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Lasagnetta con Yogurt e Melanzane al profumo di Limone - Serves 4
Lasagna with eggplant and yogurt scented with lemon and mint
Ingredients
 
Qty.
Large eggplant : 1kg
Whole garlic : 2nos
Thyme : 50gm
Olive oil : 100ml
Sour cream : 150gm
Milt leaves : 20 gm
Lemon oil : 15ml
Semi dried tomatoes : 60gm
Shaved parmesan cheese : 80gm
Salt : to taste

Pasta sheet dough:

Ingredients
 
Qty.
Flour : 500gm
Egg yolk : 8nos
Salt : 5gm
Some water    

Preparation

  • Peel eggplant, cut into big dices.
  • Heat oil in sauce pan till smoking point, add whole garlic & thyme followed by eggplant and salt. Keep on string till eggplant gets roasted lightly, remove from heat.
  • Separate eggplant and add to hot stock, cook till eggplants are cook.
  • Pass through strainer to separate stock, retain this stock.
  • When cool mix lemon oil, sour cream and mint in eggplant.
  • Roll pasta dough in sheet and blanch, cut in round shape.
  • Shave parmesan cheese.
  • Take tomatoes blanch and deseed, mix in salt, olive oil, icing sugar, and garlic, and dry in oven for 30min at 1000 c.
  • Arrange Pasta sheet, egg plant mixture, tomato, semi dry tomato, parmesan into layers and prepare two layers of the same.
  • Heat egg plant stalk with butter and pour on the sides. Garnish with egg plant chips and celery leaf.