Aubergine Parmigiana

Very easy lasagna to prepare but without the pasta sheets — these are replaced by grilled aubergines. Here’s the recipe… prepared it for lunch today… sorry no photo available.

Serves 4

4 medium sized aubergines
300gr. ricotta
Parmesan cheese grated
breadcrumbs
1 small onion
2 cloves garlic
basil leaves
500ml tomato puree (passata)
olive oil
salt & pepper
1 tsp sugar
125gr mozzarella (cubed)

Slice the aubergines lengthwise in 1 cm thick slices. Start grilling them on a grill pan or you can use the oven grill. Keep them aside.

Prepare the tomato sauce by frying in olive oil the garlic cloves smashed and the onion as a whole. Add the tomato sauce and few basil leaves. Put 1 tsp sugar, salt and pepper. Let it simmer on low heat for 20 minutes. When ready remove onion, garlic and basil leaves.

Take an oven dish glaze it with some olive oil and start by doing 1 layer of grilled aubergines the spread over the ricotta (can be made creamy with some milk), add tomato sauce, some parmesan and some mozzarella. Repeat layers until you use all ingredients and finish up with some mozzarella, parmesan, breadcrumbs and top with little olive oil.

Put in a pre-heated oven (200C) for 30 minutes. Serve warm.