Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, baked ratatouille. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have baked ratatouille using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Baked ratatouille:
- Get tomato puree
- Make ready onion, diced
- Take garlic, minced
- Prepare thyme
- Get pepper
- Get salt
- Take thin slices swiss cheese, low fat is fine
- Make ready skinny unpeeled eggplant, sliced into 1/4" thick rounds.
- Take unpeeled yellow squash, sliced into 1/4" thick rounds
- Get unpeeled zucchini, sliced into 1/4" thick rounds
- Get green pepper, cored and sliced into 1/4" rounds
- Take olive oil
- Prepare goat cheese, for serving (optional)
I added some thyme and rosemary, and a splash of white wine and served over rice to soak up the delicious juices. This is a perfect addition to my harvest season collection. This ratatouille recipe is from Delia's Vegetarian Collection book and is the basis of the related recipe below, Oven-roasted Ratatouille and Mozzarella Strudel with Parmesan and Pecans This recipe yields a batch big enough for these other recipes: Ratatouille with Pasta, Ratatouille and Baked Eggs, and Ratatouille Phyllo Wraps. It can also be served as a simple side dish or spooned onto toasted crusty bread.
Steps to make Baked ratatouille:
- Preheat oven to 375°. Spray 7"x10" pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- Pour tomato puree into bottom of pan and sprinkle with onion, thyme, salt, pepper, and minced garlic. Stir lightly.
- Layer cheese over tomato mixture.
- Arrange vegetable slices in dish, overlapping prettily. Drizzle olive oil over top and sprinkle with additional salt and pepper.
- Cover with parchment paper and bake 1 hour, or until veggie slices appear soft but not mushy.
- Serve with a tablespoon of goat cheese, if desired.
It's also delicious as a topping for grilled or toasted bread, with a soft cheese like fresh ricotta. You can also prepare this recipe in a slow cooker. Serve while hot as a main dish or side. This recipe features traditional ratatouille ingredients, which are: Fresh Tomatoes. Fresh tomatoes are key for making ratatouille that tastes fresh and lively, not dull and heavy.
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