Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, baked ratatouille. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Baked Ratatouille is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Baked Ratatouille is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have baked ratatouille using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Ratatouille:

1. Take 1/2 An Eggplant
2. Prepare 1 Zucchini
3. Get 1 Yellow Squash
4. Make ready 1/2 A White or Yellow Onion
5. Prepare 1/2 A Red Pepper
6. Take 2 Tbsp Dried Red Pepper
7. Prepare 1 Can Fire Roasted Tomatoes
8. Make ready 3 Tbsp Minced Garlic
9. Prepare 2 Tbsp Coarse Black Pepper
10. Get To Taste Italian blend spice
11. Take Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Fresh tomatoes are key for making ratatouille that tastes fresh and lively, not dull and heavy. We'll grate the tomatoes (or blitz the in the food processor) and cook them with onion and garlic to make an irresistible tomato sauce. I tried this recipe with canned tomatoes and it. I usually make a saute version of ratatouille, to keep the vegetables crispy, but this baked version came out with nice crisp vegetables too, and it was very easy to make.

Instructions to make Baked Ratatouille:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Roughly dice the onion, cook it for 10 minutes on medium until they are golden and translucent. Reserve half of the onions in the cooking pan, and half in a small dish.
3. Spray pam in a baking dish. Spread the fire roasted tomatoes in the baking pan. Mix in half of the cooked onions with the diced tomatoes from the pan.
4. Cut up the squash, zucchini, and Eggplant into quarter slices or half slices as close to the same size as possible. Arrange the sliced squash, zucchini, and Eggplant slices atop the tomatoes and onions. Sprinkle the reserved onions over the sliced vegetables.
5. Spread the minced garlic, and sprinkle the pepper and Italian Spice blend over the vegetables.
6. Bake for 45 -55 minutes at 350 degrees.

I added some thyme and rosemary, and a splash of white wine and served over rice to soak up the delicious juices. This is a perfect addition to my harvest season collection. Very tasty, but added small tin tomatoes for extra "gravy".. Super easy to make, and delicious served hot or cold, it is an ideal hearty vegan main dish or simple side dish. And ratatouille also freezes well, so why not stock the freezer with this easy meal.

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