Ratatouille is a fairly simple and extremely tasty dish of vegetables. It is cooked in the oven, looks beautiful on the dining table and can decorate any holiday.
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You will need
- For the dish:
- zucchini - 2 pcs.
- eggplant - 2 pcs.
- tomatoes - 3 pcs.
- potatoes - 3 pcs.
- cheese - 100 g
- For the sauce:
- sour cream - 100 g
- olive oil - 1 tbsp. l
- dill / parsley - 50 g
- salt - 1/4 tsp
- spices: asafoetida, black pepper
Instruction manual
1
Wash the potatoes, place them in a pot of water. Put on medium heat. Boil potatoes until cooked.
2
Wash the rest of the vegetables - eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes. It is better to take vegetables of about the same diameter to make the ratatouille beautiful.
3
While the potatoes are cooked, cut the eggplant into round slices. Soak the chopped eggplant for at least 15 minutes in salt water in order to remove its natural bitterness.
4
After that, cut the remaining vegetables - zucchini and tomatoes into round slices as well. Check the potato; if it becomes soft on top, cool it. Then peel and cut into round pieces as well.
5
Then make the sauce. To do this, use a blender to mix all the ingredients for the sauce - sour cream, herbs, olive oil and salt. Add spices for spiciness. Add 1/2 teaspoon asafoetida Indian spice. She will give the sauce a onion-garlic flavor.
6
Start laying out the ratatouille. You can put the vegetables in a round shape, for example in a cast-iron pan. A rectangular shape will do. Pour a spoonful of olive oil into the bottom of the mold. Then alternately vertically spread the circles of vegetables - eggplant, zucchini, potatoes, tomato. And so on in a circle.
7
When filling the whole form with vegetables, pour the vegetables with sauce. Make it so that the sauce gets between the slices.
8
Preheat the oven to 190 degrees. Cover the mold with foil and place the baked ratatouille. While the vegetables are baked, grate the cheese on a coarse grater. Occasionally turn the pan in the oven to bake all the vegetables.
9
After one hour, the dish should be almost ready. Remove the foil from the vegetables, sprinkle the ratatouille with grated cheese. Bake for another five minutes until a crispy cheese crust appears. Serve hot to the table.
Useful advice
In order to diversify the taste of this vegetable dish, you can add sliced bell pepper to vegetables.