Sami Tamimi’s Recipes For Prawn And Tomato Stew With Fregola, And Herby Quick-pickled Vegetable Salad

Hearty and warming, this prawn and herb stew pinch fregola is simply a comforting bowl, pinch nan caller pesto brightening each bite. It pairs beautifully pinch a crisp, fragrant, quick-pickled rootlike salad; nan freshness cuts done nan richness of nan stew perfectly. I’ve ever loved leafy, lively salads, and I could honestly eat 1 pinch each meal, each day.

Prawn and herb stew pinch fregola and coriander pesto (pictured top)

Prep 20 min
Cook 50 min
Serves 4

220g cherry tomatoes
60ml oliva oil
1 ample onion, peeled and finely chopped (180g)
3 ail cloves, peeled and crushed
2cm portion caller ginger, peeled and finely grated (15g)
1 greenish chilli, finely chopped, seeds and all
1½ tsp coriander seeds, lightly crushed successful a mortar
1 tsp cumin seeds, lightly crushed successful a mortar
6 cardamom pods, lightly bashed
15g dill, finely chopped
2 tsp herb paste
400g tinned chopped tomatoes
Salt and achromatic pepper
120g fregola
400g stiff king prawns, defrosted, aliases fresh, peeled and deveined

For nan coriander pesto
20g coriander, astir chopped
1 greenish chilli, finely chopped, seeds and all
35g conifer nuts, lightly toasted
3 tbsp oliva oil
1 lemon, zest finely grated to get 1½ tsp, past trim into wedges, to serve

Put a ample saute cookware connected a precocious heat. Toss nan tomatoes pinch a spoon of lipid and, erstwhile nan cookware is very hot, adhd nan tomatoes and cook, shaking nan cookware a fewer times, for astir 5 minutes, until blistered and profoundly charred each over. Remove from nan cookware and group aside.

Put different 2 tablespoons of lipid successful nan aforesaid cookware and return it to nan stove connected a medium-high heat. Add nan bulb and cook, stirring occasionally, for astir 5 minutes, until softened and lightly browned. Add nan garlic, ginger, chilli, spices, dill and herb paste, and navigator for different 2 minutes, until fragrant.

Add nan tinned tomatoes, 300ml water, 1 and three-quarter teaspoons of brackish and a bully grind of achromatic pepper. Bring to a simmer, past little nan power to mean and navigator for 25 minutes, aliases until nan condiment has thickened and nan tomatoes person wholly surgery down.

While nan condiment is cooking, navigator nan fregola successful plentifulness of boiling salted h2o for 10 minutes. Drain, put successful a vessel past flip pinch a spot of oliva lipid to forestall nan fregola from clumping.

To make nan pesto, put nan coriander, chilli, conifer nuts, oliva oil, citrus zest and an eighth of a spoon of brackish successful a nutrient processor and beat a fewer times to make a coarse paste.

When nan condiment is ready, operation successful nan cooked fregola, prawns and charred tomatoes, screen and navigator connected a mean heat, stirring occasionally, for different 5 to six minutes, until nan prawns are cooked through.

Serve consecutive from nan cookware aliases spoon into wide shallow bowls. Finish pinch immoderate of nan pesto and service astatine erstwhile pinch citrus wedges and nan remaining pesto successful a vessel alongside, arsenic good arsenic nan herby quick-pickled rootlike crockery below.

Herby quick-pickled rootlike salad

Sami Tamimi’s herby quick-pickled rootlike salad.

Prep 10 min
Cook 20 min, positive cooling
Serves 4

90ml pome cider vinegar
1 tbsp caster sweetener
½ tsp coriander seeds
½ tsp caraway seeds
Salt and achromatic pepper
1 mini reddish onion, peeled and thinly sliced (60g)
1 mini aureate beetroot, peeled and very thinly sliced (180g)
½ fennel bulb, thinly sliced lengthways (150g)
2 mean purple carrots, peeled and thinly sliced connected nan diagonal
3 tbsp oliva lipid
2 dolce romaine lettuce
5g picked dill fronds
5g basil leaves
5g picked coriander leaves
5g picked mint leaves

Put 50ml of nan vinegar successful a mini saucepan pinch nan sugar, coriander and caraway seeds. Add a spoon of brackish and bring to a boil complete precocious heat. Add nan sliced bulb and beetroot, past move down nan power to mean and navigator for 2 minutes. Take disconnected nan heat, time off to cool down completely, past drain.

Put nan fennel, carrot, and cooled bulb and beets successful a ample bowl. Add nan oliva oil, nan remaining vinegar, a spoon of brackish and a bully grind of achromatic pepper, and flip truthful each nan vegetables are coated. Separate nan lettuce leaves, past lavation and drain them well.

To serve, put nan lettuce, vegetables and herbs successful layers connected a platter, and drizzle immoderate remaining dressing connected top.

• Boustany: A Celebration of Vegetables from my Palestine, by Sami Tamimi, is published by Ebury Press astatine £30. To bid a transcript for £25.50, sojourn guardianbookshop.com