Meera Sodha’s Vegetarian Recipe For Patates Yahni

The world over, you’ll find location cooks trying to move bags of potatoes into dinner, myself included. Sometimes, my reply is simply a Sri Lankan murphy curry, aliases a Gujarati one. Perhaps a slow-cooked Spanish omelette if it’s a day nighttime pinch Hugh astatine nan room land (like this Friday) but today, nan solution is Greek. Yahni is nan Greek connection for a style of cooking: vegetables braised successful plentifulness of oliva lipid and tomatoes, until tender. It’s a measurement of being, a ballot for nan elemental and nan slow and nan bully (but it is besides dinner, if you wish).

Patates yahni

Serve pinch crusty breadstuff aliases Greek flatbreads for a main meal, aliases pinch immoderate picky bits connected nan broadside aliases moreover pinch a fried ovum for breakfast.

Prep 10 min
Cook 1 hr
Serves 4

Extra-virgin oliva oil
1 ample reddish onion, peeled, halved and thinly sliced
Fine oversea salt
4 ail cloves, peeled and minced
1kg desiree potatoes, trim into wedges 2½cm astatine nan widest point
2 tsp dried oregano, positive other to finish
2 tbsp herb puree
2 400g tins finely chopped tomatoes – I for illustration Mutti
150g feta
75g Greek yoghurt
1 citrus finely zested, positive 1 tbsp juice
80g kalamata olives, pitted

Put 5 tablespoons of lipid successful a wide, deep-sided cookware for which you person a lid and group it connected a mean to precocious heat. When hot, adhd nan sliced reddish bulb and a spoon of salt, and cook, stirring, for astir 10 minutes, until nan bulb is soft capable to trim pinch a woody spoon.

Add nan garlic, cook, stirring, for 2 minutes, past operation successful nan murphy wedges and oregano until good coated successful oil. Add nan herb puree, navigator for a minute, past extremity successful nan chopped tomatoes and 400ml water. Bring to a boil, past screen nan pan, move down nan power to simmer and time off to navigator for 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, blitz nan feta, yoghurt, citrus zest and juice, 3 tablespoons of oliva lipid and a large pinch aliases 2 of salt, until soft and creamy.

Stir nan olives into nan herb and murphy mix, past simmer uncovered for 15-20 minutes more, until nan potatoes are soft and nan condiment has thickened nicely.

Serve lukewarm successful shallow bowls topped pinch a patient dollop of whipped feta and a sprinkling of oregano.