Eggplant, Red Capsicum and Currant Pasta Sauce

Pasta Sauce with Eggplant, Red Capsicum & Currants
  • 15 minutes preparation
  • 20 minutes cooking
  • easy difficulty
  • 4 serves

Ingredients

  • 2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
  • ½ medium red capsicum, cut into small pieces
  • 1 medium eggplant, cut into strips
  • ½ tablespoon ground cumin
  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 500 g bottled tomato pasta sauce
  • ¼ cup currants
  • pinch salt, optional
  • pinch hot paprika, optional
  • 12 pitted kalamata olives
  • 2 tablespoons coriander, finely chopped

Method

  1. Heat the olive oil in a pan and saute the red capsicum until it softens.
  2. Add the eggplant strips to the pan and mix with the capsicum.  Cover the pan and saute for about 10 minutes, or until the eggplant strips soften and start turning golden brown.
  3. Add the cumin and garlic and fry for 1 minute.  Mix in the tomato pasta sauce, currants, pinch of salt, pinch of hot paprika and an extra ½ cup of water.  Allow the sauce to simmer, half-covered, for another 10 minutes, until the flavours cook through.
  4. Toss in the olives and coriander and serve the sauce piping hot on top of cooked pasta.  Both spirali and penne pasta work well.

Tips

  • Both spirali and penne pasta work well.

Nutritional Information

Per Serve

Kilojoules 750 kJ

Calories 182 cal

Protein 4 g

Total fat 9 g

Carbohydrate 25 g

Sodium 774 mg

Potassium mg

Calcium 60 mg

Iron mg

Fibre 6 g

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