Simple Way to Make Ultimate Courgette & Tomato Gratin

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, courgette & tomato gratin. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Courgette & Tomato Gratin is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Courgette & Tomato Gratin is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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

Instructions 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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