I felt like cooking! I made the parmigiana!

This morning I woke up... the sun was shining and the vegetable garden was full of fresh vegetables.
I immediately wanted to cook something genuine!
To me and my family like to grow the garden.
The satisfaction of eating our garden products is great!

I decided to make the parmigiana!
I went out to the garden and took aubergines, tomatoes and basil.

In the fridge I had some mozzarella and I immediately went to work!
Luckily I thought to take some pictures for this post!

I took the opportunity to try out my new Japanese "santoku" style knife.
If you do not know it, I recommend it. You can use it to do anything, just know the technique a little bit. Thanks to its shape, food preparation times can be speeded up a lot.

I cut the mozzarella into cubes, the aubergines and the tomatoes, sliced.

I had tomato sauce made the night before, which I poured on the bottom of the pan.

Usually the aubergines are fried in oil in an anti-stick pot. To make the recipe more digestible, I poured an inch of hot water and a drop of oil, so I boiled the aubergines instead of frying them. I then put a little 'coarse salt and while they cooked I continued to prepare the parmigiana.

I grated Parmesan cheese in a dish. It will serve at the end.

Continuing in layers I placed the tomato slices first (traditionally using only tomato sauce), then the slices of aubergines...

...then add the mozzarella cubes.

I had fresh ricotta so I decided to use that too!

You have to compose 3 layers repeating each time the sequence of ingredients:
tomato, aubergines, mozzarella and a pinch of salt.

Always pay attention to the aubergines that do not have to be cooked too much and have to be turned to be cooked on both sides... it takes 5 minutes, but as you need a lot of them. it will take 20 minutes to cook all the slices.

Once the layers are completed, we finish the preparation by adding the grated cheese previously.

I baked the pan for 30/40 minutes at 180/200 ° C

Meanwhile, wait, you can eat a piece of Parmesan cheese that is delicious !!! : D

When the parmigiana is cooked, pull it out of the oven and you can give the final touch with some fresh basil leaves, as I did! ;)

The idea was also to make the final photo with the portion of parmigiana in the pot but I was too hungry and I forgot to do it!!!

I usually do not do cooking posts, but cooking is one of my passions!

I hope you enjoyed the post, seeing the photos I was hungry again!