Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, eggplant lasagna. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Eggplant lasagna is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Eggplant lasagna is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
There are a few key steps for prepping eggplant for layering into a lasagna. This easy eggplant lasagna recipe is all the flavor and comfort of classic lasagna but without the noodles! Roasted eggplant slices, layered with a delicious cheese mixture with spinach and fresh herbs. Our eggplant lasagna is a delicious, crowd-pleasing dinner that results from swapping traditional lasagna noodles for slabs of fresh eggplant.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have eggplant lasagna using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Eggplant lasagna:
- Take 1 x-large eggplant of 2 medium ones sliced into thin rounds
- Prepare 3 eggs scrambled. 2 for eggplant dip and 1 for meat mixture
- Make ready Italian bread crumbs
- Prepare 2 lbs ground turkey seasoned with S&P, browned, drained, and cooled
- Prepare 2 lbs low fat ricotta
- Make ready 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
- Take 1 quart homemade pasta sauce
- Get 2 cups low fat mozzarella shredded
- Prepare 1 handful fresh basil, 1 tsp dried oregano, and Parmesan cheese if you want
- Prepare Salt and pepper ingredients as you go
Instead of noodles, it uses sliced eggplant. Eggplant has a very mild flavor, like spaghetti squash. Because it has such a mild flavor, it's easily used in recipes that have bold flavors. In something like eggplant lasagna, the eggplant flavor itself isn't even really tasted.
Instructions to make Eggplant lasagna:
- Brown the 2 lbs of ground turkey with S&P, and drain. Cool then add ricotta, 1 scrambled egg, and about 1/3 of the pasta sauce. Add herbs and Parmesan cheese
- Cook egg dipped and breaded eggplant on greased sheet for 25 min. You should have 3 pan fills of eggplant to layer once done. Bake eggplant on 425 until golden.
- Layer eggplant, ricotta mixture, a little sauce and continue to layer. You should have 3 eggplant layers and 2 ricotta layers.
- Top with mozzarella cheese and bake for 1 hour at 375. Enjoy!
Because it has such a mild flavor, it's easily used in recipes that have bold flavors. In something like eggplant lasagna, the eggplant flavor itself isn't even really tasted. Just use your eggplant slices the same way you would regular lasagna sheets. Always coat the bottom of a casserole dish with meat sauce, then the first layer of eggplant. Layer the ricotta spread, add shredded cheese.
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