Definition

Noun: 1. A vegetable stew: A cooked dish consisting primarily of various vegetables, typically including tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, bell peppers, and onions, seasoned with herbs.

Examples

• Noun:
  • For dinner, we had a delicious ratatouille served with crusty bread.
  • The key to a good ratatouille is cooking the vegetables slowly to blend the flavors.

Advanced Usage

• As a culinary term: In professional and gourmet cooking, "ratatouille" refers specifically to this Provençal dish. Its preparation can vary, with some methods layering the vegetables and others cooking them together in a pot.
  • The chef presented a beautifully plated ratatouille, with each vegetable slice arranged in a spiral.

Variants and Related Words

• Stew (n): A general term for a dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly in liquid. Ratatouille is a type of vegetable stew.
• Ragout (n): A French term for a well-seasoned stew of meat, fish, or vegetables.

Synonyms

• Vegetable stew: The direct descriptive synonym.
• Provençal vegetable dish: A descriptive phrase indicating its regional origin.

Related Phrases

• To make ratatouille: The common verb collocation for preparing the dish.
  • She learned how to make ratatouille from her grandmother.

Noun

1. a vegetable stew; usually made with tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, peppers, onion, and seasonings