Channel Summer With a Vegetable Gratin

Channel Summer With a Vegetable Gratin
Tomato sauce, ricotta cheese, and a medley of eggplant, zucchini, and squash keeps this dish bright and vibrant. Lynda Balslev for Tastefood
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Eat your lasagna and have your vegetables, too, with a veggie-enhanced rendition of a family favorite. This layered gratin resembles a lasagna, with one key difference: There are no pasta sheets. It’s a glimpse of summer to come, with planks of roasted Mediterranean vegetables rippling with tomato and dollops of ricotta in a gratin-cum-lasagna.

Roasted eggplant, zucchini, and yellow squash slices keep this dish light and colorful, alternating with a bright tomato sauce and fluffy ricotta. (Shutterstock)
Roasted eggplant, zucchini, and yellow squash slices keep this dish light and colorful, alternating with a bright tomato sauce and fluffy ricotta. Shutterstock
Lynda Balslev
Lynda Balslev
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Lynda Balslev is a cookbook author, food and travel writer, and recipe developer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her Danish husband, two children, a cat, and a dog. Balslev studied cooking at Le Cordon Bleu Ecole de Cuisine in Paris and worked as a personal chef, culinary instructor, and food writer in Switzerland and Denmark. Copyright 2025 Lynda Balslev. Distributed by Andrews McMeel Syndication.
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