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Step 1
Arrange rack 1 rung down from top of oven and preheat oven to high
Step 2
Halve the eggplant lengthwise and brush with EVOO, season with salt and pepper and place cut side down on a baking sheet
Step 3
Broil eggplant 20 minutes until skin charred and flesh collapsing and tender
Step 4
The eggplant will look like flat tires
Step 5
Turn the eggplant over with tongs and with the back of your chef knife scrape the flesh away from the skins, slide into a bowl or dish and mash
Step 6
Meanwhile, heat a large pot of water to boil for pasta
Step 7
For sauce, heat a large deep skillet or Dutch oven over medium high heat with EVOO, 2 turns of the pan
Step 8
Add sausage and beef and brown and crumble, add garlic and season with fennel, allspice, cumin, salt and pepper
Step 9
Stir in sun dried tomato paste, 2 big squirts from a tube, when you can smell the paste and it's incorporated fully, add stock or water and tomatoes, reduce heat a bit and simmer at a bubble
Step 10
Cook pasta 1 minute less than directed in salted water
Step 11
Just before draining or transferring to sauce reserve ¾ cup of starchy cooking water
Step 12
Stir eggplant into meat sauce and combine with pasta and pasta cooking water and cheese, add parsley and toss a full minute then adjust salt and pepper, serve with additional cheese to pass at table