Community Element - Green and Orange Chef - Courgette Savoury

A salute memory to my mum's cooking when I got home from school and college.

This recipe makes use of simple, local and to hand ingredients. Don't be afraid to add different veg and ingredients. 

The veg came from The Allotment Market Stall.

3 medium Courgettes (in this case 1/2 a marrow courgette)

250g freshly shelled peas

1 large onion - sliced (Thin is better)

1 red onion - sliced (thin)

1 sprig thyme

1 veg stock cube

300 g bacon lardons or pancetta.

2 beaten eggs with a small amount milk

250 g Grated cheese cheddar

Salt and pepper

 

 

For the topping -  100 g Grated Cheddar Cheese

                           300 g bread crumbs / or use crisp breads like ryvita (depends on the

                                    size of your dish

                         Thyme

 

Preheat Heat oven to 170 C Fan (Middle shelf)

 

Prep Topping - (5 mins) If food processor preferable but not necessary. Roughly break up bread or crisp bread, add grated cheese, and some of the time sprig.  Salt and pepper to taste. 

 

The Main dish

Put bacon lardons in saucepan and start heating medium heat.  Bacon lardons have fat and will provide sufficient to fry the onions. Keep watching as some hobs like induction and gas are v quick.

Slice onions. 

Add onions.

Mix with the lardons

Cover and cook. If the lardons are fried until brown, this will give extra taste

 

Prep the eggs- 2 eggs beaten with milk. Crumble in stock cube.

 

Prep the courgettes and other veg.  Courgettes, carrots , potatoes, parsnips can be be sliced or go in lengthways. It works best by layering the ingredients from the bottom

Courgettes

Cheese

lardons with onions

Courgettes

cheese.

Pour over the egg mix

More cheese

Topping

 

Prep 20-30 minutes.

 

Place in the Oven for 40 -50 minutes (Middle shelf 170C) then check with skewer. If the topping is golden brown and the skewer passes through the veg, the dish is ready and can be served with potatoes.

You can cover with foil (leave in the oven) if not quite cooked.  The oven can be switched off as the dish will keep cooking.

Serves 3-4