Italian Food Recipes

This recipe is for a first course made of pasta, aubergine and tomatoes.


INGREDIENTS (for 2 people)

1 Dark large aubergine
250 g of Sweet cherry tomatoes (ciliegino)
Some leafs of basil
Extra virgin olive oil
Salt
Pepper
160 g of Pasta (type mezze maniche)
Parmesan (Italian cheese Grana padano)

PREPARATION TIME : 15 minutes

COOKING TIME: 20 minutes

DIFFICULTY: easy

WINE: Friuli Grave Tocai DOC (White Wine)

PREPARATION
Clean, peel and cut aubergine into cubes.

In a frying pan with some extra virgin olive oil cook the pieces of aubergine for 5 minutes.
Clean and cut tomato in half.

While pasta is cooking in salty boiling water; add tomatoes, salt and pepper to the aubergine and let the cooking complete, this should last 10 more minutes.
When pasta is ready (after almost 10 minutes of cooking), drain it, put it in the frying pan and sprinkle with Parmesan.
Compose the dishes and add some basil at the end.
This is the result:


BUON APPETITO!