One tray roast vegetable pasta sauce

Ingredients

• 200 g cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
• 1 small eggplant (aubergine), cut into 2cm cubes
• 1 zucchini (courgetti), cut into 2cm cubes
• 1 red onion, quartered but roots left intact
• 1 head garlic, top sliced off 
• ¼ cup (60 ml)  olive oil
• 1½ tbsp (30 ml) balsamic vinegar
• sea salt
• 1 tsp chilli flakes
• 200 g penne
• parmesan shavings, to serve
• Large handful of basil leaves, to serve

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 200°C (180°C fan-forced).
2. Arrange the tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, red onions and garlic in separate piles across a medium-sized roasting tin with high sides. Drizzle over the olive oil and balsamic vinegar and sprinkle with sea salt and chilli fakes. Give each pile a good mix to make sure it’s all coated evenly, then place in the oven to roast on the middle shelf for 30 minutes.
3. About 10 minutes before the vegetables are finished cooking, cook the pasta in a large pan of boiling salted water until al dente.
4. Remove the roasting tin from the oven and carefully squeeze the mushy garlic out of the skins on to the tomatoes; discard the skins. Using the back of a fork, mash down the garlic and tomatoes until combined. Add a ladle of the pasta cooking liquid to this and stir to make a sauce. Now mix all of the contents of the pan together and then pour in the drained pasta.
5. Add some generous shavings of parmesan and roughly tear in a few basil leaves. Toss everything together until well combined and serve hot, garnished with more parmesan shavings and basil leaves.