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Baked feta with lavender peaches

Baked feta with lavender peaches – A lovely dish to celebrate the end of summer!

As September is starting, I’m nostalgically looking towards the end of summer and happy to make the most of the last summery evenings. This baked feta with peaches is a fantastic dish to enjoy the last flavours of summer. I’m baking a slab of feta with honey and lavendar, which is growing in my garden. You could use dried lavendar instead, or swap it with rosemary, for a more herby taste. The sweet and tangy peaches add a lovely balance to the salty feta. I’m serving it all with a few simple roti-style flatbreads, perfect to mop up the juices left in the dish. Best enjoyed with a glass of rosé on a terrace on one of the last balmy summer evenings.

This recipe was created as part of my “Staycation” show on RTL, inspiring people with recipes from my travels that they can recreate at home.

This is a recipe from my cookbook ‘Flavours of Home’.

Ingredients

SERVES 2

200g feta
1 peach
1 red chili
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp lavender flowers
salt and pepper

For the flatbread:
65g flour
65g wholemeal flour
1 tbsp olive oil
¼ tsp salt
60ml water
salted butter, for brushing

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C fan.

Put a bit of olive oil in a baking dish, place the feta in the middle. Cut the peach into wedges and arrange them around the feta. Slice the chili and scatter over the dish.

Melt the honey and mix with 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Drizzle over the feta and the peaches. Scatter the lavender flowers over the dish, season generously with salt and pepper.

Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, make the flatbreads: Put all the ingredients except for the salted butter, in a bowl and mix until it comes together. Knead for another minute, then shape into a ball, cover with a teatowel and leave to rest for 15 minutes.

Once the dough has rested, divide it into 4. Shape each piece in a ball, press down with your hands and flatten each to a 15cm disk with a rolling pin.

Heat a heavy-bottomed frying pan. When hot, bake the first disk for a couple minutes until bubbles start appearing on the surface. Turn over and bake for another minute. Brush with melted salted butter and repeat with the remaining dough.