Tips for Making Ratatouille

midiagam (70)WVin GLOBAL STEEM • 2 years ago

Global Steem friends at home, have you ever watched an animated film called "Ratatouille?"

For me, this is a very unique film. From the title, this is one dish that is quite famous in France. And this Ratatouille tastes really good, kind of vegetable.

How to make it, what ingredients are processed. Check out my explanation below.

Ratatouille, this mouthwatering vegetarian dish is a traditional French dish. In the form of vegetables, with basic ingredients such as eggplant, zuttini, paprika, and various spices such as garlic, onions, pepper, rosemary and olive oil, which are arranged beautifully on a baking sheet. And previously covered with fresh tomato sauce.

Ratatouille is usually cooked in the oven for 30 minutes. The pan is covered with parchment paper, or you can use aluminum foil.

The vibrant and beautiful colors, as well as the unique presentation, make this dish taste delicious, and delicious when enjoyed. Both in hot, cold, and room temperature conditions. Therefore, ratatouille can be enjoyed as an appetizer as well as a main course.

Enjoy with rice, potatoes, shrimp, fish, or French bread. The uniqueness of ratatouille itself is its simplicity. Because the ingredients are fresh and easily available, making ratatouille very easy to cook.

You can cook it at home according to your taste. Such as adding apples arranged with eggplant, zuttini, or you can add mozzarella cheese topping.

Now I know, ratatouille is not only an appetizer, but can be a main course, you just have to choose which one you want.

Some of the videos that I watched how to cook ratatouille became a question for me. Why ?

Because ratatouille is actually cooked in the oven for about 30 minutes. For me that is quite a long time to cook vegetables. Do you think the nutritional content is reduced or not?

"The processing of vegetables will indeed eliminate the nutrients, vitamins and minerals, as well as their phytochemicals up to 85% if heated at a very high temperature. Well, a very high temperature is an indicator if you use a temperature above 100°c. for a long time, but the temperature does not reach more than 100°C, it will not remove significant nutrients. But if for example the temperature exceeds 100, even reaches 200°C for a long time, it is guaranteed that 85% of the vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals will be missing from the vegetables."

Is It Dangerous If Ratatouille Is Consumed With Rice Or Bread?

"Ratatouille's main component is vegetables. So it can be used as a side dish, as an appetizer or dessert. But because most of the ingredients are vegetables, it can also be used as an equivalent or friend of carbohydrate foods. So our staple food For the vegetables, you can choose from the ratatouille. So there is no problem where to put the food, the important thing is to pay attention to how it is processed."

If you had seen how I explained the nutritional content of ratatouille, now I will give you a wonder recipe about ratatouille.

The ingredients include onions, celery sticks, eggplant, tomatoes, zucchini, red, yellow and green bell peppers, cauliflower and broccoli, rosemary, bay leaf, oregano and thyme.

The first step is to make tomato sauce.

Chop the onion, heat the butter. Sauté the onions, garlic and add the chopped celery sticks. Add fresh tomatoes that contain lots of water, then add rosemary, bay leaf, salt, pepper and finegar. Stir until the sauce is completely mixed.
The second step is to make the ratatouille composition, cut the peppers into squares. Then cut the eggplant and zucchini.

The third step, pour the tomato sauce on a round glass plate, flatten. Arrange the eggplant and zucchini evenly on a plate that has been given tomato sauce. Add broccoli as a complement to the vegetables, add salt, sprinkle with tomato sauce again. Then sprinkle with oregano and rosemary. Wrap the dish with aluminum foil, bake in the oven for 30 minutes. Lift. and you are ready to enjoy it.