Patlican salata (braai slaai!)

It was a revelation for me when I realised that you can make fantastic, warm smokey salads on the braai. This earned a few odd looks from conservative Afrikaans family members, but they were converted very soon – this is undeniably delicious.

The inspiration for this came from our travels through Turkey, and a wonderful recipe book called Anatolia by Tyfun Arras, on Turkish cuisine.

This is an aubergine based cooked vegetable salad, Patlican meaning aubergine in Turkish, but the name Braai Slaai just rolls so nicely off the tongue, we can’t help calling it that 🙂