Italian vegetable bake

Italian vegetable bake

A vibrant dish for slow cookers, layer summery courgettes, tomatoes and aubergine with bread and mozzarella - irresistible!

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 6

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 30 mins

Cook time

Cook 5 hrs - 6 hrs 30 mins

Vegetarian Freezable

Vegetarian, Low-fat

Method

  1. Put the slow cooker onto the High or the browning setting and tip in the crushed garlic, canned tomatoes, half the oregano leaves, chilli and some seasoning. Cook, covered, while you chop the rest of the vegetables.
  2. Tip out most of the sauce and start layering up half the vegetables and herbs with seasoning - the aubergines, courgettes, red peppers, tomatoes, basil and remaining oregano. Layer in half the bread, rubbed with the whole garlic clove, half the mozzarella and half the tipped-out tomato sauce. Repeat vegetable, herb and tomato sauce layers, followed by the bread and mozzarella. Push everything down well to compress, then cook on high for 5-6 hrs.
  3. Flash under the grill before serving if you like (and your slow cooker pot is suitable), until golden and bubbling. Serve with the leftover basil leaves on top and a big salad on the side.

PER SERVING

274 kcalories, protein 14g, carbohydrate 31g, fat 10 g, saturated fat 6g, fibre 4g, sugar 8g, salt 0.9 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, March 2012.

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  • 03 March 2012

    Isabel commented on this recipe

    Can I make this if I don't have a slow cooker? Maybe in the oven? At what temperature would I then need to set the oven?

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  • 27 March 2012

    Golda Lowden commented on this recipe

    you could always use a large casserole dish with a lid and cool on 120-140 for say 3 hours that's all I would do. Hope it helps. I've just made this for tea I hope it goes down a treat!

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  • 02 April 2012

    Kasia rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    I baked it in 150oC for 90-100 minutes and it tasted great! I omitted canned tomatoes though, as I'm not a big fan of them. Simple and really tasty!

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  • 05 July 2012

    clairesp rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    I was disappointed - I have a slow cooker and was looking for a different vegetarian meal as most slow cooker recipes are for meat. This sounded perfect but I was disappointed - the flavour was a bit bland and the mozerella was overcooked.

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  • 24 September 2012

    Jill Atkinson rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Left this cooking while we took guests out for a drink - was a great hit with everyone. Will certainly use this recipe again.

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  • 13 October 2012

    CWest rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This was so delicious. I made it in the oven as I was only making half the quantity, gas mark 5 for about an hour and a half and it was amazing! I didn't have any tinned tomatoes, roasted peppers or chilli flakes so I used diluted tomato puree, fresh peppers and cajun seasoning instead and it was still wonderful. Doing it in the oven meant the mozzarella on the top went golden which was just perfect.

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  • 20 October 2012

    Julie Bahrain rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    Enjoyed the flavour but wasn't sure about the soggy bread.

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  • 21 October 2012

    Linda commented on this recipe

    Will not be cooking this again. I cooked this for 5 hours but by the time we ate the bread was too soggy to eat and the veg were hard to distinguish from each other. It had a good spicy flavour but was just to mushy for my family. What a shame!

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  • 08 December 2012

    vintageabbie commented on this recipe

    The flavours in this were delicious, unfortunately my slow cooker for two wasn't quite big enough to layer the ingredients up properly, but you can tell it would be even more amazing if I could have. Went down very well, but would serve with new potatoes next time as well as the salad.

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  • 24 January 2013

    Shez commented on this recipe

    Would leave out the bread and do a gratin topping instead, or maybe only put the top layer of bread in for the last bit / grill (and no middle bread). Otherwise, tasty, although I did use lots of salt and added sugar to the initial tomato sauce.

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  • 05 March 2013

    Elektricia rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Wonderful. We did leave out the bread, and covered in Gouda (we're Dutch) Would become a vegetarian for this!!!

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  • 22 March 2013

    Maggie Bointon commented on this recipe

    Very easy to prepare and was delicious. Cheese melted onto the lid of the slow cooker as it was packed in so tight, but wasn't a big problem and it reduced in volume after cooking. Veggie friends loved it.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 6

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 30 mins

Cook time

Cook 5 hrs - 6 hrs 30 mins

Vegetarian Freezable

Vegetarian, Low-fat

Ingredients

  • 4 garlic cloves , 3 crushed, 1 left whole
  • 400g can chopped tomatoes
  • bunch oregano , leaves chopped
  • large pinch chilli flakes
  • about 300g/11oz baby or normal aubergines , sliced
  • 2 courgettes , sliced
  • ½ large jar roasted red peppers
  • 3 beef tomatoes , sliced
  • bunch basil , torn (save a few leaves for sprinkling over)
  • small baguette , sliced and toasted
  • 2 x 125g balls mozzarella , torn
  • green salad , to serve
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PER SERVING

274 kcalories, protein 14g, carbohydrate 31g, fat 10 g, saturated fat 6g, fibre 4g, sugar 8g, salt 0.9 g

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