Recipe: at dinner Tourlou Tourlou 🌱

Recipe: at dinner Tourlou Tourlou 🌱 Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Tourlou Tourlou 🌱. Tourlou tourlou, which literally means all mixed up, is really the most wonderfully delicious mix up of vegetables! Perfect for summer when garden fresh veggies are everywhere, a few simple ingredients and you're on your way to one of the best traditional vegetable meals in all of Greek cooking. For her tourlou-tourlou, Greek grandma cooking at its best, the vegetables bake at high heat for more than an hour.

You gotta peel the potatoes and onions, you can choose to peel the eggplant and zucchini if you'd like; I tend to half peel mine (pictured above).

What's important though, is the slicing of the vegetables - especially the potatoes.

A staple food in most Greek households, Tourlou Tourlou (meaning "all mixed up") is our version of the French ratatouille dish.

You can have Tourlou Tourlou 🌱 using 18 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Tourlou Tourlou 🌱

1. You need of Tomatoes (any shape and any colour).

2. It’s of small Courgette.

3. Prepare of Peppers (any shape and any colour).

4. You need of 1 Red onion.

5. You need of aubergine.

6. Prepare of mushrooms (optional).

7. Prepare of white or brown onion (or shallot).

8. It’s of red onion.

9. It’s of little spinach or summer greens.

10. It’s of Garlic.

11. Prepare of bay leaf.

12. Prepare of spring thyme.

13. You need of white wine.

14. You need of good olive oil.

15. Prepare of sprigs of parsley and/or mint - chopped.

16. Prepare of Greek thyme or oregano.

17. Prepare of Lemon.

18. You need of Sea salt and black pepper.

An assortment of fresh vegetables — eggplant, zucchini, potatoes, green beans, onion, garlic, and crushed tomato, this dish is sure to knock your socks off.

Tourlou-tourlou is the kind of dish that would have been taken to the local baker to be cooked in their wood-fired oven - maybe the black garlic evokes a little of those flavours.

So, you take all your veg, sauté it in lovely olive oil, add the crushed garlic, diluted tomato puree and bake it in the oven for about half an hour or so.

Tourlou Tourlou is a big pile of different vegetables, cooked all together Greek-style for a long time - would you believe two hours?

Tourlou Tourlou 🌱 instructions

1. Wash and chop the veggies. Heat a pan with just a little oil and add the veggies in the pan in the order they will take to cook. You can add some of the tomatoes but save some for the sauce. Start with the onions and sauté until translucent, add the garlic and then the peppers and courgettes. You want to sauté until cooked but not soft and squishy. You could pop them in a roasting tray in the oven if you prefer..

2. Grate the tomatoes on top of the veggies. You can use good quality crushed tomatoes if you prefer. Add the hard herbs - bay and thyme. Cook on a gentle simmer until the veg take on the flavour of the garlic and tomatoes..

3. Serve with a drizzle of olive oil, a sprinkle of soft herbs and a squeeze of lemon 🍋.

With such a long time in the oven, the vegetables take on a roasted quality, just better.

Türlü is a casserole of Turkish cuisine.

It is made of stewed vegetables and may also include stewed meat.

Varieties of this dish are also found in Balkan cuisines.

In particular, it is known as turli perimesh in Albania, tourlou or tourlou tourlou in Greece, and as turli tava in North Macedonia.