Ratatouille

Delicious and spectacular vegan gluten-free dish that will be a star of any table. Healthy, flavorful, impressive looking and comforting dish.

Ingredients

**For the sauce:** 

• 2 bell peppers (yellow or red)
• olive oil
• 2 onions
• 3-4 cloves garlic
• 2 medium-sized carrots
• 7-9 fresh tomatoes or 2 cans of tomatoes
• 3-4 sprigs thyme
• 2 bay leaves
• salt

• black pepper

  For the ratatouille:

• 1 medium-sized eggplant

• 1 medium-sized zucchini

• 2 yellow bell peppers

• 4-5 medium-sized tomatoes

• 3 red onions

  Additionally:

• 2 cloves garlic, chopped

• 3 tablespoons olive oil

• 2 sprigs thyme

• salt

• black pepper

Instructions

1. Make the sauce: Preheat the oven to 180 ºC or 350 ºF. Cut 2 bell peppers in halves and discard the seeds. Put the halves on a baking tray with the outsides facing up and roast in the oven for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, chop and sauté onions and garlic in a skillet over medium-heat. Peel and grind carrots and add them to the skillet. Add diced tomatoes, two bay leaves and 3-4 sprigs of thyme. When bell peppers are done, peel of the skin with your fingers after cooling down, chop them and add to the sauce. Let the sauce cook for as long as possible, stirring occasionally (from 30 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes). When the sauce is ready, remove the herbs and blend it until smooth.
2. Prepare your vegetables: Finely slice them in 2-3 mm (0.1 inch) thick circles and arrange them in any order you like. I put a slice of eggplant, then zucchini, tomato, onion, bell pepper. Fill your form tightly with overlapping vegetables, arrange them in circles or rows, depending on the shape of your form. Make a try-out to estimate if it's enough slices. If not, slice more. It's hard to predict how many vegetables you need, as it depends on their size and on the size of your dish. If the difference between the sizes of your slices is too big (normally, the eggplant has the biggest diameter), you can cut rounds out of the large slices. Cut a section off the bell pepper rings to make them smaller and hide the cut-out pieces on the bottom. After you are done determining the amount of veggies needed for your ratatouille, empty the dish. Check the full recipe here:[Ratatouille](happykitchen.rocks/ratatouille)

bon appetit