Italian-style aubergines

Simple vegetables recipes for everyone

Type

  • Serves: 4
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Preparation time: 10 min
  • Cooking time: 15 + 10 min

Ingredient

  • 2 aubergines
  • 1 onion
  • 1 small jar tomato sauce
  • 1 ball mozzarella
  • thyme
  • pepper and salt
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
Italian-style aubergines

Recipe

Peel the aubergines. Cut into circles or semi-circles depending on the size of the aubergines. Heat the oil in a frying pan and add the aubergines. Preheat the oven to gas mark 4, 180°C. Peel and chop the onion, add to the aubergines and leave to sweat. Add half the tomato sauce and the thyme and leave it all to cook gently for about fifteen minutes until the vegetables are tender and just cooked. Transfer into an ovenproof dish. Spread the rest of the tomato sauce on top. Slice the mozzarella, place on top of the sauce and bake for 10 minutes. As soon as the mozzarella starts to brown, it’s done!

Tip

Use flavoured tomato sauces for a change, such as basil, Neapolitan, olive, aubergine etc.

Nutrition facts

Energy: 150 kcal

Protein: 6 g

Fat: 7.5 g

Contains calcium and fibre

Expert advice

Combining vegetables with cheese means you get the nutritional benefits of 2 food groups in a single dish: calcium, fibre, vitamins and more. Plus it’s an excellent way of getting the more reluctant to eat vegetables!