Sicilian Baked Pasta | Original Italian Recipe

Italian sausage

🥗Healthier: ground turkey

💰Cheaper: pork sausage

Ground turkey reduces fat content while maintaining flavor.

grated cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: parmesan cheese

Nutritional yeast is a dairy-free alternative that adds umami.

Chop the onion and roughly chop the aubergine.

Fry the chopped onion in enough olive oil until soft.

Add the meat to the onions, season with salt and pepper, and cook until the meat is no longer red.

Pour in the tomato sauce and cook until dense.

Cook the pasta until al dente, then remove it from the water.

Add the peas to the meat mixture and cook some more.

Fry the chopped aubergine separately.

Peel the hard-boiled eggs and cut them into pieces.

Grate the mozzarella cheese.

Add a bit of tomato sauce to the pasta and mix.

Assemble the dish by putting a scoop of tomato sauce on the bottom, followed by a layer of pasta, then a layer of aubergine, and cheese. Repeat the layers.

Top with grated cheese and a few fresh basil leaves.

Bake in the oven at 118 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes.

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