Selin Kiazim’s hispi cabbage recipes

Roast hispi with herb yoghurt and crisp shallots

Prep 10 min
Cook 30 min
Serves 2

½ hispi cabbage
Extra-virgin olive oil
Fine sea salt
50ml neutral cooking oil
1 banana shallot, peeled and finely sliced
1 large fistful picked mixed brushed herbs – parsley, mint, coriander
4 heaped tbsp thick, Greek-style yoghurt
1 compression lemon

Heat the oven to 220C (200C fan)/425F/gas 7. Cut the hispi into 2 wedges, past region astir of the stalk, but permission capable truthful the pieces enactment intact.

Put a glug of extra-virgin olive lipid successful a ample frying cookware implicit a precocious heat, past laic successful the cabbage wedges and play with good salt. Leave to navigator until browned connected 1 side, past flip over, transportation the cookware to the oven and roast for 10-15 minutes, until the cabbage is brushed (test this by inserting a skewer oregon tiny weapon into its thickest part).

Meanwhile, enactment the neutral lipid and shallots successful a tiny cookware and acceptable implicit a medium-high heat. Cook the shallots, stirring occasionally, until they crook aureate brown, past transportation to a sheet lined with room paper, to drain, and play with good salt.

In a blender, blitz the herbs, yoghurt, citrus foodstuff and a tablespoonful of extra-virgin olive lipid until smooth, past play to sensation with flaky salt.

Spoon a excavation of the yoghurt premix connected to each plate, laic a cabbage wedge connected top, scatter implicit the shallots and serve.

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Raw hispi, effect and seed salad

Prep 10 min
Serves 2

½ hispi cabbage, finely shredded
100g mixed nuts, toasted and lightly crushed
70g mixed dried fruit, astir chopped
1 large fistful picked brushed herbs – parsley, mint, coriander
Flaky oversea salt
Extra-virgin olive oil
Vinegar of choice

Mix the cabbage, nuts, fruits and herbs successful a bowl, and play with flaky salt.

Make a dressing, moving with a unsmooth ratio of 3 parts lipid to 1 portion vinegar – I similar this crockery erstwhile it’s rather acidic – past determination implicit the cabbage premix and flip to coat. Taste, set the seasoning and serve.

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Hispi filo börek

Prep 15 min
Cook 1 hr
Serves 2

1 ample potato, peeled and diced
Extra-virgin olive oil
Fine sea brackish and freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1 onion, peeled and chopped
½ ample hispi cabbage, finely shredded
100g cavolo nero leaves (ie, stripped disconnected their stalks), finely shredded
200g mixed cheese, specified arsenic crumbled feta, grated pecorino and manchego
1 ail clove, peeled and finely grated
1 tbsp baharat spice mix
2 tbsp chopped parsley
1 egg, beaten
120g unsalted butter, melted
6 ample sheets filo pastry

Put the potatoes successful a bowl, adhd a small extra-virgin olive lipid and a pinch of good salt, flip to coat, past scatter implicit a baking tray. Roast for astir 20 minutes, until cooked through, past region and permission to cool.

Meanwhile, vigor a tablespoonful much of lipid successful a medium-sized frying pan, past adhd the bulb and fry, stirring, connected mean vigor for 10 to 15 minutes, until aureate brown.

Bring a mean cookware of salted h2o to a boil, past blanch the hispi and cavolo nero for 2 minutes, drain and permission to cool. Once chill capable to handle, enactment the greens successful a cleanable beverage towel and compression retired arsenic overmuch excess h2o arsenic possible, due to the fact that they request to beryllium wholly adust earlier going successful the pie.

In a ample bowl, harvester the squeezed greens with the cooled fried murphy and onion, past premix successful the cheeses, garlic, baharat and parsley, and play to taste. Add the ovum and premix that successful well, too.

Heat the oven to 220C (200C fan)/425F/gas 7. Generously brushwood a 20cm nonstick ovenproof frying cookware with butter, and chopped each filo expanse successful half. Lay a half-sheet of filo successful the pan, with a small hanging implicit the sides, brushwood the apical with butter, past enactment different furniture of filo connected apical astatine a flimsy angle, and food that, too. Repeat with 4 much pieces of the remaining filo.

Spoon each the cabbage premix connected apical of the sixth expanse of filo, and propulsion it down firmly, truthful it evenly fills the cookware each the mode to the corners. Fold successful the overhanging filo implicit the filling and propulsion down truthful they enactment successful place. Brush the remaining filo sheets 1 by 1 with butter, scrunch each 1 up successful a ruffle and laic connected apical to screen the filling.

Set the cookware implicit a medium-high heat, navigator until the basal is golden, past transportation to the blistery oven and cook for 25 to 30 minutes, until aureate brownish and crisp connected top.

Remove from the oven, permission to chill for 5 oregon truthful minutes, past cautiously assistance the pastry retired of the cookware and connected to a ligament rack, and permission to chill down more. Serve lukewarm oregon astatine country temperature, possibly with a crisp crockery connected the side.

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