Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, eggplant lasagna. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Eggplant Lasagna is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Eggplant Lasagna is something which 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 get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have eggplant lasagna using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Eggplant Lasagna:
- Take 3 eggplants
- Prepare 3 tbsp olive oil
- Get to taste Salt and Pepper
- Prepare 2 (15 oz) cans pure tomato sauce
- Prepare 2 garlic cloves
- Get 2 cups whole milk ricotta cheese
- Take 2 eggs
- Take 1 1/2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- Make ready 1/2 cup freshly chopped basil (separated)
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:
- Preheat oven to 375F
- Cut eggplant into ¼” (6mm)slices. Place on parchment lined baking sheets. Drizzle both sides with olive oil and season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Bake eggplant for 7 mins each side and allow to cool (totally fine to do this part in stages as you may not be able to fit all the eggplant in your oven at once!)
- Allow eggplant to cool. Meanwhile prepare your sauce.
- In a large sauce pan, add the tomato sauce, garlic, salt and pepper to taste and red pepper flakes. Allow to simmer for 10 mins until sauce sweetens up and reduces a bit.
- Then prepare the ricotta mixture. In a medium bowl add ricotta cheese, eggs and basil.
- Then assemble your lasagna. In a large heat safe casserole pan, place a thin layer of sauce on the bottom and distribute evenly. On top place a single layer of eggplant on top of the eggplant spread 2/3 cup (160 ml) of the ricotta cheese mixture and sprinkle ¼ cup (60 ml) of shredded mozzarella cheese on top. Then add another single layer of eggplant and repeat the process creating 3 layers of “Lasagna” in total. The top layer should end with a layer of sauce and some more mozzarella cheese.
- Bake at 375F for 15-20mins until cheese is melted on top and casserole is cooked through.
- Garnish with some finely minced basil on top.
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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