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.

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.

 

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.

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!

Kale Soup

Ingredients:

• Organic vegetable stock cube
• Curly green kale, chopped
• 3 carrots, chopped
• 3 medium potatoes, cut into cubes
• chopped parsley
• salt, pepper, tamari sauce

Instructions:

Boil water in a medium pan, add stock cube, kale, carrot and potatoes and spices and cook on medium heat till vegetables are tender. Top with parsley when serving.

Banana and Peanut ice-cream

To make the ice-cream, you first have to freeze 3 ripe bananas. Cut them into pieces before freezing.
Ones bananas are frozen put them in a blender and add 2 TBSP of unsweetened and unsalted peanut butter, you can also add some cinnamon. Blend and the all natural sugar and dairy free ice-cream is ready!
If you're allergic to peanuts, you can blend just bananas or add any other nuts such as cashews.

Stuffed Mushrooms

Ingredients:

• 2 tomatoes, diced
• 6 large portobello mushrooms
• 4 garlic cloves, chopped
• lemon juice
• 1 leek, chopped
• 1 onion, chopped
• fresh basil, chopped
• grated cheese
• fresh parsley
• olive oil, salt and pepper

Instructions:

Heat up olive oil, fry onion, add tomatoes, garlic, leek, salt and pepper to taste-saute ingredients
Squeeze about 1 tbsp lemon over the ingredients
Add basil
Heat up the oven to 240C fan.
Stuff the mushrooms with the ingredients and top it with cheese
Bake for about 12 mins, then sprinkle with parsley and enjoy!
They taste absolutely wonderful!!