Tomato & Courgette au gratin

Tomato & Courgette au gratin

Ingredients

2-3 courgettes - in 1 cm slices

8 mediums tomatoes - in 1 cm slices

basil (optional)

This is a very easy meal - healthy & ready to eat in no time!! Absolutely anyone can do this recipe.

After slicing the courgettes, sprinkle with salt and leave for at least half an hour. The salt will bring out the excess water from the courgette. Don't forget that you've already added salt when thinking about seasoning the dish.

After half an hour, dry the courgette with kitchen roll & fry the sliced courgette in a pan with a little olive oil. Remember to turn them over every now & then!

Skin the tomatoes before slicing. Do this by boiling a pan of water, marking ax 'x' in the tomato with a knife & putting the tomatoes in the boiling water for about 1 minute. After this, the skins will simply slip off. Now slice the tomatoes.

Put a layer of courgette in the bottom of your gratin/casserole dish. Now add a layer of tomatoes, followed by a layer of cheese. Then add a layer of courgette & follow the pattern! Bake in the oven for 30 mins at about 200C.

Finish, by putting the dish underneath the grill for a couple of minutes, to make the top layer of cheese really crispy!!