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Feta With Charmoulla

15th January 2014 By Urvashi Roe

This is a wonderful recipe to have in a jar in the pantry.  If you don’t have a pantry the fridge will do!  I love charmoulla and have adapted various recipes to get to this one.  It’s quick to make in a food processor but I would suggest using a large pestle and mortar as it’s far more satisfying.

Eat this with crackers and red wine, as a jacket potato filling topped with fresh tomatoes, spread over sourdough toast or on top of soup.

Lemon / Charmoulla

Feta in Charmoulla – perfect for toast or jacket potatoes

You’ll need

  • One bunch of parsley
  • One bunch of coriander
  • 2 quarter segments of preserved lemons 
  • 4 cloves of garlic
  • 4 tsp cumin seeds
  • 250ml extra virgin olive oil
  • 200g feta cheese – chopped

To make it

  1. Combine the preserved lemons (skin and flesh), parsley, coriander and garlic with a little f the olive oil and pound to a paste in a pestle and mortar or a food processor then transfer to a mixing bowl.
  2. Toast the cumin seeds in a dry frying pan and then crush to a coarse powder in a pestle and mortar.
  3. Add the ground cumin to the mixing bowl and stir well.
  4. Finally add the olive oil and feta.

Store this in a sterlised jar somewhere cold.  Ensure that the mixture in the jar is always coated with a layer of oil to prevent mould forming.

Lemon / Charmoulla

Sumptuousness in a jar

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