Aubergine rollatini
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Instructions
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Tips
By far the simplest way to slice aubergine for rollatini to ensure equally thick slices is to use a mandolin. This piece of cooking equipment makes slicing vegetables incredibly easy and most models allow you to change its settings so you can ensure 1.5 cm slices. Without a mandolin, start by cutting off the tops and bottoms of the aubergines, so you can balance them as you cut lengthwise from top to bottom. Use a sharp knife and make sure to be mindful of where you place your fingers.
Questions about aubergine rollatini
Use our easy recipe for aubergine rollatini to serve a tasty Italian classic this Ramadan. To learn more about it, read our answers to the most frequently asked questions below.
Ingredients
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Tomato sauce with cream
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500 ml |
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Grated mozzarella cheese
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225 g |
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Oil
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2 tbsp |
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Onions
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50 g |
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Garlic cloves
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4 |
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Aubergines
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2 |
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Goat cheese
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125 g |
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Pitted green olives
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4 |
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Fresh parsley
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2 tbsp |
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Aubergine rollatini in tomato sauce
Cheesy, soft, and flavourful, our aubergine rollatini are the perfect combination of simple yet elegant ingredients combined into an Italian-style light meal or side dish. The aubergine slices that encase the cheesy filling are meltingly tender. After being fried, using them to create these tasty, stuffed rolls becomes incredibly easy. Aubergines are naturally quite mild tasting with a slight vegetable sweetness, but they are great at soaking up flavour from whatever you cook them with. As such, they will be infused with the flavours of the goat cheese and olive filling as well as the garlic-flavoured tomato sauce they are baked in. This vibrant sauce with sweet-tangy tomatoes is deliciously savoury and creamy, making for the perfect base for these aubergine rollatini.
Stuffed with goat cheese and green olive filling
Reading about the savoury filling of these aubergine rollatini is sure to make your mouth water. The creamy texture of this stuffing is owed to the goat cheese. This soft and crumbly cheese has a characteristically buttery, tart flavour that makes it perfect for dishes like this.
Flavoured with green olives and fresh parsley, its richness is perfectly balanced. The olives provide plenty of tanginess and salt, while the fresh parsley gives the homemade aubergine rollatini with goat cheese a wonderful peppery quality that keeps their flavour fresh.
Quick and easy aubergine rollatini baked and browned in the oven
A creamy, mild cheese like mozzarella is perfect for sprinkling on top of aubergine rollatini before you pop them in the oven. The shredded cheese, which melts very well, creates a melty top layer of gooey richness. When browned in the oven, the upper part of the mozzarella may even form a slightly crispy crust that works as a beautiful contrast to the soft goat cheese filling and the creamy tomato sauce.
For more delicious, cheesy dishes have a look at our recipes for cheese sambousek, one pot lasagna, and chicken kofta with cheese.
Experiment with a classic breaded aubergine rollatini
A traditional, Italian aubergine rollatini recipe will instruct you to bread the aubergine slices and, of course, you can try this method out in our recipe, too. You get an incredibly tasty result by dusting the slices with flour before dipping them in a beaten egg and then a breadcrumb mixture. You can easily make homemade breadcrumbs with crumbled bread, Parmesan cheese, parsley, and garlic. As a bonus, a breading with these ingredients will mirror the flavour profile of the dish.
