Tomato and Ginger Braised Firm Tofu

Tomato and Ginger Braised Firm Tofu

Recipe by Michael Weldon

Serves - 4
Prep Time - 10 mins
Cook Time - 20 mins

Ingredients

• 2 blocks Nature's Kitchen firm tofu

  2 shallots, sliced

  1 thumb-sized piece of ginger, julienned

  2 garlic cloves

  1 lemongrass stick, sliced thinly

  2 Birdseye chilies, sliced

  700 g bottle Coles Italian passata sauce

  1 cup Coles Liquid Real Stock Vegetable

  2 tbsp Coles soy sauce

  1 bunch Chinese broccoli, cut into 1cm pieces

  Squeaky Gate extra virgin olive oil

Garnish

• Spoon of spicy chilli crisp

• ½ bunch of coriander

Method

• In a large wok, fry off the shallots, ginger, garlic, lemongrass, and chili in oil for a couple of minutes. Once aromatic, add in the passata and rinse out the bottle with the stock. Bring to a simmer, then add the soy sauce and tofu. Cook for 10 minutes until the tofu is cooked through and soft.

  Add in the Chinese broccoli and cook until heated through.

  Serve topped with Spicy Chilli Crisp and coriander, with a bowl of rice on the side.

More like this

Quick Street Beef Tacos

Quick Street Beef Tacos

Ingredients

• 1 small red onion finely diced.

  Juice 2 limes

  Pinch salt

  2 cobs sweetcorn

  1 flank steak

  1 tbsp olive oil

  1 ripe avocado, diced

  4-5 radishes, finely sliced

  Small bunch coriander, leaves chopped.

  1 pack small tortillas

  1 bottle of your Favorite hot sauce

Method

• Toss the onion with the lime juice, season with a little salt and set aside.

  Peel and grill the corn over the BBQ until charred then cut off the kernels and tip into a bowl and set aside to cool.

  Brush the steak with a little oil and season well. Cook for 3 minutes on one side, then flip and cook for another 3 minutes for medium-rare. Transfer to a plate and set aside to rest.

  Toss the cooled corn with the quick-pickled onion/lime juice, then add the avocado, radishes and coriander leaves to make a salsa.

  Slice the rested steak against the grain and serve with the salsa & some hot sauce.

More like this

Beef Stroganoff with Yogurt

Beef Stroganoff with Yogurt

Recipe by Michael Weldon

Serves - 4
Prep Time - 10 mins
Cook Time - 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1 Coles Finest scotch fillet, sliced thinly

  1 onion, sliced thinly

  250 g button mushrooms, sliced thinly

  2 tbsp Coles flour

  1 cup Jalna Greek yogurt

  500ml Coles beef stock

  1 tsp Worcestershire sauce

  2 tbsp Coles Dijon mustard

  Coles black pepper

  Sea salt

Garnish

• Parsley

• Chives

Serve with pasta

Method

• In a large saucepan over medium-high heat, brown the beef slices quickly. Add the onion, brown it, and let it soften. Add the mushrooms and cook until they soften slightly. Mix in the flour and coat the stroganoff mixture.

  Add the yogurt and beef stock to the saucepan and stir them through. Reduce the heat slightly to allow the sauce to thicken.

  Add the mustard, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and black pepper. Continue cooking the sauce until it coats the beef in a rich, thick gravy. Remove from heat and add the chopped parsley and chives.

  Serve the beef stroganoff over pasta for a healthier and tastier version of a classic, thanks to the addition of yogurt.

More like this

Fried Garlic and Ginger Noodles

Fried Garlic and Ginger Noodles

Recipe by Michael Weldon

Serves - 4
Prep Time - 5 mins
Cook Time - 10 mins

Ingredients

• Squeaky Gate olive oil

  1 pack Coles Asia thin egg noodles

  5 garlic cloves, chopped

  1 large thumb-sized piece of ginger, finely diced

  2 spring onions, some tops saved for garnish

  Coles sesame seed oil

  2 tbsp Coles soy sauce

  1 tbsp crispy chili oil

Method

• Heat a wok until it is smoking. Add the olive oil, then the chopped garlic and diced ginger. Cook until they begin to take on some colour. Add in the spring onions and noodles, tossing them through the oil and starting to fry the noodles.

  Add the soy sauce and crispy chili oil to the wok, and toss to coat the noodles.

  Serve the fried garlic and ginger noodles immediately, garnished with extra spring onion tops.

More like this

Chilled Gazpacho With Avocado & Fried Tortillas

Chilled Gazpacho With Avocado & Fried Tortillas

Recipe by Courtney Roulston

Dietaries – Vegetarian
Serves – 2
Prep Time – 15 minutes
Cooking Time – 5 minutes

Ingredients

• 3 vine-ripened tomatoes, roughly chopped

  2 small Lebanese cucumbers, roughly chopped

  1 red capsicum, seeded, chopped

  ½ red onion, peeled, chopped

  1 small clove garlic or 1 tbsp Squeaky Gate garlic-infused extra virgin olive oil

  ¼ cup blanched almonds, toasted

  1/3 cup red wine vinegar

  1 tbsp Coles honey

  1/3 cup Squeaky Gate extra virgin olive oil, plus extra to cook tortillas

  Coles Sea salt

  Coles Black pepper

  1/3 cup basil leaves, plus extra to serve

  ½ ripe avocado to serve

  2 small flour tortillas, cut into rough strips

Method

• Place the tomatoes, cucumber, capsicum, onion, garlic, almonds, vinegar, honey, and olive oil into the jug of a high-speed blender then Season with sea salt flakes and pepper.

  Blend on a low-medium speed to start breaking everything up, then turn up the speed to high and blitz for 1 minute, or until the mixture is smooth and well combined. Taste for seasoning and adjust if required. You can strain the gazpacho for a silky smooth texture, or leave as is. Place into the fridge to chill while you prepare the tortillas.

  Heat 1cm of oil in the base of a small frying pan to 170 degrees C. Fry the tortilla strips for 1 minute, or until crispy and brown. Drain on kitchen paper.

  Pour the chilled soup into serving bowls. Cut the avocado into chunks and place into the soup. Garnish with fried tortillas, basil leaves, cracked pepper, and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.

More like this

Camel By Campfire

Camel By Campfire

Recipe by Joachim Borenius

Ingredients

Yogurt Damper

• 1 cup Jalna Greek yogurt

• 1 tsp onion powder

• 1 tsp garlic powder

• 2 tsp oregano

• 1 tsp sea salt

• 2 cups self raising flour

• 2 tbp Squeaky Gate extra virgin olive oil

Lamb Shish

• 500 g Coarse & Fatty Lamb Mince

• 50 g brown onion

• 10 g garlic

• 5g baharat

• 30 ml mineral water

• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

• 2 tsp sea salt

• 1 tsp black pepper

Green Goddess

• ½ bunch coriander

• ½ bunch mint

• 100 g tahini

• 50 ml lime juice

• 20 g honey

• 10 g garlic

• 75 g ice cubes

• 75 g Squeaky Gate extra virgin olive oil

• Sea salt

• Black pepper

Tabbouleh

• 1 tomato

• 1/6 head red cabbage

• 1 small pomegranate

• ½ bunch Parsley

• 2 spring onions

• Squeaky Gate extra virgin olive oil

• Lemon juice

Method

• Mix the yogurt with the other ingredients in a bowl, but keep the flour aside. Add the flour little by little while working together to form a soft dough. Reserve some flour to roll out the dough. Let the dough rest for 15 minutes while preparing the shish. Portion the dough into small balls and roll them out nice and thin. Cook in a small pan over the fire.

  Mix all the ingredients for the lamb shish in a bowl until well combined. Shape the mixture into 70-gram balls and evenly place them onto shish skewers. Grill the skewers when ready and let them rest for a few minutes.

  Pick the herbs and blend them all in a blender until smooth. Emulsify the olive oil at the end. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

  Dice the tomato flesh, shred the cabbage, deseed the pomegranate, finely chop the parsley and its stems, and finely cut the spring onions. Mix all the ingredients together and dress lightly with lemon juice and olive oil.

More like this

Mr Chen’s Chicken Chow Mein

Mr Chen’s Chicken Chow Mein

Ingredients

• 1 piece chicken breast

For the sauce

• 2 tablespoons Mr Chen’s soy sauce

  1 tablespoon oyster sauce

  1 pinch cracked black pepper.

For the stir fry

• 1 packet of Mr Chen’s Thin egg noodles

  2 tablespoon canola oil

  2 green shallots chopped - white and green parts separated.

  2 cloves garlic, crushed.

  1 long red chilli, chopped.

  1 head Bok choy, sliced.

  ½ cup bean sprouts

Method

• Cut chicken breast into thin slices.

  Mix soy sauce, oyster sauce and black pepper. Set aside.

  Heat up a wok until very hot then add the oil, add the chicken slices. Fry until its just cooked and take out carefully.

  With the remaining oil in the wok add the garlic, fresh chilli, and the white part of the scallion until fragrant.

  In a boiling pot of water add the thin egg noodles, cook till tender, drain, and add to the wok.

  Toss the noodles for 1 minute then add the chicken back to the wok along with the Bok choy and bean sprouts then pour in the sauce mixture. Toss and mix until the sauce is evenly distributed, and the wok starts to sizzle again.

  Dish out into a large serving bowl and garnish with chopped green shallot.

More like this

Oat Pizza With Tomato & Mozzarella

Oat Pizza With Tomato & Mozzarella

Recipe by Courtney Roulston

Dietaries – Vegetarian
Serves – makes 1 large pizza
Prep Time – 10 minutes
Cooking Time - 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 cup Red Tractor Oats

  ½ cup egg whites

  Coles Sea salt

  Coles Black pepper

  ½ tsp garlic powder

  ½ tsp Coles dried oregano

  2 tsp baking powder

  1 tbsp Squeaky Gate extra virgin olive oil, plus extra to serve

Method

• Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C. Place all the oat crust ingredients into a high-speed blender and blitz until smooth.

  Heat a large non-stick frying pan over medium heat then pour the oat mixture into the pan and shape into a circle around 7mm thick. Cook on a gentle heat for 4-5 minutes, or until the edges are starting to brown and the mixture looks set. Carefully flip over and cook for a further 2-3 minutes then transfer the pizza crust onto a lined oven tray.

  Mix together the crushed tomatoes with sugar, and a pinch of salt then spread out onto the pizza. Top with a few basil leaves then tear over the mozzarella.

  Bake in the oven for 10 minutes, or until the cheese is melting. Serve with extra fresh basil leaves scattered over the top and a drizzle of oil.

More like this

Spicy Fragrant Eggplant

Spicy Fragrant Eggplant

Recipe by Louis Tikaram

Ingredients

• 2 eggplants, cut into large dice

  2 cups Squeaky Gate extra virgin olive oil

  4 garlic cloves, finely chopped

  6 long red chilies, deseeded and chopped

  3 tsp finely grated ginger

  100 ml chicken stock

  100 ml Shaoxing wine

  75 ml Chinkiang black vinegar

  30 g caster sugar

  2 tsp sea salt

  1 tbsp cornstarch

Method

• Heat the oil in a wok over medium-high heat. Add the eggplant in batches and deep-fry until golden and just tender. Drain well on absorbent paper, leaving 2 tablespoons of oil in the wok.

  Add the chili, garlic, and ginger to the wok, and stir-fry until fragrant.

  Return the fried eggplant to the wok. Add the chicken stock, Shaoxing wine, black vinegar, sugar, and salt. Reduce the heat to medium and simmer until the liquid is absorbed, about 8 minutes.

  In a small bowl, mix the cornstarch with 2 tablespoons of water to make a slurry. Add the slurry to the eggplant mixture and stir to thicken.

  Serve the spicy fragrant eggplant in a nice big bowl and garnish with chopped green shallots.

More like this

Lemon Pasta (Pasta Al Limone)

Lemon Pasta (Pasta Al Limone)

Recipe by Courtney Roulston

Dietaries – Vegetarian, meat-free
Serves – 4
Prep Time – 5 minutes

Ingredients

• 350 g San Remo Spaghetti

  3 tbsp Squeaky Gate extra virgin olive oil

  2 cloves garlic, minced

  2 tbsp flat-leaf parsley, chopped

  Juice and zest of 1 large lemon

  30 g Parmesan cheese, freshly grated plus extra to serve

  Coles sea salt

  Coles black pepper

Method

• Cook the pasta in a pot of salted boiling water for 9 minutes, then drain and reserve ½ a cup of the cooking water.

  Heat the oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute before adding in the parsley, lemon zest, lemon juice, and a pinch of salt. Add the pasta water then bring up to a simmer. Stir through the cheese and cracked pepper until the sauce starts to thicken slightly.

  Add the pasta into the sauce and cook, tossing occasionally for 2 minutes, or until the sauce has emulsified and is coating the pasta.

  Place into serving bowls and grate over more lemon zest and Parmesan cheese.

More like this

Cabbage Udon Noodles

Cabbage Udon Noodles

Recipe by Brent Draper
Serves - 2

Ingredients

• 400g Coles Udon noodles

  1 steak cabbage

  1/2 cup chopped kimchi

  1 tbs gochugang

  3 tbs unsalted butter

  1 cup Coles Liquid Salt Reduced Real Chicken Stock + 1/2 cup

  2 stalks spring onion (white and green parts)

  60g pancetta crumb

  2 egg yolks

  Coles black pepper

  Coles sea salt

Method

• Take cabbage steak and lightly oil, season with salt and pepper and place on a fry pan on medium heat. You want the cabbage to darken and slightly char without burning it. Keep a close eye on it.

  To make kimchi mix, place butter, gotcugang and chopped up kimchi into a small food processor and blitz together.

  Turn cabbage of steak onto the other side and pour in 1 cup chicken stock, and place fry pan lid on top. Turn the heat down to low-medium.

  Once cabbage is soft and cooked through, take it out of the frying pan and reserve for later.

  Finely dice spring onion (white parts only), and place into the frying pan on medium heat.

  Place in 1/2 cup chicken stock and place in udon noodles.

  Loosen udon noodles and add kimchi butter, keep stirring.

  In a small pan, place in pancetta crumb and cook until slightly crispy.

  Chop cabbage up into large chunks and add it to the udon noodles.

  To serve, place cabbage and noodles into a bowl, top with the chopped green part of the spring onion, pancetta crumb and an egg yolk. Season with salt and pepper.

More like this

Baked Beans with Ham Sauce

Baked Beans with Ham Sauce

Recipe by Michael Weldon

Serves - 4
Prep Time - 10 mins
Cook Time - 20-25 mins

Ingredients

• 1 onion, diced

  2 celery sticks, diced

  2 carrots, diced

  2 garlic cloves, diced

  1 tbsp fennel seeds

  1 tbsp smoked paprika

  1 tbsp Coles cumin

  1 tbsp Coles coriander powder

  1 tbsp Coles garlic powder

  250g ham, diced

  ½ cup Coles BBQ sauce

  1 L bottle tomato passata

  2 cans white beans

  2 cans chickpeas

  Sea salt

  Pinch of Coles black pepper

  Squeaky Gate extra virgin olive oil

Method

• In a large saucepan, fry off the onion, carrot, and celery in olive oil until they begin to soften. Add in the garlic, fennel seeds, smoked paprika, cumin, coriander powder, and garlic powder. Toast them off for a minute or so, then add in the diced ham and cook for a further minute.

  Add in the BBQ sauce and tomato passata, along with half a jar of water. Bring the mixture to a boil and then add in the white beans and chickpeas. Cook until the sauce thickens and the beans absorb the flavours.

  Season the beans to taste with salt and pepper.

  Serve the baked beans with ham sauce in the same way you would serve canned baked beans. Enjoy on toast, with a poached egg, or in a toasted sandwich.

More like this

Parsley Pesto

Parsley Pesto

Recipe by Courtney Roulston

Serves - 6

Ingredients

• ½ cup pine nuts

  2 garlic cloves, peeled and chopped

  2 cups parsley leaves, well-packed

  120 g parmesan cheese, grated

  ½ cup olive oil

  juice of half a lemon

  Pinch of salt

Method

• Toast the pine nuts in the frying pan over a medium heat.

  Add the garlic and the toasted pine nuts to the bowl of the food processor.

  Process the mix until fine and crumbly.

  Add the parsley leaves to the food processor and process until finely chopped.

  Place the parmesan in the bowl of the food processor. With the motor running, slowly add the olive oil.

  Add the lemon juice and pulse to combine.

  Check seasoning and adjust if necessary.

  Using the spatula, scrape the parsley pesto into the serving bowl

More like this

Tandoori Beef Kebabs with Quick Carrot Salad

Tandoori Beef Kebabs with Quick Carrot Salad

Recipe by Courtney Roulston

Dietaries – Gluten Free
Serves – 4
Prep Time – 15 mins
Cooking Time – 20 mins

Ingredients

• 750g beef

  2 tbsp Patak’s tandoori paste

  1.5 cups Greek yoghurt

  Sea salt

  Black pepper

  3 medium carrots, peeled into strips with a toothed peeler

  1 small red onion

  1 tbsp ginger, peeled, finely julienned

  1 lime, plus extra to serve

  2 tsp maple syrup

  ¼ bunch coriander, sprigs picked

  3 tbsp oil

Method

• Place the onions into a small bowl and squeeze over the juice of the lime and a pinch of salt. Set aside for 10 minutes.

  Heat a grill plate over a medium heat. Place the beef into a large bowl and add in the tandoori paste, half of the yoghurt, salt, and pepper. Mix well then thread onto skewers so they are all an even size. Drizzle with 1 tablespoon of the oil and cook for 3-4 minutes each side, turning occasionally or until the beef is cooked through. Set aside to rest.

  Drain the onions from the lime juice and reserve the liquid. Place the carrot into a mixing bowl with the ginger and coriander. Mix the lime juice with maple syrup, remaining oil, salt, and pepper. Pour the dressing onto the carrot salad and gently toss.

  Place the beef skewers onto a serving platter with the remaining yogurt and serve with carrot salad, onions, and extra lime wedges.

More like this

Thai Red Prawn Curry

Thai Red Prawn Curry

Recipe by Louis Tikaram

Ingredients

• 50 ml Squeaky Gate extra virgin olive oil

  1 tbsp red curry paste

  2 chilies, finely chopped

  2 lemongrass stalks, bruised

  10 lime leaves

  600 ml Coles coconut milk

  3 tsp fish sauce

  1 tbsp palm sugar

  10 Coles raw tiger prawns, peeled, deveined, tails intact

  1 cup picked Thai basil

  Pinch of Coles sea salt

  Pinch of Coles black pepper

• Method

• Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the red curry paste and stir until fragrant.

• Season with palm sugar and cook until fully dissolved.

• Add the chopped chilies, lime leaves, and bruised lemongrass. Stir in the coconut milk and fish sauce. Season to taste and bring to a boil.

• Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 5 minutes to let the flavours develop.

• Add the prawns and simmer until just cooked, approximately 4 minutes.

• Stir in the Thai basil.

• Serve the Thai red prawn curry immediately.

More like this

Spirale con Vedura (green veggies)

Spirale con Vedura (green veggies)

Preparation Time: 10mins
Cooking Time:15mins

Ingredients

• 1pkt San Remo Spirale

  ½ bunch kale, washed, sliced thinly

  2 zucchini, sliced thinly

  1 bunch broccolini, sliced

  2 garlic cloves, sliced thinly

  1 red chilli, seeds removed, sliced

  4 anchovy fillets

  Olive oil

  100g butter

  1 cup grated Reggiano parmesan

Method

• Gently boil kale, broccolini and zucchini in a large pot with salted water.

  Cook for 3 mins or until tender and remove.

  Next add pasta and cook as per packet directions.

  In a large frying pan on medium heat, add good amount of olive oil, garlic, chilli, and anchovies. Sautee for 3mins.

  Add greens into pan and cook for further 3mins.

  Remove pasta from pot and add into the pan.

  Mix together and add salt and pepper to taste.

  Turn off heat and toss through butter, parmesan and serve.

More like this

Steamed Silken Tofu with Spring Onion and Ginger Sauce

Silken Tofu with Spring Onion and Ginger Sauce

Recipe by Michael Weldon

Dietaries – Vegan
Serves – 4
Prep Time – 10 mins
Cook Time – 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1 Block of Nature's Kitchen silken tofu

  1 bunch spring onions, some green saved for garnish

  1 thumb-sized piece of ginger

  2 garlic cloves

  1 jalapeno chili

Tamarind Caramel

• ½ cup sugar

  1 tbsp tamarind

  2 tbsp Coles soy sauce

  1 tbsp Coles rice vinegar

  2 garlic cloves

  5 slices of ginger

Garnish

• 1 tbsp fried shallots

  Squeaky Gate extra virgin olive oil

Method

• Combine the spring onion, ginger, garlic, and jalapenos with a pinch of salt in the jug of a stick blender. Add ½ cup of oil and blend until a smooth but chunky sauce.

  In a saucepan, combine the tamarind caramel ingredients. Place over medium heat and cook until the mixture reaches a thick caramel-like texture.

  Place the tofu on a serving plate that will fit into your steamer. Heat water in a wok until steaming. Place the tofu into the steamer and steam until heated through.

  Once the tofu is steamed, top it with the spring onion salsa and drizzle over the caramel.

  Garnish with fried shallots and extra spring onion tops.

More like this

Fennel, Parmesan & Chilli Crumbed Pork Cutlet

Fennel, Parmesan & Chilli Crumbed Pork Cutlet

Recipe by Michael Weldon

Serves - 4
Prep Time - 10 mins
Cook Time - 10 mins

Ingredients

• 4 Coles pork chops, pounded flat with a meat mallet or rolling pin

• 1 cup flour

• 4 eggs

• 2 cups panko breadcrumbs

• 1 tbsp fennel seeds, toasted and crushed with a mortar and pestle

• 1 tsp Coles chilli flakes

• ¼ cup grated parmesan

• Squeaky Gate olive oil

• Sea salt

Method

• In a bowl, mix together the breadcrumbs, fennel seeds, chili flakes, and grated parmesan.

• Dust the pork chops in flour, shaking off any excess. Coat them in beaten egg and then press the breadcrumbs mixture onto the surface of each cutlet.

• Fry the pork cutlets in olive oil until golden brown on all sides. Season with salt immediately after removing them from the fryer. Repeat the process for all the cutlets.

• Serve the crumbed pork cutlets with a side of shaved radicchio and cabbage salad, along with lemon wedges.

• Serve with shaved radicchio and cabbage salad and lemon wedges

More like this

Flavours of Pho with Vegetable Gyoza Dumplings

Flavours of Pho with Vegetable Dumplings

Ingredients

• 1 pack of Mr Chen’s Gluten Free Vegetable Gyoza

• Flavours of Pho Stock

• 1L water

• 30grams beef stock base or beef stock cubes

• 1 tablespoon fish sauce

• 1 tablespoon white sugar

• 1 large knob ginger, sliced.

• 1/2 onion, large dice

• Pinch salt

• 2 cloves garlic

• 2 whole star anise

• 1 cinnamon stick

• Assembly

• 1 cup picked Thai basil leaves

• 1 cup bean sprouts

• 1/2 cup picked coriander leaves

• 1 long red chilli sliced

• 1 lime, cut into wedges

Method

• Add the beef stock and 1L water to a large saucepan and bring to a low boil. Add the fish sauce, sugar, ginger, onion and salt to the stock and reduce the heat to a simmer. Add garlic, star anise and cinnamon stick to the broth and simmer for at least 30 minutes, but no more than 45 minutes otherwise it might get too strong in flavour.

• Taste the broth to see that the spice Flavours have been extracted and adjust seasonings if necessary. Strain the broth then return to the saucepan.

• Bring the broth back to a simmer. In a separate pot, bring water to a boil. Cook the vegetable Gyoza then drain the water and add the gyoza straight to the broth, dish out the Gyoza between serving bowls.

• Top each bowl with Thai basil, bean sprouts, coriander, chilies.

• Garnish with a lime wedge.

More like this

Tomato Salad with Puttanesca Dressing

Tomato Salad with Puttanesca Dressing

Recipe by Courtney Roulston

Dietaries – Gluten free
Serves – 4 as a side
Prep Time – 10 minutes
Cooking Time – 5 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 x punnets Perino Medley Coloured Tomatoes

• Sea salt and pepper to taste

• 1/3 cup (80ml) extra virgin olive oil

• 2 good quality anchovies

• 2 cloves garlic, peeled, chopped

• 1 tablespoon baby capers, drained

• ½ teaspoons dried chilli flakes (optional)

• 1 teaspoon dried oregano

• ¼ cup small pitted black kalamata olives, lightly crushed

• ¼ cup fresh basil, leaves picked

Method

• Slice the tomatoes in half horizontally and arrange them on a serving plate cut side up. Season the tomatoes with a small pinch of salt and set aside.

• Heat the oil over a medium heat in a small frying pan. Add the anchovies and cook for 1 minute, or until they start to melt into the oil.

• Stir in the garlic, capers, chilli flakes, oregano and cook for 2 minutes, or until the garlic is fragrant and the capers are starting to slightly crisp on the outside. Add in the olives, half the basil leaves and cracked black pepper then turn off the heat.

• Spoon the warm puttanesca dressing over the tomatoes and garnish with basil leaves before serving.

More like this