Easy Ratatouille Recipe Vegetarian

Published 11/6/2020 • Updated 11/14/2020

What is Ratatouille?

Is ratatouille a dish or a movie! It’s both! The dish ratatouille is a french dish that is a mixture of stewed vegetables that usually consists of vegetables like eggplant, yellow or green squash, onions, and a tomato sauce! Some people make ratatouille into an actual stew (or soup) dish and some people bake it in a casserole dish! We went the casserole dish route and OMG is it delicious! This easy ratatouille recipe is a fusion of a traditional ratatouille recipe with a couple FFF variations!

All the Vegetables in this Ratatouille

Traditional ratatouille is made up of mostly eggplant and squash! We wanted to give our ratatouille a bit more texture so we added sweet potatoes and idaho potatoes to our ratatouille! Check out the list!

Yellow SquashZucchini Eggplant Sweet Potato Idaho Potato Onion

How to Make Ratatouille

There are only a few steps you have to do before you pop your ratatouille in the oven! Before we hope into each step, check out what tools you’ll need.

Step ONE: Slice the Vegetables

One of the most important steps when making ratatouille is slicing the vegetables. You want to make sure all of your vegetable rounds are all about the same size. How do you do this? There are two different ways you can do that! When using a mandolin, be sure to read the instructions and slice your vegetables slowly, mandolins are SO sharp. Once you have sliced all the vegetables, go ahead and set them aside for later!

Do you peel eggplant for ratatouille?

It all depends how you are going to prepare your ratatouille. If you are going to cut your egg plant into chunks for a stew, we recommend peeling your eggplant. If you are slicing the eggplant into thin rounds (like in this recipe) you do not need to peel the eggplant.

Step TWO: Make the Sauces (there are two!)

Two sauces?! There are two sauce for this recipe? Why yes there are and they are so delicious! First things, first, do not skip either one of these sauces. We recommend starting the red sauce first. You want to give it time to simmer before adding it to the ratatouille. The red sauce is a delicious combination of onions, peppers, tomatoes, and wine! For the béchamel sauce (it’s a fancy word, but don’t be scared!). You are just making a very simple roux to add a delicious creaminess to the ratatouille!

Step THREE: Layer it Up + Bake!

The last step is to prep the dish and make it! We use a round dish because it is really easy to make a beautiful swirl of the vegetables! If you don’t have a round baking dish, use an 8×8-inch square pan and set the vegetable rounds up in a row instead. Before you add the vegetables to the pan, you want to add a little red and white sauce to the bottom of the pan to keep your vegetables from sticking to the bottom of the pan. From there, layer your vegetables in a spiral shape and then pour the red sauce and white sauce over the vegetables and bake!