The ratatouille recipe is simple, but requires many ingredients. There are several options for preparing such a dish, but whichever you choose, it will certainly become a delicious dinner that goes perfectly with a glass of wine.

Classic ratatouille at home

Classic ratatouille is a basic recipe for making a dish in the oven.

Required Products:

  • 3 cloves of garlic;
  • three tomatoes;
  • eggplant and zucchini;
  • a spoonful of butter and vegetable oils;
  • bulb;
  • 3 sprigs of rosemary and thyme;
  • seasonings.

Cooking process:

  1. Before you start laying out the ingredients in the form, you can immediately turn on the oven 180 degrees.
  2. We smear the baking dish with butter, cover with a layer of chopped onion, garlic and sprinkle with herbs.
  3. The remaining vegetables are cut into thin circles and sent to the onion, laying them out in turn. Between the plates we lay the remaining branches of herbs. We season all contents with spices and butter.
  4. Cover the dish with foil and bake for 50 minutes. Then the coating is removed, and the process continues for about 30 minutes.

How to cook a dish in a slow cooker?

Ratatouille in a slow cooker is no longer a traditional recipe. And heat treatment is different. But from this, the dish does not completely lose to the classic with its taste.

Required Products:

  • one paprika and onion;
  • two zucchini and eggplant;
  • three tomatoes;
  • a glass of dry white wine;
  • 2 cloves of garlic;
  • various herbs and spices;
  • 2 tablespoons of tomato paste and the same amount of olive oil.

Cooking process:

  1. All selected vegetables need to be cut into small pieces or whatever you like. If the vegetables are old, then remove the skin and veins from them. Young can be cut immediately.
  2. Smear the bowl with the indicated amount of oil, put the prepared ingredients there, pour the contents with wine, tomato paste and season with various herbs and spices. Turn on the appliance for 60 minutes, setting the mode "Extinguishing", and wait until everything is ready.

Oven baked vegetable stew

Ratatouille in the oven, or just vegetable stew, is done in much the same way as in the classic recipe. It turns out a satisfying and low-calorie dish.

Required Products:

  • lemon and sweet pepper;
  • herbs and spices;
  • one zucchini and eggplant;
  • 0.1 liters of white wine;
  • a spoonful of olive oil;
  • two tomatoes.

Cooking process:

  1. You can add other vegetables to your taste. All of them need to be cleaned, if necessary, and cut into thin mugs or slices. Shuffle each other.
  2. Separately, pouring is prepared, for which wine is combined with oil. Well, everything is seasoned with spices and always with some herbs, for example, rosemary.
  3. A foil is placed in the mold, vegetables are placed on it, poured with the sauce made and covered with foil again. Cook the dish for about 20 minutes, preheating the oven to 180 degrees.

Quick recipe in the pan

If there is absolutely no desire to bother with the oven, then try to cook the ratatouille in a pan.

Required Products:

  • basil and thyme on a branch;
  • 2 cloves of garlic;
  • two onions;
  • a spoonful of vegetable or olive oil;
  • one pepper and tomato;
  • two zucchini and eggplant;
  • seasonings.

Cooking process:

  1. For this recipe you will need a fairly deep and large pan with a lid. We heat the oil in it, add the zucchini and eggplant, cut into thin circles, and fry for several minutes before they begin to change color.
  2. Spread garlic and onion, diced into cubes, hold for another five minutes, and then chopped tomatoes and sweet pepper are next in line.
  3. Season the contents with herbs and spices to taste, cover with a lid and simmer over low heat until the vegetables are soft. This will take about 25 minutes.
  4. Then we “finish” the dish for another five minutes without a lid, raising the heating level so that the excess liquid evaporates.

In milk and cheese sauce

Another variation. And very tasty! After all, the cheese goes well with vegetables.

Required Products:

  • herbs and spices to your taste;
  • zucchini and eggplant;
  • 15 milliliters of olive oil;
  • 50 grams of butter;
  • one bell pepper and tomato;
  • about 80 grams of any cheese;
  • a spoon of flour;
  • a glass of milk.

Cooking process:

  1. Rinse all vegetables well, if necessary, remove the skin, cut into thin circles and put in a baking dish. Season with spices and put the ratatouille in the oven for 40 minutes, while not forgetting to cover the vegetables with a foil. The temperature is 180 degrees.
  2. While the ingredients reach the desired state, we make the sauce: we heat the butter with flour, pour in the milk, add a little pepper, salt and grated cheese. Mix until smooth.
  3. Pour the already softened vegetables with this mass, remove the foil and keep in the oven for another 15 minutes. Before serving, while the dish is still hot, sprinkle it with the remaining cheese.

Original recipe with grapes

Usually stew is made from vegetables, but in this version it is proposed to make it with grapes, try it - it's delicious!

Required Products:

  • a bunch of white grapes;
  • an Apple;
  • two tomatoes;
  • herbs and spices;
  • two zucchini and sweet pepper;
  • one onion and potatoes;
  • 4 tablespoons of olive oil.

Cooking process:

  1. All these vegetables must be cut into small cubes, except for zucchini. We turn them into thin circles.
  2. Peel the apple, remove the core, cut into four parts. The grapes are simply separated from the branches and washed.
  3. Mix all the ingredients of the dish, put it in a mold. Sprinkle with herbs, salt, pepper, oil and add a little plain water. Cooking an hour and a half at 200 degrees.

With sour cream and egg sauce

Slightly diversify the taste of vegetables using sauce.

Required Products:

  • two zucchini, tomato and eggplant;
  • onions and peppers;
  • spice;
  • a spoon of olive oil;
  • three eggs;
  • Provencal herbs to taste;
  • 0.2 kg of sour cream.

Cooking process:

  1. Chop onion, tomato and pepper into small cubes and simmer for several minutes. Then pour half a liter of water, pour in the selected spices and simmer until soft.
  2. Turn the remaining vegetables into mugs, put in a dish and drown in the prepared broth. Cover with foil and cook for 40 minutes at 200 degrees.
  3. Mix sour cream with eggs, add spices to your taste and pour vegetables in the oven with this dressing. Remove foil and hold for another 15 minutes until golden.

Hearty Vegetable Stew with Chicken Fillet

And before you is no longer a French ratatouille, but a tasty and full dinner.

Required Products:

  • pepper, zucchini, tomato - one each;
  • 0.5 kg of chicken;
  • clove of garlic and onion;
  • three tablespoons of tomato paste;
  • aromatic herbs and spices;
  • 2 large spoons of olive oil.

Cooking process:

  1. Cut the onion and garlic in any slices, fry until golden brown, and then combine with the fillet, previously chopped. Keep on the stove until it starts to change color.
  2. We spread chopped pepper, tomatoes, tomato paste there, pour in a little water and simmer for about 10 minutes, making a low level of heating. At the same stage, spices are added to the vegetables. Serve this dish with fresh herbs.

Ratatouille with potatoes

There’s no potato in the classic recipe, but many of us are used to doing stew with him, so why not give it a try?

Required Products:

  • three potatoes;
  • two zucchini and eggplant;
  • 0.1 liters of white wine;
  • juice of half a lemon;
  • two tomatoes, onion;
  • herbs and spices.

Cooking process:

  1. Peel the potatoes, grind them into cubes and fry until soft.
  2. In a separate container we pass chopped onion, pieces of eggplant and zucchini. When they begin to change color, add garlic. Keep until vegetables are soft and golden.
  3. In a saucepan we mix potatoes and vegetables, add chopped tomatoes, wine, spices with herbs and lemon juice. We cook for 20 minutes under the lid, setting a weak level of heating of the stove.

Similar:More from the author: