Ratatouille

Ratatouille Recipe

Ratatouille, a french vegetable made from colourful layers of veggies like eggplant (brinjal), tomatoes, and zucchini.  It is ready in half time, is also vegan, and gluten free. Ratatouille is completely healthy and nutritious recipe during summer season.

History of Ratatouille?

This cooked vegetable dish originated in France, very healthy and low fat summer vegetable stew. The word ratatouille comes from the Occitan term “ratatolha” and the French word “rata” means chunky stew and “touiller” which means to toss food or stir up. In a few words, here you are tossing all the vegetables and making a flavorful meal. This dish is usually served with meat and fish, but if you are a vegetarian, it can also be served as a main dish over rice. This vegetable stew can be eaten either hot or at room temperature. In fact, it tastes even better the next day. You will find many varieties of ratatouille similar to the ingredients used in it and making it this way also enhances its taste.

Different ways to cook

The first way is to cook all the vegetables at once, until it is cooked from the bottom.

The second way is to cook the zucchini and eggplants separately, then mix them with the onions, tomatoes and peppers at the end. Bake and serve over rice.

There is another way to make it, in which we stir fry garlic and onion in the beginning and then add brinjal, zucchini, tomato and chilli.

What to serve Ratatouille with?

So if you’d like to serve Ratatouille as a main course, I suggest to serve it over a cooked grain such as rice, quinoa, or pasta. You can also serve the leftovers over your favorite pizza crust as a pizza topping.

It takes a little time to cook properly, so I would recommend cooking it on Sundays so that people will have delicious and different colors of food to eat throughout the week.

I’m going to show you how to prepare the easiest and most delicious variety you’ve ever tasted.

Try this amazing and flavorful dish at your home.

 

Ratatouille

Serves: Serve it over rice, quinoa, or pasta.
Cooking time: 40 minutes
Level: Easy
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Ingredients

  • 1 big Brinjal (Baingan) cut into ½ -inch pieces
  • 2 nos. Zucchini (Tori) cut into pieces to make one cup
  • 1 Capsicum, red or green (yellow or green shimla mirch) cut into cubes
  • 2 cloves Garlic (Lehsun) finely chopped
  • 2 tbsp Mixed Herbs can be replaced with ½ tsp Ajwain
  • 2 tbsp Cheese processed or parmesan
  • 2 tbsp Chili Flakes (sukhi kuti hui lal mirch)
  • 2- 3 tbsp Tomato (Tamatar) Puree
  • 2 Onion (Pyaaz) cut into slices
  • 2 tbsp Coriander leaves (dhaniya)
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • Oil 2 tbsp.

Instructions

  1. In a frying pan, heat a tablespoon of oil and saute onions and garlic for one or two minutes until they are soft.
  2. Transfer out from the pan to a larger pot that will accommodate all the ingredients after being sauteed individually.
  3. In the same pan, heat 1 teaspoon oil add the Brinjal fry for (4-5mins), then add zucchini (4-5 mins) and capsicum (1 min) with equal portions of herb mixture or ajwain and salt.
  4. Transfer each of them to a larger pan that has onions and garlic.
  5. Now heat this larger pot on low flame and add the final touch by adding the tomato purée and chili flakes. Stir and garnish with the cheese.
  6. Garnish it with coriander leaves.