French tian recipe is a delicious French vegetable side dish or a main dish for a plant forward diet. It is made easily and quickly with sliced vegetables, eggplant, zucchini, potatoes, tomatoes and onions. It originates from the Provencal area of France .
There are many excellent similar recipes from this area of France for you to make: Eggplant Caponata Recipe, Ratatouille Dish, and Mixed Vegetable Bake, a vegan heaven!
About French Tian Recipe
The name Tian refers to the dish that it is cooked in (which is an earthenware vessel of Provence, according to Wikipedia), but nowadays you hear the word being used for lots of Mediterranean dishes.
If you don't have a Tian dish, just use any ovenproof dish you have. A cast-iron casserole dish or stoneware would work very well.
This baked vegetable dish contains fresh summer vegetables, and if you have access to wonderful vegetable markets in your area, this is one way of using fresh produce.
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French Tian Recipe
Equipment
- tian dish or thick oven wear like cast-iron or stoneware
Ingredients
- 1 eggplant aubergine large
- 2 zucchini courgettes
- 3 potatoes medium-sized
- 3 tomatoes medium-sized, ripe
- 2 onions
- 1 thyme fresh - small bunch
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
- ½ teaspoon salt and pepper
Instructions
- Turn oven on to HOT 425°F/220°C/Gas 7.
- Cut the vegetables into thin slices.
- Sprinkle a little olive oil into the bottom of your Tian (or large ovenproof dish)
- Begin layering the vegetables in Tian starting with the onions, potatoes, eggplant, zucchini, and tomatoes.
- Sprinkle each layer with salt and pepper and a little crumbled thyme.
- Finish the top layer with tomatoes and sprinkle olive oil over the top.
- Place in a hot oven and bake for about forty minutes.
- This is most often eaten hot but is also delicious served cold.
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