Ratatouille

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This Ratatouille Recipe is a classic french recipe that you can make with end-of-summer vegetables like eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes and peppers. It’s a very hearty dish has a wonderfully light and fresh flavor since it’s loaded with color and and nutrient dense ingredients. The best part is you can make it quickly in one pot!

Ratatouille is a simple one pot veggie dish that you can serve as a side or main. Made with simple ingredients and loaded with veggies, it’s fresh, vibrant and so tasty! Don’t let the French name put you off, it comes together so easily!

How to make Ratatouille

Start by preparing the vegetables and chopping everything a similar size. You’ll need onions, eggplant, zucchini and red bell peppers. Get my tips for how to cut bell peppers, zucchini, and onions.

Next, you’ll slowly add those ingredients into the pot to cook the ratatouille recipe. Here are the step-by-step instructions:

1. Cook onions with olive oil until they’re soft and translucent.
2. Add the eggplant, zucchini and bell peppers to the onions along with garlic, salt, pepper and crushed red pepper.
3. Now you want to mix everything together to add some color to the vegetables and soften them just a bit.
4. Next add the canned diced tomatoes along with some water and red wine vinegar.
5. Cook on low covered until all the vegetables fully soften.
6. When it’s done cooking, you can add some grated parmesan cheese if you’d like or keep the ratatouille recipe vegan without the cheese.

Tips to make ratatouille

1. Cut the vegetables into bite sized chunks. This way it will be easier to eat and the vegetables will cook through evenly.
2. Be careful not to over cook the vegetables. They should be soft and cooked through, but if you over cook them they will become mushy and you will end up with more of a soupy consistency.
3. Use firm vegetables. I found that this is the best mix of vegetables and the most traditional. Other vegetables you could use are mushrooms, yellow squash, red onions or different colored bell peppers.
4. Don’t skip the red wine vinegar. It may seem odd to add red wine vinegar but it’s traditional and the acid at the end really livens up the recipe quite a bit. You can substitute with apple cider vinegar.

Frequently asked questions

This is such a bright and colorful dish and it’s a great way of packing the veggies in! It’s the perfect summer dish, or freeze it to enjoy later in the year!

For more dinner recipes:

• Red Lentil Curry
• Stuffed Squash
• Eggplant Chickpea Stew
• Vegan Buddha Bowl
• Shakshuka
• Eggplant Moussaka
• Butternut Squash Risotto

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This Ratatouille Recipe recipe was originally published on February 18, 2017. I’m re-sharing it with more step-by-step photos. Here’s the original photo 🙂