Greek fried aubergine slices with tomato sauce and feta

Another Greek taverna vegetarian special! 

You'll need:

- 2 nice juicy tomatoes finely chopped

- 2 cloves of garlic roughly chopped

- olive oil

- salt

- pepper

- oregano

- basil

- pepper

- hot paprika

- 1 long, thin aubergine sliced then salted for 30 minutes and soaked in salty water until ready to cook

- flour to dust the aubergine

- a couple of thick slices of feta cheese, crumbled

Let's rock! Starting with the tomato sauce ...

1. Prep the tomatoes. Cut a criss-cross at the bottom. Slowly pour over boiling water in a sink. Leave for a minute. Peel off the skins. Chop finely.

2. Olive oil in a pan. Medium heat. Garlic in. 1 minute.

3. Tomatoes in.

4. Herbs and spices in.

5. Reduce the sauce down on a low-medium heat, lovingly stirring, coaxing out those flavours! You might be thinking to yourself, "Blimey! That's a lot of olive oil down there!". And you'd be right. But that's the Greek thing. It's good for you!

6. Now for the aubergine. Slice, salt and soak.

7. Pat the slices in flour.

8. Fry on both sides in olive oil (medium heat) till golden brown (10-15 mins).

9. Drain on kitchen roll.

10. Plate up. Arrange the slices on a plate. Spoon some tomato sauce on each slice. Crumble feta on top.

11. Serve with a cheese pie or two that the lovely old lady from downstairs just brought us! Or a slice of bread to mop up the sauce.

Enjoy!

That came to around 0.80 Euros per serving.