Eggplant Pasta
Greek dish with onion, tomatoes, handfuls of fresh basil.

- prep 18 min
- cook 42 min
- total 60 min
- serves 4
- intermediate
- Italy
Ingredients
- 1 large onion
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tins tomatoes
- 1 chile pepper
- to taste handfuls of fresh basil
- to taste italian herbs mixture
- to taste garlic
- to taste pasta
Steps
- Slice the eggplant.
- Cover in salt.
- Leave for at least 30 minutes.
- Rinse the salt away.
- Then squeeze until almost dry (this removes sourness).
- Cut the eggplant into chip-sized pieces.
- Fry in oil.
- Add the onion.
- Cook briefly.
- Add all other ingredients.
- Simmer for 30 minutes.
- Serve with freshly cooked pasta.
Adapted from “Eggplant Pasta”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.