Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, lamb and eggplant casserole. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have lamb and eggplant casserole using 25 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Lamb and Eggplant Casserole:
- Make ready Eggplant
- Make ready 1 large aubergine eggplant
- Take 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon ground white pepper
- Take 1 teaspoon granulated garlic powder
- Take 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- Prepare 1 teaspoon ground paprika
- Get Lamb and casserole
- Make ready 1 pound ground lamb
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
- Take 1 teaspoon ground white pepper
- Make ready 1 teaspoon dried rosemary
- Make ready 2 cloves garlic sliced
- Make ready 1/3 cup diced shallots
- Make ready 1 pound penne rigata
- Take 25 ounces good quality tomato marinara sauce so pasta cooks
- Get 12 ounces water
- Take 29 ounces whole San Marzano tomatoes
- Make ready Cheeses
- Get 1 cup cup grated Parmesan cheese in sauce
- Make ready 3 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese topping
- Prepare 1/3 cup mozzarella cheese shredded
- Get 8 ounces fontina cheese topping
- Get 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese topping
Instructions to make Lamb and Eggplant Casserole:
- Preheat oven to 425° Fahrenheit. Wash peel and ice the eggplant
- Add to a 9x13 pan sprayed with nonstick cooking spray. Season with the salt, pepper, garlic powder, and paprika. Drizzle with olive oil. Roast in oven 35 minutes.
- Slice the garlic and shallots heat oil in the frying pan. Add the rosemary, garlic, and shallots to hot oil allow to fry. Get the lamb and add to the spiced oil and begin to brown.
- At this point the pasta is totally uncooked. Add the pasta and whole tomatoes. Mash the tomatoes up
- Now take the marinara sauce add it. Take and fill half the jar with water, and shake jar with lid on it well. Pour into pan and cook till pasta is Al dente.
- When the eggplant is done add some of the mozzarella cheese on top of roasted eggplant, about 1/3 of a cup. Add the 1 cup to the sauce. Stir in well.
- Add casserole on top of the roasted eggplant with cheese on it. Spread it out and add Parmesan on top.
- Get the fontina cheese and break it up into chunks. Add mozzarella cheese on top then spread the fontina chunks over the top. Fontina melts really good. Bake in oven 30 minutes.
- Serve I hope you enjoy!!!
- Ready to serve and ENJOY!
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