Is there really anything better than a cheesy and saucy bowl of pasta on a chilly fall night? Hands up if you agree! Need a quick weeknight meal that the whole family will enjoy? This Easy And Cheesy Eggplant Pasta Al Forno Family Style does the trick.
Easy And Cheesy Eggplant Pasta Al Forno Family Style
Simple enough for a weeknight meal and fancy enough for a weekend dinner. This Easy And Cheesy Eggplant Pasta Al Forno is sure to be a crowd pleaser at your table any night of the week. What makes this recipe so easy? No need to make a homemade sauce. Use your favorite jarred sauce and save tons of time. When I don’t have time to make my own sauce, I use Rao’s.
[You may also like one pan creamy sun-dried tomato and spinach tortellini]
While your pasta is cooking, simply slice and roast your eggplant. Combine your al dente pasta, the roasted eggplant, and your tomato sauce in a large skillet. Stir in some mozzarella cheese because everything is better with cheese right? Place your skillet under the broiler for 5 minutes until the cheese gets all melty and browns up.
It’s super easy to customize this Easy and Cheesy Eggplant Pasta Al Forno to meet the tastes of your family. Some great add ins would be spinach, mushrooms or peppers. Want a little protein? Add in some sausage, chicken or vegetarian sausage. Anything goes with pasta bakes.
Easy Eggplant Pasta Al Forno
Easy and cheesy this Eggplant Al Forno is perfect for the whole family and easy enough for a weeknight
Ingredients
- Box of ziti (or your favorite pasta shape)
- large eggplant-sliced into bite sized pieces
- 32 oz jar of tomato sauce
- 8 oz of shredded mozzarella
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375
- Cook pasta according to package to al dente
- Meanwhile, arrange eggplant on a baking sheet
- drizzle with olive oil, salt, pepper and garlic powder
- bake for 15 min
- In a large skillet, warm tomato sauce
- add in eggplant and pasta to combine
- sprinkle on cheese
- place under broiler for 5-10 min until browned
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
6Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 222Total Fat: 8gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 25mgSodium: 1033mgCarbohydrates: 27gFiber: 6gSugar: 10gProtein: 13g
Who else is craving cozier meals now that it’s a little chillier out? Hope your family loves this Easy and Cheesy Eggplant Al forno as much as mine does.
Wow, this looks amazing. I can always go for a big bowl of pasta!
Thanks me too!
Everything is definitely better with cheese! It makes comfort food so good
It sure does!
Pasta is still my favorite go-to meal before a long run or race. Or any time really. 😊 This looks delicious.
My favorite too!
Sounds so tasty. I haven’t had pasta in ever.
It’s so good hope you try it out
this would be the perfect carb load meal for the night before a race!
I agree! Can’t get enough pasta myself
This is my kind of meal! How tasty! I love the addition of the roasted eggplant.
Thanks it gives it a little heartier of a feel
Looks like delicious comfort food and maybe a way to get my family to eat and love eggplant? Maybe? Worth a try!
Definitely worth a try! You can kind of hide it in there
Look at all that cheesy goodness!!!!!!! Totally trying this 😉
I am all about the cheese
Yum! It’s definitely that time of year for cozy comfort foods! My husband loves pasta casseroles…ok..he loves ANYTHING pasta lol I’ve been making pesto scallops with pasta recently which he loves. (it’s one of few seafoods I can get him to eat)
I am newly into pesto myself and trying to find some new things to do with it. Hope you all enjoy this pasta too-super easy
Pasta is really my favorite. It’s just so delicious. I didn’t eat much (or close to properly) this weekend, and all I wanted was a big bowl of pasta come Sunday night. I made macaroni & cheese for tonight, per little man’s request, so that will have to satisfy the craving.
This looks great!
Mac n cheese is always a crowd fave around here too. Everyone loves a big bowl of pasta
Wow. Now that’s an easy one. My hubby both love eggplant.
yay! Finally found a recipe you might try! 🙂
This looks good! I never know what to do with eggplant (minus my one recipe).
Thanks it is actually quite versatile!
Ooh this is the ultimate pasta dish! Looks so comforting and delicious
Thanks so much
Ziti is one of our favorite dinners at our house! Great add in with the eggplant!
It makes it a little more hearty and a lot more delicious
I’m definitely craving cozier meals! Love how easy this is to make and it looks delish.
Very easy!
Yummy! I would have thought eggplant needed to roast longer. Good to know this can be made pretty quickly.
If they are cut into smaller sizes, they cook a lot faster
funny story, yesterday I roasted eggplant and was going to decide later what to do with it. I sliced it, put salt on it and let it “sweat” then later carefully arranged it in the pan with a tiny bit of oil and put it in the oven.
Then I forgot about it.
My pan now has eggplant baked into it.
I’ll be doing a “take 2” probably tonight – thicker slices and not forgetting it in the oven – and this recipe will hopefully will be coming to fruition as well! Good for extra portions to have for leftovers!!
I love pasta from the oven, but my fave is a simple rosemary garlic tomato sauce my husband makes with fresh spaghetti pasta. NOM.
Oh my! I have left things in the microwave before and found them the next day! Hope the second time was a charm!
OK, now I suddenly have a pasta craving! lol! Looks yummy…as all of your dishes do!
That looks so good! I need to go get some eggplant so I can attempt to make this! (I’m not sure I’ve ever really tried to cook with eggplant before! :O )!
You can do it!
Oh my!! This looks absolutely fabulous!! Love adding eggplant in when i can!
Thanks so much hope you try it out