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In keeping amongst the color theme, I was wondering what homemade dish actually says screams color?  I at ane time remembered a post by Melissa on A Better Bag of Groceries.  Melissa made Perfect Ratatouille from a recipe posted inwards the Boston Globe.  So off nosotros went to the farmer’s marketplace to pick up some color!

Garlic, as well as peppers as well as onions, oh my!

Eggplant, tomatoes, zucchini, olive oil, salt, pepper, as well as herbs.

In a large colander, toss the eggplant cubes amongst 1 tablespoon common salt as well as laid aside to drain at to the lowest degree 1 hour.  In a 2nd colander toss the zucchini cubes amongst two teaspoons common salt as well as laid aside to drain, most 1 hour.  While the eggplant as well as zucchini drain, while onions, peppers, mince garlic as well as get together herbs. 

Under running water, rinse the eggplant as well as zucchini good as well as drain on newspaper towels.

Grate the tomatoes into a large bowl.  Discard tomato skins.

In batches, saute the zucchini as well as eggplant inwards a skillet until good browned. 

Transfer to a large bowl.

Saute the onion.

Add the peppers …

Stir inwards the tomatoes as well as herbs, add together the eggplant as well as zucchini.

Serve warm as well as enjoy!

I volition add together that this recipe is non something yous desire to offset afterward a long hateful solar daytime at the office.  Start to destination it took me several hours to complete.  Maybe I had also many interruptions, but it is non a quick dinner I would recommend when pressed for fourth dimension – or if yous are actually hungry 🙂

But it was really yummy as well as my hubby enjoyed it topped amongst a fiddling cottage cheese.  He said it tasted similar lasagna. 

Ratatouille

2 medium eggplants (about two 1/2 pounds), cutting into 1-inch cubes

Salt as well as dark pepper

3 medium zucchini (about 1 1/2 pounds), cutting into 1-inch cubes

1/3 loving cup olive oil, or to a greater extent than equally necessary

2 medium onions, quartered lengthwise as well as thinly sliced (about four cups)

2 large bell peppers, 1 ruby-red as well as 1 yellow, cored, seeded as well as cutting into 3/4 inch-wide strips as well as halved crosswise (about iii cups)

8 cloves garlic, minced

1 tablespoon herbes de Provence

1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds, optional

4 medium tomatoes (about two pounds), halved as well as grated on the large holes of box grater (about iii cups) skins discarded

In a large colander laid over a bowl, toss the eggplant cubes amongst 1 tablespoon common salt as well as laid aside to drain, at to the lowest degree 1 hour.  In a 2nd colander over a bowl, toss the zucchini cube amongst two teaspoons common salt as well as laid aside to drain, most 1 hour.  Under running water, rinse the eggplant as well as zucchini well, as well as spread each to drain on newspaper towels.  With to a greater extent than newspaper towels, press firmly on the eggplant as well as zucchini to dry out the thoroughly (the pieces volition boot the bucket compressed, which is fine).

In a really large skillet over medium-high heat, oestrus 1 tablespoon petroleum until it ripples.  Add plenty eggplant or zucchini to gibe inwards a unmarried layer as well as cook, without moving, until well-browned on the bottom, most four minutes.  Stir, laid upward for two minutes longer, as well as transfer to a large bowl.  Return the skillet to medium-high oestrus as well as repeat to laid upward the remaining eggplant as well as zucchini inwards two or iii to a greater extent than batches, using 1 tablespoon petroleum per batch.  Transfer to the bowl. 

Return the skillet to medium-high heat, add together some other 1 1/2 tablespoons oil, as well as oestrus until it ripples.  Add the onions as well as 1 teaspoon common salt as well as cook, stirring constantly, until the onions stimulate to sizzle, most xxx seconds.  Adjust the oestrus to medium as well as cook, stirring often, until the onions are really soft as well as translucent, most xv minutes.  Add the bell peppers, stir to combine, as well as boot the bucket on cooking until peppers stimulate to soften, most 10 minutes. Add the garlic, herbes de Provence, as well as fennel seed.  Stir to combine as well as laid upward until fragrant, most 1 minutes.  Add the tomatoes, arrange oestrus to medium-high, and, using a wooden spoon, scrape the bottom of the pan until the celluloid of browned bits dissolves into the tomatoes as well as they come upward to a potent simmer.  Cook, stirring occasionally, until sauce thickens slightly, most 8 minutes.  Add the eggplant as well as zucchini, 1/2 teaspoon salt, pepper to taste, stir to combine, arrange the oestrus to medium, cover, as well as laid upward to blend flavors, most seven minutes.

Allow the ratatouille to cool for most xx minutes.  Serve warm, at room temperature or chilled, stirring most of the parsley into the ratatouille simply earlier serving as well as sprinkle the remaining parsley over the top. 

For other interesting variations of this recipe, depository fiscal establishment check out the master copy article at Boston Globe Magazine.

Source: savingdessert.com