One Pan Baked Feta and Chickpeas
Ingredients
- 500 g Feta cheese cut into a rectangular shape
- 2 cups chickpeas drained
- 3 cups baby spinach blanched
- ¼ cup onion finely diced
- 2 tsp garlic crushed
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp cumin
- 1 tbsp paprika
- 1 tbsp mixed dried herbs
- 2 cups tomato puree
- salt and pepper for seasoning
- ½ cup cream cheese
Serving suggstion: serve with some double cream yoghurt tsatsiki
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- In an oven proof casserole dish heat some olive oil.
- Once the oil has heated sauté the onion till cooked and translucent.
- Add the crushed garlic to the cooked onions and continue to sauté.
- Season the garlic and onion with the cumin, paprika and dried herbs.
- Pour the drained chickpeas and tomato pure into the casserole and stir well.
- Reduce the heat and allow the chickpea and tomato stew to simmer for 5 minutes.
- Then remove from the heat, top with the feta cheese, blanched baby spinach and add dollops of the cream cheese before baking.
- Finish off by baking in the oven by baking for 15-20 min.