Peckham – a lovely shop which didn’t disappoint.

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Recipe here.

 

Lamb stuffed aubergine with date syrup and tomato

Fairly close in many ways to vine leaf and lamb pie, an earlier win. A recipe which makes the usually unpalatable bulgar delicious. Overall, very successful with only minimal faff. Familiar earthy spicing very much in evidence and plenty of sauce.

Date syrup from Honey & Co.

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Recipe here. You might notice we squeamishly dodged the liver stuffed vine leaves.