Melanzane alla Parmigiana
Ingredients
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- 2½ tomatoes
Skin the tomatoes by cutting a cross in the top and putting them in boiling water for thirty seconds.
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- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 onions
- 2½ tbsp olive oil
Chop the garlic and onion and cook them for two minutes in olive oil until golden brown.
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Add the tomatoes to the pan and smash them into smaller pieces with a wooden spoon. When they are smashed, let the sauce cook on low heat for thirty minutes. When ready, add pepper and salt.
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- 2 eggplants
Cut the eggplants into long pieces of 1/2cm wide. Heat up some olive oil in a pan and grill the eggplants on both sides for two minutes. Let dry on some paper towel.
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Pre-heat the oven at 180 degrees.
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- 200 g spinach
Cook the spinach in a pan with olive oil until shrunk.
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Grease a lasagne dish with olive oil and cover the bottom with spinach. Add the first layer of tomato sauce. Add a layer of eggplant. Add a second layer of tomato sauce and eggplant. Repeat until everything is used, end with a layer of eggplant.
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- 62½ g mozzarella cheese
- 37½ g Parmesan cheese
Slice up the mozzarella and add together with the grated parmesan cheese as the top layer. (optional: add basil leaves)
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Let the lasagne cook in the oven at 180 degrees for thirty minutes.
Enjoy your meal!