Ratatouille - what is it? French cuisine, recipe with photo

At the mention of the word "ratatouille", many people recall the eponymous animated film about Remy, who knows the recipe for cooking a delicious vegetable stew. It was this mixture of zucchini, tomatoes and eggplants that won the heart of a strict cartoon culinary critic. So what is actually a famous ratatouille and how to cook it? This will be discussed in this article. Here you can see the recipes ratatuya with photos.

The recipe is classic

Ratatouille - what is an unusual dish? I must say, there is nothing surprising in it. This dish is somewhat reminiscent of Hungarian lecho, only with the addition of Provencal herbs. It is these French spices that give the rataty divine taste. Without them, the dish loses all meaning and turns into an ordinary vegetable stew.

And let's try to prepare a traditional French ratatouille (the recipe is classic). It was this dish that the Provencal women fed their husbands and children. The recipe has been known for a long time, and therefore time-tested.

Cooking a traditional dish

Take the eggplant and cut it into thin slices. Pickle and leave for a while to get bitter. In the meantime cut as two zucchini and tomatoes (5 pieces). It will take 6 tomatoes, but one must be left for the sauce. But while the eggplant waits for its hour, you can do the dressing for the dish. Let's start preparing the sauce. Let's cut the onion and finely chopped onion into cubes, taking off the skin. Preheat a frying pan with vegetable oil. Lay the onion and saute it. Add two sweet peppers, green and red flowers, a tomato and a clove of garlic. Season to taste with salt and pepper, put out for five minutes. Add here five tablespoons of tomato paste, hold it a little more on the fire.

In the prepared refractory utensils, pour the sauce. From above begin to lay out circles of vegetables, alternating them among themselves, in the form of scales. Season the dish with herbs of Provence, salt and pepper. Add a little vegetable or olive oil. Cover the dishes with foil and put in a preheated to 180 degree oven for half an hour. Ready to serve, let it brew for about ten minutes and serve to the table. This ratatouille, cooked in the oven, can be eaten without fear of getting better, because there is practically no oil in it.

Soup

In Russia, the ratatouille soup is also very popular. In fact, this is a vegetable stew, in which broth or water is added.

For preparation you will need:

• 2.5 liters of broth or water;
• 3 vegetable marrow;
• 800 grams of tomatoes in its own juice ;
• bulb;
• Bell pepper;
• eggplant;
• 50-60 grams of pasta;
• 0.5 teaspoon of thyme;
• Slightly oregano;
• cheese;
• Salt, spices.

Cut the eggplant cubes, salt and leave for 20 minutes. Finely chop the onion and fry it in vegetable oil until it is transparent. Then put the zucchini, diced, and the garlic, squeezed through the press. Rinse the eggplant in cold running water and add it to the vegetables. Fry for five minutes. On the next burner, heat water or broth, put tomatoes, salt, spices, spices. Bring to a boil and cook under the lid for ten minutes, then pour the pasta and cook until ready. Put the stewed vegetables in a saucepan and serve the ratatouille soup, sprinkled with grated cheese.

Recipe for the lazy

It is not necessary to use a certain set of vegetables and spices for cooking stew, you can experiment with a classic recipe and get a delicious dish in the end. If you do not have on hand zucchini and bell pepper, know that without them will come out very well. Prepare a "lazy" ratatouille. What is he? In fact, it's baked in the oven vegetables. We begin to cook. Eggplant we cut the accordion and soak it. This must be done in advance, two hours before cooking. A couple of tomatoes shinkle circles. If you have a small eggplant, then cut the tomatoes into semi-rings.

Prepare from the cheese an aromatic paste. Take six tablespoons of this cheese, add a couple of spoons of olive or vegetable oil, a little mayonnaise (sour cream), squeeze through the garlic press. Mix everything thoroughly. And sprinkle basil, dry or fresh. Lubricate the pan and lay the eggplant, start to stuff it. In each incision, put a tomato and pasta from the cheese. And so on until the very end. Only pre-grease the incisions with olive oil, and then lay the filling. It will be much more delicious.

Act further on your own. You can lubricate, for example, eggplant with mayonnaise or sour cream with garlic and cheese. Bake for about an hour at a temperature of 180 degrees. You can serve as a hot dish or a cold snack. Perfectly combined with meat and rice. And just with fresh bread! That's how we modified Ratatouille (a classic recipe) and prepared a completely new dish.

An unusual recipe with meat: ingredients

If you do not think your life without a piece of delicious meat, try cooking ratatouille with veal.

For this we take:

• Veal - 200 grams.
• Parmesan - 150 g.
• Three bulbs.
• Tomatoes - 6 pieces.
• Two carrots.
• 2 potatoes.
• Bulgarian red pepper - 5 pieces.
• Half of the zucchini.
• Eggplant.
• 150 grams of boiled water.
• Mild ketchup - 3 tablespoons.
• Salt.
• Pepper.
• Provencal herbs (mixture).
• A little olive oil and sour cream.

Ratatouille with meat: cooking

Prepare vegetables, clean them. Onion finely chop, grate carrots, pepper and tomatoes (2 pieces each) finely chopped. Heat the frying pan with olive oil. Fry onions until transparent, pour carrots, cook for five minutes. Add tomatoes and peppers to them, put out a little. Pour ketchup, salt and remove from the plate. Grind this pasturing with a blender. The resulting mashed potatoes diluted with water.

Veal cut into small pieces, pepper and fry on both sides until a golden crust appears.

In a heat-resistant dish, put the meat together with the juice that was formed during roasting. Pour it with vegetable caviar.

Vegetables, which remained, cut into circles. You can add mushrooms. Put everything very tightly over the meat with mashed potatoes. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and Provencal herbs. The dishes are covered with foil and put in a heated oven. Bake for about an hour at a temperature of 230 degrees. After that, remove the foil, sprinkle with cheese and bake for another five minutes. Delicious ratatouille ready! You can serve a dish with sour cream.

Variations on the theme ...

Russians are resourceful and unordinary people. We constantly invent something and invent. Even the classic French recipe was modified to taste preferences of the Russian people. Did you eat potato ratatouille, for example? What is this dish and how to cook it?

To implement the idea we will need very simple products that can be purchased at any store: potatoes, tomatoes, hard cheese. There is in this recipe only one exotic ingredient from France. This is blue cheese with a mold. But it takes quite a bit, only 50 grams.

Let's try to cook this dish. We'll clean 5 potatoes, cut them into plates. In the same way we chop two tomatoes. Lubricate the shape of the oil and put vegetables in it in a circle, alternating with each other. Season with pepper and salt, sprinkle with olive oil or vegetable oil. Priporoshim vegetables grated ordinary cheese (50 g), and above lay a noble blue. Put in the oven and bake at 180 degrees until ready. Now you can make ratatouille yourself. "What is it to invent a tasty vegetable?" - this question is no longer relevant.

Instead of an afterword

So you are convinced that it is not difficult to cook ratatouille. And the ingredients for it are available to everyone. You can even roll a vegetable ratatouille in a jar and enjoy its excellent taste and bright colors throughout the winter. Spoil your family and friends with a delicious dish more often. It should be noted that vegetables are extremely useful vitamins and trace elements, so they must be included in the daily children's diet. You can use ratatouille not only in hot, but also in cold form, so cook it on weekdays and on a holiday. Look at the ratatouille recipes from the photo, come up with your own ways of serving and enjoy this simple but useful dish!