This Ratatouille Pie is a classic ratatouille baked into a homemade pie crust and topped with homemade feta cheese!
This is one of the first meals my husband cooked for me when we first started dating. As he cooked away in my kitchen and I watched and drank wine, I asked him where he'd gotten the recipe from. His response: "I don't know, I just kind of made it up one night and liked it so I kept it," My response: Swoon.
It's pretty much what it sounds like: a ratatouille in a pie. Stewed vegetables in a buttery flaky pie crust? Um, yes please. Best part, you can throw in any veggies you want / have on hand. Our standard go-tos are eggplant, zucchini, yellow squash, onion, mushrooms, and some red and orange bell peppers to add some color. Then (ok this is the best part), plenty of our homemade feta cheese. I would absolutely be lying if I said that this pie was not one of the motivating factors towards us making our own feta. 'Case it was. It totally was.
And of course it wouldn't be from scratch without a homemade pie crust. Room temperature butter cut into flour with just a couple of tablespoons of water. Super easy.
Oh, and before I even made the pie crust, I sliced up the eggplant, gave the slices a sprinkle of salt, and let them sweat for about 30 minutes.
Then I made the pie crust. Then I prepped the rest of the veggies, sliced up the mushrooms, and chopped up the peppers, onions, and squash into good sized pieces. But see how I threw all the veggies into one big bowl? Don't do that. It'll be annoying later when you only need to cook some of them first before the others, speaking from experience...
But of course I didn't realize this until I started cooking and after I added the cubed eggplant to the bowl.
So then I had to pick out the eggplant, squash, and zucchini to cook first. Oops.
Meanwhile, Dan was on pie crust duty. He rolled out the dough and formed them in the pie dishes.
Once he had them ready, he gave them a little prick with a fork,
And then baked them for about 10 minutes.
I was on filing duty so I cooked the veggies by adding the rest of them: onions, peppers, mushrooms.
Then, with our homemade feta, I crumbled a layer down for the base of the pie,
and topped it with the veggies.
(Whenever we make this pie, we always make two!)
And finally, more feta crumbled on top and finished in the oven for 30 minutes.
When it's done, Ratatouille Pie!
A wonderfully healthy, savory pie!
So healthy, that we had some wine with it. Not that we ever need an excuse to drink wine with dinner. 😉
Ratatouille Pie
Ingredients
Ratatouille: Enough filling for 2 pies
- 1 eggplant: sliced sweated, and cubed
- 1 zucchini halved and sliced
- 1 yellow squash halved and sliced
- 8 mushrooms sliced
- 1 red bell pepper chopped
- 1 orange bell pepper chopped
- 1 white onion chopped
- 7 oz of feta cheese
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
Pie Crust: - 1 pie
- 1/2 cup of butter one stick room temperature
- 1 1/4 cups of flour
- 1-2 tablespoons of water
- pinch of salt
Instructions
- Take butter out of fridge to bring to room temperature. Slice eggplant and sweat by sprinkling with salt. Let sit for at least 30 minutes then cube.
- Add salt to flour and mix, then cut butter into flour. Add water and then knead until dough forms. Set aside.
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees and heat oil in large saute pan on medium.
- Add eggplant, zucchini, and squash to the pan. Salt and pepper. Cover and let cook for 7-10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Roll out the pie dough in to a large circle to fit into pie dish. Gently lift dough, place in dish, and trim to fit. With a fork, gently pierce the bottom of the dough in a circle around the base of the pan. Bake in oven for 10 minutes.
- Add the rest of the vegetables to the saute pan, cover, and cook for another 10 minutes or until the onions are translucent. Peppers may still be a bit crunchy but they should finish in the oven. Stir occasionally and salt and pepper to taste.
- When pie crusts are done, remove from oven and sprinkle half of the feta down for a thin layer. Add vegetables on top filling each pie crust. Sprinkle top with remaining feta.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
- Serve and enjoy!
I'm always looking out for a new eggplant dish. This is lovely and what's more important to me these days, it's easy.
Oh WOW. This dish looks absolutely FANTASTIC! I'm in love with your food photography. I've never seen ratatouille served this way - it looks so, so glorious. Also loving the addition of feta crumbled on top. Although I'm vegan, I just know that my family will absolutely adore this, so I'm definitely going to bookmark this one for later! If you have a minute, I'd love your thoughts on my ratatouille with a Moroccan twist! 🙂 http://goodfoodmarsh.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/moroccan-ratatouille/
A nice twist to the traditional ratatouille!
Thank you! 🙂
Drooling here. 😀 A different way on Ratatouille - amazing, Tracy. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Thank you, Jhuls! 🙂
Delicious recipe. Yumm...
Thanks! 🙂
I love all the veggies stacked in a pie, and with feta cheese! A brilliant idea!
Thank you! It's a great way to eat "pie" guilt free! 😉
What a healthy and delicious savory pie, thanks for sharing and pinned for later:)
What a brilliant idea. I'd never have thought of ratatouille in a pie? Your husband was a keeper after that I'm sure. Nice fresh and healthy ingredients, and the addition of feta, wow! Thanks for your contribution, and a Happy Fiesta Friday to you.
I'd be swooning too if my husband makes me a ratatouille pie. Or any pie. Or anyTHING! He's hopeless in the kitchen. He can make uh....boiled eggs. He's excellent at it!
Haha! At least he can cook something, Angie. 😀
It appears your husband is a genius, Tracy! Ratatouille? In a pie? No wonder you married him. 😉 Thanks for providing a must make recipe for my ever growing list of "Tracy" recipes. Thanks also for bringing this pie to the party at Angie's for Fiesta Friday...I'm sure it will be greedily accepted!