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Spain on a Fork > All Recipes > Main Dishes > Traditional Spanish Pisto – Ratatouille with Vegetables & Olive Oil
All Recipes, Main Dishes / August 13, 2019
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Pisto is to Spain what ratatouille is to France. This Traditional Spanish Pisto – Ratatouille with Vegetables & Olive Oil is comfort food at its best. Loaded with an amazing array of flavors, made using the simplest ingredients and it comes together within 1 hour.
This dish offers a beautiful medley of vegetbles that are slowly poached in extra virgin olive oil. By poaching the vegetables in a low-medium heat in extra virgin olive oil, it gives them a soft texture and an incredible flavor.
To make this Spanish pisto I used an array of simple vegetables: Garlic, onions, red and green bell peppers, zucchini and canned diced tomatoes. Traditionally, Spaniards use fresh tomatoes to make this pisto. But I find that using canned diced tomatoes works just as well. Plus it make it a lot easier 🙂 .
The secret to this Spanish pisto is to use a high-quality Spanish olive oil. Since we are only seasoning the pisto with sea salt and black pepper, the olive oil is what really flavors the pisto. For this recipe I used Georgetown Extra Virgin Spanish Olive Oil. Trust me on this one, get a bottle or two of this amazing Spanish olive oil, you won´t regret it.
Cookware that I use:
Swiss Diamond Chef´s Knife
Swiss Diamond Pans
Wood Cutting Board
Watch the Video Below on how to make this Traditional Spanish Pisto – Ratatouille with Vegetables & Olive Oil
CourseMain Course, Side Dish
CuisineSpanish
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Servings 4
Author Albert Bevia @ Spain on a Fork
Ingredients
FOR THE PISTO:
- 1/4cupextra virgin olive oil
- 5clovesgarlic
- 1largeonion
- 1green bell pepper
- 1red bell pepper
- 1zucchini
- 215 oz cans diced tomatoes
- pinchsea salt
- pinchblack pepper
- pinchwhite sugar
FOR THE FRIED EGGS:
- 2tbspextra virgin olive oil
- 4organic eggs
- pinchsea salt
- pinchblack pepper
Instructions
Thinly slice 5 cloves of garlic, cut 1 large onion into large chunks, cut 1 red bell pepper and 1 green bell pepper into 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch pieces and cut 1 zucchini into 1/4 inch thick pieces
Heat a large frying pan with a low-medium heat and add a generous 1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil, after 2 minutes add the sliced garlics and start mixing them around with the oil, after 2 minutes add the chunks of onion and continue to mix, after 5 minutes and the onions are translucent add the pieces of red and green bell pepper and continue to mix, 10 minutes later add the zucchini pieces and continue to mix, the secret here is to poach the vegetables not fry them, you want all the vegetables to be soft but not falling apart, by mixing continuously you will ensure they are poaching
About 8 minutes after adding the zucchini into the pan, season everything with a generous pinch of fine sea salt & freshly cracked black pepper, mix until well combined, then add two 15 ounce cans of diced tomatoes and season again with sea salt, freshly cracked black pepper and a pinch of white sugar to cut the acid from the tomatoes, mix together and let it simmer for 10 to 15 minutes, then remove from the heat and serve on shallow bowls
Optionally you can serve this pisto with a fried egg on top, heat a small fry pan with a medium-high heat and add 2 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil, cooking the eggs in batches crack 1 egg into the oil after 2 minutes and using a spatula flick the hot olive oil on top of the egg to cook the top part, after 2 minutes and the egg whites are cooked but the egg yolk is creamy, remove from the pan and add on top of the pisto, season the eggs with sea salt and black pepper, serve at once with a crusty baguette, enjoy!
Recipe Notes
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Tags: eggs, extra virgin olive oil, georgetown olive oil, gluten free, pisto, ratatouille, spanish olive oil, traditional, vegetables
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I like to poach the eggs on top during the last few minutes. So good for such an easy recipe.07 . Mar . 2021
Spain on a Fork
Sounds great! much love 🙂
08 . Mar . 2021
Jasmine
I made this earlier in the week and it was absolutely delicious! Really light and tasty. I saved a bit for a few days later and oh my goodness it was even better then! Thank you for posting your recipes, I have just found your website and I love it!
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Spain on a Fork
I am so happy to hear that! much love 🙂
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