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Roasted Halloumi with Aubergines, Tomatoes and Pine Nuts

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Roasted Halloumi with Aubergines, Tomatoes and Pine Nuts

This roasted vegetable and halloumi traybake is a warming colourful dish, perfect for a winter side or light lunch.
Serves 4
Total 40 min
Prep 10 min
Cook 30 min
Easy

Introduction from Rukmini Iyer

This is a wonderful celebratory dish and I love the mix of colours and textures: golden baked halloumi, crisp pine nuts, soft aubergines and a little kick from the chilli flakes. Fresh oregano, if you can get it, adds an incredible flavour to the aubergines; it’s quite unlike dried, so use fresh rosemary as an alternative if you need to.

Ingredients

400g cherry tomatoes on the vine, halved
2 medium aubergines, cut into 1cm half moons
400–500g halloumi, cut into 1cm slices
7–8 sprigs of fresh oregano, leaves only
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp chilli flakes
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
40g pine nuts
100g rocket, roughly chopped
1 lemon, juice only

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C fan/220°C/gas 7. Tip everything except the pine nuts, rocket and lemon juice into a roasting tin and mix well with your hands. Use a tin large enough to have the aubergines all in a single layer. Now arrange the ingredients so the halloumi sits on top.

Transfer to the oven and roast for 20 minutes, then scatter the pine nuts on top before roasting for a further 10 minutes until the halloumi is golden brown and the aubergines are cooked through.

Stir through the rocket and lemon juice and serve hot.

SERVE WITH: This is lovely with a pile of warm flatbreads and some yogurt.

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