Feta cheese

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meerkatgirl wrote:

Slice it up with some pickled/cooked beetroot in a salad - the two go really well together

Yes, it's nice crumbled over some beetroot soup.

I like it crumbled over a salad of roast veg -peppers, courgettes, tomatoes in the summer, or carrots, parsnips and leeks in the winter.

chrisandrob

thanks so much,some great ideas there.will be tring some of them

lex

Turkey and spinach filo pie

Fry off an onion, add some leftover turkey (we still have some from Christmas in the freezer), add half a bag of spinach, big spoon of cream cheese, some crumbled feta cheese. Stir to combine

Line a dish with filo pastry, add filing and cover with some more filo!

Yum!!

lex

ClaireLR

Does anyone have a recipe for a pasta sauce using feta please?

Sarahsaver

I would keep it very simple no need to cook even. Cut the feta into small cubes, add some pine nuts, fresh basil and olive oil and toss into the cooked pasta. I ate LOADS of this after I had DD cos its so quick and tasty/nutritious/filling!

traciekan

i chop it up and keep it in a jar in the fridge covered in red wine and whole spices, i use it for everything! on cauli cheese in pasta sauces on toast, on lasagna dotted on baked potatoes everywhere! when half finished chop another slab and add it to the wine

Bunny82

I've made gifts of preserved feta in a jar before. All you need to do is get some dried chilies and herbs (the Italian mixed herbs you get in a little container from the supermarket is great) and some garlic. Cut the feta into cubes then sprinkle over the mix of chilies/herbs and press the mix in. Place them into a sealable jar (canning jars with the rubber seal are the best), pop in a couple of cloves of garic then fill the jar up with olive oil, leaving as little space at the top as possible. It'll last for months in the fridge but make sure it's at room temperature before you use any.

Lovely on warm bread and in pasta. Plus, you'll have a wonderful flavoured oil left over to use in other dishes.

ClaireLR

mmmm sounds yummy! I bought 2 slabs of feta last night frm tesco from the reduced shelf - 67p for both and they re HUGE! I've frozen them now, I hope they're ok when I defrost them - I'm going to try sarahsavers recipe in the week - I'll let you know how I do!

*goes off to add pine nuts to home delivery order..................*

ZoeGirl_3

Pumpkin lasagne, mmmmmmmmm

Cook some pumpkin (skin off, seeds out), I made one last night with a half of a crown pumpkin
Add a jar of pasta sauce or equivalent of HM, you can just blitz a can of whole tomatoes and add cooked onion and garlic, as well.
Mix the above together, this replaces the "meat layer" in a lasagne.
Then make a white sauce (not cheese), and layer pumpkin mix, crumbled feta, pasta and white sauce, ending with white sauce.

Yummy yummy, and freezes very well. Also, if you want to feed very meaty eaters you can put a bit of mince in the pumpkin mix, the idea is very flexible, you can add to the pumpkin some manky other veges too, and leave out the feta too, if you don't have any lol.

PS: LOVE LOVE LOVE FETA CHEESE mmmmmmmmmmmmm

jackk_2

frugalfairy wrote: »

Does anyone freeze their feta cheese, please? I have half a block left from yesterday and although I'm drooling at the thought of snarfing it down in one go, my sensible head is telling me that I've already had my quota for the week (WW diet, sigh) and I need to conserve the rest for another day.

Can't find any mention of freezing it anywhere, so has anyone else tried this?

Thanks!
FF xx

It says on the pack not to freeze, but i freeze feta all the time (because i'm the only one in our house that likes it) with no problems at all.

Jackie x