All posts tagged: dinner

Recipe – Winter Vegetable Stew

A healthy mix of vegetables, pulses and spices makes this an ideal dish for warming your cockles on a cold winters day. It’s quick and easy to make, and very filling too. Serves 4 Ingredients Glug of Olive oil 1 large onion, chopped 2 garlic cloves, chopped 1 celery stick, chopped 1 carrot, peeled and chopped 1tsp ground turmeric 1tsp spicy paprika 1 inch fresh ginger, peeled and chopped 1 tin chopped plum tomatoes 500ml water 1 tin butter beans Handful broccoli, chopped Handful green beans, chopped Sea salt and black pepper, to tste To serve Yoghurt Fresh Coriander Method Heat oil in a large saucepan and add the chopped onion and garlic. Lower the heat and cook for a few minutes until the onions have softened. Add the celery and carrot for a few minutes, before stirring in the ginger, turmeric and spicy paprika, ensuring that they do not burn. When the spices smell fragrant, add the tomatoes, lentils, butter beans, water, salt and pepper. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes. Stir in all …

Recipe: Muntjac Meatballs

I arrived in Melbourne 6 days ago and have found that I have a lot of time on my hands at the moment while I look for work. Despite feeling a little lost without a job to head to every morning, it has been good in many ways, mainly due to the fact that I can cook breakfast and dinner every single day! I saw this recipe on Foodsessed and tried Mike Robinson’s Muntjac meatballs yesterday, but as muntjac (a small deer) is so hard to find, we used lamb mince instead. Recipe For the Muntballs 250g (8.81 ounce) minced Muntjac – I used lamb 250g (8.81 ounce) Ricotta cheese 100g (3.52 ounce) finely grated Parmesan cheese A little grated lemon zest One egg Salt to taste For the sauce Two large jars of good quality Passata A man size knob of butter Three smashed cloves of garlic Salt to taste A pinch of sugar to sweeten things up A sprinkle of fresh basil to finish Grated nutmeg to finish I used the following inforgraphic …

Recipe: Dutch Mustard Soup

This Dutch Mustard Soup is the perfect winter warming dinner. Make enough and you have a delicious lunch the next day, too. Ingredients 1.l water 2 chicken stock cubes 125ml creme fraiche 2 tbsp wholegrain mustard 125 ml cream cheese 4 tbsp cornflour 1 spring onion, chopped 5 rashers bacon, sliced and fried Extra virgin olive oil to drizzle Salt and pepper to season Method 1. Bring water to boil. Add creme fraiche, mustard and cheese and whip until smooth. 2. Add cornflour. When the soup thickens, add salt and pepper to taste. 3. Garnish with spring onion, bacon bits and olive oil.

Recipe – Steak San Marino

This is the first in a series of recipes that I will be posting from a challenge that my ex boyfriend and I set ourselves when the Olympics came to London – we attempted to cook a dish from every country that took part in the games and called the challenge Eat the Olympics. We only made it to 170 something out of 204 but had some incredible experiences along the way, including a supper club and trips to Marrakech and Brazil. Steak San Marino was one of our favourites and we scored it gold. Ingredients: 1kg topside beef steaks Plain flour 2 tsp salt 2 tsp ground black pepper 1 x tin chopped tomatoes 100ml red wine 1 medium onion 4 carrots 3 tsp dried mixed herbs 1 bay leaf 1 tbsp hot sauce Method: 1. Peel and chop into chunks the onion and carrots 2. Cut the steak into four serving portions 3. Combine the flour and salt and pepper and coat the steaks with the flour mix. Coat the bottom of an oven proof …

Quick and Easy Dinner? Belazu has the Answer

I wish there were more hours in the day. I really do. I find that there isn’t time to do everything I want to do in life. I like cooking but I also like eating out and playing sport during the week. But I can’t do it all. Or can I? I really don’t think quick, easy and cheap meals have to come in ready meal format. There are loads of solutions that are healthy, will tickle those tastebuds and be kind on your pocket. I play netball on Mondays and Wednesdays and find it really hard to find the time to cook on those evenings. So I was really pleased to see that Belazu has just launched sauce jars, which heated up are perfect poured over cous cous. I made this a couple of evenings before netball. I tried the Tomato and Smoked Paprika and the Red Pepper and Rose Harissa sauces and it took literally 10 minutes to prepare. I served with a fresh side salad and it was the perfect dinner – …