Name: Braised summer vegetable pisto with emerald sauce & fried egg
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: olive oil for frying; 4 eggs; 4 slices sourdough bread toasted to serve; 4 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil; 1 onion chopped; 2 garlic cloves chopped; 2 green peppers diced; 3 red peppers diced; 4 very ripe tomatoes chopped; 1 bay leaf; 4 medium courgettes diced; 1 bunch flat-leaf parsley leaves picked; 30 large garlic cloves (about 2 heads) peeled; 250ml vegetable stock

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Braised summer vegetable pisto with emerald sauce & fried egg

Braised summer vegetable pisto with emerald sauce & fried egg

Thomasina Miers

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Serves 4

Easy

Prep: 45 mins

Cook: 45 mins

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Gutsy flavours and bright colours on the plate make this imaginative vegetarian dish a winner for a light weekend lunch

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olive oil

for frying
4 eggs
4 slices sourdough bread

toasted to serve

For the pisto

4 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
1 onion

chopped
2 garlic cloves

chopped
2 green peppers

diced
3 red peppers

diced
4 very ripe tomatoes

chopped
1 bay leaf
4 medium courgettes

diced

For the emerald sauce

1 bunch flat-leaf parsley

leaves picked
30 large garlic cloves

(about 2 heads) peeled
250ml vegetable stock

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal448
fat22g
saturates4g
carbs47g
sugars17g
fibre9g
protein19g
salt0.95g

low

Method

step 1

For the pisto, heat the oil in a deep frying pan and add the onion. Fry for a few mins, add garlic, then cook for a few mins more. Add the peppers and cook over a medium heat for 5 mins. Now add the tomatoes, the bay and courgettes and cook for about 30 mins, seasoning well.
step 2

Meanwhile, make the sauce. Drop the parsley in a pan of boiling water and cook for 1 min. Drain and immediately run under a cold tap, then shake off excess water. Put the garlic in a pan of cold water, bring to the boil, then drain and repeat with a fresh batch of water (this gets rid of the garlic’s strength). Add stock and simmer until the garlic is soft and the liquid syrupy. Purée with the parsley until smooth. Season.
step 3

For the eggs, add a glug of olive oil to a pan. When smoking hot, crack in the eggs – they will splutter but go deliciously crisp at the edges. Serve the pisto on toast, topped with egg, drizzled in the sauce.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, June 2010

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