French · serves 2
Ratatouille
Summer vegetables cooked separately, then together. Patience is the only technique.
Ingredients
- 1 brinjal, 2 courgettes or lauki, 2 capsicum, all in chunks
- 5 tomatoes, chopped
- 2 onions
- 8 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp dried herbs
- Fresh basil
- 6 tbsp olive oil
Method
- Cook each vegetable separately in olive oil until browned, and salt each one as it goes. Doing them together steams them into mush — this is the whole recipe.
- Set each one aside as it's done.
- Last: onions and garlic, soft, then tomatoes and herbs. Cook 15 minutes into a thick sauce.
- Everything back in the pot. Simmer gently 15 minutes, stirring rarely.
- Basil and olive oil off the heat.
- Better after an hour. Bread, rice, or an egg cracked into it.