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Eggplant Parmigiana

A simple delish dish to make using a favourite veg of mine - eggplant
Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 45 minutes

Equipment

  • 1 Kitchen knife
  • 1 Chopping board
  • 1 Baking tray
  • baking paper
  • 1 Saucepan
  • 1 Potato masher Optional - you just need something you can mush up bcherry tomatoes with
  • 1 Casserole dish

Ingredients

  • 1 kg Eggplant Either long ones or fat stubby ones it doesn't really matter
  • Olive oil
  • 250 g Pasta sauce or sugo
  • 250 g Tomatoes Cherry tomatoes or just plain old tomatoes will do
  • Salt
  • Pepper Native pepper berries work well but ordinary black pepper is fine
  • 1 handful Basil
  • 1/2 ball Mozzarella
  • 100 g Parmesan

Instructions

  • Set your oven to warm at 200C.
  • Using your kitchen knife slice the eggplants in about 1cm slices. I like mine sliced across the width, but others ask for slices along the length if you are using long fruit.
  • Line the baking tray with baking paper. You can do without, but your slices will stick to the baking tray and be a tad difficult to get off the pan whole.
  • Lay the slices of eggplant on the baking tray and drizzle oil over them. If you are just using a baking tray oil the surface of the tray before putting the eggplant slices on it.
  • Pop eggplant into the oven. They will take between 45 mins to 1 hour to soften and brown. Check at 30 minutes just in case.
  • Meanwhile, pour 250 g of the pasta sauce/sugo into the saucepan. Heat till a good simmer.
  • Add either the cherry tomatoes or diced ordinary tomatoes.
  • Meanwhile, grate the parmesan and mozzarella.
  • As the cherry or ordinary tomatoes cook, they should begin collapsing. You can help this along with a potato masher.
  • Add a pinch of salt and of pepper also to the sauce.
  • Keep simmering the sauce till it is quite thick.
  • Check on your eggplant and when they are soft and brown they are ready to use.
  • Line the casserole dish with olive oil.
  • Put in a single layer of the eggplant to cover the base of the casserole dish.
  • Spoon over a third of the pasta sauce. Make sure all of the eggplant is covered - you may have to spread it thin - that's alright.
  • Place a third of the basil leaves on top of the sauced eggplant.
  • Sprinkle a third of each of the cheeses on top of the sauce right to the edge of the casserole dish.
  • Do all of this with the eggplant, sauce, cheese and basil leaves again.
  • Do all this a third time finishing with the cheeses on the top of the dish.
  • Put the parmigiana into the oven. It will take between 1/2 and 3/4 of an hour for the parmigiana to cook - you want the cheese brown and melted and there will be some sauce bubbling up the sides of the casserole dish also. Check after 30 mins just in case.
  • When it's ready put more basil leaves on top of the dish.
  • Serve.

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