Eggplant Pasta Recipe from Sicily | Pasta alla Norma

WATCH how to make an eggplant pasta recipe traditional in Sicily! Called Pasta alla Norma in Italian, this pasta recipe just requires a few quality ingredients: eggplants, tomato sauce (preferably made from fresh tomatoes), pasta (usually a tube pasta like penne or rigatoni) and hard salted ricotta! #pastarecipe

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Traditional Eggplant Pasta Recipe from Sicily | Pasta alla Norma
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This traditional Sicilian pasta recipe has an amazing flavor! With fried eggplant, fresh tomato sauce and topped with hard salted ricotta cheese, you’ve never tasted anything like it. Forget Jamie Oliver! This recipe was filmed in Italy and Italians love it on our channel in Italian: @piatto

TIP: Avoid the dark oblong eggplants often sold in supermarkets abroad. They tend to be more bitter. Instead, reach for round purple eggplants (sometimes even called ‘Italian eggplants’ abroad). Or, use Japanese eggplants which usually deliver a sweet flavor/

TIP: Don’t want to make your own tomato sauce from fresh tomatoes? Instead use 1 cup of tomato puree and simmer that with the garlic, olive oil and fresh basil.

TIP: Salted ricotta is VERY salty! Use it sparingly and to taste. Salt the tomato sauce less than usual if you plan to add some salted ricotta to the sauce itself.

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INGREDIENTS
THE SAUCE:
Grape Tomatoes (“Datterini”): 1 lb (400 g)
Roma or Piccadilly Tomatoes: 1 lb (500 g)
Vine Tomatoes (Ramati): 3/4 lb (300 g)
Olive Oil: 5 tbsp
Garlic: 2 cloves
Basil: 1-2 fresh leaves
Salt: pinch or to taste
** DON’T WANT TO MAKE THE SAUCE? Simmer 1- 1.5 cups (300 mL) of tomato puree with the garlic, olive oil and basil.

THE PASTA:
Eggplant: 2 lb (1 kg) – about 2 medium round
Frying Oil: Peanut, or Sunflower – a high heat oil
Hard, Salted Ricotta Cheese: 30-40 g or to taste (use sparingly- it is really salty!)
Tube Pasta (Rigatoni, Penne, Tortiglino etc): 11 oz (320 g) – pasta for 4 people

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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0:00 – intro
0:08 – how to make tomato sauce with fresh tomatoes
2:20 – how to fry eggplant
3:16 – how to make Pasta alla Norma

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