Courgette Gratin Recipes

CHEESY COURGETTE GRATIN | SLIMMING & WEIGHT WATCHERS FRIENDLY

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to 200ºC.
• Spray a frying pan with low calorie cooking spray and cook the onions and garlic until soft. Stir in the balsamic vinegar, and then pour into the bottom of an oven dish and spread out into an even layer.
• Arrange the sliced courgette, potato and tomato in an alternating pattern on top of the onion layer, overlapping the slices slightly. Season with salt and pepper.
• Mix the cream cheese and thyme into the stock and pour over the courgette, potato and tomato layer. It won't look like much but once the vegetables start cooking they will add to the liquid.
• Pop the oven dish in the oven for 35 minutes.
• Remove the dish from the oven, the vegetables should be soft and just starting to turn golden. Mix the Cheddar and Parmesan together and sprinkle over the courgette, tomato and potato.
• Put back in the oven for a further 20 minutes until the cheese is golden and bubbly and the vegetables cooked through.

TOMATO, AUBERGINE AND COURGETTE GRATIN

Steps:

• In a non-stick frying pan, heat 1 tsp of the oil over medium-high heat; cook onion, mushrooms, garlic and 2 tbsp water, stirring, for 3 minutes or until softened.
• Add tomatoes, marjoram, thyme and salt and pepper to taste; cook for 20 minutes or until thickened, stirring often.
• Slice courgettes and aubergines diagonllay into 5 mm thick slices. Toss aubergine with remaining oil.
• Spread 125 ml of the tomato sauce in a glass baking dish. Layer with half of the courgette, aubergine and sauce, repeat layers.
• Mix breadcrumbs with cheese; sprinkle over top. Bake, uncovered at 200 C for 35 minutes or until bubbling.

POTATO AND COURGETTE GRATIN

Steps:

• Boil the potato slices in salted water until almost cooked, drain them and set aside.
• Melt half of the butter in a frying pan with the garlic, and half of the courgette slices, sprinkle with half of the mixed herbs. Fry till just golden on both sides, set aside. Cook the remaining courgette slices in the same way. set aside.
• Grease a low sided oven dish with the extra butter.
• Layer the potatoes and courgette in the dish so that they over lap like roof tiles.
• Whisk the egg with the cream and milk, season with pepper and salt, pour into the dish to cover the potatoes and courgettes.
• Grate the cheese and sprinkle over the dish.
• Place in hot oven 200c till brown aprox. 20 minutes.