Table Manners The Cookbook: easy courgette bake recipe
This simple veggie bake makes the ideal side dish for a roast dinner — and it's great for using up extra courgettes too.
Ola O Smit
SERVES 8 AS A SIDE
Ingredients
*Butter for greasing
*1 small onion, roughly chopped
*4 courgettes (about 800g), ends discarded
*1 large egg
*80g Cheddar, grated
*1⁄2 tsp ground nutmeg
*1⁄2 tsp salt
*Pepper, to taste
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 200°C/180°C fan/gas 6. Butter a baking dish.
2. Put the onion and courgettes into a food processor and whizz until evenly chopped. Alternatively, if you don’t have a food processor, just grate them. Add the egg, cheese, nutmeg and salt and pepper and whizz again or stir through.
3. Tip the mixture into the baking dish and bake for 45 minutes until browned on top. Serve hot.
Recipe from Table Manners: The Cookbook by Jessie and Lennie Ware (Ebury Press, £22) Photography by Ola O Smit