Open-faced spinach and feta sambusak with preserved lemon salsa

Name: Open-faced spinach and feta sambusak with preserved lemon salsa
Yield: Serve 4
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon allspice; ½ teaspoon cumin seeds; 1 small red pepper, halved, deseeded and cut into 1 cm dice; 200 g spinach, washed; 3 tablespoons chopped fresh coriander; pinch of sugar; 2 plum tomatoes, cut into 1 cm dice; 1 red onion, finely chopped; ½ cucumber, deseeded and cut into 1 cm dice; 1 teaspoon preserved lemon, cut into 3 mm dice; 1 large onion, thinly sliced; 50 g pine nuts; 120 g sun blush tomatoes, chopped; 2 tablespoons olive oil; little beaten egg; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 300 g prepared puff pastry; ½ teaspoon lemon zest; 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil; juice of 2 lemons; 175 g Creek feta cheese, crumbled; 1 garlic clove, crushed

Preparation info

Serve
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Pure Vegetarian

By Paul Gayler

Published 2006

About

Preserving lemons in salt is commonplace in Middle Eastern countries and it adds spicy overtones to the lemon’s sourness. They are easy to prepare at home but take a while to mature (up to three months). However, there are some good-quality ones on the market.

Ingredients

For the Sambusak

2 tablespoons olive oil
50 g pine nuts
1

Snack
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/gas mark 5. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan and, when hot, add the pine nuts and cook until golden all over. Remove and drain, reserving the oil. Return the oil to the pan on the heat, add the onion and cook over a moderate heat for about 8-10 minutes