Baked Feta with Mango Salsa Recipe

Having been inspired by my Dad’s comment on my “70’s” Stuffed Tomatoes recipe about bringing back the cheese & pineapple on a foil hedgehog, I have called his bluff & brought it up to date! 

We have a mountain of our homegrown scotch bonnet chilli peppers in the freezer & I had been thinking about doing a Caribbean inspired dish using them & the mango I have in my fridge. I was watching a programme called Caribbean Food made Easy (I think) where they cooked fish with Caribbean spices in foil on the barbecue & served it with a mango salsa. Obviously I don’t eat fish so I had to come up with replacement for it which is when I remembered the Foil Baked Feta recipe in Vicky Bhoghal’s book Flavour which is delicious. It was all starting to come together… 

Feta Ready for the Oven

 

Baked Feta & Mango Salsa Recipe 

Serves 2 Vegetarian 

For the Feta: 

• 200gr block Greek Feta
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1/2 clove garlic chopped
• 1  small scotch bonnet chilli (deseeded & chopped) you can use any fresh chilli or dried 1/2 tsp
•  a sprig of thyme leaves
• some coriander leaves
• 1/2 tomato chopped
• 1/2 tsp tomato paste
• 1/4 red onion finely sliced
• 1/2 tsp allspice
• 1/2 tsp ground ginger
• Some crusty bread  for mopping up the juices

1. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees
2. Tear off a large piece of foil, put the feta in the middle and add the rest of the ingredients.
3. Make a little pouch by folding up the foil and bake for 10 mins

Meanwhile make the Mango Salsa: 

• 1 mango chopped
• the other half of the tomato
• the other half of the garlic clove
• 1/4 red onion chopped
• the juice of 1/2 a lime
• 1 chilli deseeded & chopped(you can’t use a scotch bonnet as the heat only comes out when they are cooked)
•  a handful of chopped coriander
• a handful of chopped fresh mint
• salt & black pepper

1. Mix everything together in a bowl, taste for seasoning, and place in  a serving dish or bowl.

Mango Salsa

 

Baked Feta & Mango Salsa

 

Enjoy this straight away and imagine yourself on a Caribbean/Greek island! 

Obviously you can keep it real with Greek flavours in the pouch, oregano, parsley, chopped olives, whatever you fancy, just make it gorgeous…