Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for aubergine and silken tofu with tahini and crispy chilli spring onions | The new vegan

Ready-made ingredients do the heavy lifting in a dish that’s bursting with flavour

A large part of my ability to put dinner on the table, sometimes at the last minute, relies on the genius of good ready-made ingredients. Specifically, I am talking about silken tofu, tahini and crispy chilli, all of which feature in today’s recipe and which are excellent friends in the kitchen. Good-quality silken tofu is a textural pleasure that can barely hold itself together; it’s gentle, savoury and soothing. It rubs along well with creamy hot aubergines, and the pair of them together are very receptive to most big delicious flavours – such as ginger, soy and crispy chilli – that you can throw at them.