Fabulous Aubergine Parmigiana!

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The aubergine parmigiana is the queen of unique dishes! A dish shared and disputed as origins from north to south Italy, with some different ingredients and methods of composition, but all absolutely fabulous! Few ingredients, but a lot of flavor for a dish that symbolizes Mediterranean dishes: tomato, aubergine, basil and cheese. Difficulty: Medium Preparation: 40 minutes Cooking: 100 minutes Portions: 8 people Note: Plus one hour for salted Ingredients: Large aubergine 1,5 kg Tomato passata 1,4 l Mozzarella 500 g Parmesan cheese as needed Onion 1/2 Extra virgin olive oil as needed Basil leaf 3/4 Fine salt as needed Sunflower oil as needed (to fry the aubergines) Coarse salt 35 g (to purge the aubergine) Plain flour as needed Eggs 4/5 Preparation: To prepare the parmigiana, the first thing to start by washing and drying the aubergines. Then with a knife remove the stem and start to cut the aubergine lengthwise, trying to get slices more or less
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Pasta with cream of Spinach

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Pasta with cream of spinach is a exquisite first course, has a delicate flavor, creamy and tasty, but very simple and quick to prepare. In this way even children will eat this delicious vegetables. The spinach are extraordinary plants from the nutritional point of view. 
The properties are best preserved if eaten raw for example by doing a simple spinach carpaccio dressed with simple oil and lemon and with the addition of parmesan flakes, or simply adding them to a salad. Moreover they strengthen the immune system, protect the eyesight, are rich in iron and protein.


 Difficulty: Low
Preparation: 10/15 minutes
Cooking: 20 minutes
Portions: 4 people
Ingredients:

  • Pasta (the format you prefer) 320 g
  • Spinach 500 g
  • Fresh spreadable cheese (type philadelphia) 100 g
  • Half of small onion 
  • A Knob of butter
  • Extra virgin olive oil 3 tablespoons
  • Salt as needed
  • Grated parmesan cheese.

Preparation:

 Start by cutting the onion in a small pieces and in the meantime melt a knob of butter with the oil, in a medium-sized pan. One the butter has melted, add the onion e brown it. Then add the spinach and cover them with a lid, over a medium heat and occasionally turn them until you see they have wilted. At the same time starts cooking the pasta. See - How to cook pasta
Once the spinach is ready pour it in a large bowl (preserve the pan you used to cook spinach) and mix them with an immersion blender.


 Finished mixing the spinach, pour the cream obtained in the pan, if you like you can add a knob of butter, add the spreadable cheese and few tablespoons of the pasta cooking water.
Drain the pasta "al dente" and dip it into the pan with the dressing. At the end add to the pasta with spinach cream a sprinkling of grated parmesan cheese.

 Your dish is ready to be served!! 😊

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