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Recipe : **** Baked Zucchini With Cheese

Baked Zucchini With Cheese
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Course:
Side Dish

Practical information

  • Prep time
    30 min
  • Cooking
    30 min
  • Ready in
    1 h
  • Difficulty
    Very easy
  • Price
    Very friendly budget
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Categories

Budget:
friendly
Difficulty:
easy recipe
Category:
Vegetable recipes
Tags:
cheese, Zucchini

Recipe's Ingredients

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  • ½ medium yellow onion, peeled, finely diced
  • ½ medium red bell pepper, seeded, finely diced
  • fine salt
  • 2 small plum tomatoes, cored, peeled, seeded, diced
  • 1 pinch piment d'espelette
  • leaves from 1 large sprig fresh thyme, minced
  • freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 350 g zucchini, cut lengthwise into 1" thick slices
  • 100 g brie, rind removed, cut into 16 small slices

  • Recipe preparation steps

  • 1
    Preheat the oven to 355ºF .
  • 2
    Heat the oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add the diced onion and bell pepper. Season with a little salt and sweat until soft without coloring. When the onions are soft, add the tomatoes, piment d'Espelette, thyme, a bit more salt, and some black pepper. Cook until the tomatoes have softened and are reduced. Lower the heat if the tomatoes appear too dry.
  • 3
    In the meantime, bring a saucepan of salted water to a boil. Blanch the zucchini slices for 1 minute—do not overcook—and then shock in ice water. Drain well.
  • 4
    Divide all but 6 of the zucchini slices between individual baking dishes. Spoon the tomato sauce over the slices. Arrange the 8 cheese slices on each dish. Bake the gratins for 20 minutes.
  • 5
    While the gratins are baking, line a small baking sheet with parchment paper and arrange the remaining zucchini slices in a single layer on the paper. When the gratins have about 2 minutes left to cook, add the baking sheet to the oven to reheat the zucchini slices.
  • 6
    Remove everything from the oven. Arrange 3 zucchini slices on each gratin by giving each slice a twist and then laying the twisted slice along the perimeter of the dish. Serve immediately.
  • Ready !