Description
Roasted eggplant lasagna! This easy pasta recipe is vegetarian, bursting with baked eggplant, zucchini and tomatoes and covered with mozzarella cheese.
Ingredients
Scale
- 12 sheets of lasagna pasta
- 1 onion (sliced)
- 2 tomatoes (sliced)
- 1 eggplant (sliced)
- 2 zucchini (sliced)
- 2 cups of tomato sauce
- 1/2 tsp of Chili pepper
- 1 cup of grated cheese (we love emmental — but you can use your favorite!)
- 1 ball mozzarella of fresh mozzarella
- Salt and pepper
- Olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Pour hot water over the lasagna sheets to soften. Leave to soak (according to the instructions on the packet).
- Heat olive oil in a frying pan on medium heat.
- Add onion and a pinch of salt and cook for 5 minutes.
- Add the tomatoes and cook for 2 minutes.
- Put aside.
- Put the eggplant slices on a tray, brush with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Grill in the oven until they begin to deepen in color.
- Flip the eggplant slices and grill for 2 more minutes.
- Remove the eggplant from the oven.
- Put the zucchini slices on a tray, brush with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Grill in oven until they begin to darken slightly.
- Flip the zucchini slices over and grill for 2 more minutes.
- Remove the zucchini from the oven.
- Heat the tomato sauce with the chili pepper.
- Line a medium rectangular baking dish with 3 sheets of lasagna sheets to cover the bottom of the dish.
- Add half of the portion prepared for each of the following ingredients : the onion, eggplant and zucchini.
- Pour in a third of the tomato sauce and sprinkled with a 1/3 of the grated (emmental) cheese.
- Top with another 2 layers of lasagna sheets (or 6 sheets), then add the remaining onion, the remaining eggplant, the remaining zucchini, a third of the tomato sauce and a third of the grated (emmental) cheese.
- Cover with the remaining 3 lasagna sheets, add the remaining tomato sauce and slices of tomato.
- Put in the oven on 350°F/176°C for 25 minutes.
- Remove from oven, add the remaining grated cheese and mozzarella.
- Put back into the oven for 5 minutes then grill for 2 minutes to create that delicious toasted top layer.
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 55 mins
- Category: Easy pasta dinner
- Cuisine: Italian
