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ROAST HALLOUMI PEPPERS

sweet Peppers
This makes a great light lunch dish or can be included as part of a salad
Ingredients:

6 small peppers, halved through the stalks and deseeded

30ml/2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

3 cloves of garlic, crushed

12 fresh mint leaves

250g/9oz Halloumi cheese, thinly sliced

zest of one lemon

15ml/1tbsp fresh thyme

45/ml/3tbsp pine nuts

30ml/12tbsp lemon juice

salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method:

  1. Rub the pepper skins with a little olive oil
  2. Place skin side down on a baking tray.
  3. Scatter the garlic, cheese, mint, lemon zest, thyme, pine nuts over the peppers, drizzle the remaining oil and lemon juice over the peppers.
  4. Bake in fan oven 180°C, electric oven 200°C or Gas mark 6 for 25 - 35 mins until peppers are tender and charred around the edges.
  5. Serve warm or at room temperature

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