Ingredients
- 2 medium eggplants
- 1 cup ricotta cheese
- ½ cup Pecorino Romano cheese grated
- 1 large egg
- 1 clove garlic minced
- ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 8 ounces frozen spinach thawed, well-drained
- 1 ½ cups marinara sauce
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese shredded
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh basil or parsley leaves
Instructions
- First things first, heat that oven up like it’s a hot date – 350°F should do the trick. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper like you’re rolling out the red carpet for your little eggplant stars.
- Trim the stems off the eggplants grab your mandoline or trusty knife to slice those beauties lengthwise.
- Par-cook the eggplant slices. Lay them out on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake until they’re as pliable as a yoga instructor at a meditation retreat – about 8 to 10 minutes. Once they’re done, let them cool off on a rack.
- Mixing these ingredients: ricotta, Pecorino, egg, garlic, and pepper flakes coming together in a symphony of taste. And don’t forget the spinach – fold in that extra green goodness.
- Pour a slight layer marinara sauce in a baking dish. Take those eggplant slices on a journey of flavor by spreading them with a generous helping of filling. Roll from the bottom to the top, leaving a little peekaboo edge for extra excitement!
- Place the rollatinis seam-side down in the baking dish and repeat until all the eggplant slices are filled and rolled.
- Pour the remaining marinara sauce evenly over the rollatinis and sprinkle generously with mozzarella cheese.
- Pop it in the oven and bake until the cheese is gooey and the rollatinis are tender -about 35-40 minutes.
- Remember to cool it down for 10 minutes before sprinkling with herbs and serving, because good things come to those who wait (and drool in anticipation).
- Eat it!
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Brian Gerard (Lewandowski) writes books critics call "aggressively adequate"—better than "aggressively terrible" but somehow more concerning. He once traded a MetroCard for a pitchfork on a subway platform and now uses it exclusively for dramatic pointing. He lives on a farm outside Charlottesville, Virginia with three disappointed potted plants, a judgmental pig named Trouble McFussbucket, and a wife who smiles politely at his life choices.
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His first manuscript was composed entirely of punctuation marks and confused sketches. He's since published "Not Bukowski" (poems that don't rhyme) and "Slop and Swell from a Festering Mind" (essays so concerning that bookstores check on his wellbeing). He once spent three hours photographing a rare bird that turned out to be a plastic bag, and he's the only person banned from church bake sales for "weaponized brownies." Inheriting absurdism from Vonnegut and Adams, sprawling narratives from Irving, and weaponized failure from Moore, he writes about conflicted everymen struggling through supernatural chaos.
He has two new, offbeat novels waiting foran agent or a publisher: "Truth Tastes Like Pennies" and "Elliot Nessie."
He remains unconvinced that birds aren't surveillance drones.
More biographic lies...err...info.
See my Amazon author page and buy my books.
His first manuscript was composed entirely of punctuation marks and confused sketches. He's since published "Not Bukowski" (poems that don't rhyme) and "Slop and Swell from a Festering Mind" (essays so concerning that bookstores check on his wellbeing). He once spent three hours photographing a rare bird that turned out to be a plastic bag, and he's the only person banned from church bake sales for "weaponized brownies." Inheriting absurdism from Vonnegut and Adams, sprawling narratives from Irving, and weaponized failure from Moore, he writes about conflicted everymen struggling through supernatural chaos.
He has two new, offbeat novels waiting foran agent or a publisher: "Truth Tastes Like Pennies" and "Elliot Nessie."
He remains unconvinced that birds aren't surveillance drones.
More biographic lies...err...info.
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