Vegetables with Herbs de Provence
Vegetables with Herbs de Provence

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See recipes for Mike's Herbs De Provence Red Potatoes too. Make use of your garden's surplus with this comforting dish from the Provence region of France. It's a vegetable dish traditionally made with eggplant, tomatoes, onions, zucchini, garlic, bell peppers and various herbs.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have vegetables with herbs de provence using 16 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Vegetables with Herbs de Provence:
  1. Make ready 2 each medium sized eggplant (2 cups sliced)
  2. Get 1 each large onion (1 cup sliced)
  3. Take 1 each poblano pepper (1/2 cup sliced)
  4. Get 1 each red pepper (1/2 cup sliced)
  5. Prepare 1/4 cup green pepper (1/2 sliced)
  6. Take 1 each medium zucchini (1 cup sliced)
  7. Prepare 1 each chayote squash (1 cup sliced)
  8. Prepare 3 each tomatoes
  9. Take 3 clove garlic
  10. Get 1/4 tsp savory
  11. Get 1/4 tsp fennel seeds
  12. Make ready 1/4 tsp thyme
  13. Get 2 each bay leaves
  14. Prepare 1 tsp basil or 1/4 tsp dried basil
  15. Get 1/8 cup extra virgin olive oil or more to taste
  16. Get 1 each salt and pepper to taste

There isn't a standard blend, so the ingredients and their proportions vary from person to person and brand to brand. As its name suggests, herbes de Provence hails from the South of France; the fragrant blend gathers up herbs that grow in abundance in Provence. While the dominant flavors are usually thyme and rosemary, the blend usually includes other herbs, such as fennel, bay leaf, chervil, savory, basil, and marjoram. Place carrots into the boiling salted lemon water and cook for twelve minutes then drain.

Instructions to make Vegetables with Herbs de Provence:
  1. When buying eggplant, bigger isn't better. You want to look for smooth, firm small to medium sized. Throughout the recipe, add oil as needed to sauté to your taste.
  2. Prepare a 2.5 quart size bowl filled half way with water and 2 tbs of white vinegar.
  3. Peel and slice eggplant and place in water solution. Leave in approximately 10 minutes while slicing other vegetables.
  4. Slice onions and put in pan to sauté until translucent and begin to golden.
  5. Pour into dutch oven.
  6. Slice peppers and put into pan to sauté until fragrant and tender.
  7. Pour in dutch oven.
  8. Drain eggplants and layer in a colander sprinkling lightly with sea salt in between the layers.
  9. Cover with a plate and add weight to push out moister.(approximately 20 minutes)
  10. Meanwhile, slice squash, chop tomatoes and finely chop garlic.
  11. Once the eggplant has released the liquid, with a paper towel wipe away the salt and dab up any remaining moister.
  12. Add eggplants to pan to sauté with a Tbs of olive oil.
  13. Once golden, added to dutch oven.
  14. Add sliced squash (chayote and zucchini) to sauté.
  15. Once squash begin to tender and golden, add to dutch oven.
  16. Mix tomatoes with fresh basil.
  17. Add to dutch oven with garlic, herbs and stir. Add bay leaves.
  18. Cover and cook in oven for one hour. It will be fragrant in 30 minutes, and smells fantastic after an hour. If you prefer a softer, but even more flavorful dish, transfer to a container to allow flavors to marinate in refrigerator to serve next day.

Place a large skillet or sauté pan over medium high heat and add the oil. Once hot, add carrots, Herbes de Provence, fennel, salt and pepper and brown slightly for about five minutes. One of their most popular cooking ingredients – a mixture called "herbes de Provence" – is proof of that. This blend of dried herbs is a combination of thyme, marjoram, rosemary, oregano, savory and sometimes lavender, and represents the bounty and fragrance of the region. And it makes everything taste heavenly.

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