Making picnic food is always great fun, but this dish is a real belter, a Mediterranean style meal in a loaf you can slice and serve.
Ingredients
- 1 large cottage loaf
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 medium courgette, sliced thinly
- 2 garlic cloves, finely crushed
- 150 g jarred roasted red and yellow peppers
- 1 red pesto
- 2 beef tomatoes, sliced, not too thinly
- 4 large Buffalo Mozzarella
Instructions
- Pre heated oven 200C gas 6.
- Heat the olive oil and add the courgette slices, sauté to take a little colour.
- At the end, sauté the garlic briefly and add to the courgettes.
- Slice the mozzarella into 4 thick slices.
- Cut the loaf into 5 slices horizontally.
- Lay each slice onto a chopping board.
- Spoon over the olive oil evenly on the sliced bread, then season each slice with salt and pepper.
- On the large base slice of bread, lay half the peppers and tomatoes on top, spread over a little pesto.
- Place the next slice of bread on top. Press down, lay the courgettes on top with half the mozzarella and add a little more pesto.
- Lay the next slice of bread on top and add the rest of the tomatoes and peppers, spread over a little more pesto.
- Top with the next slice of bread.
- Finally, add the rest of the courgettes and mozzarella and the last of the pesto.
- Top with the final crust.
- Place the loaf onto a very large piece of foil and wrap the loaf totally.
- Wrap in a second large piece of foil and squeeze nice and tightly.
- Place onto a baking tray and pop into the oven.
- Cook for 30-40 minutes.
- Once cooked, remove from the oven. Again press nice and tightly, be quite brutal here: the more you press, the better the chilled loaf will cut the next day.
- Cool and chill well, best overnight.
- The next day, remove from the fridge and take on your picnic.
- Open and slice to order, it's as easy as that.
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Nutrition Facts
Roasted Pepper Mozzarella Courgette Garlic Beef Tomato Cottage Loaf
Amount per Serving
Calories
305
% Daily Value*
Fat
12
g
18
%
Saturated Fat
2
g
13
%
Cholesterol
1
mg
0
%
Sodium
782
mg
34
%
Potassium
212
mg
6
%
Carbohydrates
41
g
14
%
Fiber
3
g
13
%
Sugar
3
g
3
%
Protein
9
g
18
%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
