halloumi and red pepper sandwich

this is divine, filling and did I say divine - honestly you will want it every week.

It does take a little time to make the tapenade so can I suggest that you make double the amount or more and freeze it in small portions. It's great for dipping those potato wedges in and any sort of veg.

Ingredients for the sandwich
ciabatta bread, I buy 2 long loaves and it feeds 2 of us (with spare for nibbling)
2 red peppers, quartered & deseeded
halloumi - 4 thick slices
lettuce -shredded
spring onion - cut how you want
tomatoes - sliced
kiwi - sliced

Ingredients for the tapenade
1 red pepper - deseeded
3rd of a jar of sundried tomatoes in oil
olive oil - 1 cup full
3 cloves of garlic
1 medium red chilli (deseeded if you don't like it hot)

1. Blacken the skins of the 3 red peppers
Firstly put your deseeded and quartered red peppers onto a tray and coat with olive oil. Grill on a high heat until the skins have turned black. Place quickly in a bowl and put cling film over the top. Sweat for an hour ( the peppers not you!)

 

2. Make the tapenade
Once your peppers have sweated for an hour peel off the blackened skins and through 4 pieces into the food processor along with all of the other tapenade ingredients, no need to chop, just make sure all are washed. Blitz until it's a liquid. If it's having difficulty mixing add more olive oil.

When blitzed pour into a sieve over a bowl and the oil will drain out. This oil should be saved and used for cooking, it's delicious. Use it to coat the haloumi parcels in step 3.

3. Construct the haloumi and red pepper parcels
You should be left with 8 pieces of red pepper with which to contruct the halloumi parcels. Cover each quarter of pepper with the tapenade and add a thick slice of halloumi to 4 of them.

Pop the lids on

4. Cook the ciabatta and grill the parcels

Now add a coating of the saved tapenade oil and they are ready to grill. Before grilling you may want to cook your ciabatta as per packet instructions (usually 10 minutes on 200 degrees centigrade).

Take out and then change the setting to grill and grill those halloumi parcels for 5 minutes each side.

Add one parcel to your ciabatta sandwich along with the salad and eat. I think you'll agree it is divine and very, very filling.

That tapenade will do for spreading over cheeses, as a dipping sauce and adding to casseroles to add a further bit of flavour.

Enjoy!