{"id":1097,"slug":"eggplant-pasta","title":"Eggplant Pasta","description":"This tasty vegetable stew is great served with your favorite pasta.","ingredients_raw":["1 eggplant (aubergine)","1 large onion, chopped","1 tbsp olive oil","Salt to taste","2 tins of peeled tomatoes","1 chile pepper","Handfuls of fresh basil","Dried Italian herbs mixture (marjoram, basil, capsicum, oregano, rosemary, parsley, garlic, thyme; often sold pre-mixed)","Fresh garlic, crushed","Pasta, cooked"],"ingredients_norm":["eggplant","onion","olive oil","salt","tomato","chili pepper","fresh basil","dried italian herbs mixture","fresh garlic","pasta"],"steps":["Slice eggplant and cover in salt. Leave for at least 30 minutes.","Rinse salt away, then squeeze until almost dry (this removes sourness).","Cut eggplant into chip-sized pieces and fry in oil.","Add onion and cook briefly.","Add all other ingredients and simmer for 30 minutes.","Serve with freshly cooked pasta."],"categories":["Eggplant recipes","Recipes using pasta and noodles","Recipes using eggplant","Boiled recipes","Vegan recipes","Recipes using basil","Recipes using chile","Recipes using garlic","Recipes using marjoram"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":60,"servings":"4 persons","yield_text":null,"difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Eggplant_Pasta","source_ref":"4523455","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Eggplant_Pasta&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"54f9a0abc6241c51f4cb02f7d0cfcf0be2f45913546a5442cd21e81a656b640f","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:01Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:01Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/eggplant-pasta"}