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You can use green radicchio instead of rocket leaves.

Ingredients

400 g pasta – shells or fusilli
2 tablespoons olive oil
20 g onion, finely chopped
150 g bacon, cut into thin strips
100 ml white wine
250 g tomato, peeled and diced
salt
ground pepper
1 small hot chilli paprika, chopped
1 eggplant
2 tablespoons plain flour
1 tablespoon sunflower oil
100 g rocket leaves, cut into wide strips
100 g sheep cheese, grated
1 teaspoon Vegeta Gourmet Stock Powder

We used

Vegeta Gourmet Stock Powder

Vegeta Gourmet Stock Powder

Preparation For this recipe you only need imagination!

Medium complexity 4 Persons 50 min

  • 1 Peel the eggplant, dice it and roll in flour. In a pan heat up the sunflower oil and fry the egplant shortly. Place them on the paper towel to drain the oil.
  • 2 Cook the pasta in a large pot, of salted water. Save half a cup of the water for later.
  • 3 Fry the onion and bacon in olive oil, pour over with wine and leave to cook.
  • 4 Add the tomatoes, Vegeta Gourmet Stock Powder, pepper and chilli paprika.
  • 5 Mix and cook until the liquid evaporates.
  • 6 Add the fried eggplant, cooked and drained pasta and half a cup of the water you saved from cooking pasta.
  • 7 Add the rocket leaves and mix well.

Serving

Place in a serving bowl and sprinkle with grated sheep cheese.

Little secrets

Previously fried cubes of eggplant will keep their shape also after putting it into tomato sauce.