How to cook a delicious vegetable dish "Ratatouille"

The Ratatouille dish has many different cooking options, but they are all based on the use of vegetables. It should also be noted that a red fragrant sauce should be made to such a dinner.

"Ratatouille" dish: recipe

Necessary ingredients for sauce:

• Bulgarian red pepper - 1 pc .;
• Bulb large - 1 pc .;
• Tomato sauce (you can juice or fresh tomatoes) - 100 ml;
• Garlic fresh small - 2 denticles;
• Dried thyme - a pinch;
• Refined vegetable oil - at the discretion;
• Salt sea - to taste.

Process of preparation of sauce

The dish "Ratatouille" is much tastier, if you add an aromatic dressing to it. To do this, the frying pan needs to be lightly fried (in vegetable oil), chopped onion and finely chopped Bulgarian red pepper. Next to the vegetables you need to pour the tomato sauce, pour in sea salt, dried thyme and add grated garlic. It is necessary to mix all the ingredients together, put them out under the lid for a couple of minutes, then remove from the plate and slightly cool in the air.

Necessary ingredients for the dish

We need:

• Young fresh squash - 2 pcs .;
• Ripe red tomatoes - 500 g;
• Eggplant of small size - 2 pcs .;
• Sunflower oil - 2 large spoons;
• Garlic small - 2-3 cloves;
• Fresh greens - to taste;
• Salt sea - at personal discretion.

The process of preparing the main ingredients

Culinary dish "Ratatouille" requires the use of only young and fresh vegetables. Thus, you need to take zucchini, ripe red tomatoes and eggplant, wash them well, and if necessary, and peel off (if the products are overripe). After that, all processed vegetables should be cut into thin circles with a thickness of not more than 4-5 millimeters.

Heat treatment

Dish "Ratatouille" should be baked in the oven, but before that, it is recommended to fry all the prepared vegetables from two sides in a frying pan. To do this, the dishes must be red-hot, pour in the sunflower oil, and then alternately lay out the eggplant circles and zucchini. After the products are slightly fried, they should be soaked with paper napkins in order to get rid of excess fat.

The Ratatouille dish and its formation

To prepare such a dinner, it is necessary to use glass or ceramic dishes intended for the oven. On its bottom you need to lay out the previously made sauce, and then, alternating circles of fried eggplants, tomatoes and zucchini, distribute vegetables around the perimeter.

The final stage in the preparation

Before you put the filled dishes in the oven, it is recommended to water the vegetable dish with a special dressing. To do this, mix sunflower oil, grated garlic, fresh herbs and sea salt, and then evenly spread the mixture on the surface of the vegetables. Preparing such a dinner in the oven for 20 minutes.

Correct feed to the table

A wonderful dish "Ratatouille" can be served to the table both in cold and hot. Also it is recommended to present wheat or rye bread.