Ratatouille

I found this recipe on pinterest but it’s actually from a sugarfree, gluten free, paleo friendly nonsense website, so I made some alterations. I’ve very much been wanting to eat more vegetables so a ratatouille makes sense, but lacks protein and carbs (my favourite things!). So I added potatoes and cheese to make it more balanced and yummier. OK the cheese also adds fat but in moderation it’s not too bad.

2 cans of chopped tomatoes
olive oil
garlic
herbs
salt
fresh basil
1 onion
1 courgette
2 tomatoes
2 potatoes
goats cheese

I wanted to use aubergine as well but alas the coop has a poor selection of veg.

I preheated the oven to 175 celsius, and greased a baking dish. The tomato sauce was just the chopped tomatoes, with 1tbsp of oil, the garlic, basil, salt, and herbs. I poured it into the baking dish.

I sliced the veg and stack them in the dish alternately. Because I wanted to add the cheese towards the end I stacked fairly losely so I’d be able to slip it in later.

I baked for about 45mins, then took it out and added slices of the goats cheese. Then put it back in the oven to finish off. It was pretty delicious, if I do say so myself. The potatoes had just cooked, so I wouldn’t cook it for any less time but the other veg can all be eaten raw anyway so that’s fine. Looking at the fat content in the dish I should probably have used less cheese, but it really didn’t seem like that much!