Hot Greek Salad-ish

by Lucy Tweed
Star 4.0
    10m prep time
    40m total time
    Easy level
    16 ingredients

You know when you’re craving salad... but you want it warm, and baked, and saucy, with cheese? Same. You'll need a resilient attitude if you are going to make this for a yiayia. Imagine as I wrote this, I was in a race to finish in time to eat it. Go.

Method

Based on 4 servings, adjust as needed.

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 200 C (400 F). In an ovenproof frying pan, fry the onion and courgette in a little oil over medium heat for around 5 minutes, or until soft but not coloured.

Step 2

Add half of the garlic, parsley and kale and saute for another 5 minutes, until combined and fragrant. Season to taste with salt.

Step 3

Add the butter and rice, and stir until the rice is fully coated and the butter has melted. Pour in the stock, stir and bring to a simmer. Put the whole pan in the oven for 20 minutes.

Step 4

Place the taleggio on top and bake for another 5 minutes.

Step 5

Meanwhile, heat a little more oil in a frying pan over medium–high heat, and pan-fry the remaining garlic for 2 minutes. Add the tinned cherry toms and cook for another 3 minutes. This is called a passata party.

Step 6

Toss together the cucumber, olives, dill, mint, vinegar and a splash of oil.

Step 7

Place the garlicky tomatoes and fresh salad on the baked rice. 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.
  • Ingredients
  • Based on 4 servings
  • 0.5 Cucumber, roughly chopped 1 x Sainsbury's Small Whole Cucumber
  • 500ml Chicken Stock 1 x Knorr Stock Pot Chicken 4x28g
  • 50g Butter 1 x Sainsbury's British Butter, Unsalted 250g
  • 200g Short Grain White Rice 1 x Sainsbury's Arborio Risotto Rice 500g
  • 3tbsp Chopped Dill, or mint 1 x Sainsbury's Bunched Dill 20g
  • 1 Red Onion, finely chopped 1 x Sainsbury's Red Onions Loose
  • 5 cloves Garlic, finely chopped 1 x Sainsbury's Large Garlic
  • 3tbsp Olive Oil 1 x Sainsbury's Olive Oil 1L
  • 100g Grated Courgette 1 x Sainsbury's Courgettes Loose
  • 50g Kale, shredded 1 x Sainsbury's Kale 200g
  • 10g Flat Leaf Parsley, chopped 1 x Sainsbury's Fresh Packed Flat Leaf Parsley 30g
  • Maldon Salt, to taste 1 x Maldon Sea Salt Flakes 250g
  • 400g Tinned Cherry Tomatoes 1 x Sainsbury's Italian Pomodorini Cherry Tomatoes in rich tomato juice, Taste the Difference 400g
  • 60g Taleggio, sliced (or any other soft oozy cheese, such as mozzarella or brie) 1 x Sainsbury's Taleggio Cheese, Taste the Difference 200g
  • 3tbsp Kalamata Olives 1 x Sainsbury's Pitted Kalamata Olives with Herbs 70g
  • 1tbsp White Wine Vinegar 1 x Sainsbury's Wine Vinegar, White Wine 500ml
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