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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. heat oven to 400º. | 2. On an oiled cookie sheet try with sides, lay out the sliced eggplant, do not overlap the pieces. | 3. salt and pepper the pieces on one side, then turn over and salt and pepper the other side. | 4. put the tomatoes on the tray as well, salt and pepper them too. | 5. Drizzle more oil lightly over the veggies. | 6. Put in oven for approximately 40 minutes. | 7. turn the eggplant over and stir tomatoes halfway through. | 8. You will know they are done when the tomatoes have all collapsed and the edges are a bit charred on the eggplant and tomatoes. | 9. Remove from oven and set to side. | 10. 10 minutes before removing vegetables from oven, boil water to cook your pasta. | 11. Heat a pan and saute onion and garlic until the onion gets soft and start browning (about 7 minutes). | 12. add the artichoke heart and cook until heated through and onions are slightly browned (about 3 more minutes). | 13. Drain the pasta, reserving about 1 cup of pasta water. | 14. Cut the eggplant into strips. | 15. Add the pasta, eggplant, and tomatoes to the pan with the onions. toss together, adding some pasta water if it is very dry. | 16. remove from heat and add arugula and cheese, toss together (you can also add red pepper flakes and some balsamic vinegar now if you want). | 17. Enjoy! | 18. If wanted, add protein of choice: Chicken, sausage, soy mince, or cannellini beans. | 19. Also, feelf ree to play with the vegetables. This would be tasty with some sauteed mushrooms, roasted red peppers, or roasted asparagus as well. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
olive oil	1 1/2	1/2		179.01	0.0	0.0	20.25
sea salt				-	-	-	-
black pepper				-	-	-	-
rotini pasta	150 -180			0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
eggplant	400			-	-	-	-
cherry tomato	300		red	-	-	-	-
white onion	100	g	halved sliced	155.0	22.54	10.91	2.37
garlic clove	2 -3			-	-	-	-
water artichoke heart	0.5	can	water-packed	-	-	-	-
blue cheese	60		crumbled	8232.6926	81.1362	23.3033	869.1954
red pepper flake				-	-	-	-
cannellini bean				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.