The Ratatouille dish, popularised by the hit Pixar movie of the same name, is classically a low-frill French peasant dish. To the contrary of my first impression of the dish from the movie, "wow look at all the pepperoni!", it's made without meat, for the olden-time French families who cannot afford meat.
Nit-pickers would say this isn't a true ratatouille, and they wouldn't be half-wrong. A Ratatouille is a traditionally...