To walk out into my garden and pick most of what we will have for dinner gives me so much joy. The garden is on the verge of bursting with eggplant, zucchini, okra, peppers, tomatoes and onions. Sounds like grilled ratatouille to me!
Grilled Ratatouille
It’s a bit too hot for cooking indoors, so this meal needed to be grilled.
To make, wash and slice the vegetables, brush with avocado oil, and sprinkle with sea salt and pepper.
Then just grill until soft, with just a touch of crispness left, and then chop and toss the grilled vegetables with crushed garlic, olive oil, wine vinegar and fresh-from-the-garden chopped basil, parsley and oregano.
We sprinkled some parmesan on top and sat down to enjoy. We were eating food that had been in the garden less than a half hour earlier. It can’t get any fresher than that!
Ratatouille can be time consuming to make, but not this recipe for grilled ratatouille. And it’s fresh from the garden delicious!
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Grilled Ratatouille
Ingredients
- 1 fresh medium eggplant
- 1 fresh medium zucchini
- 6 - 8 fresh okra
- 2 fresh, medium peppers use red, green, or hot if desired
- 1 large onion
- 2 fresh large tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons avocado oil
- sea salt
- ground pepper
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
- 3 cloves garlic crushed
- several sprigs each of fresh basil, parsley and oregano chopped
- 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Preheat grill to medium heat.
- Slice eggplant, zucchini, onion 1/4" thick.
- Slice tomatoes 1/2" thick.
- Cut peppers in half and de-seed.
- Slice tops off of okra, but leave whole.
- Brush all vegetables with avocado oil on both sides, and salt and pepper them.
- Grill vegetables until soft, turning over half way through (the tomato will take only a few minutes, while the other vegetables may take 6 minutes or so per side).
- Chop and toss vegetables together with olive oil, wine vinegar, garlic, and herbs.
- Sprinkle with parmesan cheese to serve.
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Lisa W says
Rob has been wanting Ratatouille since his visit to Paris last year…we will definitely make this!!
learningandyearning says
It’s so easy! Hope you enjoy it!
Lois Welsch says
It looks fresh, too! How yummy!
learningandyearning says
It was scrumpdileicious!
Lois Welsch says
p.s. Love your blog’s new banner from your flower garden (if that’s what you call it?)
learningandyearning says
Thanks! Yep, it’s called a banner.
Leah says
Yum!!!! I only have tomatoes in my garden this year – but my garden is about 100 feet away. not far enough to really be considered “far” but far enough that i don’t check on everything that often. I can’t wait til i have a garden that’s right outside my backdoor 🙂 someday someday!
thanks for letting me live vicariously through you Susie! hehehe
learningandyearning says
I constantly run out the door while cooking to grab one more thing that I think will go well with dinner. It’s a blessing.
Kirsten says
Susan,
Thanks for this recipe! I’ve added it to the Farm Fresh Feasts Visual Recipe Index by Ingredient, a resource for folks like me who love to eat from the farm share.
I appreciate your help in making this index better!
Susan Vinskofski says
Thanks, Kirsten!