Gather your mise en place; get together all of the equipment needed for the recipe and gather your ingredients.

Dice the eggplant, red pepper, red onion, and roma tomatoes finely, about the size of the raisins roughly.

Finely mince the garlic with a An extra fine grater typically used on citrus, ginger, garlic or hard cheeses. Watch those fingertips!rasp or a chef’s knife.

Chop the olives, and measure out the raisins, capers, red wine vinegar, honey, and some red pepper flakes if using.

Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat; sear eggplant in the oil until they soften and brown.

Add the onion and continue to cook until the onions begin to caramelize.

Add the red pepper and continue to cook until all of the vegetables are soft. Add the garlic and cook for one minute or until garlic is fragrant.

Add the tomatoes, raisins, capers, olives, vinegar honey and pepper flakes and Adding flavour to a food to enhance its taste. It can be as simple as salt and pepper or herbs, spices vinegars and condimentsseason well with salt and pepper to taste.

Reduce heat to low and simmer until all the flavours have married and the consistency is stew like.