For me a great meal is all about the side dishes. A nice piece of meat is great, but how good are the potatoes on the side? I’ve constantly got my eye out for good side dish recipes, and this one from the August issue of Food & Wine struck me as the perfect summer side dish. It’s packed with my favourite summer veggies; zucchini, tomatoes, peppers. And as a base, new potatoes!
I also got the chance to use some of the herbs I’ve got growing on the balcony. Everything has been going great, except for the parsley (weird, eh?). The recipe only called for thyme but I threw some oregano in as well, just for fun.
Summer Vegetable Casserole
- New potatoes, sliced a 1/4 inch thick
- Mushrooms
- Plum tomatoes, sliced
- Yellow peppers, sliced thinly
- Zucchini
- Red onion, sliced
- Garlic
- Fresh thyme and oregano
- Olive oil
- Salt and pepper
- Parmesan, grated
- Toss all the ingredients together except for the parmesan.
- In a baking dish, layer the vegetables in the following order; potatoes, mushrooms, 2/3 of the onion and green peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, and finally the remaining onion and peppers.
- Top with grated parmesan.
- Bake covered in foil at 350 for 40 minutes. Increase the temperature to 400, remove the foil and bake for another 25 minutes.
This was pretty tasty. The recipe is simple enough to let the flavours of the fresh summer vegetables shine through. Next time I make this I think I’ll add some goat cheese to the mix, or maybe a layer of ricotta and spinach, just to make it a little more substantial.
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How would you put the cheese or spinach layer, on the top?? Looks like a good recipe, just saw it also in BA and hope to make it soon.
I was thinking in the middle somewhere, maybe right on top of the potatoes. But since it’s a casserole I think a cheese layer could go anywhere!
I was eyeing this in Food & Wine and am glad to hear it was a success. Perfect way to use summer veggies.
I love how many veggies are in that dish! Good work!
This veggie casserole looks and sounds awesome.
you just cant go wrong with great vegetables like you have….what a wonderful casserole!
I like this recipe too! I’ve even got the same casserole pan, I should put it to good use and whip up this delicious summer veggie dish!
I love vegetable side dishes as well, especially in the summer. This is such a great recipe!
This looks like a wonderful recipe to use the veggies from this week’s CSA shipment.
Oh, wow that looks so good!!!
Sure looks good!
Yum – this one’s getting bookmarked. I love potatoes and mushrooms and haven’t seen them baked with other veggies like this!
This is a beautiful vegetarian dish. I totally agree with you regarding the side dishes.
Oh that just looks perfect, my kind of food :)
I tried growing herbs on my balcony but all of them died :( I am such a bad gardener, I think I over watered them.