SicilianItalian
Pasta alla Norma
by Gambero Rosso · 452K subscribers on YouTube
A tomato sauce elevated with fried eggplants, salted ricotta, and basil. These are the ingredients of Giorgione's Pasta alla Norma recipe.
- Difficulty
- medium
Ingredients
9 items- Olive Oilfor frying
- Eggplantscubed
- Tomato Saucesimple tomato sauce
- Chili Pepperchili oil
- Mintfresh, torn
- Basilfresh, torn
- Pastashort pasta like tortiglioni
- Salted Ricottashaved
- Saltfor pasta water
Method
- Heat the oil in a pan for frying the eggplants.
- While the oil heats, prepare a simple tomato sauce (already done) and add a little chili oil and some fresh mint and basil, torn by hand.
- When the oil is hot, fry the eggplant cubes in batches to avoid lowering the oil temperature too much. Fry until golden brown.
- Drain the fried eggplants on paper towels.
- Bring a pot of salted water to a boil and cook the pasta (preferably short pasta like tortiglioni) according to package directions.
- When the pasta is al dente, drain it and toss with the tomato sauce.
- Add the fried eggplants on top.
- Finish with shavings of salted ricotta (ricotta salata) and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. Serve immediately.
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