Enjoy the Taste of Eating Right!
Combine taste and nutrition to create healthy meals this month:
- Try a new fruit, vegetable or whole grain every week
- Try ethnic foods from around the world
- Vary the ways you cook at home: grill, bake or broil chicken, steam or sauté vegetables, and get to know your spice cupboard
Taste of France: Ratatouille
Ratatouille is a traditional French vegetable-based dish, packed with nutrients your family might not get enough of on a daily basis.
Ingredients
(Makes 4 1.5 cup servings)
- 1 small red onion
- 2 medium cloves garlic
- 1 small eggplant
- 1 medium zucchini
- 1 medium yellow squash
- 1 large tomato
- 3 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- Cooking spray
Directions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
- Rinse and peel onion. Peel garlic. Rinse eggplant, zucchini, squash and tomato.
- Dice onion and eggplant into ½-inch pieces. Slice zucchini and squash into ½-inch slices. Chop tomato. Mince garlic.
- In a medium bowl, add onion, eggplant, zucchini, squash, garlic, oil, basil, oregano, salt and black pepper. Toss until veggies are well coated.
- Coat baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray. Spread veggies out in a single layer so they do not touch. Bake for 20 minutes. Remove from oven.
- Add tomato to baking sheet. Return baking sheet to oven. Bake,
- stirring occasionally, until veggies are golden crisp, about 15 to 20
- minutes more.
- Serve over polenta, spinach, brown rice, whole wheat pasta or with
- hearty whole grain bread.
Blog post written by UNC Dietetic Intern, Kayla Sand