Quick and easy curry: Rukmini Iyer’s Sri Lankan-style aubergine and black-eye bean curry recipe

Rukmini Iyer’s Sri-Lankan-style aubergine and black eye bean curry. Photograph: Matthew Hague/The Guardian. Food and prop styling: Lucy Turnbull. Food styling assistant: Food assistant: Chloe Glazier.

Today’s recipe takes great liberties with the base for the classic Sri Lankan aubergine pickle, wambatu moju, in which deep-fried aubergine and onions combine with turmeric, vinegar, chilli and pickling spices to create a moreish side dish. Here, I’ve used the same pickling spice base, but combined it with tomatoes and beans for protein, to make a lovely, flavour-packed weeknight curry.

Sri Lankan-style aubergine and black eye bean curry