A recipe for Ratatouille with garlic bread
Ratatouille with garlic bread
Ingredients for ratatouille:
- 4 red peppers, chopped up however
- A medium-sized onion, chopped up
- A large can of whole tomatoes.
- Some white wine.
- A handful of parsley, chopped up
- Minced garlic, 2 tablespoons
- Thyme, 2 sprigs
- Bay leaves, 2-4
- Olive oil, 1/2 cup
- Cucumbers, chopped into roundels (I dislike zuccini and eggplant, so used cucumbers instead)
Ingredients for garlic bread:
- Minced garlic from 4 cloves
- Salted butter, softened
- Some parsley, chopped up finely
Instructions:
Let’s do the ratatouille first. While it cooks, we’ll make garlic bread.
- In a large pot or dutch oven, heat 1/4 cup of olive oil.
- Once the oil is hot, throw in the onions, the garlic, half the portion of thyme, and the bay leaves.
- Once the onions lose their raw color, throw in the red peppers and saute for 10 minutes. I wouldn’t recommend browning, but you do you.
- To prevent browning, add the rest of the olive oil. Throw in the tomatoes - whole, chopped, it doesn’t matter.
- Add in 1 and a 1/2 cups of white wine. The recipe I used called for a dry wine like sauvignon blanc but I had chardonnay at home and went with it. Turned out great.
- Season with lots of salt and a cartload of pepper. I’m serious about the pepper. I used about a tablespoon and a half. A good amount of salt too.
- Now let it simmer on medium heat for about 30 minutes.
Garlic bread time! (Original recipe: https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/homemade-garlic-bread-recipe-using-sourdough/)
- Preheat your oven to 350F.
- In a small bowl or cup, Heat up the butter so that it’s quite runny.
- Mix in the garlic and parsley. Stir well.
- Spread some aluminium foil on a baking sheet. Coat the bottom of the sheet with some olive oil.
- Spread out the sourdough slices on the baking sheet.
- Coat the garlic bread slice-tops with the garlic/butter mix. Generously.
- Heat this in the oven for about 10 minutes, or until it’s nice and golden brown.
Due to the craziness surrounding grocery shopping during a pandemic, we’ve decided to visit the grocery store once every two weeks. If we run out, we make do with whatever we’ve got in the fridge; but more often than not, I find myself in possession of vegetables in the fridge that are about to go bad. I’d just been to the grocery store and had bought a bag of red peppers, and when I was stowing them away, I realized that there was half a bag of them in the fridge and I needed to use them, and fast. While looking around for ideas on what to cook, I came across a recipe for Ratatouille by Martha Stewart. I didn’t have all the ingredients, but improvised it to use what I could find. It ended up being the heartiest meal we’d had in a while. As in my heart is so full. I shouldn’t over-eat, but I guess I’m preparing myself for a long hike we decided to do every Sunday. I enjoyed whipping this up, and I hope you do too. When I say “you” I’m usually just referring to my future self, but hey, I posted this on the Internet, so “you” could be anyone. Definitely experiment with this recipe. It’s quite forgiving. And tasty.