A new vegetarian recipe from Diana Henry. If you do not have barberries you can use dried sour cherries or cranberries as an alternative.
Ingredients
- 450 g squash or pumpkin flesh peeled, deseeded and cut into chunks (prepared weight)
- extra virgin olive oil for drizzling and cooking
- 30 g dried barberries
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves grated to a purée
- ½ tsp ground cumin
- ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp ground ginger
- 1 red chilli halved, deseeded and finely sliced
- 200 g bulgur wheat
- 300 ml vegetable or chicken stock or boiling water
- 1 preserved lemon plus 2 tbsp juice from the preserved lemon jar
- 135 g feta crumbled
- 25 g almonds some halved, others very roughly chopped, unblanched
- 10 g parsley roughly chopped
- 15 g coriander roughly chopped
- Juice of ½ large lemon
- 30 g unsalted butter
- ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
- Greek yogurt to serve
Servings:
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 190C/180C fan*/gas mark 5.
- Put the pumpkin into a roasting tin where all the pieces can lie in a single layer. Drizzle with olive oil, season and mix everything with your hands.
- Roast in the oven for 15 minutes or until the pieces are soft and slightly caramelised at the edges. Keep covered so that the pumpkin stays warm. Meanwhile cover the barberries with just-boiled water for 10 minutes – no longer – then drain.
- Sauté the onion in 2 tbsp olive oil in a fairly heavy-bottomed pan. When it’s soft and translucent, add the garlic, ground spices and chilli and cook for a further couple of minutes.
- Stir in the barberries then tip the bulgur wheat into the pan. Pour on the stock or water and season. Bring up to the boil then turn down really low, cover and let the bulgur cook for about 15 minutes, until all the stock has been completely absorbed.
- Fork the grains then cover the pan again and leave them for a further 10 minutes. Quarter the preserved lemon (flick out the seeds and discard them) and chop the rind and flesh.
- Toss the bulgur wheat with this and all the other ingredients except the butter, cayenne and yogurt. Taste for seasoning and adjust if you need to.
- Melt the butter in a small frying pan then add the cayenne. Serve the bulgur wheat in bowls with a dollop of yogurt on top of each. Drizzle the butter over the yogurt and serve.
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