EMMA'S VEGETABLE STRUDEL

INGREDIENTS​
  • 6 sheets of Pampas Filo Pastry
  • 1 tbsp The Spice People Whole Nigella Seeds
  • 1 tbsp Colavita Premium Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 1 red onion, finely chopped
  • 1 eggplant, finely chopped
  • 2 zucchini, halved and sliced
  • 1 red capsicum, chopped
  • 1 tbsp salt and pepper
  • 1 cup spinach leaves
  • 100g butter
  • 1 cup grated cheese
  • 1/2 cup basil leaves
WHAT TO DO
  1. Preheat an oiled pan over low heat.
  2. Put the chopped red onion in the pan and sauté it off.
  3. Once the onion is cooked, add in the eggplant, zucchini, and red capsicum to the pan.
  4. Cook the vegetables until they are soft and have a bit of colour.
  5. Add a crack of pepper and a pinch of salt.
  6. Add the spinach leaves to the pan, then put the lid on the pan and steam the spinach leaves.
  7. Once the spinach has wilted down, take the pan off the heat and let it cool.
  8. Melt the butter in a separate pan, this will act as glue.
  9. Spread out the filo pastry sheets.
  10. Paint the melted butter over one pastry sheet, then put another pastry sheet onto the now buttered pastry sheet.
  11. Repeat until all six pastry sheets are stacked together, and stuck together with butter.
  12. Once the vegetable mixture has cooled down, spoon it onto the pastry, leaving gaps at each end.
  13. Sprinkle the cheese and basil over the top of the vegetable mix.
  14. Fold the edges of the pastry over the vegetable mix, then fully roll up the Strudel, with the seam underneath, so the weight of the Strudel will keep the pastry from unwrapping.
  15. Preheat an oven to 210° C.
  16. Put the Strudel into an oven tray.
  17. Drizzle over olive oil and sprinkle over the Nigella seeds.
  18. Bake in the oven for 25 minutes.
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