Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Chicken breast with vegetables and wholewheat spaghetti


Ingredients:
  • 2 chicken breasts, cut into small pieces
  • spring onions, thinly cut
  • red bell pepper, cut into small pieces
  • 3 garlic cloves, minced
  • broccoli, cut into bit size pieces
  • lemon juice of 2 lemons
  • tamari sauce, 4 tbsp
  • wholewheat spaghetti, cooked and drained
  • black pepper
Instructions

Pour tamari sauce, lemon juice and garlic over chicken and leave it to marinate for 1 hour.
Cook broccoli in salted water for 5 mins and then drain.
When ready heat up a little bit of oil on a wok and add the chicken without the marinade, leave it for later. After about 5 mins add the bell pepper, broccoli, spring onion and spaghetti and also the marinade. Fry for few minutes longer, add pepper to taste.

This is a really easy, quick and delicious dish!

Sunday, 8 January 2012

Couscous with Pineapple and green beans


Ingredients:
  • couscous, 1/3 cup
  • green beans
  • pineapple, cut into pieces
  • 1 red onion, diced
  • pumpkin seeds
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • salt and pepper to taste
Instructions

Cook green beans in water with added salt, not too long so that it's not too soft. Once cooked, drain it and add pepper. Put couscous in a pan and add boiling water, 1 cm above the couscous.
Heat up frying pan and add pumpkin seeds, dry fry them for a min and then add oil and onion, after couple of minutes add green beans and couscous, add salt and pepper to taste. As the last thing add pineapple, fry for 1 more minute and the dish is ready!

Celeriac Salad


Ingredients:
  • Half of medium celeriac, grated
  • 1 apple, grated
  • lemon juice of half lemon
  • non GMO soya cream
  • salt and pepper to taste
Instructions

Mix celeriac and apple, add lemon juice, then add a little bit of cream and salt and pepper to taste

Monday, 19 December 2011

Garbanzo Bean Salad


Ingredients:
  • 2 medium fresh tomatoes, chopped
  • 2 cups peeled diced cucumber
  • 1/2 medium onion, finelly minced
  • 2 medium cloves garlic, pressed
  • 2 cups garbanzo beans, drained well
  • 3 TBS fresh lemon juice
  • 3 TBS chopped basil leaves
  • 2 TBS extra virgin olive oil
  • salt and cracked pepper to taste
  • romaine lettuce leaves to serve
Instructions:
Mix all ingredients except lettuce together and chill. Serve on a bed of lettuce.

Wednesday, 16 November 2011

Kale, sweet potato & peanut stew


Ingredients

2TBSP Olive oil
1 large onion, chopped
1 tsp cumin seeds
400g sweet potatoes, cut into medium chunks
Cayenne pepper
400g can chopped tomatoes, cut into medium chunks
140g peanuts
250g green kale, washed and roughly chopped

Instructions

Heat a pan with a lid over a medium heat and add the oil. Add the onion and fry until light golden. Stir in the cumin seeds until fragrant, about 1 min, then add the seet potato, cayenne pepper, tomatoes, and 750ml water. Stir, cover and bring to boil, then uncover and simmer for 15 mins.

Meanwhile, whizz the peanuts in food processor until finely ground, add some salt to it. Add them to the stew, stir and taste for seasoning- you may want to add a pinch more salt. Simmer for a further 15 mins, stirring frequently.

Finally stir in the kale. Return to the boil and simmer, covered, stirring occassionaly, for about 8-10 mins or until the kale is cooked.
 

Sunday, 13 November 2011

Turkey Meatballs In Dill Sauce


Ingredients
  • Turkey mince meat (I personally buy a quality turkey meat and make mince myself)
  • Wholemeal breadcrumbs
  • 1 egg
  • Salt and pepper
  • 1/2 onion, diced
  • Bunch of dill, chopped
  • Spelt or wholemeal flour
  • Tamari sauce
  • Organic chicken or vegetable stock cube
Instructions

Mix meat, onion, egg and breadcrumbs in a bowl and add salt and pepper to taste. You need to be able to make little balls out of the mixture so if it's too loose add more breadcrumbs.
In the mean time boil water in a medium pan (not much, maybe half pan) and add stock cube. Once the water is boiling start rolling the meatballs in a little bit of flour and put them in a pan, let them cook for about 10 mins on medium to high heat stirring from time to time. Add the dill to the pan and after few minutes add Tamari sauce and salt and pepper to taste.
To thicken the sauce a bit mix 3-4 TBSP of flour in a glass of water and once smooth add it to the pan and stir. Cook for about 10 more minutes on low to medium heat.
Serve meatballs with mash potatoes with dill and beetroot salad.

Friday, 11 November 2011

Winter warmer porridge


Ingredients
  • Rice milk
  • Organic oats
  • 1 heaped tbsp ground flaxseed and nuts
  • Cinnamon
  • Bluberries
Instructions

Pour milk in a pan and start heating up on low to medium heat. Once you see porridge is almost ready add flaxseed and nuts and stir well. Pour porridge into a bowl, sprinkle with cinnamon, stir. add bluberries and enjoy!