How To Make Eggplant Lasagna
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How To Make Eggplant Lasagna
Welcome to this wonderfully easy guide to making aubergine lasagne, made with homemade pasta, aubergines and creamy cheese. Serve with a side salad.
- Prep:
- 30m
- Cook:
- 35m
- Total:
- 1h:5m
- Serves:
- 2
- Temp:
- 180° c - 360° f
Ingredients
- 300 plain flour
- 2 large eggs
- sugar
- 2 tsp oregano
- pepper
- 1 onion
- cooking oil
- 250 g mascarpone cheese
- water
- 1/2 large lemon
- 2 aubergines
- 300 ml tomato passata
Step 1: Prepare Ingredients
Take your onion and chop it very finely into small dice, and the crush the garlic clove into a paste. Grate some strong cheddar cheese. Squeeze the juice from 1/2 lemon. Slice your aubergines into long flat slices.
Step 2: Make The Pasta
Crack two eggs into a small mixing bowl, and whisk these eggs together. Into a separate, larger mixing bowl, add the plain flour, and then the whisked eggs, add a pinch of salt to the mixture, and then mix this into a dough-like consistency with your hands. Take this out of the bowl and onto a chopping board, and then play around with the dough until it becomes even more doughy, almost like play dough. Wrap this pasta dough tightly into cling film, and put it aside and let it rest for about 20 minutes.
Step 3: Make The Filling
Bring your skillet to heat, and drizzle the pan base with cooking oil, and then add half of the diced onion. Sweat this onion in the pan, adding a tiny amount of water, then add the tomato passata, and a pinch of sugar. Stir these ingredients around a little, and then add the oregano, followed by a pinch of salt and pepper. Stir a little, and then add all but 1/2 teaspoon of the garlic paste, before stirring again until the sauce becomes darker.
Step 4: Make The White Sauce
Bring a saucepan to heat, drizzle with cooking oil, and then add the other half of the diced onion and a tiny amount of water, then sweat them. Add the mascarpone cheese to the pan, the black pepper and salt, the grated cheese, the remaining pasted garlic and then the lemon juice.
Step 5: Prepare The Lasange
Now take the pasta and roll it with a rolling pin, creating two sheets of pasta to match the size of the baking dish. Place half of the tomato sauce at the bottom of the baking dish, and then add half of the slices of the aubergine, before adding one of the pasta sheets. Now pour half of the white sauce onto this. Add the rest of the sliced aubergine, now lay the other layer of pasta, and finish with the rest of the tomato sauce. Finally grate some parmesan on top.
Step 6: Bake And Serve
Place this lasagne into the oven now for about 25 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius. When the lasange has cooked, slice and serve.