SicilianItalian
Pasta 'Ncasciata
by Casa Pappagallo · 705K subscribers on YouTube
A rich Sicilian baked pasta dish with fried eggplant, cured meats, cheeses, hard-boiled eggs, and ragù, gratinated in the oven.
- Cook
- 30 min
- Difficulty
- medium
Ingredients
14 items- Eggplants
- Coarse Salt
- Olive Oilfor frying and greasing
- Cooked Hamsliced thick, cut into strips or cubes
- Salamino piccantecut into pieces or rounds
- Caciocavallocut into small pieces
- Smoked Scamorzacut into small pieces
- Hard-Boiled Eggshard-boiled, cut into wedges
- Pastashort pasta (e.g., maccheroni)
- Ragù con piselliclassic meat sauce with peas
- Parmigiano Reggianograted, abundant
- Breadcrumbsbreadcrumbs
- Waterfor boiling pasta
- Saltfor pasta water
Method
- Cut the eggplants into cubes, place them in a colander, sprinkle with coarse salt, cover, and let them drain under a weight for about an hour.
- Pat the eggplants dry and fry them in olive oil until golden. Set aside.
- Prepare the cured meats: cut the cooked ham into strips or small cubes, and slice the spicy salami into pieces.
- Prepare the cheeses: cut the caciocavallo and smoked scamorza into small pieces.
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the pasta and cook for only 5 minutes (undercooked). Drain.
- In a large bowl, combine the drained pasta, fried eggplants, cured meats, cheeses, and hard-boiled eggs cut into wedges. Mix well.
- Grease a baking dish with olive oil and sprinkle the bottom with breadcrumbs.
- Pour the pasta mixture into the dish and spread evenly.
- Cover the pasta with the ragù (with peas).
- Generously sprinkle grated Parmesan cheese on top.
- Cover the dish with aluminum foil and bake in a preheated static oven at 200°C for 30 minutes.
- Remove the foil and continue baking until the top is golden and crispy to your liking.
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