Ricettario d'Italia

In breve

The dish in short

  • Aubergines fried in seed oil and added on each plate, not stirred into the sauce.
  • A sauce of ripe tomatoes cooked with olive oil, garlic and basil, then passed through a food mill.
  • Finished with plenty of grated ricotta salata.
  • Short pasta: maccheroni, penne or rigatoni.

Il video, Catania, Sicilia

Pasta alla Norma

The video: Catanese pasta with fried aubergine and ricotta salata

Short pasta with tomato sauce, fried aubergine and plenty of ricotta salata: the Catanese dish whose name may come from Bellini's opera. The video is an illustration; the recipe has the exact quantities, temperatures and times.

Serves
4
Hands-on
33 min
Cooking
30 min
Video
11 s

Passo dopo passo

The steps, in photos

The video shows the main moments; these are all 9 steps, as in the recipe.

Photos of steps 1, 2, 3
1Cook the tomatoes2Pass the sauce3Cube and salt the aubergines
Photos of steps 4, 5, 6
4Remove the salt and dry them5Heat the frying oil6Fry in two or three batches
Photos of steps 7, 8, 9
7Cook the pasta8Toss in the sauce9Serve

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