Paccheri alla parmigiana: forget about lasagna, it’s so much better!

Today’s recipe is for a first-class first course. It’s excellent paccheri alla parmigiana, which can be a sumptuous Sunday meal. Mouth-watering!

Let’s take a closer look at how they are prepared.

Paccheri alla parmigiana: forget about lasagna, it’s so much better!

The ingredients

For five people we need:

550 g of sauce
a small onion
a few basil leaves
seed oil as needed
400 g of aubergines
150 g of grated parmesan
as needed flour
280 g of scamorza
300 g of paccheri
salt as needed
two eggs

The preparation

We start with the sauce. The first step is obviously the soffritto. In a high-sided pan, pour a drizzle of oil and then some finely chopped onion.

Once the soffritto has browned a bit (we’ll have added a few basil leaves), add the tomato puree. Let it cook for ten or fifteen minutes while we prepare the eggplant.

We slice them and then place them in a bowl, where we will then let them rest for about twenty minutes, not without first salting them: the salt obviously serves to drain their water.

After twenty minutes, pat them dry with paper towels and set them aside for a moment. Then, pour the flour into one bowl and beat the eggs in another, seasoning with salt.

The next step is to prepare the oil for frying: it will be seed oil that we will pour into a fairly deep saucepan.

Once the seed oil is at temperature, we pass one aubergine at a time first in the flour and then in the eggs, after which we dip it gloriously and voluptuously into the sizzling oil.

After cooking, as usual, pat the aubergine slices dry with kitchen paper.

And with that we’ve exhausted the eggplant chapter.

The pasta

Now let’s get to the pasta. We boil it, and when it’s al dente, we drain it and add it to the pot. We mix in a spoonful of Parmesan cheese, stir it a bit, and then we pour in a generous ladle of our sauce, mixing it thoroughly.

Now we’ll get a nice baking dish, pour in a layer of sauce, then the eggplant, and finally the pasta. And so on until we have all the ingredients we need. Finish with a sprinkling of grated Parmesan cheese.

Afterwards, the glory will be even more complete and dazzling, if possible, thanks to the passage in the oven: at 180 degrees for three quarters of an hour.

Before serving, this marvel should be left to cool for about ten minutes.

Good luck, have fun, and enjoy your meal!

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