Ratatouille

Ingredients:

Brinjals - 3
Tomatoes - 3
Yellow cucumber - 1
Carrot - 1
Capsicum - 1
Onion - 1
Garlic cloves - 5
Salt - to taste
Pepper - to taste
Oil - required

How to make:

1. Cut yellow cucumber, brinjals, carrot and capsicum in discs
2. Fry the cut vegetables in a pan adding oil.
3. Add salt and pepper to this 
4. Take another pan and add oil
5. Fry chopped garlic and onion 
6. Add finely chopped tomatoes to this and pour some water
7. Add salt and pepper to tomatoes and cook till sauté
8. Take a round bowl and place the tomato mixture as the base
9. Over this decorate with the other vegetables around the edge
10. Go concentrically placing vegetables so that you reach center

Verdict:

This is slightly Indianized version with the selection of the vegetables and no use of oven. Obviously zucchini or squash are not found easily. However I stuck to salt and pepper and did not use any Indian spices. From the picture you could see that the discs were not firm and cucumber discs were used half as they were out of proportion. But, still the colors of red, yellow, blue and green were so appealing after the whole thing was done (of course I selected those vegetables for the same reason). You can make the tomatoes as a paste too after cooking for the base. If you have an oven, you can take bowl with tomato base, decorate with raw chopped vegetables and cook it in oven at high temperatures. That will make the vegetables soft but also firm. Oh by the way, the cooked brinjals were out of the world.

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