Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, traditional provence ratatouille. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Traditional Provence Ratatouille I got this recipe from a French lady (from Provence) who used to a great blog about her home cooking. When I tried her ratatouille, I was blown away how amazing it was! There are endless versions of this dish and she said that all the grandma's in France insist that their recipe for ratatouille is THE best.

Traditional Provence Ratatouille is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Traditional Provence Ratatouille is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook traditional provence ratatouille using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Traditional Provence Ratatouille:

1. Make ready 2 eggplants, cut into rings then quartered
2. Prepare 3 courgettes/zucchini, cut into rings then quartered
3. Prepare 1 red pepper, chopped into medium pieces
4. Make ready 1 yellow pepper, chopped into medium pieces
5. Get 4 tomatoes, roughly chopped
6. Make ready 2 onions, sliced thin
7. Prepare 3 cloves garlic, crushed
8. Take 2 bay leafs, crushed up
9. Prepare 2 Tbsp Herbes de Provence
10. Get 1 handful parsley
11. Take 1 tsp sugar
12. Get to taste salt & pepper
13. Make ready Olive oil - A lot ;)

It usually features an assortment of local vegetables, such as eggplant, zucchini, peppers, and tomatoes. The word " rata " is thought to be army slang for ragoût , meaning "motley stew". One of the most famous French dishes in the world, ratatouille is a humble vegetable stew hailing from the French region of Provence. The word touiller means "to toss" in French, and to make this dish, you must do just that — eggplants, zucchini, peppers, tomatoes, and other vegetables are tossed together and cooked into a vibrant dish.

Steps to make Traditional Provence Ratatouille:

1. Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F).
2. Saute onions and crushed garlic in 2 tablespoons of olive oil on medium heat for about 5 minutes. They should be very soft.
3. When they're done, put them in an oven-safe dish.
4. Add 1 more tablespoon of olive oil to the pan, then saute the peppers (I forgot to get a yellow one!) for 5-10 minutes on a medium heat until slightly browned. Put them into the oven dish, too.
5. Add 1 more tablespoon olive oil and saute the zucchini until soft, 5-10 minutes. Again, add to oven dish.
6. Add more olive oil and saute egglplant (you'll need some extra oil for them) until slightly browed, 5-10 minutes. Then, into the oven dish.
7. Add chopped tomatoes into the oven dish without cooking them.
8. Add herbs de Provence, chopped parsley, salt, pepper, sugar, and bay leaves. Give everything a stir and put a lid or foil over the dish. Bake in the oven at 180°C/350°F for 1 hour. You can eat right away, or ideally turn oven off and let it sit for another while.
9. If you cook it the day before, when the time is over, turn off the oven, but leave the dish in the oven for the entire night. You can reheat it by letting it cook for 20 minutes on a low heat without lid.

It can be enjoyed in a myriad of different ways. Ratatouille is a famous French vegetarian one-pot dish with eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes, onion, lots of olive oil, and herbes de Provence. Ratatouille is a traditional vegetable stew which originated as a poor man's dish in Nice. That may well have been its humble origins, but the stew has gone on to be known and loved, around the world and can hardly be considered as food for the poor today, though it is still a relatively cheap food if the vegetables are bought in season. The classic southern French summer vegetable stew. [Photograph: Vicky Wasik].

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