Easy Zucchini-Tomato Side Dish

  5.0 – 8 reviews  • Tomatoes

With rice or pasta, you can serve this quick and simple vegetable meal as a side dish or as a vegetarian main dish. I could have eaten two portions by myself, but I restrained myself.

Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Total Time: 25 mins
Servings: 2
Yield: 2 servings

Ingredients

  1. 2 tablespoons olive oil
  2. 1 small onion, chopped
  3. 1 clove garlic, minced
  4. 2 small zucchini, cubed
  5. 1 teaspoon tomato paste
  6. 1 beefsteak tomato, cubed
  7. 1 teaspoon herbes de Provence, or more to taste
  8. salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
  9. 1 pinch white sugar
  10. 1 tablespoon chopped fresh basil leaves, or to taste

Instructions

  1. Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat and cook onion until soft and translucent, 3 to 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook for 30 seconds. Add zucchini and cook until softened, about 3 minutes.
  2. Stir in tomato paste and tomato. Season with herbes de Provence, salt, black pepper, and sugar. Stir in basil and serve.

Reviews

Miss Christina Juarez DVM
Wonderful. Only changes I made added another tomato and left out the paste. Topped with feta cheese.
Nicole Mccullough
I thought this was really good except five minutes was way too long for my onions and they burned. But I don’t cook with onions much so I probably did something wrong… once I removed what got burnt, the rest went smoothly and it tasted great. It’s simple enough to make and if you love zucchini and tomatoes, you will probably like it. Just don’t walk away from your onions for five minutes…
Kimberly Pacheco
I made this as a main dish, as my wife is vegetarian. Very, VERY easy to make. I added celery and carrots that I softened in broth so they would be at the same consistency as the zucchini. Then used the broth for my quinoa. It was my wife’s first quasi-ratatouille and she loved it. Happy wife….
Grace Watson
Very good. I used Italian seasoning because I didn’t have any herbs de Provence . I am saving this recipe in my favorites. Thanks!
Joel Richards
My husband really loved this dish with rice. I only added a splash of white wine. I will definitely be making this again!
Eric Gutierrez
great side
Patricia Pearson
Really a delicious dish. I also add some grated Parmesan to give it more intense flavor.
Jennifer Alvarez
this came out really well

 

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