RECIPE: KETO-FRIENDLY EGGPLANT LASAGNA

2019-06-11 · YouTube · Foodie Beauty · 5 min

Chantal demonstrates a keto-friendly eggplant lasagna recipe. She shows prepping eggplant slices (salting to draw out moisture, rinsing, brushing with olive oil, and roasting at 425°F until golden), mixing a cottage-cheese-and-egg filling with dried basil, and simmering a lean ground-chicken pasta sauce with aromatics and spices. She assembles layers of meat sauce, roasted eggplant, cottage-cheese mixture, mozzarella, and parmesan in a casserole dish, then bakes at 350°F for about 40 minutes until golden and bubbling.

Video guide

  1. 0:38 — Ingredients and slicing eggplant
  2. 0:47 — Salting/sweating eggplant to remove moisture
  3. 1:07 — Rinse, oil, and roast eggplant slices
  4. 1:36 — Prepare cottage-cheese filling
  5. 2:01 — Make and season meat sauce
  6. 3:03 — Assemble lasagna layers in casserole dish
  7. 4:21 — Bake until golden and serve

People, places, food, and other named details

  • Food — eggplant: Sliced 1/4 inch, salted to draw out moisture, rinsed, brushed with olive oil and roasted at 425°F until golden; used as lasagna layers.
  • Food — cottage cheese: Mixed with one egg, dried basil, salt and pepper for the lasagna cheese layer (preferred over ricotta).
  • Food — egg: One egg mixed into the cottage cheese filling.
  • Food — mozzarella: Shredded mozzarella layered over the cottage-cheese mixture and on top before baking.
  • Food — Parmesan: Sprinkled on top before baking.
  • Food — olive oil: Used to brush eggplant slices and to sauté onion for the meat sauce.
  • Food — onion: Sauteed as part of the meat sauce.
  • Food — ground chicken: Used as the protein in the meat sauce (sautéed with onion then simmered in pasta sauce).
  • Food — pasta sauce: A can/jar of pasta sauce is added to the browned chicken to make the meat sauce; fresh basil added near end of simmering.
  • Food — fresh basil: Chopped fresh basil added to the meat sauce near the end; dried basil used in cottage-cheese mixture; also used as garnish.
  • Food — crushed chili peppers: Added to the meat sauce for heat.
  • Food — garlic powder: Seasoning used in the meat sauce.
  • Food — onion powder: Seasoning used in the meat sauce.
  • Food — nutmeg: Fresh grated nutmeg added to the meat sauce.

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