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Neil Perry

BBQ chicken with Moroccan-style Eggplant Salad


A delicious eggplant salad served with marinated chicken breast.

Serves 4

Ingredients

Marinated Chicken

  • 4 chicken breasts
  • 250 ml extra virgin olive oil
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • Sea salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • ½ bunch rosemary

Moroccan Style Eggplant Salad

  • 2 large eggplants in 1/2 inch thick slices
  • Sea salt
  • Olive oil for cooking
  • ½ cup continental parsley leaves
  • 4 cloves garlic roughly chopped
  • 3 tomatoes blanched, peeled, de-seeded and chopped into 8
  • 1 teaspoon cumin powder
  • Extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 lemon juiced

Method

Marinated Chicken

  1. Blend all marinade ingredients together until incorporated.
  2. Marinate the chicken breasts for a couple of hours.
  3. Heat the BBQ and grill the chicken breasts on the char-grill for about 10 minutes, turning once.
  4. Rest them well.

Moroccan Style Eggplant Salad

  1. Salt the eggplant slices well for one hour.
  2. Wash and pat dry.
  3. Heat some olive oil in a fry pan and shallow fry the eggplant pieces to a dark golden brown (not black). Remove and drain.
  4. Add the parsley leaves and fry quickly.
  5. Add the garlic, tomatoes and cumin and return the eggplant pieces to the pan.
  6. Reduce the heat, add a dash of extra virgin olive oil and the lemon juice and mix it all together, breaking the eggplant up well.
  7. Spoon the eggplant salad onto a serving plate and arrange the chicken breast pieces over the top.
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  • Gemma
    February 2012

    This recipe is amazing, and so simple! It really is worth trying. I omitted the parsley as I had none on hand, and the lemon juice (woops). It was a tad time consuming when salting and drying the eggplant and I found the key to perfectly brown eggplant is a stable medium heat. I imagine this is a dish which becomes easier to prepare the more you make it, and I will definitely be making it again.

  • Janelle Tames
    August 2010

    Great, I've now learned how to avoid eggplant becoming too soppy when frying in oil.

  • dreema
    June 2010

    Oh yes forgot to add, I used Rice Oil not olive oil as the kitchen shop guys say that Olive Oil damages the non stick in the pan. The rice oil is light and tastless, nice, great in baking too!

    • Vicki
      July 2011

      I use Olive oil in my non stick pans all the time and it doesn't hurt them at all. I was told not to use spray oil in any non stick pan because it has an incredient in it that ruins the pans.

  • dreema
    June 2010

    I first started cooking the eggplant as suggested by putting oil in the pan..... too much oil, too rich and too many calories!! So I now very lightly brush the washed eggplant while it is on a tea towel, each side of each piece and fry, medium heat in a heavy non stick frypan, easy and golden brown.

  • Susanne
    December 2009

    The cooking of the eggplant takes some time but the end result is well worth it. People were making comments with each mouth full. Thanks Neil.

  • Anna145
    August 2009

    Sounds good

  • dreema
    May 2009

    I have cooked this eggplant dish of Neils for a while now. Tastes just as good the next day, heated through. I also serve it as a side dish with Roast Lamb. Yum

  • Rusted Iron Chef

    Not too much lemon or it will be too bitter. Very nice indeed. Brilliant aroma.

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