Oven-Baked Sausage and Tomatoes with Smoked Eggplant Purée

Name: Oven-Baked Sausage and Tomatoes with Smoked Eggplant Purée
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 120 min
Total time: 135 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 9 Sausages; 3 Tomato; 3 Eggplant; 1 Yellow Onion; 1 Garlic Cloves; as needed Rosemary (Branch); as needed Basil (Leaves); as needed Thyme (Stalk); as needed Extra-virgin olive oil

Spicy Italian sausages meet sweet oven-roasted tomatoes and creamy-smooth eggplant in a memorable flavor-filled tasting experience.
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Nina:

I'd never really experimented with eggplant too much before making this - it's one of my new favourites ingredients now.

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What to cook with eggplant and sausage?

If you're familiar with eggplant only in parmigiana, you're going to love its flavours when paired with aroma-packed sausages and sweet tomatoes. Tomatoes are seasoned with lovely olive oil, rosemary and other fresh herbs before roasting in the oven to release wonderful juices and aromas. Mix that with pan-fried spicy Italian sausages and creamy, smooth eggplant purée and your tummy and eyes will thank you for the efforts made in creating this filling dish.

You can make it any time of the year, but as eggplants and tomatoes are at their peak in the summer, you might want to consider this as a hearty summer recipe to try! We think your dinner table and everyone around it will be more than happy with your efforts.

What wine to pair with Baked Sausage with Tomatoes and Mashed Eggplant?

Intense flavours of tomato and aubergine, both not easy to combine. When choosing a red wine to go with this dish, the choice will certainly fall on a medium-structured red wine that is rather soft on the palate, with silky tannins that balance the acidity from the tomato. The succulence of the sausage obviously goes very well with a sparkling red wine with effervescence and refreshing fruity notes, such as a Bonarda dell'Oltrepo' Pavese. For those who want to dare, why not try a combination with a powerful white grape such as ansonica, with a long maceration on the skins, orange wine style

Ingredients

for 6 servings

Sausage and Tomatoes with Smoked Eggplant ingredients

Sausages 9
Tomato 3
Eggplant 3
Yellow Onion 1
Garlic Cloves 1
Rosemary (Branch) as needed
Basil (Leaves) as needed
Thyme (Stalk) as needed
Extra-virgin olive oil as needed

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'Marina Cvetic Iskra' - Montepulciano of Abruzzo Reserve - Masciarelli

0.75l

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Preparation

for 6 servings

Step

Of 4

Prepare the tomatoes

Wash tomatoes well, and remove green stem on top. Cut each tomato in half, and rest on a baking tray lined with wax paper.

Dress tomatoes generously with salt and extra-virgin olive oil. Shred fresh herbs with your fingers (or if using dried, blend herbs together), and sprinkle on top and around sliced tomatoes. Finely slice garlic clove, and distribute evenly around tomatoes. Cover tomatoes tightly with aluminum foil.

Heat oven to 120C and bake tomatoes for at least 1 hour, or until tomatoes are soft to the touch, and release a nice aroma.

Step

Of 4

Prepare the eggplant

Wash well and dry off eggplants. On your stovetop, turn two burners to medium heat, and place each eggplant directly on top of burners. The eggplant's skin should be slightly burnt, and you should smell a slightly smoky aroma as the eggplants roast.

Turn eggplants frequently being careful not to pierce eggplant's skin. Remove eggplants from burners when eggplants are softened to the touch and are cooked through. They should cook on the burners for about 10-15 minutes. Allow the eggplant to cool, and remove peel. Coarsely chop eggplant into large pieces. While eggplant is cooking, peel and finely dice onion, set aside.

Heat drizzle of olive oil in large saute pan, and add diced yellow onions and sprinkling of fresh thyme leaves (if fresh not available, use dried thyme). Add chopped eggplant and allow to sauté for a few minutes. Remove from heat.

While mixture is still warm, blend eggplant mixture in either a blender or food processor. You should continue blending until you reach a creamy, smooth consistency. Use a drizzle of olive oil to help blend if mixture seems too stiff.

Step

Of 4

Prepare the sausages

Using your fingers or a sharp knife, remove the outer skin and crumble sausage meat into small pieces. Using your hands, shape the meat into small disks about 5-6cm wide, and 1cm thick.

Heat heavy-bottomed nonstick pan until quite hot. Add a drizzle of olive oil, and place the sausage disks into the greased pan. Cook disks on both sides until each disk is cooked through, and crispy on the outside.

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Of 4

Finish the dish

Place generous spoonful of eggplant purée onto each individual serving dish. Finish the dish by resting two or three sausage disks on top of the eggplant purée and garnish with a fresh rosemary twig (use only fresh rosemary for garnish, if not available, skip garnish).