This recipes is for an easy, incredibly delicious and versatile Mediterranean Tray Bake with Olives & Feta Cheese. This tray bake comes together in just 30 minutes and only requires five minutes of your time. It is made with easy and healthy staple ingredients, can be varied endlessly and almost cooks itself. Serve this Mediterranean Tray Bake with Olives & Feta Cheese with fish, chicken or meat or eat just as it is. This tray bake is vegetarian, gluten and grain free.
I love recipes that can be made with ingredients that you already have at home and that cooks itself. Like this lovely, flavorful and easy Mediterranean Tray Bake with Olives & Feta Cheese. Tray bakes are not only super easy and quick to make, they’re perfect when you want something effortless that still taste amazing, want to make a big batch to last for several days and that can be served as a side dish to lots of different mains or to eat just as is. This tray bake is made with potatoes, white beans, zucchini, mushrooms, red onion, garlic and bell pepper. But the great thing is that you can adapt and vary this recipes by using any veggies you have at home or that are in season. They veggies are seasoned with fresh thyme and tossed in pesto and baked until tender and golden brown. Then finished off with peppery arugula, salt olives and creamy feta cheese. This dish is really so easy and quick to make yet taste amazing and pairs with just about anything.
A few tips:
- Use different kind of potatoes depending on what you have at home or like.
- Swap regular potatoes for sweet potatoes.
- Vary this tray bake by using different beans or by mixing a few different ones.
- Use veggies that you have at home or that are in season. Eggplants, pumpkin, beets, different types of onions, broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoes, carrots just to mention a few.
- Use goat cheese, halloumi, parmesan, pecorino or any other cheese that you like. Use a vegan cheese to make this tray bake vegan.
- Add capers instead of olives.
- Use different kind of pestos to vary the seasoning. You can really make the same tray bake taste different by using different types of pestos.
- Try to cut the veggies into equally sized pieces to make sure they have the same baking time.
- Drain the beans well before mixing them with the veggies.
- When the veggies are done, top with olive and crumbled feta cheese. Now either serve the tray bake with the olive and feta cheese cold or bake for another five minutes to have the olives and feta cheese slightly warm and melted.
- Make a big batch of this tray bake for a cozy weekend dinner and use the leftovers for meal prep purpose during the week.
Ingredients for this Mediterranean Tray Bake with Olives & Feta Cheese:
- Potatoes
- Bell peppers
- Zucchini
- Button mushrooms
- Red onion
- Garlic
- White beans
- Fresh thyme
- Sea salt
- Arugula
- Mixed olives
- Feta cheese
- Pesto
Mediterranean Tray Bake with Olives & Feta Cheese (Vegetarian, Gluten & Grain Free)
Ingredients
- 10 Potatoes washed and cut in halves of quarters
- 1 can cooked white beans rinsed and cleaned
- 1 Red bell pepper cut into smaller chunks
- 1 Yellow bell pepper cut into smaller chunks
- 5-6 Garlic cloves (or a whole garlic head if preferred)
- 1-1 Red onion cut into wedges
- 5-10 Button mushrooms cut into halves or quarters
- 1/2 Zucchini cut into half moons
- 2 stalks Fresh thyme (dry thyme works as well)
- Sea salt, to taste
- 2-3 tbsp Pesto
- 3-4 tbsp Mixed olives
- 1 block Feta cheese crumbled
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius or the air fryer to 180 degrees Celsius.
- Cut all the vegetables, rinse the beans, place on a baking sheet/air fryer basket. Add fresh thyme, sea salt and drizzle pesto over the veggies, toss well until well combined. Bake in the oven/air fryer for 20-30 minutes, or until the veggies are tender and golden brown.
- Remove veggies from the oven/air fryer, add olives and feta cheese. Serve with olives and feta cheese cold or bake for another five minutes if you prefer the olive and feta cheese warm and slightly melted. Drizzle with pesto and serve while warm.