Spicy Eggplant Stew with Potatoes, Mushrooms, and Chickpeas

DEElicious! Plus it's easy as these things go. There's a bit of peeling and chopping to do as prep, although not much, then it cooks for a long while to allow the cook to do something else.

As is often the case with Jaffrey's recipes, I used about half the oil asked to start frying the spices.

The recipes feels a bit like a clean-out-the-pantry sort of thing. I'm sure you could use bits of veg that need using up. Jaffrey gives instruction for adding okra. Anything that has a shorter cooking time would just be added later.

The result was a yummy stew that we ate pretty much on its own, as a one-dish dinner. The recipe says it says four to six. I think four would be stretching it. Two of us had dinner and we'll have a mugful each for lunch one day soon, so it might serve three comfortably.