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A low carb lasagna cutting more than half of the calories than regular lasagna by using eggplant in place of pasta! Layered with so much Mozzarella cheese and a Ricotta Pesto…no one will miss the usual carb loaded lasagna.
Salted Eggplant ‘sheets’ are drizzled with garlic olive oil and pan roasted to enhance their flavour…
And a rich and rustic bolognese is made with slices of beef sausage instead of the usual beef mice…
Layered in the same way as lasagna…
….only guilt free with those garlic roasted eggplant slices.
Baked until all of the cheese have melted over the top and throughout. And watch that ricotta bubbling through the Mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses.
Completely messy, rustic and cheesy…
Who needs pasta anyway?
For more pasta recipes:
Spinach Ricotta Manicotti (cannelloni)
Turkey, Sweet Potato and Kale Cannelloni
Chicken Pumpkin and ricotta Lasagna
Spinach and Ricotta Zucchini Cannelloni
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Sausage Eggplant Lasagna
Ingredients
Lasagna:
- 3 large eggplants sliced lengthways into 1-cm strips
- 1 drizzle olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt to season
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 medium onion finely chopped
- 19 oz beef sausages sliced
- 2 cloves garlic crushed
- 28 oz (2 cans) crushed tomatoes
- 1 pinch sugar or a natural sweetener
- 1 teaspoon vegetable stock powder
- 1/2 cup basil leaves chopped
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Ricotta Pesto
- 9 oz ricotta or mascarpone cheese
- 4 tablespoons basil pesto
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C. Spray 2 oven trays with cooking oil spray. Arrange eggplant slices in a single layer on oven trays; drizzle with the olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Toss to evenly coat with your hands. Roast for 20 minutes, turning after 10 minutes, or until tender and golden. Set aside to cool.
- Heat oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and cook for 5 minutes or until light golden. Add the sausages and fry until browned and cooked through. Stir garlic through and cook until fragrant. Add the tomatoes and bring to a simmer. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes or until sauce thickens. Season with salt to taste, a pinch of sugar, stock powder and basil.
- Place ricotta, pesto, salt and pepper in a bowl and mix until well combined.
- Grease a 6cm deep, 20cm (base) square ovenproof dish. Spread a third of the tomato sauce over the base of the pan. Add the eggplant slices over the top. Sprinkle 1/3 of the cheese over the eggplant. Layer with another layer of sauce, eggplant and mozzarella cheese. Repeat layering with eggplant, sauce and half of the ricotta. Finish the top layer with sauce and remaining ricotta. Sprinkle with cheese. Bake for 20 minutes or until the cheese is golden and bubbling. Serve.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
It’s in the oven now, and it smells delicious, can’t wait to serve this!!!
I made this it was awesome! I would omit the salt on everything but the eggplant! I used mascarpone as suggested and it was amazing…
Can I make this ahead of time?
I made this last night and it was fantastic! Thank you for the recipe.
What temperature should the oven be when you put it in the over for 20 minutes at the end?
Hi Danielle. The oven is preheated to 180C (350F) 🙂
My cheese didn’t come nice and runny like yours. The ricotta was dry clumps. Should I have mixed it with cream or something?
Hmmm I’m not sure as to why that happened? Did it cook out thinner than clumps? Was your ricotta a smooth type of ricotta?
Everything about this is amazing! Eggplant instead of pasta?! Done. Pesto ricotta? Check. Cannot wait to make this!
Katie I’m so glad you think so! I hope you do try this one!
Karina!!! This looks so incredible!!! I do not know how I keep missing your posts!!! But this is fantastic!
Haha thank you Mila!