If you’re in the mood for Italian food but tired of pasta, try these delicious Eggplant Rolls. They are simple to make and filling enough to be the main course. It’s a perfect vegetarian dish!
Ingredients: All ingredients are to taste
Eggplant – sliced lengthwise (approx 1/3 to 1/2 inch slices)
Salt
Oil
Ricotta Cheese
Italian Seasoning
Garlic Powder or Garlic Salt
Black Pepper
Green Chilies – finely chopped
Chopped Basil and Parsley
Crushed Red Chili Flakes
Pasta/Spaghetti Sauce
Mozzarella Cheese
Method:
1. Place Eggplant slices in a colander and generously salt them. Leave them to “sweat” for about 30 minutes to 1 hour.
2. In a mixing bowl, combine Ricotta Cheese, Garlic Salt, Crushed Red Chili Flakes, Italian Seasoning, Black Pepper, Green Chilies and chopped Basil and Parsley. Mix well and keep aside. Tip – use one heaping dinner spoon of ricotta cheese per each slice of eggplant.
3. Rinse off salt from Eggplant and gently squeeze out water or blot it with a paper towel.
4. Heat a little Oil on a skillet and cook eggplant slices until lightly brown on both sides.
5. Allow the eggplant to cool enough to be able to touch it.
6. Place a heaping spoon of the Ricotta Cheese mixture on the wide end of the cooked eggplant and roll the eggplant all the way.
7. Place the rolled eggplant in a lightly oiled baking dish and repeat until all eggplant slices are rolled.
8. Spoon spaghetti sauce over the eggplant rolls to coat them.
9. Bake uncovered in a 425 degree Fahrenheit oven for 20 – 25 minutes (until cheese is heated all the way through).
10. Sprinkle Mozzarella cheese on top of the sauce and Broil in the oven for few minutes until cheese is melted and lightly brown. Garnish with chopped Basil and Parsley.
11. Server hot with bread and salad.
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February 26th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Fabulous but yet cheesy….. great receipe for eggplant lovers.keep it up.
Take care.
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February 26th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
looks good – will have to try.
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February 27th, 2009 at 1:20 am
Hey, I just love eggplant…Its a mouth watering recepie..Surely I’ll try this…
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February 27th, 2009 at 3:40 am
Hi Anuja & Hatel,
Nice recipe.I used garlic cheese and it was delicious.Plzz give the recipe for apple pastry or puffs !
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March 1st, 2009 at 2:12 am
Yummy!!!!!
Hetal you look smashing!
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March 6th, 2009 at 1:59 am
HI!!!ur recipes are easy n good.just love it:)))) thanks.
one request,,can anybody know how bake eggless cake or brownies….
please, if you got recipe post it
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March 6th, 2009 at 3:05 am
Hi Anjana,
Here is a video for eggless chocolate cake:
http://showmethecurry.com/2007/11/12/eggless-chocolate-cake/
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March 8th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
can i make eggplant receipy without rolling the eggplant and can i used spianch instand of methi in methi pullav receipy
Thanks
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March 8th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Hi Rita,
Sure, you can make the eggplant dish without rolling the eggplant. Just layer them in a casserole dish with the cheese filling, similar to lasagna. Rolling them makes them easier to serve — no cutting.
Check out our Spinach/Carrots pulao recipe – it’s yummy!
http://showmethecurry.com/2007/09/14/spinach-carrots-pullao/
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March 12th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
This was horrible.. it didn’t come out good at all.
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April 21st, 2009 at 9:40 pm
hi hetal,
i tried cutting eggplant length wise. it turned out bad coz i was not able to cut it properly…. it was difficult… but then i cut them in circle and made like lasagne…..
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anuja Reply:
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:38 am
Excellent idea! Sometimes the eggplants are not big or thick enough to cut length-wise. So, that is a great tip if you run into that problem:)
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July 11th, 2009 at 4:29 am
Can I use cottage cheese instead of ricotta cheese?
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hetal Reply:
July 11th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
We’ve never tried it with cottage cheese, but you may be able to “grind” the cottage cheese so that the granules go away. Of course, the taste will be different.
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August 25th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Hi Everyone,
I haven’t tried this dish yet, but looks yummy. One thing I would do differently is use primavera sauce instead of regular pasta sauce. I use primavera sauce when making lasagna and it taste delicious. I let the primavera sauce simmer with added salt, red pepper, red vine, one med. size tomato diced and a pitch of sugar to cut the tartness and it adds a wonderful taste.
Try it.
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Pinal Reply:
August 25th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Ooooops, I meant “pinch of sugar” above.
Thanks.:)
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November 3rd, 2009 at 3:15 am
Hetal and anuja,
Can you pls give me the brand name of the pasta sauce that you used for this recipe. The sauce that i have is very watery.
thanks
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February 2nd, 2010 at 10:27 pm
wonderful recipe. but a lot of calaries. will have to think thrice before making it…….. I guess it’s better to stay away from it, because if I like it, then fat content will be lot more in my food………
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February 4th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
hi hetal and anuja,
Anjana had asked for eggless cake and brownies… so i am posting here… for all eggless recepies pls vist http://www.egglesscooking.com
thanks
vani.
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March 25th, 2010 at 12:21 am
This is the 1st dish I have made from this website (I only just discovered you both), I have just pulled it out of the oven and have taken my first bite. OMG!!!!!!!! It’s wonderful. I followed the recipe rules to a T but made it to taste and I salut you both. Great, great, great!!!! Well done from Argentina!
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June 22nd, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Hi! I tried this recipe and it was a big hit.. I skipped adding mozzarella on the top and added a little less of the tomato paste as I wanted this to use it as purely a side dish.
Great going you guys!
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July 19th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Why not peel the eggplant? Is it “OK” to eat the peel? I realize that sounds silly but this is the only eggplant recipe I have seen that doesn’t start with peeling the vegetable.
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anuja Reply:
July 19th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Hi Nathan,
In this recipe (the a few others), the peel is what keeps the eggplant slices intact otherwise the eggplant would become to soft to hold shape AND hold the stuffing in there
Eggplant skin is perfectly fine to eat
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July 21st, 2010 at 10:43 pm
how to make crispy eggplant ????
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