Everybody loves halloumi cheese! Why not make a delicious wrap or pocket sandwich with grilled halloumi, nutty hummus spread and some healthy fresh salad veggies. Perfect all day!
- 100% Sheep Milk Halloumi Cheese, grilled
- Kasih Ready Hummus (blend in some XV olive oil)
- Zorbas Arabic or Pocket Pita Breads
- Shredded lettuce
- 1 small carrot shredded
- 4 to 5 cherry radishes shredded
- 2 scallions minced
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice, Salt & Pepper
Mediterranean cooking is all about great ingredients coming together and a simplicity in cooking. This is just so simple, yet delicious any-time-of-the-day dish. It can be a main course or your veggie side dish.
There are variations of this depending where you come from in the Middle East, but the basic idea is the same everywhere. This particular recipe comes from Israel and I just love the contrasts and richness of the flavours.
Chose a fresh, large cauliflower from your local market. The whole cauliflower is quartered and roasted with paprika, turmeric, and fresh red chilli pepper. To finish, drizzle the crispy roasted cauliflower with a delicious tahini sauce as a creamy dressing to balance the fiery chillies. Let’s make this!
1 whole cauliflower (about 1Kg.), leaves intact
1⁄4 cup Greek extra virgin olive oil
2 tbsp. kosher salt
1 tsp. ground turmeric
1 tsp. sweet paprika
4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
1 large red horn pepper (chilli), stemmed, halved, seeded, and thinly sliced crosswise
For the Tahini sauce
1 fresh lemon squeezed
1/4 cup Greek extra virgin olive oil
100g pure Tahini
Pinch of salt
Little water
To garnish
Coriander leaves
Heat your oven to 300° (or your highest setting). On a cutting board, quarter the cauliflower, leaving the core and leaves intact. Transfer the quarters to a large bowl and rub with the extra virgin olive oil, salt, turmeric, paprika, garlic, and chillies. Mix well so all the ingredients really sink into the cauliflower.
Arrange the cauliflower on a foil-lined baking tray and roast in the middle of the oven, until tender at the core and lightly browned on the outside, for about 45 minutes. Once ready, heat up the top grill and move tray closer to the top and grill the cauliflower until lightly charred on the top for a few minutes.
In the meantime, move the tahini, olive oil and fresh lemon juice and salt in a small mixing bowl. Use a fork to mix it until all ingredients blend. Add little water at a time to get the consistency of a runny sauce that can easily drip over the cauliflower.
Remove the cauliflower from the oven and transfer to a serving dish. Poor the tahini sauce over the cauliflower and garnish the cauliflower with cilantro and serve while hot. Pair with a warm pita bread to wrap the cauliflower and dip into the tahini sauce!
Hummus is a way of life, a daily staple for millions of people spanning from the north of Africa and covering the whole of the East Mediterranean all the way to the Arabian Gulf. But it's actually become a lot for than that, enjoyed by millions of people around the world who love it for its delicious taste and nutritional properties.
Most of us are familiar with the classic hummus dip, which we enjoy with sliced fresh veggies or a warm pita bread. But did you know that hummus is a versatile dip that can be varied or used as a filler and mixer to make up many different, often surprising dishes?
I want to share with you a really lovely hummus recipe book, which you can download here.
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