I love Ratatouille , the movie and love to watch it with my daughter every time it shows on Star movies . I wanted to make that popular dish ” Ratatouille “since I saw the movie for the first time and finally made it in the Blogging Marathon # 32 for alphabet “R” under International Cuisine
The word ratatouille comes from Occitan ratatolha and the recipe comes from Occitan cuisine. According to French term ” touiller ” it means to toss food.
It was originally a meal made by poor farmer’s and was prepared in the summer with fresh vegetables.
Ratatouille is usually served as a side dish, or as a meal on its own, accompanied by pasta, rice or bread .the main ingredients are Tomatoes, garlic, onions, zucchini , eggplant, bell peppers, and basil, or bay leaf and thyme . So let’s start the recipe .yum
Ingredients:
1 cup vegetable stock
2 red onions, chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 red capsicums, deseeded, cut into 2cm pieces
1 yellow capsicum , deseeded , cut into 2 cm pieces
2 eggplant, cut into 3cm pieces
2 tomatoes , chopped or 1 can
1/4 cup tomato paste
2 teaspoon castor sugar
2 zucchini, quartered, cut into 2cm pieces
1/4 cup fresh basil leaves , chopped or 2 teaspoon dried basil
Salt to taste
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoon olive oil
Method:
Heat oil in a pan , add onions and garlic, and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes or until the onions soften slightly.
Add red and yellow capsicums and eggplant, and cook for 2 minutes. Stir in the tomatoes, tomato paste and sugar. Cover and cook over low heat for 15 minutes.
Add zucchini. Cook for 15 minutes with closed lid until vegetables are soft.
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Stir in basil , salt and pepper and mix. Remove form heat and serve with bread , rice or as it is.
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Enjoy !
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Serve-4. Cooking time -40 minutes
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wow thats wud be a very very delicious side for bread or pasta 🙂 looks super yummy and lovely captures dear !!
Delicious Love to try it with bread.
I love ratatouille, the movie and the dish. I think the movie is very cute and the dish is hearty and delicious.
Guess this dish will always remind me of the movie..:)..good one..
Wow.. ratatouille looks so good
Earlier i hate ratatouille to the core, but when i was pregnant of my thrid one,suddenly i started liking it and now its my fav.
i love ratatouille on its own, yours looks lovely
Well prepared Ratatouille. My son loves the movie. I am going to try this out soon…
delicious veg..
Ratatouille is such a healthy dish. I love how colorful it is. And of course, I love that movie too. Gotta watch it with my kids soon!
wow that is one healthy and colorful dish!!! so yummy!!
Sowmya
love ratatouille and this look delicious!!!
Colourful delicious recipe.
The tosses veggies look vibrant and crunchy…good one Sapna.
Lovely n new dish to me
Lovely color!And a hearty meal by itself.Good one Sapana..
I love the movie, but yet to try the dish!!This is eaten as such, am I right?
this is a fairly popular dish over here but I have never tried it because it always has eggplant and I dont like eggplant but yours looks delicious!
Looks lovely. I have stayed away from it because of the eggplants.
love urs and the movie :)its a great hearty meal in itself for me.
Wow.. look superb
Looks yummy…and this reminds me of the movie:-)
I have seen the movie so many times but never bothered to look into the recipe. It looks so colourful and inviting…
I love the movie though I hav enever watched it till the end. This one is bookmarked.