Recipe: Tasty Baked ratatouille

Baked ratatouille. No, I'm not talking about the Disney movie (although I did enjoy that film as well), I mean the delicious vegetable dish! The recipe contains simple, tasty ingredients; many of which you may already have lying around the house. There are many slight variations to this recipe, but I've found this to […] Directions.

Serve while hot as a main dish or side. Prep your ingredients before you start - peel and cut the onions into wedges, then peel and finely slice the garlic. This recipe yields a batch big enough for these other recipes: Ratatouille with Pasta, Ratatouille and Baked Eggs, and Ratatouille Phyllo Wraps. You can cook Baked ratatouille using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Baked ratatouille

1. You need 1 cup of tomato puree.
2. It's 1/2 of onion, diced.
3. Prepare 2 clove of garlic, minced.
4. It's 1 tsp of thyme.
5. It's 1/2 tsp of pepper.
6. It's 1/2 of salt.
7. You need 4 of thin slices swiss cheese, low fat is fine.
8. It's 1 of skinny unpeeled eggplant, sliced into 1/4" thick rounds..
9. Prepare 1 of unpeeled yellow squash, sliced into 1/4" thick rounds.
10. You need 1 of unpeeled zucchini, sliced into 1/4" thick rounds.
11. You need 1 of green pepper, cored and sliced into 1/4" rounds.
12. Prepare 1 tbsp of olive oil.
13. It's 1 of goat cheese, for serving (optional).

It can also be served as a simple side dish or spooned onto toasted crusty bread. You can also prepare this recipe in a slow cooker. Ratatouille is an easy dinner or side dish that is so healthy and delicious! Bake for about an hour, until the tomato sauce at the bottom is bubbling and the veggies are tender.

Baked ratatouille step by step

1. Preheat oven to 375°. Spray 7"x10" pan with nonstick cooking spray..
2. Pour tomato puree into bottom of pan and sprinkle with onion, thyme, salt, pepper, and minced garlic. Stir lightly..
3. Layer cheese over tomato mixture..
4. Arrange vegetable slices in dish, overlapping prettily. Drizzle olive oil over top and sprinkle with additional salt and pepper..
5. Cover with parchment paper and bake 1 hour, or until veggie slices appear soft but not mushy..
6. Serve with a tablespoon of goat cheese, if desired..

This oven baked ratatouille recipe is also a popular conversation piece. People love to talk about not only how this dish looks and tastes, but also about the Pixar movie called Ratatouille The movie, which is a classic, is named based off this dish. My version is an easy baked casserole, loaded with a balance of healthy, colorful vegetables. The finished dish is sprinkled with basil pesto and soft goat cheese when it comes out of the oven, which slightly melts into a creamy, delicious topping. The dish originates from the South of France, where home cooks would toss tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, onions, eggplant, garlic and herbs into a pot and cook them down to create an irresistible mixture enjoyed hot, cold, on its own, with eggs, over toast, or tossed with pasta.

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