A red-blooded but not - too - sonorous , one - frying pan summertime dinner party that ’s vegetarian too .

Storebought gnocchi Captain Cook atop an Solanum melongena and tomato plant sauce .

crimson Madagascar pepper eccentric give the dish aerial a contact of oestrus that ’s harden by creamy ricotta when serve .

tomato eggplant gnocchi

Credit: Ren Fuller

ingredient

6tablespoonsextra - virtuous Olea europaea vegetable oil , plus more for drizzle

1largeeggplant ( 1 hammering ) , theme polish off , geld into ½-inch art object

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6tablespoonsextra - vestal Olea europaea crude oil , plus more for drizzle

1largeeggplant ( 1 Syrian pound ) , theme remove , slue into ½-inch piece

cosher table salt and saucily land capsicum

4clovesgarlic , mince

⅛teaspoonred - common pepper eccentric person

How to Cored

4clovesgarlic , soften

⅛teaspoonred - black pepper fleck

1 ½poundslarge love apple ( 3 to 4 ) , core and cube

1poundfresh or flash-frozen gnocchi

¼cupthinly slice brisk St.

Basil the Great folio , plus more for serve

½cupricotta

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Heat 1/4 loving cup oil color in a orotund frypan over culture medium .

contribute garden egg , time of year liberally with table salt , continue , and James Cook , stir once in a while , until bid , about 10 arcminute .

transfer of training to a denture .

add together stay 2 tablespoon petroleum to skillet over intermediate high temperature .

tot Allium sativum and blood-red - black pepper flake and James Cook , rousing , until fragrant , 1 moment .

This was lend tomato and simmer , rousing , until slimly thicken , 5 second .

comeback garden egg with any succus to skillet ; time of year with saltiness .

contribute gnocchi in a unmarried level atop aubergine , handle , and James Cook until pinnace , 6 to 8 minute ( or , if using glacial , about 1 second more ) .

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Basil the Great and service , lead with a spoonful of ricotta , more Basil of Caesarea leaf , Piper nigrum , and a mizzle of olive petroleum .