French

Gratin de Courgettes (Zucchini Gratin)

Name: Gratin de Courgettes (Zucchini Gratin)
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 2 lbs zucchini, sliced; 1 onion; 2 garlic cloves; 2 tbsp olive oil; 1/2 cup creme fraiche; 3/4 cup gruyere cheese, grated; 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg; 1 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Colette @colette_lyon

Gratin de Courgettes (Zucchini Gratin) is French home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

40 min Medium Diabetic friendly High fiber Vegetarian Pescatarian Halal Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 lbs zucchini, sliced
1 onion
2 garlic cloves
2 tbsp olive oil
1/2 cup creme fraiche
3/4 cup gruyere cheese, grated
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Preheat the oven to 400 F (200 C).
Heat the olive oil in a wide skillet and cook the sliced zucchini, onion, and garlic over medium-high heat for 10 minutes, until the zucchini softens and most of its liquid cooks off.
Stir in the creme fraiche and the nutmeg, season with the salt and pepper, and spread the mixture in a buttered baking dish.
Scatter the gruyere over the top.
Bake for 20 minutes, until the top is golden and bubbling, then let it rest for 5 minutes; it makes a light accompaniment to roast or grilled meat and fish alike.

Watch how to cook Gratin de Courgettes (Zucchini Gratin)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Recette de Gratin de courgettes - 750g Play the video

Serve it with

A French dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Gratin de Courgettes (Zucchini Gratin), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Blanc de Poulet Grille et Haricots Verts (Grilled Chicken Breast with Green Beans)
  
  25 min
Something cool and fresh
- Betteraves Vinaigrette (Beetroot with Mustard Vinaigrette)
  
  15 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Gratin de Courgettes (Zucchini Gratin) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Gratin de Courgettes (Zucchini Gratin)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Aubergines au Four (Roasted Aubergine with Thyme and Garlic)
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 350 kcal
Protein: 10 g
Carbs: 11 g
Fat: 30 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 6 g
Sodium: 660 mg
Saturated fat: 14 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Gratin de Courgettes (Zucchini Gratin) takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.