Recipe of Any-night-of-the-week Aubergine Parmigiana

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, aubergine parmigiana. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Aubergine Parmigiana is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Aubergine Parmigiana is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have aubergine parmigiana using 22 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Aubergine Parmigiana:

1. Take Tomato Sauce:
2. Prepare 1/4 Cup Alce Nero's Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil,
3. Get Pinch Chili Flakes,
4. Get 3 Cloves Garlic Thinly Sliced,
5. Make ready Fresh Basil, 5 Whole Large Leaves
6. Make ready 14 oz Canned Tomatoes Preferably Fire Roasted,
7. Make ready 1/2 TSP Liquid Smoke,
8. Prepare Pinch Black Pepper,
9. Get Pinch Sea Salt,
10. Prepare Aubergine:
11. Take Eggplant, 2 Large
12. Prepare Bleached All Purpose Flour, For Dredging
13. Make ready Pinch Sea Salt,
14. Prepare Pinch Black Pepper,
15. Take Pinch Dried Mushroom Powder,
16. Get 2 Eggs Lightly Beaten,
17. Prepare Canola / Peanut / Grapeseed / Vegetable Oil, For Frying
18. Make ready Assembly:
19. Make ready Fresh Mozzarella, 1 Ball or More
20. Prepare 1 Handful Fresh Basil Finely Chiffonade,
21. Prepare 2 TBSP Parmigiano Reggiano Freshly Grated,
22. Get Pinch Dried Basil,

Aubergine parmigiana is a great appetiser or side dish. It also works really well for lunch, especially if served with a green salad. Meaning 'aubergine Parmesan' in Italian, this vegetarian bake with tomato and cheese is ideal for entertaining, from BBC Make this classic bake, also known as melanzane parmigiana, for guests. Try this aubergine parmigiana recipe then try our healthier parmigiana and other aubergine recipes.

Steps to make Aubergine Parmigiana:

1. Prepare the tomato sauce. - - In a skillet over low heat, add olive oil, chili, garlic and basil. - - The oil should be barely sizzling. - - If the heat is too high, the garlic and basil will burnt.
2. As soon as the garlic turns light golden brown, remove from heat and transfer into a blender. - - Add in tomatoes and liquid smoke. - - Lightly blitz to form a coarse smooth sauce. - - Taste and adjust for seasonings with salt and pepper. - - Transfer into a bowl and set aside.
3. Prepare the aubergine. - - Peel the skin from the eggplants. - - Slice into 1/2 inches thick slices. - - Using a cookie cutter, cut out round discs.
4. Do not discard any scrapes. You can bake them until they almost fall apart, blitz them in a blender with a touch of fresh lemon juice and olive oil to make eggplant puree. It goes well on a toast.*
5. For 1 serving, you need 3 discs of eggplant. - - Lightly season the eggplant with sea salt. - - Transfer onto a wire cooling rack and let them sit for about 30 mins. - - This will draw out the moisture from the eggplant, thus removing the raw bitterness.
6. While the eggplant slices are sitting, finely julienne the skins into fine strips. - - Add about 1 inch of oil into a skillet over medium heat. - - Transfer flour, salt, pepper and mushroom powder into a shallow bowl.
7. Mix to combine well. - - Transfer eggs into a shallow bowl. - - You can check the temperature of the oil by inserting a wooden chopstick. If bubbles start to form around the chopstick it is ready.
8. Lightly dredge the eggplant into the flour mixture. - - Dust off any excess. - - Dredge into the egg. - - And gently drop the eggplant away from you into the oil.
9. Pan fry until golden brown on both sides. - - Remove from heat and transfer onto a wire cooling rack or on a plate lined with kitchen paper. - - Repeat the process for the remaining eggplant. - - Lastly, pan fry the skins as well.
10. Once they start to crisp up, remove from heat and sit on a wire cooling rack or on a plate lined with kitchen paper. - - Set aside. - - To assemble.
11. Preheat oven to 180 degree celsius or 350 fahrenheit. - - Line parchment paper on a baking tray. - - Lay a piece of the battered eggplant onto the tray. - - Spoon the tomatoes sauce onto the eggplant.
12. Tear a piece of mozzarella and place it on top of the sauce. - - Scatter the basil over the top. - - Repeat the stacking process of eggplant, sauce, cheese and basil. - - On the 3rd slice of eggplant, sprinkle some parmigiano over the top.
13. Repeat the process for the remaining eggplant. - - Wack into the oven. - - Lit some fire wood chips in a bowl, I used charcoal, and wack into the oven as well.
14. Bake for about 10 to 15 mins or until the cheese has melted. - - Remove from oven. - - Spoon some of the sauce onto serving plates and place the baked eggplant stack over the sauce.
15. Sprinkle some dried basil over the top. - - Lastly, add some of that fried eggplant skins on top. - - Serve immediately.

Meaning 'aubergine Parmesan' in Italian, this vegetarian bake with tomato and cheese is ideal for entertaining, from BBC Make this classic bake, also known as melanzane parmigiana, for guests. Try this aubergine parmigiana recipe then try our healthier parmigiana and other aubergine recipes. Felicity Cloake: Brighten up your bleak February evenings with a touch of stodgy Mediterranean magic. Parmigiana (/ˌpɑːrmɪˈdʒɑːnə, -ˈʒɑː-/, Italian: [parmiˈdʒaːna], also called parmigiana di melanzane [parmiˈdʒaːna di melanˈdzaːne; -ˈtsaːne] or melanzane alla parmigiana, is an Italian dish made with a shallow- or deep-fried sliced eggplant filling, layered with cheese and tomato sauce, then baked. Aubergine Parmigiana (aka Melanzane alla Parmigiana) is one of my all-time favourite vegetarian It requires making a tomato sauce and then layering it with cooked aubergine and cheese, and then.

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