Saturday 23 February 2013

Peppers with chick peas and gorgonzola - a Nigel Slater dish for February

Farmersgirl Kitchen has launched 'Dish of the Month' which involves choosing one Nigel Slater recipe per month to cook and then writing a blog post about it. 

Last weekend I was looking through The Observer and I spotted a a recipe called 'peppers with cannellini and gorgonzola' in an article called 'Nigel Slater's bright and cheerful winter recipes' (17 February 2013)

This looked like a lovely way of making a light lunch with very little effort so I thought I'd give it a go. I actually made 'Peppers with chick peas and gorgonzola', because I prefer chick peas to cannellini beans.  

Here are the ingredients for two portions:


With the help of my little boy, I stuffed the peppers with a mixture of the cheese, mushed-up chick peas and chopped chives before cooking in the oven at 180 degrees C for an hour and a quarter.


This worked pretty well with chick peas, and both H and I enjoyed eating the end result for lunch today. The peppers were soft and sweet and the gorgonzola made a sauce in amongst the chick peas.

I will definitely cook this again soon.



PS I think my friend Emily who blogs at amummytoo will like this dish, so I'm also joining up with her Recipe of the Week linky.


Link up your recipe of the week

9 comments:

  1. Easy, simple, a few nice things and you have a delicious lunch! This is why I love Nigel. x

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    1. Exactly! I would never have thought to try this if I hadn't read the article in The Observer last weekend.
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  2. My perfect sort of lunch, I love roasted peppers. I always use a rice filling but love the chick pea idea.

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    1. I'm a big fan of roasted peppers too. And of course with tinned chick peas you don't have to cook them first unlike rice.

      I love your Baklava too!

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  3. That looks really tasty. Thank you for joining us for Dish of the Month.

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    1. It was tasty thanks! And I'm really enjoying reading all of the other Dish of the Month posts.

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  4. Looks good! I need to try it!

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    1. It tasted even better than it looked. If you do try it, let me know how you get on!

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