How to Summer Delicious Tourlou - Tourlou

How to Summer Delicious 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 cook Tourlou - Tourlou using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Tourlou - Tourlou
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You need 2-3 of medium-sized potatoes.
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Prepare 2-3 of medium-sized zucchinis.
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Prepare 1 of eggplant.
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You need 1-2 of carrots.
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Prepare 1 of sweet red pepper.
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It’s 1 can of diced tomatoes.
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You need 1 can of diced tomatoes.
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It’s 1 tsp of tomato paste.
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Prepare 1 of level tsp sugar.
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Prepare 1 of medium-sized onion, finely chopped.
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Prepare 1-2 cloves of garlic (optionally).
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You need 4-5 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil.
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It’s of finely chopped parsley.
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Prepare of salt.
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You need of pepper.
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You need of thyme.
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It’s 1 tsp of sweet paprika.
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It’s 1 of vegetable stock cube.
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 a big pile of different vegetables, cooked all together Greek-style for a long time - would you believe two hours?
With such a long time in the oven, the vegetables take on a roasted quality, just better.
It is made of stewed vegetables and may also include stewed meat.
Tourlou - Tourlou instructions
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Cut the eggplant into cubes and let them sit for about an hour in salted water to lose their bitter taste. Then, dry them well..
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Cut the potatoes into cubes, the carrots into round slices, julliene the peppers and cut the zucchinis into slices..
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Finely chop the onion and the garlic and sauté in a deep pot for a couple of minutes until they get golden..
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Gradually add the vegetables and all the spices and finally the tomato with the tomato paste and the sugar. Mix all the ingredients well..
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Add water and boil for about 40 minutes over moderate heat until all the water is absorbed and the vegetables cook..
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Just before the 10 final minutes of cooking time add the vegetable stock cube for extra taste..
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.
The name derives from Old Turkic word türlüg meaning "variety".
Tourlou Tourlou* (pronounced Toodloo Toodloo) is a baked vegetable dish with a suprising sweetness.
I kind of don't want to reveal the source of the sweetness, because it comes from an ingredient many people think they don't like.