- 4 onions
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 bay leaf
- 150g Greek style yogurt
- 25g pine nuts
- ½ x 200g feta
- 50g rocket
- A handful flat leaf parsley
- 200g chifferini pasta
- A pinch of cayenne pepper
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- Sea salt
- Freshly ground pepper
- 2 tbsp cold water
- 1.
Peel and finely slice the onions. Peel and thinly slice the garlic cloves. Heat a large frying pan. When warm, drizzle in 2 tbsp olive oil. Add the onions, the cinnamon stick and bay leaf. Add a good pinch of salt and pepper. Cook for 10 mins on a gentle heat stirring now and then. The onions should not catch any colour. If they do, turn the heat down more.
- 2.
After 10 mins, add the garlic cloves. Cook for a further 10 mins on the low heat, stirring now and then. The onions should be meltingly soft and translucent.
- 3.
Spoon half the tub of yogurt into a bowl. Add 2tbsp cold water and whisk together. Heat a small frying pan and toast the pine nuts for 2-3 mins till golden. Tip into a small bowl.
- 4.
Crumble half the pack of feta. Roughly chop the rocket. Finely chop the dill stalks, leaving the fronds whole.
- 5.
Bring a pan of water to a rolling boil. Drop in the pasta with a good pinch of salt. Simmer for 8 mins till the pasta is al dente (soft with a slight bite). Drain, reserving a cupful of the cooking water.
- 6.
When the pasta has 3 mins left to cook, pluck the bay leaf and cinnamon stick from the onions. Add the thinned yogurt to the pan with the onions, which should have cooked for a total of 20 mins. Stir together. Add the dill stalks, half of the crumbled feta and a good grinding of salt and pepper. Add a pinch of cayenne and stir.
- 7.
Arrange the rocket in two shallow bowls. Tip the cooked and drained pasta into the pan with the yogurty, onion sauce. Stir to coat, adding a little cooking water if necessary to loosen the sauce a little. Spoon on top of the rocket. Crumble over the remaining feta. Scatter over the pinenuts and dill fronds. Dust a little cayenne pepper to taste.