ratatouille bread

Seeing as it's Mabon I am making a batch of my delicious ratatouille bread. Firstly I need to cook my ratatouille (unless of course I have some ready cooked in the freezer).

Ratatouille

Ingredients

3 tbsp olive oil

1 chopped onion

1 sliced aubergine

2 sliced courgettes  

1 deseeded and chopped red pepper

1 deseeded and sliced yellow pepper

2 chopped garlic cloves

14 oz chopped tomatoes or 1 tin chopped tomatoes

1/4 pint vegetable stock

rosemary

pepper (add salt as well if not intending to bake with it).

Method

Fry your aubergine, peppers, garlic, onion, and courgettes in the olive oil. Set aside to cool.

Add everything to your slow cooker and cook on high for 4 hours.

Measure into 1 and 1/2 cup servings and freeze. Reserve one serving if you wish to bake your bread straight away.

Now you can make your bread

Ratatouille bread

Ingredients

Add to your bread maker in this order

1 1'2 cups ratatouille (if frozen make sure it's defrosted thoroughly before you use it.)

2 tbsp sugar

2 tbsp margarine

1 tsp salt

3 cups strong bread flour

2 tbsp dried yeast

Press the button and away you go, it's really that easy.

I suggest you check on the consistency after 5 minutes, if it's too dry add a little water, it really doesn't matter if it's too wet.

This bread is absolutely delicious with any baked beans recipe. It also makes sandwiches to die for.