I love making light, healthy meals at the best of time, but especially during the Summer when the last thing I want to be eating is anything too heavy... Or that takes ages to cook on the stove!
This dish of grilled zucchini, with chickpeas seasoned with a special Sicilian ingredient, served on a bed of seasoned ricotta and sprinkled with fresh mint and basil hits all the right spots!
In Sicily we make a paste of ground sun-dried tomatoes called "Capuliato"- to which a little olive oil, often basil, garlic, parsley or even chili is added. The result is coarsely ground and has a consistency more or less like ground meat- on fact it is made using a meat grinder.
Capuliato is used in many, many Sicilian dishes and adds a great savoury, "umani" flavour.
Of course you most probably won't be able to get this if you are not in Sicily, but for this recipe you can easily get away with finely chopping a couple of sun-dried tomatoes.
In any case the result is as delicious as it looks and very easy to make... Just check out the video to see how!
8 сен 2024