Pixar-Style Ratatouille

so we are going to talk about ratatouille a lot of you guys know that dish probably for the first time you heard of it from the movie ratatouille traditionally it's kind of stewed or sauteed eggplant zucchini tomato onions we are going to pursue a version called confibialde that was made really popular by pixar with the help of thomas keller it's the same flavors same ingredients made really beautifully just by slicing with a mandolin or a knife all the vegetables and you lay it out and do like

a gorgeous shingled layer on top so today we're going to show you exactly how to make the comfy bialdi or ratatouille in the movie and we're also going to show you a few different riffs that we were inspired to make and hopefully you're gonna be inspired to make your own version of ratatouille too [Music] okay here we go so there's two parts the sauce and the beautiful topping so i'm gonna actually slice up the vegetables first we're gonna blanch these tomatoes pot of water coming up crank that

sucker up on high in the boiling water [Music] we slice our tomatoes use a knife just because they're so delicate but the rest of them i'm going to use a mandolin you just go to town so i'm gonna go about that thick [Music] these guys are gonna go in the tray [Music] ends i'm just gonna throw in this bowl here for the sauce [Music] so this stuff you'll see obviously i'm not stressing about it like with the mandolin how perfect because this is just gonna get cooked down and pureed right all these

guys are going in this goes to the stove [Music] to make our ratatouille the first part was slicing all of our vegetables then we took the scraps the end bits and some onions and peppers and garlic and made this sauce so now we're going to assemble and you don't want too much sauce here you almost just want enough so it doesn't burn on the bottom just like a nice delicate pizza that's it and then for this we just start shingling our little veggies here purple yellow green red looks like a pack

of lifesavers and once you get going here you kind of just get into a little flow state [Music] so this guy has to bake with a lid [Music] uh it's winter time here in seattle and ratatouille is a very summery dish but what we really liked about this dish is the technique so we thought we'd apply it to a couple other things that led us to some really neat dishes we've got parsnips turnip rutabaga green apple so all these little scraps we're gonna layer all these on the bottom i'm gonna hit our cr

eam right now [Music] so we're gonna do a sweeter version we've got a bunch of beautiful apples we've got our granny smith our opal and our honeycrisp bye [Music] this is dangerous i can't see so you know how to make ratatouille from the movie what's great about that is it's just a perfect example on how to take a base recipe and leverage it to make all sorts of new creations so don't be afraid to get creative [Applause] that's beautiful wouldn't that just be like the best footage in the world w

e're just like shooting all day all of a sudden like my thumb trunk goes like this and sitting there we need to get like hollywood props man bring more theater here