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Adil’s Butter Chicken
This is a great curry recipe for Butter Chicken has been provided by family friend and chef extraordinaire, Adil Karimbux. It’s been adapted from long running family traditions for everyone to enjoy!
Goan fish curry
This recipe for Goan fish curry has to be one of the quickest and most delicious curries I have ever made. It has a hot, deep spicy flavour and can be ready within half an hour.
Lentil & basil savoury pate
Lentil & basil savoury pate is made from brown lentils and despite it looking somewhat bland, it screams with flavour. I wanted to share this to dispel that myth of lentils being boring veggie food for ageing hippies.
It is easy to make and full of protein and fibre. Absolutely fab on homemade crusty bread or as a sandwich filler.
Brawn
Brawn can be eaten on toasted brown bread lightly buttered and topped with tomato, or in with a salad in the summer.
Perhaps like me you have good childhood memories of brawn, or you have seen it on the charcuterie counter and bought it or hesitated to buy it. Now could be the time to have a go; it is easy and cheap to make, give it a try!
Tomato soup
This is a really quick recipe for tomato soup that you can make and serve within half an hour. It’s a beautiful colour, tastes great and is healthy! There’s no need to make this more complicated than it has to be…
Rabbit Casserole with Shallots and Walnuts
We rear our own rabbits, generous friends have a walnut tree and other friends from Brittany arrived, last autumn, with gifts that included a string of shallots. Today I have combined these ingredients with an onion and a swede from our own garden to create a warming winter casserole; very appropriate as the temperature has fallen below zero.
The addition of walnuts made the casserole taste more gamey but rabbit avoids that well hung flavour that does has never appealed to me. If you hesitate to eat rabbit or game, substitute with chicken and possibly a few small mushrooms.
Beetroot & Fennel Risotto
I was thinking about what to cook in January as I went looking around our veggie patch for inspiration. We have an abundance of beetroots at the moments so I picked three of them and walked back to the warmth of the kitchen, grabbing a few other ingredients on the way.
I’m not always a big fan of the risotto but this one turned out to be the most dramatically red and delicious supper.
Moroccan vegetable tagine
My recipe for Moroccan lamb tagine has proven to be pretty popular, but it wasn’t suitable for vegetarians. In a quest to get an extra intake of vegetables and spice to keep a cold away I’ve built on it and created a vegetable version.
This recipe has chickpeas and potatoes instead of meat and turned out [...]
Lamb kebabs with minted yoghurt dip
Here’s a great recipe which is a feast for the eyes as well as your belly. The lamb is marinaded in rosemary and garlic and left overnight to soak up the flavour – this is a must.
The vegetables all sweeten up nicely when you cook them on the grill, or I suppose you could even cook this on the barbie when it’s nice and sunny!
Mediterranean Vegetable Tart
A receipe for Mediterranean Vegetable Flan with peppers, aubergine and courgette. The non Vegans can top with goats cheese, as an extra special treat!
Also contains a recipe for the pastry case.
