A delicious veggie stack with grilled halloumi, plantain and fiery peri peri sauce. A healthy and simple lunch to meet your nutritional needs with a perfect balance of carbs, protein, healthy fat (rapeseed oil is high in omega 3s) and antioxidants.
The ingredients
Plant based food doesn’t get better than this. Salty, chewy halloumi with sweet plantain and finished with a generous dollop of homemade peri peri sauce.
This Halloumi & Plantain Peri Peri Bagel is deceptively easy to make. The halloumi and plantain take under 5 minutes to grill, while the peri peri sauce literally consists of throwing ingredients into a blender and you guessed it, blitzing them. This is my kind of lunch.
What makes a healthy lunch?
A healthy, energy boosting bagel to meet your nutritional needs with a perfect balance of carbohydrates from the wholemeal bagel, protein from the halloumi cheese, healthy fat (rapeseed oil is high in omega 3s) and antioxidants from the spinach and red pepper peri peri sauce. Balancing your meals is key to fight off fatigue and keep hunger at bay. This is a loaded lunch that will not have you nodding off at your desk.
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Halloumi & Plantain Peri Peri Bagel
Ingredients
- 1 large plantain
- 1 tbsp rapeseed oil
- 110 g halloumi cheese
- 40 g spinach
- 2 wholemeal bagels
For the peri peri sauce
- 1 red bell pepper deseeded and roughly chopped
- 2 birds eye chilli coarsely chopped
- 1/4 onion roughly chopped
- 2 large garlic cloves crushed
- 3 fresh basil leaves
- 1/2 tablespoon smoked paprika
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1/4 lemon juiced
- 1/4 tsp salt
Instructions
- To make the peri peri sauce add all the ingredients to a blender. Blitz for 30 seconds, stir through then blitz again for a further 30 seconds. Set aside.
- Slice the plantain diagonally into 1/4 inch segments. Heat the oil in a frying pan over a medium heat. Fry the plantain for 2 minutes on each side until golden brown.
- Remove from the pan and place on a paper towel. Pat to remove the excess oil.
- Meanwhile in a second frying pan, dry fry the halloumi for 2 minutes on either side.
- Toast the bagels and layer with the spinach, halloumi, spinach and peri peri sauce.