Shivi Ramoutar
Shivi is a cookbook author and TV presenter known for her vibrant, flavour-packed recipes. She shares simple ways to add more beans, vegetables and colour to everyday meals.
Shivi’s Tomato Galette with Basil Drizzle
Shivi Ramoutar
Featuring:
Tomato
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Serves: 4
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 1 hr 5 mins
Ingredients:
500g ripe tomatoes
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 onion, thinly sliced
Pre-rolled puff pasty sheet or 400g block of puff pastry, rolled into an approx A4 size rectangle on baking parchment
50g cheddar, grated
1 tsp dried oregano
For the Basil Chilli Drizzle:
1 small pack basil
50ml olive oil
½ garlic clove, crushed
1 egg, beaten
Want a simple summertime lunch or dinner? Make the most of British tomatoes with Shivi’s tomato galette with basil drizzle.
Method:
Preheat a baking sheet in the oven at 180C Fan/200C/Gas 6.
Heat the vegetable oil on a medium-low heat in a small saucepan and cook the onion with a pinch of salt until sticky and soft, about 20 minutes.
Slice the tomatoes into thin slices, pop onto a plate, salt generously and leave for 5 minutes or so, to allow water to release whilst you get on with the rest of the tart.
Spread the caramelised onion over your sheet of puff pastry, leaving a 5cm border, then pile the salted tomato on top and sprinkle over the cheddar and the oregano. Fold the border so it slightly overlaps the tomato, then brush the pastry edge with the beaten egg. Pop onto the heated baking sheet and bake for about 45 minutes, until the tomatoes are softened and the pastry is golden.
For the drizzle, blitz together the ingredients and season.
Slice and serve the galette immediately, drizzled generously with the Basil Chilli drizzle.
Engaging Kids
Kids who engage regularly with veg through veg-themed activities, such as arts and crafts, sensory experiences, growing and cooking are shown to be more likely to eat the veg they engage with. Encouraging kids to engage and play with veg is the handy first step to them developing a good relationship with veg and life-long healthy eating.
Kids in the kitchen
The eventual aim, if possible, is to get kids in the kitchen. Don’t worry, this doesn’t have to mean they are with you from start-to-end creating mess and rising stress levels! It can be as simple as giving them one small job (stirring, measuring, pouring, grating, chopping…) ideally involving veg. They can come in to do their little bit, and have fun with you for a few minutes. Getting them involved, making it playful and praising them plenty for their involvement, perhaps even serving it as dinner they “made”, makes it much more likely they will eat the food offered, not to mention teaching them important life skills. Find ideas, safety tips, videos and even a free chart in our Kids in the Kitchen section here.
Activities
While getting kids to interact with veggies for real and using their senses to explore them is best, encouraging hands off activities like arts & crafts, puzzles & games or at-home science experiments can be a great start, particularly for those who are fussier eaters or struggle with anything too sensory. Use these veg-themed activities as a stepping stone to interacting with the veg themselves. We have loads of crafty downloads here, puzzles here, and quirky science with veg here.
Sensory
Once you feel your child is ready to engage a little more, you can show them how to explore the veg you have on hand with their senses, coming up with playful silly descriptions of how a veg smells, feels, looks, sounds and perhaps even tastes. Find ideas, videos and some simple sensory education session ideas to get you started here.
Serving
The moments before food is offered can be a perfect opportunity for engagement that can help make it more likely a child will eat it! Giving children a sense of ownership in the meal can make a big difference to their feelings going into it and the pride they take in it. You know your child best, but if you aren’t sure where to start, we have some fun and simple ideas for easy roles you can give them in the serving process over here.
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