Baked Pasta Recipe: Get 'In The Ring'!

cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: cream cheese

Nutritional yeast adds a cheesy flavor with fewer calories.

ground beef

🥗Healthier: ground turkey

💰Cheaper: canned lentils

Ground turkey is leaner, while lentils are a budget-friendly protein.

Make fresh tagliatelle or use packet pasta for 3-4 portions.

Prepare tomato sauce with 2 cans of plum tomatoes, half an onion, basil, and oil.

Make optional meatballs with minced beef and soaked stale bread.

Fry meatballs in a little oil for 8-10 minutes until browned.

Peel eggplants and slice them very thinly, then soak in slightly salted water.

Fry eggplant slices in frying oil on high heat until golden brown, then drain on kitchen paper.

Line the bottom of a circular cake tin with fried eggplant slices, creating a ring.

Mix ricotta cheese with half the tomato sauce and 4 teaspoons of grated parmesan cheese.

Cook fresh tagliatelle in boiling salted water until it rises, or cook packet pasta according to package instructions minus one minute.

Mix cooked pasta with the ricotta mixture and layer half into the cake tin over the eggplant.

Add chopped mozzarella on top of the pasta layer, followed by the majority of the fried meatballs and a layer of the remaining tomato sauce.

Grate more parmesan over the meatballs, then layer the rest of the pasta on top, pressing down with a fork.

Dot the remaining meatballs on top, add any leftover tomato sauce, and sprinkle with more parmesan cheese.

Fold over any eggplant slices that are above the top of the tin to help hold the dish together.

Bake in the oven for 20 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit).

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