Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, eggplant lasagna. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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.
Eggplant lasagna is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Eggplant lasagna is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook eggplant lasagna using 29 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Eggplant lasagna:
- Prepare lasagna
- Prepare 1/2 lb bulk sausage
- Prepare 1 1/3 lb ground meat
- Make ready 28 oz diced tomatoes
- Make ready 28 oz tomato sauce
- Get 4 cup colby jack cheddar cheese, shredded
- Prepare 4 medium aubergine/ eggplants
- Prepare 15 ricotta cheese, I used Polly-O brand it has lowest in carbs.
- Take 1 cup grated parmesan cheese
- Make ready 12 oz tomato paste
- Get 1 large red onion chopped
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- Take 1/4 cup olive oil
- Take seasonings
- Get 1 tbsp granulated garlic powder
- Take 1 tsp basil
- Prepare 1 tbsp chopped parsley
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp summer savory
- Get 1 tsp whole leaf oregano
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Take 2 1/4 tbsp sweetener, sugar, splenda, stevia and so on
- Prepare pesto
- Take 1/4 cup sweet basil
- Take 1/2 cup chopped parsley
- Take 1 1/2 tbsp pine nuts
- Get 1/4 tsp kosher salt
- Make ready 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
- Take 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
- Prepare 1/4 cup olive oil, extra virgin
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:
- In a dry pan toast the pine nuts don't burn them.
- Mix all the ingredients except olive oil into a blender and blend till coarse add olive oil a bit at a time. blend till chunky smooth. Set aside.
- Preheat oven 400° Fahrenheit.
- Peel the aubergines. Slice thinly olive oil to both sides of each slice lightly sprinkle with kosher salt. Put on a pan, With nonstick spray roast for 20 minutes or till tender.
- Brown the sausage and meat add onions. Drain off any excessive drippings from meat. Add seasonings and diced tomatoes to meat.
- Add tomato sauce. Add tomato paste to thicken. Let simmer 10 minutes.
- In a deep dish or spring form pan layer sides and bottom with roasted eggplant slices. Add a layer of meat sauce. Add 15 ounces ricotta cheese. Add layer of pesto. Add a layer of eggplant slices. Add half of parmesan cheese. Then 2 cups of cheddar cheese.
- Add a layer of meat sauce then eggplant. Add parmesan cheese and cheddar cheese.
- Bake 35-40 minutes. Let rest 15.
- Serve, hope you 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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