Eggplant Pasta (Edition of Despair)

Ingredients

• 1/2 serving spaghetti
• 1 eggplant
• 7 cloves garlic
• a pinch of crushed red pepper
• a little chopped scallion and grana padano
• (sauce) 1T soy sauce
• 1T tuna extract

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Steps

1. 01

   Wash the eggplant, pat dry, and cut into rough chunks. Toss in a mixing bowl with salt and let sit about 10 minutes until the moisture releases.

2. 02

   Slice the garlic thin with a mandoline and finely chop the scallion.

3. 03

   Boil the spaghetti in water with 1t salt.

4. 04

   Heat olive oil in a pan, sauté the garlic, then add the crushed red pepper and eggplant. Add 1T soy sauce and 1T tuna extract and stir-fry.

5. 05

   Add the spaghetti from step 3 to step 4, stir-fry, turn off the heat, mantecare it together, then plate and top with the prepared scallion, olive oil, and grana padano.