This amazingly versatile and refreshing green feta sauce can be applied to nearly every meal
A combination of fresh coriander, mint, charred green pepper, lemon, cumin and fresh lemon juice, it’s delicious served alongside BBQed meat, vegetables, fish, poached eggs, roasted chicken, spread onto crusty bread, in a salad with tomatoes or used as a dip.
Make a batch to keep in the fridge and you’ll find yourself adding a scoop of it to almost everything you eat.
Tomatoes
Tomatoes and Charred Green Feta Sauce are a match made in heaven. Chop tomatoes into small pieces, squeeze over lemon or lime juice, sprinkle with sea salt and top with toasted pine nuts. Serve with crusty bread or as a side to meat and vegetables.
Tortilla Wraps
The perfect sauce to line a tortilla wrap or burrito. Blends harmoniously with eggs, bacon, chicken, pork and fish and lots of lime juice soaked salsa. Click here for Flaevor’s Breakfast Egg Tortilla wrap recipe.
Roasted Vegetables
Harissa-honey glazed oven-roasted carrots and parsnips provide a mouthwatering combination. Scrap the roasting pan juices with olive oil, blend and pour over feat sauce and carrots: Full recipe here: Harissa-Honey Glazed Roasted Vege
Eggs
Inspired by the classic Turkish egg breakfast dish, this fusion version uses the feta sauce in replacement of yogurt and is served with sumac, cinnamon and chilli spiced beef koftas, poached eggs, tomato chilli oil and flatbreads.
Fusion Turkish Eggs recipe here:
Fish
If you have a coal grill then one of the most delicious fish options is smoked paprika, chilli and cumin marinated salmon fillets, smoked over the fire until soft and served along with the green sauce. Recipe here:
Roasted Chicken
A simple but super tasty and satisfying plate of crispy-skin roasted chicken legs, roasted tomatoes, chicken pan juices topped with chopped pistachio nuts. Full recipe here: Roast Chicken and Green Feta Sauce
Charred Green Feta Sauce can also be used with:
Sandwiches
A dip for carrots and celery or chips
As a topping for pizza
Served as a saice at BBQ’s
Charred Green Feta Sauce
Refreshing green feta sauce made with coriander, mint, charred green pepper, lemon, cumin and fresh lemon juice. Delicious served alongside bbq meat and vegetables, fish, poached eggs, roasted chicken, spread onto crusty bread, in a salad with tomatoes or used as a dip.
- Yield: 4 -6 1x
- Category: sauces
Ingredients
- 1 green pepper
- 25gm coriander including stems
- 15g mint leaves
- 150g feta drained
- ½ tsp red wine vinegar
- ½ tsp sugar
- Juice ½ small lemon
- ½ tsp cumin powder
- ½ garlic clove
- ½ tsp salt
- 3 tbsp olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200°C. Rub pepper in oil and roast for 40 minutes, or until charred and blackened on the outside.
- Place pepper in a bowl and cover for 10 minutes so juices are released. After this time drain and reserve the pepper juice. Peel away the charred outer skin and clean away the seeds inside. Cut pepper into large chunks.
- Combine chopped pepper, pepper juice and all other ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth.
- Refrigerate until ready to use.
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