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I'm not a superfan of eggplant 🍆, but I do have a handful of favorite recipes that I make with the purple vegetable. At the top of that list is the Sicilian classic, pasta alla Norma! If I were to explain it to someone who's unfamiliar, I would describe it as basically a marinara sauce with eggplant.

Traditionally this dish begins with frying the eggplant in olive oil, but there's one thing that I hate most about eggplant and that's when it's oily. So, I've come up with a better (and healthier) way to make this eggplant-based pasta sauce. I roast the eggplant at high heat. This technique turns the eggplant into soft, luscious bites that aren't oily at all.

For the pasta itself, I prefer to make this dish with rigatoni. You want a pasta shape that grabs the sauce. And since rigatoni is ridged, it's the perfect choice. When you're ready to serve, grate ricotta salata over each bowl of pasta. This aged ricotta is what's traditionally used in Sicily. It has a really nice salty, almost briny flavor that pairs well with eggplant.

Get the recipe on my blog Gastronomer's Guide: https://www.gastronomersguide.com/202...

Escape to Sicily with this dish of pasta alla Norma!

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Credits:
Host, creator, writer, producer, cook, and video editor: Joseph Erdos
Video, audio, and lighting: Tom Reményi
Music: Louis Adrien, "Escape to Sicily"