Easiest Way to Prepare Homemade Courgette & Tomato Gratin

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, courgette & tomato gratin. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Courgette & Tomato Gratin is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Courgette & Tomato Gratin is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook courgette & tomato gratin using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Courgette & Tomato Gratin:

1. Make ready 1 large courgette, sliced into fine circles, (175g),
2. Take 1 (400 g) tin chopped tomatoes,
3. Take 1/2 onion, chopped finely into cubes,
4. Prepare 2 stalks celery, sliced finely,
5. Get 3 cloves garlic, minced,
6. Make ready 1 tbsp Tomato puree paste,
7. Prepare 2 tsp dried oregano,
8. Get 1 tsp smoked paprika,
9. Make ready 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper,
10. Prepare 1 cup grated cheddar cheese,
11. Prepare 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese,
12. Take Salt and pepper to season,
13. Prepare 1 tbsp cooking oil

Steps to make Courgette & Tomato Gratin:

1. Preheat the oven to 180 (fan). Heat up the oil in a saucepan and add the onions and celery. Cook over a medium heat until becoming translucent and softened then add the minced garlic and dried herbs plus the spices. Fry for a few seconds until fragrant. Add the tomato paste and stir until every in the pan is coated. Add the tinned tomatoes and season well with salt and pepper. Fill the empty tomato tin up a quarter with water, swill out and add that into the pan also.
2. Bring to a simmer and cook gently for around 10-12 minutes to allow the flavours to infuse together. Remove from the heat.
3. Season the sliced courgettes with salt and pepper then layer the sliced courgettes in an oven proof dish until they cover the base then spoon over some of the tomato sauce. Layer more courgettes, then again more sauce. Repeat this process until all the courgettes and sauce are gone.
4. Place the oven proof dish upon a baking sheet and cover the dish with foil. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes. Remove and take off the foil then layer over the grated cheddar and bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes. Remove from the oven, leave to cool for a couple of minutes then sprinkle over the grated parmesan. Serve, eat and enjoy! :)

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