Chickpea Stew with Roasted Eggplant

Here’s a different twist on the beans-and-rice formula.

This chickpea stew recipe comes from a book by one of my favorite cookbook authors: Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero. Isa Chandra’s recipes are so inventive and inspiring; so abundant. She also has a delicious sense of humor. The introduction to Veganomicon says they chose the title because “a big vegan cookbook needed. big vegan name. (But just to be safe, don’t read this cookbook backward at the stroke of midnight.)” I actually prefer the first edition of this book which has a cover that sort of looks like a chemistry textbook: but both the original and the 10th anniversary edition (which has more pictures) are easy to find.

If you manage to find or make the pomegranate molasses (which is optional), you are in for a treat!