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I have two entries for this Sunday's "Sci fi foods" series. While Ratatouille may not be exactly science fiction, we can make believe Remy is something akin to the rats in Secret of Nimh.
The first dish is very easy to create. The ingredients don't require a lot of cooking, prep or maintenance. So I wanted to go ahead and share Remy's Ratatouille with you as well. These also make great, healthy meals for you and your friends and family.
Ponyo's Noodles
Since Ponyo's noodle are so easy to create, and just require ramen, boiled eggs, and ham, I'll leave it up to the good people at "Feast of Fiction" to give you the ingredients and show you how to prep the dish.
Ingredients:
- One package of Nissin Chicken Flavored Ramen (or any ramen of your choice)
- Ham
- Eggs
- Green Onions
Remy's RatatouilleIngredients:
- 1/2 onion, finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, very thinly sliced
- 1 cup tomato puree (such as Pomi)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1 small eggplant (my store sells these “Italian Eggplant” that are less than half the size of regular ones; it worked perfectly)
- 1 zucchini
- 1 yellow squash
- 1 longish red bell pepper
- Few sprigs fresh thyme
- Salt and pepper
- Few tablespoons soft goat cheese, for serving
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Pour tomato puree into bottom of an oval baking dish, approximately 10 inches across the long way. Drop the sliced garlic cloves and chopped onion into the sauce, stir in one tablespoon of the olive oil and season the sauce generously with salt and pepper.
- Trim the ends off the eggplant, zucchini and yellow squash. As carefully as you can, trim the ends off the red pepper and remove the core, leaving the edges intact, like a tube.
- On a mandoline, adjustable-blade slicer or with a very sharp knife, cut the eggplant, zucchini, yellow squash and red pepper into very thin slices, approximately 1/16-inch thick.
- Atop the tomato sauce, arrange slices of prepared vegetables concentrically from the outer edge to the inside of the baking dish, overlapping so just a smidgen of each flat surface is visible, alternating vegetables. You may have a handful leftover that do not fit.
- Drizzle the remaining tablespoon olive oil over the vegetables and season them generously with salt and pepper. Remove the leaves from the thyme sprigs with your fingertips, running them down the stem. Sprinkle the fresh thyme over the dish.
- Cover dish with a piece of parchment paper cut to fit inside. (Tricky, I know, but the hardest thing about this.)
- Bake for approximately 45 to 55 minutes, until vegetables have released their liquid and are clearly cooked, but with some structure left so they are not totally limp. They should not be brown at the edges, and you should see that the tomato sauce is bubbling up around them.
- Serve with a dab of soft goat cheese on top, alone, or with some crusty French bread, atop polenta, couscous, or your choice of grain.
Recipe from
Smitten Kitchen. Image courtesy of Pixar and Disney.
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