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- From: szpegiri@chumley.ucdavis.edu (Patrick Giri)
- Subject: Ratatoullie Pie
- Organization: University of California, Davis
- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 00:39:21 +0000
- Message-ID: <3h6ffp$ssd@mark.ucdavis.edu>
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-
- While working at a vegetarian restaurant as a chef, one of my
- co-workers created a very delicious ratatoullie pie, and I just have to
- pass it along.
-
- Description: Ratatoullie pie with tomatoes, zuccini, onions, bell
- peppers, and eggplant in a whole wheat crust with fresh basil, topped
- with nutritional yeast gravy.
-
- How to do it:
-
- Ratatoullie filling:
- 1 Medium red onion
- 1 Bell pepper (or maybe 2 small different colored ones {green+yellow...})
- 1 Medium sized eggplant
- 1 Large zuccini
- 1 Large tomato.
-
- Salt, pepper, and Italian seasoning.
-
- (Note: Feel free to adjust any of these ingredients to your liking...
- this is an 'anything goes' kind of recipe.)
-
- Slice the eggplant in to rounds (about 1/8in. to 1/4 in. thick).
- Sprinkle salt on both sides of the eggplant and toss in a bowl. Sticking
- with our 'round' theme, slice the tomato, onion, and bell pepper in to
- equally rounds that are the same thickness as the eggplant; toss together
- in the bowl. For the zuccini, I cut it along a diagonal... then add to
- other ingredients. Add pepper and Italian seasoning to taste. Let this
- sit for about an hour, or over night if you prefer.
-
- The crust:
- 1 C White flour
- 1 C Whole wheat flour
- 1/4 C Chopped fresh basil (or about a Tbl. of the dry stuff)
- 1 tsp. Salt
- 2/3 C Margerine or shortening
- 6-? Tbl. ice cold water
-
- Combine the first 4 ingredients in a mixing bowl, and cut in the
- margerine until you have the consistency of small pea-sized chuncks. Add
- the water Tbl. by Tbl, lightly stirring, and fluffing the mixture with a
- fork in between Tbls. Stop adding water when you have the consistency of
- chuncks still, but they stick together when smashed. This should not
- feel particularly wet, and should not be a smooth well-mixed dough.
-
- Assembling the pie:
- Get your self a 9-inch pie pan (or if you prefer, you may make little
- 'tarts' for individual servings). Roll out a little more than half the
- dough and place it in the pie pan. Now layer: (My philosophy here is put
- the absorbant ingr on the bottom, and the ingr that will drip their
- flavors higher to the top.) Place the slices of eggplant on the bottom,
- then the zuccini, bell peppers, onion, and finally the tomatoes. If you
- feel creative you could place smaller amounts of ingredients in each
- layer, and after you top with tomatoes, you could start over with the
- eggplant and work through the ingredients again. Do experiment and have
- fun with this dish... it's very hard to go wrong.
- Finally, roll out the other half of the dough, and place it on
- top. Flute the edges, and score the top (I like to score by 'drawing'
- vegetables, some one's name, smilies...). Place the pie in to a 350'
- oven for about 50-55 minutes.
-
- Nutritional Yeast Gravy:
- This does sound like a scary concoction, but believe me, it is very
- delicious, and full of those hard to get B complex vitamins.
- 1 C flaky nutritional yeast (get the powdery stuff only if they don't
- the good flaky stuff.)
- 1 Tbl Olive oil (or any oil)
- 2 C Boiling water
- Salt, pepper, and sage to taste.
-
- In a large pan, toast the nutritional yeast with the oil (on med high
- heat) until it is well combined and hot. Start adding the boiling water
- bit by bit, mixing vigorously with a wire whisk. Stop adding water when
- you reach a consisitency that you like. Take off the heat, and add salt,
- pepper and sage to taste. Even my meat-eating friends say that this
- tastes like 'country gravy'. It's very good.
-
- When the pie is done, serve it hot, and top it with the gravy. *Delicious!*
-
-
- One note about nutritional yeast... This is not the stuff you use for
- baking, this is a whole other lot. If you would like more information
- about this, you can research it... It is also called brewer's yeast.
- You should be able to find information in health food books/stores, and
- in a cook book that I would like to recommend to the world: Kathy Cooks
- Naturally.
-
- Good eating every body! From Michael Gage c/o pegiri@ucdavis.edu
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