Emerald rice bake

Name: Emerald rice bake
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 10 min
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: Serves: 4
Ingredients: 75 g/2½ oz feta cheese, diced; 320 g/11¼ oz shortcrust pastry; 175 g/6 oz washed chopped fresh/tinned/frozen spinach; 1 garlic clove, chopped; 1 large onion, chopped; ½ butternut squash (top half), skin on, very thinly sliced; 3 tbsp olive oil; a little flour, for dusting; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 4 eggs; 225 g/8 oz/1⅔ cups leftover cooked rice (any grain/any colour! Or cook scant ½ cup raw rice); 6 tbsp whole milk; 40 g/1½ oz/scant ½ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese; 4 tbsp Greek yogurt, plus extra to serve

Preparation info

Serves:
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 40

Appears in

Pimp My Rice

By Nisha Katona

Published 2017

About

Pastry, rice, spinach – thudding earthy ingredients. Feta, squash and onion bring this pie lift and light. The colours are beautiful, the flavours tick every box.

Ingredients

320 g/11¼ oz shortcrust pastry
a little flour, for dusting

Main course

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4.

Roll out the pastry thinly on a lightly floured work surface and use to line a 25 cm/10