Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, eggplant and tomato pasta. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This summery pasta is just as much about the vegetables as it is about the pasta itself The star of the dish is the roasted eggplant, which caramelizes and softens in the oven Those tender browned cubes then get tossed with cooked pasta and a quickly made sauce of fresh grated tomatoes, capers and. Eggplants, also known as aubergines, belong to the nightshade family of plants and are used in many Italian dishes. my first job as a graphic designer, we always ordered lunch from a great little Italian restaurant that made the best pasta with tomatoes and eggplant. Chez Panisse Eggplant, Caramelized Onion and Tomato Pasta.
Eggplant and Tomato Pasta is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Eggplant and Tomato Pasta is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have eggplant and tomato pasta using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Eggplant and Tomato Pasta:
- Take Pasta (I used linguine this time, but short pasta is OK too)
- Prepare Tomato purée
- Prepare Eggplant
- Take Garlic
- Take Olive oil
- Take to 4 leaves Basil (I was out so I used a bay leaf instead)
- Get Salt
Pasta alla norma - it might sound really fancy, but it's actually just a super simple but tasty and silky tomato and eggplant sauce stirred through pasta. Add a pinch of chili flakes and some oozy mozzarella for a vegetarian pasta dish that even the most hard core meat eater in your life will enjoy. Delicious, Healthy and Easy pasta dish that you can make at home! Toss, then add the tomato-eggplant sauce to the pasta pot, combine and cook for a few minutes over medium-low heat.
Steps to make Eggplant and Tomato Pasta:
- Dice the eggplant, sprinkle lightly with salt, and stir fry with 1 clove of garlic in olive oil over low heat.
- When the eggplant is cooked and golden brown like this, remove from the pan and put on a plate.
- Sauté the other clove of garlic in 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a pan over low heat until fragrant. Add tomato purée and 1 cup of water, and simmer over medium heat for 15 minutes.
- Add the eggplant to the tomato sauce, toss with cooked pasta, and it's done!
Divide the pasta between the plates, and tear-up the mozzarella ball with your hands (or you can use a knife it cut it, but tearing is more fun), distributing the pieces amongst the plates. While the eggplant and pasta is cooking, heat a large sauté pan with the olive oil and onions over medium heat. Add the eggplant, tomato sauce, and a pinch of red pepper flakes. The combination of slightly smoky grilled eggplant and sweet tomatoes is delightful. The eggplant-tomato mixture served over whole-wheat pasta with fresh basil and a bit of salty cheese makes an easy, healthy weeknight dinner.
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