Eggplant and Meatball Lasagna
Eggplant and Meatball Lasagna

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, eggplant and meatball lasagna. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

This lasagna recipe replaces the traditional pasta with eggplant slices and adds layers of seasoned ground beef. I've tried other eggplant lasagna recipes, and they were disappointing. The eggplant was either overdry and tough or gooey.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook eggplant and meatball lasagna using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Eggplant and Meatball Lasagna:
  1. Prepare Eggplant pasta replacement
  2. Take 2 medium sized aubergine/ eggplants
  3. Take As needed salt
  4. Make ready As needed extra virgin olive oil
  5. Take Meatballs and sauce
  6. Make ready 1-1/2 pound beef meatballs
  7. Prepare 32 ounces Mids Italian sausage pasta sauce
  8. Prepare 1/4 cup water to get and use all the sauce out of jar
  9. Get 3 tablespoons concentrated tomato paste
  10. Take 1-1/2 cups pesto see my recipe walnut pesto
  11. Make ready 2/3 pound ground sirloin
  12. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon granulated garlic powder
  13. Make ready 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
  14. Get To taste salt
  15. Make ready To taste ground white pepper
  16. Prepare Cheese
  17. Get 2 cups extra sharp cheddar cheese shredded divided

I used lentil lasagna pasta (no boil) and layered the lentil lasagna, tofu ricotta, spinach, and roasted eggplant and smothered it all with my hubby's family pasta sauce ( I didn't do the lentil sauce per the recipe but will have to try it that way. Classic Eggplant Lasagna that's full of cheesy goodness, without the pasta! Great for a gluten-free lasagna option or just for sneaking in a healthy vegetable. People absolutely love the lasagna we make around here and there's only room for more.

Instructions to make Eggplant and Meatball Lasagna:
  1. Peel the eggplant and cut one side to make flat surface. This will stabilize your eggplant when you slice it. Slice the eggplant thinly.
  2. Now salt the eggplant slices on both sides set in a bowl to drain the liquids. Doing this take all or most of the bitterness out of the eggplant slices. After an hour drain the liquids off and they are ready to use. The last picture on this step is the bitter liquids pulled out by the salt. I had about 1/2 cup total, on second draining.
  3. Cut the meatballs in half set aside. I usually keep meatballs in my freezer. See any of my recipes for meatballs. Shred the cheese, and set aside. When you pour the Mid's sauce in add a little water to the jar to get the rest out of jar.
  4. Preheat oven to 400°Fahrenheit heat the meatballs in a good sized pan. When browned remove and set aside. Add the Mids Italian sausage sauce to the pan then put in the ground sirloin. Bring to a simmer 20 minutes and stir in the tomato paste. Add the parmesan cheese. Stir in well.
  5. Add the olive oil to the eggplant. Cook on a cooking surface. Turn as needed. In a baking pan add some of the eggplant. I used a spring form pan.
  6. Add some of the meatballs cut side down. Cover the meatballs with half the sauce. Now add the pesto on top of sauce.
  7. Repeat the the same layers except you shouldn't have pesto on second layer. Add the shredded cheese on top. Put into the oven for 45 minutes.
  8. Take out of oven and let rest 15 minutes. Serve I hope you enjoy!!!!

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