Name: Pasta alla Norma
Yield: Serves four
Ingredients: salt and black pepper; 1 tsp caster sugar; 2 — 400 g tins of plum tomatoes; 5 large oregano sprigs (8 g); 3 aubergines (900 g); 1–2 mild dried chillies (deseeded if you don’t want the heat); 5 garlic cloves, thinly sliced; 120 ml olive oil; 20 g basil leaves, torn; 45 g mature pecorino romano (or ricotta salata), shaved; 300 g spaghetti

Preparation info

Serves
four

Difficulty
Easy

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Ottolenghi Simple

By Yotam Ottolenghi

Published 2018

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After a day in the test kitchen, eating all day, there are just a handful of dishes I’m happy to cook and eat once I get home. This is one of them. If you’re getting organised and into batch cooking, double or triple the recipe for the tomato sauce so that this is all ready to go: it keeps in the fridge for 5 days and also freezes well. The aubergine, once roasted, is also happy to sit around (either at room temperature or in the fridge) for a day, if you want to get ahead with this too.