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Colorful Vegetable Cassarole

Written by Published on Updated on May 6, 2019 in Uncategorized

 Hello everyone!  I hope you all had a lovely weekend.   I thought that since Spring is right around the corner, that you would enjoy a colorful Cassarole dish.  My recipe is filled with colorful vegetables, truly very simple to make, mix, toss, and bake.  While I was making this dish, many Spring and Summer visions come to mind, flowers blooming, the beach, the sun, vacation time,  and ahhhh relaxing.  🙂  So, here we gooooooooo!!!!

COLORFUL VEGETABLE CASSAROLE

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Ingredients
  

  • 5 Eggplants
  • 3 Zucchini
  • 3 Garlic Cloves
  • 2 Onions
  • 4 Potatoes
  • 1 Tomato
  • 2 Teaspoons Tomato Paste
  • 1/2 cup Vegetable Oil
  • 3/4 cup Olive Oil
  • 1 Red Bell Pepper
  • Salt and Pepper
  • Paprika optional
  • 1 cup Water

Instructions
 

  • Dice the Zucchini, Eggplants, Potatoes, Pepper, Garlic, Onions and Tomato, add all your ingredients into a large bowl and toss around a few times. Then add your mixture into your baking pan and add 1/2 cup Vegetable Oil, 3/4 cup Olive Oil, Salt and Pepper, 1 cup water, Tomato Paste, and if you enjoy Paprika, please go ahead and add this spice into your mixture.

Notes

Tip: In a large bowl add water and a teaspoon of salt. Toss in the diced Eggplants and leave in for about 15 minutes. (see photo) This step is necessary because Eggplants tend to bitter, and this is a good way to get rid of the bitterness. Place pan into your oven and bake at 180 degrees for 1 hr. Check your food while it is baking, and toss it around a few times, so that it does not stick to the bottom.

Welcome to a small corner of my Greek Heritage. Growing up in New York from Greek parents, was a challenge of its own...but the traditional food, tastes and aromas that my mother cooked always travelled me back to Greece. My mother is a wonderful cook, our house would always have that smell of home cooked food. I remember very clearly that we were only allowed fast food, once a week, that was a huge day for myself and my brother. Jumping up and down in the back car seat, laughing, just being kids. It is true that we all like to eat different foods, taste, smell, even try food that looks different than our regular meals at home and I think that is so natural. In my teens, I was not really into cooking, I enjoyed my magazines after school, listening to music, and just taking a breather. There were times that I would glance at some of my mom's recipes, more out of curiosity than to actually try to cook them. At that time I did not realise that cooking would become my passion one day. Slowly, I would start to look into my mom's recipes a bit more each day and I started to find it interesting as a hobby. Each month I would go into our neighborhood bookstore and pick up my monthly book, until one day I decided to stroll over into the cooking section. That summer was the first time I actually bought a cooking magazine....and I loved it. Cooking and baking started out as a hobby, but now after many years it is my passion. Exploring the cuisines, the spices, the oils, the scents, the variety of smells and tastes that exist. It was and still is an amazing journey without limits. So, come along with me on this adventure, and I hope you enjoy my recipes. Sophie

2 Comments

  1. Megala
    June 5, 2017 at 4:33 pm  ·  Reply

    Great recipe! Thanks for sharing!!

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