Raw ratatouille for the holidays

Have you seen the animated movie "Ratatouille"? This was the film that inspired me to come up with a raw ratatouille fit for the festive board.


Ingredients for 4:

for the sauce:

4 nice tomatoes
1 bell pepper (or other type of pepperr that's red)
1 spoon of chopped up, sundried tomato (if it's not chopped up than 2-3 slices)
2 spoons of freshly made lemon juice
sweeten with 1 teaspoon of agave, or a few drops of stévia, or with one soaked date
salt to own taste, but the sundried tomatoes are already salty, its liquor can be used as well.

a pinch of chilli powder if you like it hot, as my husband does :))

For the ratatoulle:
2 small cukkini
3-4 tomatoes
1-1 pepper of different type and colour
1-2 purple onion
a couple of drops of oil (eg. olive)
dried oregano, fresh parsley leaves

Mix the ingredients of the sauce until it's smooth. Its taste is very important, as this makes the basis for the ratatoulle. It should be salty enough, sour enough and sweet enough. (and also hot enough!)


If you prepare it all at once, than spread out the sauce evenly in the bottom of a big bowl. Slice up the ingredients for the ratatoulle and layer on top of each other one by one.

If prepared on separate plates (as I did), than put the sauce onto the bottom of the plate and layer the slices round the plate.


Whichever option you choose, sprinkle with the oregano and a few drops of oil at the end, and decorate with parsley leaves.

Hungarian ratatouille for the weekdays

Hungarian ratatouille


Hungarian ratatouille is made of onion, bell pepper and tomato (and the no-vegan version with bacon and sausage) and it is called "lecsó" (letchaw).
Hungarian raw lecsó is my favourite dish, its easy to make and delicious.

Sometimes I prefer simple dishes to the more complicated ones, as there are more weekdays than holidays. In the morning, before going to work, I chop up everything, take them with me and voila, this is my lunch with a light cracker. Very often, nowadays. Sometimes I don't even have time to prepare it. If that's the case, I buy the ingredients on my way to work and while my colleagues heat up their lunches, I quickly chop up everything needed. They keep telling me how wonderful the scent is.

Ingredients:
(for 2 persons)
1 red onion
2 bell pepper
4-5 tomatoes
1 tbsp cold pressed olive oil
little bunch of parsley
1/2 cup of sundried tomatoes cut into little pieces

salt, chilli, pepper.

Cut every ingredients into little pieces, mix well and enjoy!
Salt only before eating.

It shouldn't be salted earlier because the vegetables start to let out water, drop and won't be that pretty. The sundried tomatoes are a bit salty anyway...

You can leave out oil altogether if you sprinkle the dish with your favourite seed: pine seed, sunflower seed or marrow seed.



I think it's best to chop up the ingredients into really tiny pieces. I suggest putting it on top of the zucchini spaghetti with some ground sunflower seed.