Hot Greek Salad–ish

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Greek Salad-ish

Yield 4

Author Lucy Tweed

Cook time

45 Min

Total time

45 Min

A firm favourite from book one that deserves high rotation. It’s salad but it’s hot + it’s carby + it’s got cheese + it has a zingy passata party + it’s one pan baby, and feeds the lot.

Ingredients

• 1 red onion, finely chopped
• 1 cup (135 g) grated zucchini (courgette)
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 6 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• baby fist of chopped flat-leaf parsley
• 1/2 cup (80 g) frozen kale
• 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
• 50 g (1/4 oz) butter
• 1 cup (220 g) short-grain white rice
• 2 cups (500 ml) chicken stock
• 60 g (2 oz) taleggio, sliced (or any other soft oozy cheese, such as mozzarella or brie)
• 2 garlic cloves, extra, sliced
• 400 g (14 oz) tin cherry tomatoes
• 1 Lebanese (short) cucumber, roughly chopped
• 3 tablespoons kalamata olives
• 3 tablespoons chopped dill and mint (combined)
• 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar

Optional

• A resilient atttude if you are going to make this for a yiayia

Instructions

1. Imagine as I wrote this, I was in a race to finish in time to eat it. Go.
2. Preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F).
3. In an ovenproof frying pan, fry the onion and zucchini in 1 tablespoon of oil over medium heat for around 5 minutes, or until soft but not coloured.
4. Add the garlic, parsley and kale and saute for another 5 minutes, until combined and fragrant. Season to taste with salt.
5. Add the butter and rice, and stir until the rice is fully coated and the butter has melted. Pour in the stock and stir.
6. Put the whole pan in the oven for 20 minutes.
7. Place the taleggio on top and bake for another 5 minutes.
8. Meanwhile, heat another tablespoon of oil in a frying pan over medium–high heat, and pan-fry the extra garlic for 2 minutes. Add the cherry toms and cook for another 3 minutes. This is called a passata party.
9. Toss together the cucumber, olives, dill, mint, vinegar and remaining tablespoon of oil.
10. Place the garlicky tomatoes and fresh salad on the baked rice.
11. Now, just forget the rules. Scoop and slide.
12. Hot, sticky, buttery greens rice, oozing warm taleggio, bouncy garlicky sweet toms and zingy bitey herby cold crunch. It’s a hot Greek salad-ish.

Nutrition Facts

Calories

517

Fat

29 g

Sat. Fat

11 g

Carbs

55 g

Fiber

4 g

Net carbs

51 g

Sugar

8 g

Protein

12 g

Sodium

837 mg

Cholesterol

42 mg

This information is a guide only, and can vary due to a number of factors including precision of measurements, brands, ingredient freshness, or the source of nutrition data.