Outrageous Cheese and Vegetable Burger


Lately I have been making dinner every day. 
Suddenly I wanted to have a nice juicy burger full of vegetables, but WITHOUT meat. 
So some kind of an healthy burger.




For 3 people you will need:

-one courgette or zucchini
-one aubergine or eggplant
-one pepper
-some goats cheese
-balsamic vinegar
-vegetable or olive oil
-salt and pepper
-3 little buns (in french we call them 'pistolets').

The first thinh you want to do is to cut your aubergine in slices. On every slice you should put some salt and then superimpose the slides on each other as if you were reconstructing the aubergine. Let them sit in a plate for at least 30 minutes.
In the meantime slice your courgette and bake it in the pan. 
You can also start now with your pepper. Take off the green part of your pepper, make a vertical incision in your pepper, take out the seeds. Add some salt in the pepper through his incision. 
Take out a casserole and heat up some oil.
Once it's hot add your pepper and lower the heat.
Keep on eye on the pepper and make sure to turn your pepper so that it won't burn.

Once you're done with baking your courgette, it's the turn of the aubergine. Wash your aubergines well and wring them. Bake them as well in the pan.

Once your vegetables are all cooked, let them rest a while.
Slice your pepper, put it in a bowl. Mix the pepper with some balsamic vinegar. 

Now it's time to MAKE the burger! 

Take your bun, slice it. 
Add your vegetables, making sure to add some goats cheese in the middle of all the vegetables.
Close all that goodness with the upperside of the bun.





Serve and be surprised by how good this is. 




See all the juice popping out of it! 


PS: it's better then an HAMburger ;-)

Mutabbaq from Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi


Let's hop right into this oriental dessert.









I saw it in the the BEAUTY-FULL book Jerusalem from Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi.

For this addictive dessert you will need:

130 gr unsalted butter
14 sheets of filo pastry
500 gr ricotta
250 gr goats cheese (I used the one from Chavroux)

90 ml water
250 gr sugar 
3tbsp lemon

Butter your mould in.
Spread seven sheets of filo pastry in the mould, making sure to brush some butter between each sheet.
Mix the ricotta and goats cheese together and spread it 'evenly' onto your seventh sheet. Brush some butter on it and spread the other seven sheets of pastry like you did with the seven first ones.
Tuck in the edges.

Put it in the oven, that was pre-heated to 210°C. Let it sit there for about 25 minutes.

Make the syrup by putting the water and sugar in a pan and by mixing in it. Once it boils turn down the heat and add the lemon. Let it simmer for about two minutes. 

Take the mutabbaq out of the oven and pour the syrup all over it.

Serve immediately! But don't burn yourself!




It's really, really good!


Thank you Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi for letting me discover such a superb dessert.

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