To start · €9
Aubergines with cane honey
Aubergine sticks, crisp outside, creamy inside, with Frigiliana cane honey poured over. The most ordered dish in the house and the one that has changed least in twenty years.
- Price
- €9
- Portion
- To share · 12 sticks
- Season
- All year
- Allergens
- Gluten
- Suitable
- Vegan (cane honey, not bee honey)
- Pairing
- Sweet moscatel, a finger's worth
The dish
The aubergine is cut into sticks, left half an hour in salted milk to take the bitterness out, floured and fried hot. The cane honey (sugar-cane molasses, not bee honey) comes from the only factory left in Europe, in Frigiliana.
Where it comes from
- AubergineMarket gardens on the Vélez plain; in summer, striped aubergine, sweeter.
- Cane honeyThe Frigiliana mill, Europe's last cane-honey factory.
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