Thursday, April 26, 2012

All the Veg you need

Once in a while I go through all those ripped out recipes I store in one of my kitchen drawers. Partly to declutter, partly to get new ideas on what to cook. This recipe - and for once I even know where I ripped it out of (the June 2011 issue of Delicious Magazine, one of my best loved cooking mags) ticked all the boxes of what I was looking for: fresh and crunchy vegetable, easy to prepare in advance and real pretty, too.

To serve this as a starter for six you need medium sized red peppers, halved and deseeded (one half pepper per person), one zucchini, sliced very finely, about ten cherry tomatoes cut into halves, a bunch of fresh green asparagus (just the tips, reserve the rest of the stems to make an asparagus soup),  4 to 6 finely sliced spring onios, 2 garlic cloves, also very finely sliced, olive oil and about 100 g fresh goat cheese.
Wash and halve the peppers, deseed and place in a lightly oiled baking dish. Finley slice the zucchini, garlic and spring onions, halve the cherry tomatoes and mix everything in a bowl. Season with pepper fresh from the mill, kosher salt (fleur de sel), drizzle with olive oil and distribute this mixture into the halved red (or yellow) peppers. Add the asparagus tips and crumble the goat cheese on top and bake for about 30 to 40 minutes at 180°C/350°F. To be served with a nice crunchy baguette or, as a more substantial main course on a bed of couscous.

I very stupidly forgot to take pictures after baking and when I remembered there was nothing left....

11 comments:

  1. This is lovely, Barbara. If you forgot to take pictures, that only means it was really, really delicious. And, so glad you mentioned your favorite magazine. I will need to look into it more. Susan

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  2. This is really nice- light, fresh, healthy and delicious.

    Velva

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  3. Well it looks delicious enough to eat raw!

    E.A.T.

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  4. love this photo, and have everything but the red pepper, market day tomorrow...so looking forward to trying this. + I think Barbara has a good point />)

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  5. I really hate when I forget to take a picture of a dish when I am cooking or forget to take a picture of a course when I am taking pictures of a meal in a restaurant. Your dish looks wonderful and I can see what it would looked like when you were finished.

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  6. Very fresh and delicious looking dish. I get the Delicious magazine too. Lots of good food to try in there!

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  7. It looks utterly delicious!! would mozarella work well there too?
    many thanks for sharing,
    Ozlem

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  8. Looks very healthy good!
    Rita

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  9. I made this last night! Both the husband and I loved it - I did a whole pepper for each of us, which was perfect for him and gave me a half for lunch today!

    Hope you're well :)

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  10. Ha ha you sound a bit like me with the camera!! I bet that tastes good. Diane

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  11. I LOVE this recipe!! Ah, so fresh, and looks easy to adapt with different veg. Thanks!

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