Eggplant Recipe - Ratatouille Recipe, French Recipes

[tiz82]

add some mozzarella cheese and you'll get an even more yummy plate..

oh yeah

[moorea68]

This is not a ratatatouille?? where are the zucchini and the green bell peppers, always use fresh tomatoes, garlic and fresh tyhme. C'est une recette Americaine, certainement pas Francaise, a revoir cette recette!

[icxcrex]

This was fantastic!: Just what I was looking for! Typical comments from folks who always add more stuff and destroy the simplicity. I am an expert in Mexican cuisine, and sadly, people add more stuff that doesn't belong and "TexMex" everything to death! Thank you, Chef Brian, for providing this humble dish in all of its simplicity! Thank you!

[Venom0wnz]

Could i keep it in the refrigator and will it still taste the same, because i need to make food for my french class

[icxcrex]

@Venom0wnz: Yes! Ratatouille like many Italian foods is wonderful room temperature or even cool! Being from Buffalo, NY originally, Pizza is delicious as breakfast right out of the refrigerator! YUM!

[UpperBridgeManager]

i added cottage cheese and garlic and threw it on pasta and call it eggplant spaghetti

[golafs]

at 3:00-3:40, your headphones are not broken, the vid is in mono...

[SidewalkFrequencies]

is this guy on Quaaludes?

[syndgr834]

It should have been cooked by "Little Chef'......

[uzbaha123456]

NICE VERY NICE : )

[deedevinebrake]

Thank you very much for showing this whole recipe in one complete video. Some of the recipes are made in a series of parts; annoying. Yours is clear and makes it easy to follow. Thank you very much for sharing.

[37mamak]

metal in that pan ? uh

[dolzenko]

Hey that's a great recipe indeed! Thanks! I have used parsley & dill and a lot of black pepper, and result is delicious. Took < 30 min to cook gross. And thanks for making it really easy to follow even for noobs like me :)

[lormara80]

i am not a very good cook but this looks easy and flavorful. can you please give me some recommendation, i am trying to change my eating habits and feel lost on how to cook my veggies.

[jewels2500]

great videos.  did you drain the canned tomatos? any tips on making dolmas?

[lahdjam]

I just bought one huge eggplant . i am gonna try this recipe!

[mikestivid]

great video, i'm not the best cook in the world, but i just prepared the dish like you said and it was fantastic!!!! I just finished eating the whole thing. haha.

[Fussinated]

What amazes me is that how europeans made a culture out of what they uusurped from eastern cultures. Sautee is a French name for chao technique in Chinese (and many other Asian cultures) cooking. Chao technique is there for thousands of years, while sautee doesn't have a history more 300-400 years. Just as this dish ratatouille, 18th century "classic traditional French" dish. There is not many traditional dish in French, Italian cuisine older than that. It is just an oxymoron.

[icxcrex]

@Fussinated: Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Sauteeing is as normal a cooking proceedure as anything else. I guess the Euros nabbed boiling from the Asians, too. Indeed!

[Fussinated]

@icxcrex Well you have to read the history, Since Marco Polo there was no such thing as Italian cuisine. Since, French were accepted as allies by Ottomans there was no such thing as French traditional dish (ratatouille is French by the way not Italian). So, boiling was probably the only things they knew about cooking until than.

And what do you mean by "normsal cooking procedure" anyway. It is normal for Chinese cooking, but it is not normal for French. Renaming it, doesn't mean anything.

[orangebus333]

Lol 5:43 'bahn-app-eh-teet'

[Tahnaykay]

This looks so good can't wait to try it

[nec31]

seem delicious, but I want to know, what's the best complementary dish (fish, meat) to serving the ratatuille ?, or just is it a main dish to be served alone ?

[MaxRWF]

It's a side dish. You can serve it with fish, steak, sausages or chicken. The three of them are delicious :)

[archkikelyas]

We have a moroccan dish very similar to what you prepared; it's called "Zaalouk" The only difference though is we add the folowing: cumin, paprika and lemon juice in the end. It's delicious.

I thought a classic french ratatouille has zucchini in it and it's rather baked...

[AAMZZ1]

it dosent look like in the ratatouille movie

[thefinewino]

the recipe from the movie is called Confit Byaldi, which is a ratatouille interpretation. So it's sort of the same, but....different.

[AAMZZ1]

is it realy delicious

[Spitfireseven]

The reason this was so good is there are not a lot of eggplant recipes featured here at all. Maybe two, three.....?

A really Handy Dandy set of recipes would outline how these dishes can be carried off with a micro wave oven. That would be really cool!

[sumirantandon123]

Where's Zucchini, Green bell peppers and THYME? and Parsley? and Tomatoes are supposed to be Cored out, seeded and quartered. The basic concept is to cut everything in the same size!!

[tommeowells]

how many times do you want to shake that pan?

[alaneur210]

i thought ratatouille was just a movie hahaha

[wiseguyhypnotized]

first off olive oil has low smoke point

where the heck is the bell pepper, zuchini, etc..

can garlic and tomato?!! WTF

I separate and saute everything else before i mix together and use a blanched, hand peeled seeded out tomato and i finish it of in the oven WTF guy didnt even season the onion

to aid in caramelization ughhhhhhh

[icxcrex]

@wiseguyhypnotized First, you have no second goofball! Second, big deal about smoke point; the water in the onion will not allow the oil to heat above 100 C, after which time, the onion begins to caramelise. The sugars reach 120 C. The smoke point for extra virgin olive oil is 210 C AND it is very stable at normal frying temperatures (it doesn't break down even through repeated usage). Do some research before you "WTF" everybody to death with your obvious ignorance in the kitchen! Thanks!

[sh97]

Ooh I love the backsplash. It's beautiful.

[carsiotto]

the way he shakes the pan is fucking annoying.

[ChefMerlin]

You seem to leave out a lot of the ingredients that I am used to seeing in Ratatouille... like Bell Peppers and Zucchini.

I also like to throw my Ratatouille into a casserole pan towards the end of cooking and adding some cheese on top; the cheese combines well with the Ratatouille!

I plan on posting a video of my ratatouille recipe sometime soon, so subscribe if you want to and keep an eye out for it. I just started this account so I do not have any videos up yet, but I will be adding some.

[carsiotto]

What about the bell peppers ya donkey!

[trendboy1]

YUMMY! I just made this ! so simple and so yummy!! I made it with fresh tomatoes and it was grand, but I guess could be made better with canned tomatoes.

Je remerci mon ami!

David

Ireland!

[carsiotto]

Nothing beats fresh... good move going with the fresh tomatoes.

[ChefMerlin]

I'm surprised he did not use fresh garlic cloves either. I hardly ever use fresh herbs because it is a hassle to buy them and chop them... much easier to keep them on hand and just sprinkle them into whatever you are cooking. I guess if I were cooking professionally for other people to eat I would do it, but just for myself and my family the basil in a jar is fine.

[zebunny11]

Ok so about how much zucchini should I add?

And, is this one serving?

[ItaliaDude442]

Hey there Chef Brian,

I just made this as a side dish to go with some tuna, it's delicious. Thanks for the recipe!

[wangman]

+ratatoullies taste like my ass hiar

[wangman]

theres an H in herbs.. AND ITS CALLED BA-SIL NOT BAI-SIL!!

jesus christ

[ggmfmd]

Actually, he has an American pronunciation. The English pronunciation is /bæzəl/ (BA-SIL, like you said), while the American one is /beizəl/. And the American standard for "herb" is without the h, /ɜ:b/

[wangman]

yep and the language is called English not American..

[ggmfmd]

oh come on, don't go there. We're talking about British English and American English. A lot of languages have different pronunciations. (and there are issues with the term "British English" as well...) Are you from the UK?

[caucazoidandroid]

English is a decentralized language. We don't correct Brits when they say "round" instead of "around" or "burnt" instead of "burned." Different strokes...

[carsiotto]

lol american is the new english you fucking donkey! Get it together, and get your head out of your moms ass!

[carsiotto]

H in herbs? Like Cock in your mouth? Yeah...i see it...

[meggiemeg86]

It's so true about the fresh herbs. Love them, especially the basil. It adds a frsher flava flav.

[Metsada007]

Thank you so much chef, I think this would taste great with pasta as well.

[alphatrap]

do you have omelet recipes haha i live in the Philippines love this video

[tunisianswife]

wow, ChefBrian. I just made this as a vegetable side dish for dinner to go with some lamb. It is delish! I doubled the recipe, as I could see that I had more than 2 cups of eggplant. Used canned diced tomatoes that had basil in them and then used more.(dried though..sorry but the fresh basil in the little packs is terrible. do you grow your own? it looks so beautiful) I've grown my own before and loved it.

[txnrobin]

holy moly, that really went quick!!!

i'll have to try this one too

[cookingrecipes]

Just a simple saute ... it goes quick  ;-)

Bj

[jasonmit]

That looks really good, but I have no idea how it'd taste. Never had eggplant before.

[cookingrecipes]

it is ok, taste a bit like zucchini.

Brian

[RufioJJ]

nice job again...I need to see that movie by the way, i love the intro!

[cookingrecipes]

Yea the intro is fun ...

Great movie by the way ;-)

Chef Brian

[coloursepia]

now that's cookin'!

[cookingrecipes]

Thanks much ...

Chef Brian

[robertpina99]

This beats the scrambled eggs I made for dinner last night. Thanks for the idea.

[cookingrecipes]

Welcome, my wife loves scrambled eggs ;-)

bj

[tunisianswife]

I want your opinion on eggplant prep. I salt it and put in a collander weighted down with a plate to get the bitter taste out. I made an Indian dish one time and it was the first time using eggplant and it was so bitter that I ate around the eggplant. I read or heard somewhere about the above method and it helps tremendously. Obviously this is not a problem in this dish. Is there certain preps that cause eggplant bitterness? or do they turn bitter when they are old?

[cookingrecipes]

Hiya -

I have found that sometimes eggplant can be a bit bitter, why this is I am not really sure. Of course cooking very fresh produce helps quite a bit. I also want to mention "Japanese Eggplant" which are a bit thinner than regular eggplant and also have thinner skins.

I have never prepped eggplant in the way you mention.

Brian

[myWORLDizDIGITAL]

ya know, i saw the movie Ratatouille and it's just funny you should be making this dish.

--i always wondered if it was a real dish or not. i never bothered to look it up. so thanx for the confirmation Chef!!

later dude,

XEM

[cookingrecipes]

Hey XEM,

That was a fun movie indeed, my wife and I were so excited to watch that when it came out to dvd ;-)

Great flick - and yes it is a real dish that has been prepared for many, many years ;-)

Chef Brian

[GreatGig1]

YUM!! 1 tablespoon of garlic is how many cloves of garlic? I think I'll try this one tonight. I LOVE eggplant! :-)

[cookingrecipes]

Hey great ..so simple and easy. If you love the flavors of basil and tomatoes this is for you. Use one clove of garlic and your set.

Enjoy ...

[GreatGig1]

Thank you so much Chef Brian! :-)

[cookingrecipes]

No problem ..

Bj