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How to Make a Perfect Ratatouille
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This video guides you through making a classic French ratatouille, layering a rich tomato-pepper sauce with roasted vegetables. It’s a hands-on process perfect for home cooks who enjoy slow-cooked, flavorful dishes with fresh herbs and seasonal produce.
Key steps
- Roast peppers in the oven at 350°F (180°C) for 20 minutes.
- Blanch tomatoes, peel, and blend into a puree.
- Sauté onions, carrots, and celery in olive oil and clarified butter.
- Mix in tomato puree, roasted peppers, herbs, garlic, and chili; simmer covered for 60 minutes, then uncovered for 30 minutes.
- Slice zucchini, eggplant, marrow squash, and other vegetables into thin rings.
- Layer sauce and vegetables in a mold, alternating types.
- Drizzle with olive oil, thyme, salt, and pepper before baking.
- Bake covered at 350°F (160°C) for 90 minutes, then uncovered for 40 minutes.
Questions & answers
Can I use regular butter instead of clarified butter?
Yes, the recipe allows for regular butter as a substitute.
Description from the creator
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Ingredients for sauce:
Tomatoes – 2 POUNDS (900 gr)
Pepper – 8 OZ (250 gr)
Onions – 7 OZ (200 gr)
Carrots – 7 OZ (200 gr)
Celery stalk – 3 OZ (100 gr)
Chili pepper – 2 OZ (60 gr)
Clarified butter- 2 OZ (or regular butter) (60 gr)
Garlic - 2 cloves
Herbs de Provence - 1 tbsp.
Salt - 1 tbsp.
Sugar - 1 tbsp.
Thyme
Basil
Ingredients for the top layer:
Zucchini - ½ pound
Eggplant - ½ pound
Marrow squash - ½ pound
Tomato – 10 OZ
Potato – 7 OZ
Onion – 7 OZ
Pepper – 5 OZ
Olive oil – 2 fl Oz
Salt - 2 tsp.
Thyme
Making sauce:
1. Put peppers into the preheated oven 350°F (180 °C) for 20 minutes.
2. Slice a shallow X on the tomatoes and put them into the boiling water for 10 minutes.
3. Blend the tomatoes.
4. Fry with olive oil onions, carrots and celery stalk. Add clarified butter.
5. Pour in tomato puree and add some bay leaves.
6. Peel the roasted peppers, chop and add to the pan.
7. Add herbs de Provence, garlic and chilli.
8. Cover the pan and simmer for 60 minutes, then remove the lid and simmer for another 30 minutes.
9. Slice vegetables - 3-5 mm rings. Put eggplant and marrow squash into the bowl with cold salted water for 20 minutes.
10. Add thyme and basil, then blend it a little bit.
11. Spread the sauce in a mold, lay out the vegetables, alternating the sequence.
12. Make a dressing of olive oil, thyme, salt and pepper. Pour the vegetables with it.
13. Cover the mold with foil and send to the preheated to 350°F (160°C) oven for 90 minutes.
14. Take off the foil and roast for another 40 minutes.
15. Serve hot with parmesan and parsley.
Music:
Our French Café
Jimmy Fontanez
Media Right Productions
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Ingredients for sauce:
Tomatoes – 2 POUNDS (900 gr)
Pepper – 8 OZ (250 gr)
Onions – 7 OZ (200 gr)
Carrots – 7 OZ (200 gr)
Celery stalk – 3 OZ (100 gr)
Chili pepper – 2 OZ (60 gr)
Clarified butter- 2 OZ (or regular butter) (60 gr)
Garlic - 2 cloves
Herbs de Provence - 1 tbsp.
Salt - 1 tbsp.
Sugar - 1 tbsp.
Thyme
Basil
Ingredients for the top layer:
Zucchini - ½ pound
Eggplant - ½ pound
Marrow squash - ½ pound
Tomato – 10 OZ
Potato – 7 OZ
Onion – 7 OZ
Pepper – 5 OZ
Olive oil – 2 fl Oz
Salt - 2 tsp.
Thyme
Making sauce:
1. Put peppers into the preheated oven 350°F (180 °C) for 20 minutes.
2. Slice a shallow X on the tomatoes and put them into the boiling water for 10 minutes.
3. Blend the tomatoes.
4. Fry with olive oil onions, carrots and celery stalk. Add clarified butter.
5. Pour in tomato puree and add some bay leaves.
6. Peel the roasted peppers, chop and add to the pan.
7. Add herbs de Provence, garlic and chilli.
8. Cover the pan and simmer for 60 minutes, then remove the lid and simmer for another 30 minutes.
9. Slice vegetables - 3-5 mm rings. Put eggplant and marrow squash into the bowl with cold salted water for 20 minutes.
10. Add thyme and basil, then blend it a little bit.
11. Spread the sauce in a mold, lay out the vegetables, alternating the sequence.
12. Make a dressing of olive oil, thyme, salt and pepper. Pour the vegetables with it.
13. Cover the mold with foil and send to the preheated to 350°F (160°C) oven for 90 minutes.
14. Take off the foil and roast for another 40 minutes.
15. Serve hot with parmesan and parsley.
Music:
Our French Café
Jimmy Fontanez
Media Right Productions
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CoolCooking published this 3:34 video tutorial on October 29, 2017. It has been watched 7,200,582 times on YouTube.
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