Yotam Ottolenghi's baked mint rice with pomegranate and olive salsa - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Food Yotam Ottolenghi’ s baked mint rice with pomegranate and olive salsa By You Magazine - September 2, 2018 Cooking rice perfectly is one of those things that shouldn’t be complicated but can be surprisingly difficult, for some, to get right. Baking it in the oven, on the other hand, as I do here, is a completely foolproof method (and one that worked, incidentally, when feeding 700 people over two sittings at the Wilderness festival in 2017!). This is such a great side to all sorts of dishes: roasted root vegetables, slow-cooked lamb or pork. To get ahead, the salsa can be made a few hours in advance and kept in the fridge. Jonathan Lovekin SERVES 6 400g basmati rice 50g unsalted butter, melted 800ml boiling water 50g mint (40g left on the sprigs; leaves shredded for the remaining 10g, to use in the salsa) 150g feta, crumbled into 1cm-2cm pieces salt and black pepper FOR THE SALSA 40g pitted green olives, thinly sliced seeds from 1 small pomegranate (90g prepped seeds) 50g walnut halves, lightly roasted and roughly broken 3 tbsp olive oil 1 tbsp pomegranate molasses 1 small garlic clove, peeled and crushed 1. Preheat the oven to 230C fan (250C/gas 10), or as high as it will go. 2. Place the rice in a high-sided ovenproof dish, measuring 20cm x 30cm. Season with ¾ teaspoon of salt and plenty of pepper, then pour over the butter and boiling water. Top with the sprigs of mint and cover the dish tightly with tinfoil so that the rice is well sealed. Bake for 25 minutes, until the rice is light and fluffy and all the liquid has been absorbed. 3. Meanwhile, place all the ingredients for the salsa, minus the 10g shredded mint, in a medium bowl with ¼ teaspoon of salt. Mix well and set aside. 4. Take the rice out of the oven, and remove and discard the foil. Pull the leaves off the mint sprigs – the stalks can be discarded – then place these back on the rice and sprinkle with the feta. Just before serving, stir the shredded mint into the salsa and spoon evenly over the rice. Serve hot. SAVE 20% ON YOTAM’S NEW BOOK Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi with Tara Wigley and Esme Howarth will be published by Ebury on Thursday, price £25. To order a copy for £20 (a 20 per cent discount) until 17 September visit mailshop.co.uk/books or call 0844 571 0640; p&p is free on orders over £15. RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Kids can eat for free at these restaurants during October half-term How to make the viral negroni sbagliato with prosecco at home 7 Halloween recipes with serious hex factor Popular in Food Gabriela Peacock 14-day plan Anytime baked eggs May 23, 2021 Joe Wicks’ maple-glazed chicken thighs with Asian slaw June 6, 2021 Mary Berry is returning to TV screens for a brand new June 15, 2021 Eleanor Maidment My summer taste notes July 4, 2021 Uyen Luu’ s sticky mustard marmalade ribs July 25, 2021 Annie Bell’ s white peach bellinis recipe August 8, 2021 M& S has launched a new crunchy Caramilk-inspired golden chocolate spread August 24, 2021 Deliciously preserved pickle and jam recipes September 19, 2021 Gordon Ramsay’ s bang bang cauliflower October 3, 2021 Wow right now Clodagh McKenna’ s speedy family dinners October 24, 2021 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved