Garden eggs: finally an eggplant that looks like an egg!

What ever can you not find at Brixton Market!

I was planning to cook abenkwan, Ghanaian palm nut soup, that requires garden eggs as an ingredient. I had little idea what they would turn out to be but there you go: for once eggplants that DO look like eggs.

They are called igba or ikan amongst the Yoruba's of Nigeria, it is referred to as ngilo in Swahili and nakasuga or nakati in Uganda, ntroma in Ghana and jiló in Brazil. I saw them in Thailand where they are somewhat smaller and greener and called makhuea pra. I had no idea they had an English name.



Garden eggs