Milk Street’s Eggplant, Tomato, and Chickpea Tagine – Fantastic, Healthy Weeknight Dinner

I've had some leftover couscous I've wanted to use up, and found a vegetarian tagine-style recipe on Milk Street that seemed like the perfect excuse to attempt couscous v2.  The recipe – Eggplant, Tomato, and Chickpea Tagine – also had the benefit of being prepared within minutes in the Instant Pot and as such, another way to try to prepare eggplant, my previous foe.  

The result was fantastic – flavorful, with great textural variance from the well-cooked eggplant and tomatoes with still firm chickpeas.  I halved the recipe and used regular paprika in favor of the sweet paprika. 

The chickpeas themselves were ever so slightly bland, but may have been because I twice as many chickpeas as the halved recipe would use.  I look forward to making this again as an easy, very quick (and healthy!) weeknight dinner.