Thursday, January 8, 2009

eat your veggies - tomato & zucchini gratin

Brett and I both want to eat a bit healthier and that included eating more vegetables. One of our favorite veggie dished is the following Tomato & Zucchini Gratin.


INGREDIENTS
An onion
a couple of cloves of garlic
Roma tomatoes
A few zucchini/squash
Grated cheese - such as Parmesan or Romano
Some olive oil
Breadcrumbs

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350°
1. Slice the onion thinly and sauté in a bit of olive oil.
Chop or thinly slice the garlic and sauté with the onions.
2. While the onions are cooking, slice the tomatoes and zucchini super thin. I love my mandoline, which make this so easy.
3. In a greased baking dish, layer half the zucchini, the onion mix and the tomatoes.
Sprinkle some cheese and a little salt and pepper, and then add the second layer of all.
Top with some more cheese, salt, and pepper.
Put a fine layer of breadcrumbs over the top and drizzle a little olive oil over.
4. Cover and bake for 20-30 minutes.
Uncover and bake 10 more minutes.
Let the gratin cool for about 30 minutes and then enjoy.

We like the gratin best when it is only warm and I know that some people prefer it cold.

1 comment:

  1. I made this to go with our home made ravioli. We didn't have any tomato left, but i used yellow and green squash mandolined with mandolined onions and italian style bread crumbs. we put tomato sauce on top since it was going with ravioli.

    oh. my. goodness.

    there was a party in my mouth. it was so good and i will so be making this again. next time with tomatoes!

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