I concocted this one today to go with our roast chicken. And it was good, so I thought I should share it.
You will need:
Good bread – I used a mean half an olive ficelle and an olive roll, but ¼-⅓ a large loaf or ½ a small loaf is fine.
2 medium onions
1 lemon (the fresher the better)
6 cloves of garlic (more or less according to taste)
3-4 tbsp olive oil
Good handful of olives of your choice, stoned & roughly chopped – I used a dozen Nocellara olives;
3 tbsp tomato paste
Good dash Worc. Sauce
salt & pepper
hot water
This is what you do:
- Peel the onions and cut each into 8. Wash the lemon, remove the stalk and cut that also into 8 (yes the whole lemon!). Peel the garlic.
- Put onions, lemon and garlic in the food processor and blitz until fine. Tip this out into a mixing bowl.
- Cut/break the bread into pieces and blitz that in the food processor to make breadcrumbs. Add this to the onion mix.
- Add all the other ingredients (except the water) and mix well.
- Carefully add hot water and keep mixing – be careful not to make the mix too wet; it should stick together and hold its shape.
- Make into balls (this should make 8-10 large stuffing balls), place in a greased dish or tray and cook in the oven with your chicken until golden brown and just beginning to crisp (probably 40 minutes or so).
- Serve alongside your roast chicken (or it would work well with pork or any other bird).
We overcooked ours slightly but they were still excellent and I liked the extra crispiness – they came out rather like onion bhaji: crisp, tangy, lemony and oniony. The cold ones will make super stuffing sandwiches! Yum!