Eggplant Parmigiana

📍 Origin: Campania / Sicily  ·  🌱 Vegetarian  ·  ⚠️ Allergens: gluten, eggs, dairy

Eggplant Parmigiana, a true gem of Italian comfort food.

Eggplant Parmigiana is a typical Sicilian dish. With only a few ingredients, such as tomato, eggplant, basil, and cheese, you get a flavour-filled dish symbolising Mediterranean cuisine! Layer them, bake them in the oven, and you have a dish loved across Italy and beyond. Whether you wish to enjoy it as a side dish or a main course, get ready for a truly genuine, flavourful dish.

According to some food historians, however, the recipe’s inception should be sought further back in time and some miles south of Naples. Sicilians have long claimed melanzane alla parmigiana is their invention. The eggplant came to Italy thanks to the Arabs, who brought it to Sicily in the early Middle Ages. By the 15th century, this vegetable was common on Sicilian tables. Its name may come from the word petronciana, as the Arabs called it or, perhaps, from the Sicilian word parmiciana, a term used to indicate the wooden laths that form a shutter, the look of which could be compared, with some imagination, to the layers of parmigiana.

Sicilian dishes.

Allergens & Dietary Needs

Fried Eggplant Parmigiana contains cheese, eggs and flour. Please let us know if you have any allergies or dietary requirements.

Learn to Make Eggplant Parmigiana in Genoa

Add Eggplant Parmigiana to your menu: choose it as one of your three recipes and cook it step by step with chef Lucrezia in her home kitchen in Genoa, then sit down to enjoy it with a glass of Italian wine. You will receive the written recipe by email, so you can make it again at home.