Casarecce with Burnt Aubergine/Eggplant & Tahini

Casarecce con crema di melanzane arrostite e tahina

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Preparation info
  • Serves:

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      1 hr 25

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Pasta Therapy: Over 100 nourishing recipes for relaxation, calm and healing

By Isabella Barbato

Published 2026

  • About

A smoky, cross-cultural pasta that doesn’t follow the rules but knows exactly where it’s going. You could call this pasta a remix. The flavours are familiar: burnt aubergine/eggplant, tahini, lemon. But they land differently here. Not as a dip or a side, but as a sauce made to cling to the gentle curves of handmade casarecce. This short pasta hails from Sicily, its curled scroll-like shape perfect for catching sauce. The aubergine is charred until the flesh collapses, smoky and tender. The