Tourlou Recipe: Easy Greek Vegetable Soup

Tourlou, or Briam, is a traditional Greek vegetable stew with various summer vegetables. The dish typically includes courgettes (zucchini), aubergines (eggplant), potatoes, onions, and tomatoes and is flavoured with oregano, garlic, and olive oil. One way to cook the dish is to layer the vegetables in a baking dish and then bake them in the oven until caramelized and tender. Tourlou is a nutritious and healthy dish that people eat as a soup, a side dish, or a main course. You can enjoy it hot or cold. Here is our easy tourlou recipe to try.

Useful Information

Preparation time:	15 minutes
Cooking time:	50 minutes
Servings:	6
Vegetarian?	YES
Vegan?	YES
Dairy-free:	YES
Gluten-free:	YES

Ingredients for the Tourlou Recipe

• 2 potatoes, peeled and diced
• 1 large aubergine/ eggplant, diced
• 1 large courgette/ zucchini, diced
• 1 brown onion, diced
• 2 large carrots, diced
• 400g tin of chopped tomatoes
• 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 3 cloves of garlic, minced
• 1 tsp dried oregano
• 300 ml vegetable stock
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

How to Make the Tourlou Recipe

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/
2. Prepare all the vegetables and arrange them in a deep baking tray.
3. Put a pan over medium heat and add the olive oil.
4. Add the garlic and saute for a minute or two before adding the chopped tomatoes, vegetable stock, and oregano.
5. Simmer the mixture for five minutes, then pour over the prepared vegetables.
6. Cover the vegetables with a layer of baking paper, then seal the deep baking tray with aluminium foil.
7. Put the baking tray in the oven and cook for approximately 40 minutes.
8. Serve as soon as you take the dish from the oven.

Additional Tips for Making Greek Vegetable Soup

• A popular garnish for the popular Greek soup is a sprinkling of feta cheese. Do not use it if you want a dairy-free or vegan soup.
• If you are not an oregano fan, try using basil instead.
• To make the dish thinner if you are eating it as a soup rather than a vegetable stew, add some more vegetable stock or water to the tourlou recipe.
• Serve the soup with your favourite bread or some crunchy croutons.
• You might like to try some of our other Greek soup recipes, including avgolemono, fakes, and fasolada.
• The dish is similar to Italian ratatouille, so it goes well with pasta as a main course.

Have you tried our tourlou recipe?