A delicious recipe for Pasta Alla Norma, a Sicilian dish of pasta in marinara sauce flecked with cubes of eggplant and basil. Try this recipe now or the next time you need a delicious dinner in a hurry!
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Pasta Alla Norma is a Sicilian recipe of pasta in marinara sauce flecked with cubes of eggplant and basil. The recipe remains naturally vegan until the very end when it is showered with strips of ricotta salata, a salty cheese. But you don't need cheese to gild the deliciousness of this simple yet complexly flavored pasta dish. Try this recipe now or the next time you need a delicious dinner in a hurry!

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What is Pasta alla Norma"
Pasta alla Norma is a classic Italian dish. The story goes it was named thus because it was the favorite dish of Vincenzo Bellini, a 19th-century Italian composer known for the hit opera, "Norma."

If you love tomato-based sauces and pasta dishes like this vegan Pasta alla Vodka, vegan Pasta Amatriciana or vegan Pasta Puttanesca, you will love Pasta alla Norma. It features a simple ingredient list of canned plum tomatoes, garlic, red pepper flakes, basil and the star ingredient: eggplant. If you have already made the simple tomato sauce recipe I last shared with you, you can use that instead of making the sauce from scratch.

This is a terrific recipe for anyone that doesn't think too highly of eggplant (hard for...