Whole baked ricotta with lentils & roasted cherry tomatoes
This easy vegetarian one-pan dish is quick to prepare and will help you to get your 5-a-day. Treat yourself to whole ricotta cheeses and seasonal veg
- Prep:15 mins
Cook:50 mins
- Serves 4
- Easy
Nutrition per serving
- kcal 604
- fat 39g
- saturates 12g
- carbs 32g
- sugars 8g
- fibre 10g
- protein 26g
- salt 1.6g
Ingredients
- 6 banana shallots, quartered
- 90ml olive oil, plus extra for drizzling
- 1 large lemon, zested and juiced
- small pack basil, roughly chopped
- small pack dill, roughly chopped
- 2 x 250g pouches cooked Puy lentils
- 150g spinach
- 2 x 250g whole ricotta
- 400g cherry tomatoes on the vine
Method
Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Put the shallots in a medium-sized roasting tin, drizzle over 2 tbsp olive oil and season. Roast for 15 mins until golden brown and beginning to soften. Meanwhile, to make a dressing, whisk the remaining olive oil with the lemon zest and juice, stir through half the herbs and season.
Toss the lentils together with the shallots, spinach and 4 tbsp water. Put the ricotta in the centre of the roasting tin and lay the tomatoes around them. Drizzle the dressing over the lentils and shake the tin a little to combine everything. Drizzle a little olive oil over the ricotta and season everything well. Return to the oven for 30-35 mins or until the ricotta is firm and lightly golden.
Serve the lentils in shallow bowls topped with spoonfuls of the creamy ricotta and sprinkled with the remaining herbs.