Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1 lb Fresh plum tomatoes
1/2 lb Large red bliss potatoes
1 lg Red onion
1 lg Red peppers
1 lg Yellow pepper
1/2 lb Small Italian eggplants
1 lg Fennel bulb
1/3 c Olive oil
2 Cloves garlic, finely
Chopped
1/4 Fresh mint leaves
1 c Bread crumbs
1/4 c Grated Parmesan cheese
Salt
Freshly ground black pepper

Preheat an oven to 350 degrees.

Wash all of the vegetables, drain and dry. Slice the tomatoes into
rounds 1/4-inch thick. Cut the potatoes, leaving the skin on, into
equally sized rounds. Peel the onion, leaving whole, cut into thin
round slices. Cut the pepper in half, remove and discard the seeds
and ribs, and cut into a thin julienne. Leave the skin on the
eggplant and cut into thin round slices. Trim the top of the fennel
bulb and slice the fennel on a vegetable slicer into thin slices
beginning at the base and continuing up to the top. Using a large
ceramic vegetable gratin dish, brush the bottom of the dish with some
of the olive oil. Lay the sliced tomatoes on the bottom of the dish
in single layer overlapping where necessary. Season this and each
succeeding layer of vegetables with salt and pepper as you go to
ensure balanced flavors. Lay the potatoes on top of the tomatoes,
season and continue with a layer of onion. Combine the peppers and
lay the peppers over the onion layer. Next add a layer of eggplant
and finally a layer of thinly sliced fennel remembering to carefully
season each vegetable layer. Drizzle 3 tablespoons of olive oil over
the top layer of vegetables and place the dish into the oven. Bake
for 45 minutes.

While the gratin is baking, combine the remaining olive oil with the
garlic, mint, bread crumbs, cheese and season with a fresh grind of
black pepper. After the vegetables have cooked for 45 minutes, remove
from the oven, sprinkle the bread crumb mixture over the top and
return to the oven for another 15 minutes or until the top browns to
a golden color.

Yield: 6 to 8 portions

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