Saffron chorba with roasted aubergine and sweet potatoes (vegan)

Name: Saffron chorba with roasted aubergine and sweet potatoes (vegan)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Moroccan
Ingredients: 500 g sweet potatoes; 500 g aubergine; 2 tbsp olive oil; 2 pc onions; 2 pc tomatoes; 2 tbsp tomato paste; ½ tsp ground turmeric; ½ tsp saffron; 1 tsp salt; ½ tsp black pepper; 500 ml vegetable stock; 400 g chickpeas; 100 g spaghetti; 10 g parsley

A comforting Moroccan vegan soup studded with roasted aubergine and sweet potatoes, finished with plenty of saffron and chickpeas.

20 min 291 kcal/serving serves 6

291kcal11gprotein47gcarbs8gfat

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🍠sweet potatoes

🍆aubergine

🫒olive oil

🧅onions

🍅tomatoes

🍅tomato paste

🫙ground turmeric

🫙saffron

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About Nargisse Benkabbou

Moroccan-Belgian chef and cookbook author specialising in modern Moroccan home cooking

Nargisse Benkabbou is a Moroccan-Belgian chef, food writer, and self-taught cook based in London, best known for her blog My Moroccan Food and her cookbooks, including Casablanca and Sweet Sugar, Sultry Spice. She is recognised for bringing traditional Moroccan cooking into home kitchens with an emphasis on approachable, well-tested recipes.

Her cooking draws on classic Moroccan staples such as preserved lemon, ras el hanout, saffron, and slow-cooked tagines, alongside pastries and sweets rooted in Moroccan tradition. She favours recipes that keep the flavour profiles of Moroccan cuisine intact while adapting techniques and ingredient lists for home cooks working outside Morocco, often streamlining methods that would otherwise require specialist equipment or hard-to-find ingredients.

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