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- Baked Pasta Sicilian Style
- (Sicilian
Pasta al Forno)
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- Ingredients:
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- 1 and 3/4 lbs rigatoni pasta
1 cup tomato sauce
3 eggplants
Extra virgin olive oil for frying
3 hard-boiled eggs
1/2 lb meatballs made by cooking meat sauce thick and
forming it into balls
1/4 lb mild sausage, coarsely chopped
1/3 lb fresh mozzarella cheese, diced
1 and 1/4 cups grated pecorino cheese with peppercorns inside.
1/2 cup bread crumbs
Salt and pepper
Directions:
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- It will take about 1 and 1/2 hours to
prepare.
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- Begin by preparing the meat sauce, while it's cooking slice the eggplants into half-inch slices, salt the slices and
let them sit in a colander for an hour.
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- Rinse the slices, pat them dry, fry them in hot olive oil (a few at a time), then
drain them on absorbent paper and slice them into strips.
Hard boil the eggs and cut them into 1/8-inch slices.
Boil the pasta in lightly salted water and drain it while it's still 'al dente'.
Once you have assembled the ingredients, oil a pan large enough to hold them and preheat your oven to 360° F (180° C).
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- Lay down a first layer of pasta and dot it with meat balls and strips of
eggplant.
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- Lay down another layer of pasta and more meatballs and eggplant, continuing until all is used
up; distribute the diced mozzarella over the top layer, together with the sliced egg and the bread crumbs.
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- Heat through in the oven for about 20 minutes and serve.
Serves 8 or more.
That's it!
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