Courgettes & Manchego on toast

Name: Courgettes & Manchego on toast
Cuisine: Swiss
Ingredients: 4 small-medium courgettes; 3 tbsp olive oil; 4 slices of bread, ideally sourdough; 10 g Manchego or other hard cheese; 10 g Manchego or other hard cheese; A small handful of Greek basil; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Year at Otter Farm

By Mark Diacono

Published 2014

About

A lunch or supper that takes 5 minutes to prepare and shows off courgettes at their best. Any basil will be good here, but Greek basil sets everything off perfectly to my taste.

Ingredients

4 small-medium courgettes
3 tbsp olive oil
4 slices of

Europe
Switzerland
Lunch
Supper
Vegetarian
August
July
Summer
September

Method

Cut the courgettes into 5—10mm slices. Warm the olive oil in a frying pan over a medium-high heat. Add the courgettes and cook until well coloured on the flat sides, stirring to prevent burning.

In the meantime, toast the bread.

Pile the courgettes onto the toast slices and season with salt and pepper as you like. Shave the Manchego over using a vegetable peeler and sprinkle wit