Tonight I made part of one of Jamie Oliver’s 30-Minute Meals
This is a good hearty meal with an excellent combination of flavours and a really quick dinner. What’s not to like?
Recipe: Stuffed Focaccia
Ingredients 
- 1 x 400g focaccia loaf
- 1 x 450g jar of peppers
- 1 tsp capers, drained
- 6 sun-dried tomatoes in oil
- 1 fresh red chilli
- 2 tomatoes, chopped up
- 3 or 4 cornichons
- Small bunch of fresh mint
- ½ a lemon
- Parmesan cheese, for grating
Method
- Put the focaccia into the oven to warm for around 15 minutes.
- Put the jarred peppers, capers, sun-dried tomatoes, the red chilli, tomatoes and cornichons on a chopping board.
- Pick the leaves from the mint.
- Finely slice the chilli, then chop and slice all the filling ingredients together on the board and sweep into a bowl.
- Add a lug of extra virgin olive oil, squeeze over the juice of the lemon, then scrunch and mix together with your hands.
- Take the focaccia out of the oven. Carefully halve it across the middle with a sharp serrated bread knife and open it like a book.
- Spread the pickle filling over the bottom half, drizzle over any juices left behind in the bowl, and finely grate over a good layer of Parmesan.
- Put the top on the sandwich and take it to the table.
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Number of servings (yield): 4
Wow! A 30-minute Jamie meal in less than 30 minutes. Amazing. Love the stuffed foccacia. Looks great xx
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But it was only a part of it. There were three other dishes!
Suzanne
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I love everything about it! It’s healthy, delicious and with so little effort. Sounds wonderful to me:)
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The perfect dinner!
Suzanne
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I love focaccia, what a tasty meal with that lovely filling!
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I actually used a Turkish bread which is not quite so soft but has cumin seeds in it and I am a great fan of cumin seeds.
Suzanne
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Well, three other dishes certainly were not needed and the recipe had enough oomph in spite of being basically vegetarian! I have refound Jamie’s book from under the piles and piles of others [thanks to you!] – methinks I have never done a complete meal from it – always picked one or two dishes to suit, but basically these have worked out very well!
Jaime is a great chef and understands flavour combinations well. I haven’t had a bum dish from his book yet. I think it was worth you digging it out of the pile. I do think he feeds his family too much food though if this is what they get every night. And desserts are just not necessary. We don’t do the heavy physical labour that our forefathers did before us when heaps of calories were necessary. Unless you are a lumberjack or farmer, that is.
Suzanne
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I began following him whilst he was a youngster: probably because he was one!! Looking at Jools and the kids, I don’t think he does the ‘wrong thing’: she is too bf etc strong for him anyways
! He and I come from different worlds, but I have a lot of respect looking at the ‘greenie’. ‘healthy’ etc work he has done around the world. Somehow, to me, he is a quintessssential example of a boy from an ‘ordinary’ [not meant badly!] background who either could think straight, honest and true OR had very good advisors! God bless either way!! We all owe him one!!!!!
Yes, and all we see is the TV programs of their life, of course. It’s all well orchestrated for the viewers. He is a great influencer and uses his power for good and that’s all we can ask of these high profile people. He has probably had excellent help to get where he is but he must be a smart chap himself.
Suzanne
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Street-smarts – wish to God I had more myself
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I’m so impressed your Jamie 30 minute meal took less than 30 minutes… mine took WAY more than 30 minutes. Although, I tried a 30 miute meal when I first started my blog so I’m sure if I tried it again now, I’d be much faster. You’ve inspired me to try harder! Yum… the foccacia looks fabulous.
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Amanda, don’t be too impressed, I only did one of the four dishes. But I do believe I have got faster from making his dinners because of the techniques he uses.
Suzanne
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I love focaccia in all shapes and forms and stuffed foccacia makes for a wonderful meal!
Your picture is amazing…it is making me really hungry
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Stuffed focaccia is such a simple meal depending on what you put in it and always satisfies the family.
Suzanne
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I just made this for my partner, I’m not much of a cook do was really easy for me. It was so delicious & healthy, thanks for this great recipe
Easy is good, Daniel. I’m sure your partner enjoyed it as much as we did.
Suzanne
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Loved the recipe, definately I am gonna try it!
It’s quick and delicious – enjoy!
Suzanne
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