Despite the fact that Ratatuy is a French, a little Italian and Spanish dish, in Russian cuisine it was firmly fixed as a light and tasty vegetable stew. In a slow cooker, cooking ratatui is incredibly simple, you just need to learn how to cook the sauce.

Ratatuy in a slow cooker

The ease of cooking is the main advantage of cooking in a slow cooker. No problems, everything is as simple and fast as possible. The result, as always, is unsurpassed. Even novice housewives will like this recipe.

To prepare a ratatui, you will need the following components:

• eggplant - 2 pcs.;
• small zucchini or tsukkini - 2 pcs.;
• sweet pepper - 2 pcs.;
• tomatoes - 6 pcs.;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• frying oil - 3 tbsp.
• water - a glass;
• salt and spices to taste;
• fresh herbs: parsley - 1 bundle.

How to cook a vegetable dish:

1. For a 3 -liter bowl of this amount of vegetables, it will be quite enough. If the bowl is large, then you can and should put a ring made of foil at the bottom.
2. In order to cook a rattaui, choose large, fleshy tomatoes. The golden rule - all vegetables should be approximately the same size.
3. Let's start work: preparation of vegetables. Everything needs to be washed, released from the stalks. The peel from eggplant and zucchini does not need to be removed.
4. Cutting: circles, thickness is approximately 4 mm.
5. The eggplant was cut - they put it in a bowl, salt, mixed, set aside. Let them suck.
6. Now we set to prepare the zucchini, similarly cut with washers, poured salt, mixed, left.
7. Tomatoes - last, so that the juice does not flow out. You do not need to salt tomatoes. They just cut and while let them lie on a plate.
8. While the vegetables are allowed juice, we will make the sauce. This is perhaps the most difficult task. You will need 3 tomatoes and 1 sweet Bulgarian pepper for sauce.
9. Put the kettle on the stove, you need boiling water to scald tomatoes. Or you can put them in boiling water for a few minutes. This is necessary in order to easily remove the skin.
10. From the pepper, too, you need to try to remove the film. We act as follows: pour quite a bit of oil into the bowl, turn on the “Baking” program, put the pepper, close the lid. 15 minutes enough for the pepper to become soft and the film easily starred.
11. We cut the tomato finely, so, try to do everything quickly, without loss of juice. Similarly, chop the pepper, put everything in a slow cooker, turn on the “Extinguishing” program, you need to set the time for 10 minutes. If the tomatoes are not juicy, then you need to add 1 or 2 tablespoons of ordinary boiled water, but no more!
12. As soon as the vegetables become soft, they need to be shifted into a bowl to turn in mashed potatoes using a submersible blender. The sauce is practically ready, it remains to add a pinch of salt and, if desired, black pepper (ground pepper immediately so that it can share his amazing aroma with vegetables).
13. Now all the most interesting begins: the sauce (only half) needs to be returned back to the slow cooker, flatten up to get a uniform layer. Put on the sauce on top: first eggplant, then tomatoes, a layer of zucchini and so on.
14. The main rule is that you can alternate vegetables, in any way, but it is necessary to lay it very tightly to each other.
15. In the remaining sauce, you need to add vegetable oil, mix and pour vegetables with this mass.
16. We will prepare a rattatuy in a slow cooker for 30-35 minutes with the Baking program. After the signal, it’s enough to try the readiness of the dish. By the way, 10 minutes before the completion of the program, you need to throw off the lid to put a few cloves of garlic.
17. You can serve the dish both hot and chilled, abundantly trunked with finely chopped fresh herbs. In this case, fresh parsley goes well with this set of vegetables, add a few till twigs and literally a couple of basil leaves. It will turn out very tasty! It is worth trying to cook this vegetable dish in a slow cooker! We all wish you a pleasant appetite!

Ratatui in a slow cooker - a simplified recipe

Kaponata - this is the name of this dish in Italy, but in France a different name is familiar - Ratatuy. It was fixed with us, only our housewives changed the method of cooking a little, adapting a delicious vegetable dish. Now Ratatuy is easy to cook in a slow cooker.

To do this, take:

• one eggplant;
• one zucchini;
• tomatoes - 5 pcs.;
• one onion;
• garlic - 2 or you can 3 cloves;
• bulgarian pepper - 3 pcs.;
• salt, spices, as well as fresh greens - to taste;
• vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons for frying.

How to cook a vegetable dish:

1. We will describe the actions that are familiar to most housewives: clean the onion, chop with a sharp knife. Onions need to be cut into small cubes, handed the garlic by hand (that is, it does not need to be passed through the press this time).
2. You need to pour oil for frying into the multicooker bowl, throw the onion and immediately, finely chopped garlic, fry to a brown crust using the “Frying” program, calculate for 10 minutes or a little more. Everything will depend on the power of the device.
3. Pepper needs to be washed, released from seeds and stalks, cut into cubes. Send vegetables, mix, fry until soft. This is allocated for about 5 minutes.
4. In the meantime, there was a free minute, we do not lose time in vain and take up the remaining vegetables.
5. The eggplant must be washed (just under a stream of water), cut off the tail, cut the rings, transfer it into a spacious bowl, pour cold water. It is necessary to leave the vegetables for 30 minutes so that the water takes excess bitterness.
6. From this it was possible to start cooking dishes if you need to save time. And while we are moving to the next task, we need to wash the zucchini, also cut the rings. The thickness of the blanks is 0.5 mm.
7. Tomatoes choose large, fleshy. Those from which you get good tomato juice. It is difficult to get thin rings from tomato, so you need to try to do this as neatly as possible, armed with a very sharp knife with a wide blade. It is important not to crush the peel, but to cut out so as not to damage vegetables.
8. We coped with the cut, we seek that all slices are approximately the same size. Then the dish will turn out to be beautiful and no doubt, tasty.
9. Leave one tomato, you need to grind it with cubes and put after 5 minutes after pepper. Do not forget to periodically stir the vegetables so that they are fried evenly.
10. As soon as the vegetables are ready, they need to be shifted into a blender bowl, puree directly hot. Work carefully so as not to burn. If there is no blender on the farm, this does not mean that you will have to refuse to cook this popular dish. There are other, simplified methods. For example, you can place the mass in a sieve and wipe it, or use a bit to turn soft, adjusted vegetables into a homogeneous mass.
11. Do not forget to add salt and a little favorite spices to the sauce, just do not overdo it, the sauce should have its taste and aroma, but not be salty.
12. The sauce must be returned back to the multicooker bowl, but so far only half. Gently flatter the sauce with a spatula, so that then lay the circles of vegetables on top. Lay out in random order, as fantasy suggests. You can standardly - alternating eggplant, tomato, zucchini, fan or in circular.
13. A little more sauce remains, it needs to be mixed with vegetable oil, add a pinch of salt and freshly ground pepper, pour vegetables with sauce.
14. You need to bake this splendor in the “baking” mode, focus on time yourself, after 20 minutes the vegetables will be soft, after 40 - well, very soft and supple, and even the skin will melt in the mouth. If you like this option more, do not spare time, prepare for pleasure!
15. Ratatuy in the slow cooker will turn out to be softer and juicy. You can serve right away, rice or potatoes is ideal as a side dish. But Solo is worthy of respect! Enjoy your meal!

Ratatuy in a slow cooker in a French manner

Previously, until this dish acquired such fame, Ratatuy was the usual food of poor people. Now there are several ways to make a vegetable dish: vegetables are folded in layers and stew, baked or baked on a vegetable pillow. All variations are good, but only one highlight makes this dish special - these are Provencal herbs. The recipe is adapted to a modern device - a slow cooker, the number of vegetables can be varied, spices - it is better to leave it without changes to enjoy the taste of a real French dish.

What you need to buy and prepare:

• eggplant and small zucchini - 1 pc.;
• onion - head;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• tomatoes - 4 pcs.;
• bulgarian red pepper - 4 pcs.;
• olive fruits oil - 2 tbsp;
• basil, Mayran, Rosemary, Dill, Petrushke, black pepper, salt to taste.

How to cook a popular dish:

1. We make the sauce: bake pepper in the oven (2 pcs.), It can be in a slow cooker. Only then you need to bake for about 15 minutes on one side and the same on the other. Drip a little oil to the bottom. The "baking" mode.
2. As soon as the pepper becomes soft, it is easy to remove the transparent shell from it, then remove the seeds and chop it after this preparation.
3. In the slow cooker, fry the chopped onion, after 5 minutes to attach to it the pepper, which was baked, fry for a couple of minutes.
4. Tomatoes (1-2 pcs.) Need to scald with boiling water to easily be freed from the skin, chop finely, cubes.
5. Together, lay down together in a slow cooker so that the vegetables become soft. First, prepare in the "Frying" mode, then switch the device to the "pastries" mode.
6. The sauce is almost ready, only you need to make it homogeneous. Use the blender to save time.
7. The sauce was done, add a little crushed garlic, salt and spices to it, mix.
8. We will deal with vegetables: everything needs to be washed and cut into the same circles. Washes should be thin (0.5 mm).
9. If necessary, you need to remove bitterness from the eggplant: salt, leave for half an hour, then rinse and slightly squeeze the eggplant mugs.
10. Put half the sauce in a multicooker bowl, in above the vegetables in any order, as you like.
11. In order to easily remove the rattaui from the slow cooker, you need to use a special insert or make it yourself from several layers of foil. It is enough to wrap the foil around the vegetables to give the desired shape.
12. On top you need to pour vegetables with the remaining sauce, enrich the mix from spices. Bake in the "baking" mode for 30-40 minutes, as it cools slightly, when serving is abundantly, shit with fresh herbs and chopped garlic.

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