Prep Time: 10mins - Cook Time: 1hour - Serves 5
Switch the pasta sheets for sliced, melt-in-your-mouth aubergine. It goes perfectly with cheesy, tomato sauce & our seasoned chicken mince!
Ingredients
One pack Heck Simply Chicken mince (500g)
1 large aubergine
250g ricotta cheese
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp tomato puree
1 jar (500ml) tomato sauce
1 shallot (diced)
3 garlic cloves (minced)
1 tsp chilly flakes
1/2 tsp garlic powder
salt and pepper to taste
A handful of fresh basil leaves
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Heat the olive oil in a pan over medium heat. Add the shallot, garlic, chilly flakes and garlic powder and fry until the shallot becomes translucent.
- Add the chicken mince, salt and pepper to the pan and break the mince up using a spatula or a spoon.
- Lightly cook for around 5 minutes (it will continue to cook in the oven) then mix in the tomato sauce and tomato puree.
- Wash and slice the aubergine.
- Grease a large baking dish with spray oil/ oil (or butter) and layer with half the aubergine slices (cut some of the slices in half to fit in between the larger slices).
- Add the chicken mince mixture on top of the aubergine layer and spread until the aubergine is completely covered.
- Layer half the ricotta and spread over the chicken layer. Add some basil leaves on top of the ricotta.
- Repeat the layers (aubergine - chicken - ricotta) once more.
- Cook in the oven for 40 minutes.
- Serve while hot with a sprinkle of fresh basil over the top.
| Nutritional Information | Per 100g | Per Portion |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 465kJ/111kcal | 1403kJ/336kcal |
| Fat | 5.9g | 18g |
| of which Saturates | 1.9g | 5.7g |
| Carbohydrate | 4.6g | 14g |
| of which Sugars | 2.8g | 8.6g |
| Protein | 9.3g | 28g |
| Salt | 0.10g | 0.31g |