Let's create a new resource!
Everyone is invited to donate a recipe to this thread, but the rules are strict.
The recipes are to help people to give up processed food and indulge in the pleasure of home cooking.
- Now for this to work, no recipe can take more then 30 mins from start to table to make sure it fits in with modern living.
- All recipes must not contain any processed foods other than dried pulses, beans and grains.
- Dishes can be veggie, vegan, meat or even raw based.
- No recipe can contain food suppliments.
Most of all make the thread fun. So no debates on the rights and wrongs of particular food style, just add recipes that take no more than 30 mins to prep, and are processed food free!
Enjoy,
Myarka.
PS, the one who posts the best dish invites everyone round for dinner!:eek:
Not a complete meal, but a selicious accompaniment to a moroccan casserole that was made at a friend's house a few weeks ago:
Pomegranate Salsa
Fruit of one ripe pomegranate
2 spring onions
One lime
A handful of fresh mint leaves
A couple of tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
Scoop the fruit of the pomegranate into a dish, ensuring all remnants of white pithy stuff is discarded.
Chop spring onions and add.
Add juice of the whole lime to the dish also.
Finely shop the mint up and add.
Add the oil, and stir it all up beautifully.
Voila, a quick, colourful and flavoursome accompaniment to anything you like! We had ours with couscous and a chicken lemon and coriander casserole....delish!
Breakfast filling stick to your ribs cold weather brekky...sustains for hours..
1 or 2 tablespoon oats
1 tablespoon quinoi
1 teaspoon oat or rice bran
few chopped nuts
few sunflower/pumpkin seeds
cooked with water or soy milk
cooled down with a tub flavoured yogurt, and honey if desired.
Hmm....... not sure if this counts time wise? Lentils need an overnight soak or a few hours. Could be left in morning prior to work then cooked. Tell me off if I'm out of time!! 😀
250-300g lentils (pre-soaked, see above)
1 chopped onion
2 chopped carrots
2-3 medium potatoes chopped
Bring lentils to the boil in pan of water. Have a kettle of boiling water to hand to top up as necessary. Add veg and bring back to the boil. Turn down to a simmer. Test veg after 15-20 mins. I add a pinch of salt but you can adjust to your taste. Black pepper if you want but I find seasoning a personal choice.
This is an easily adapted recipe to include most veg that is in the kitchen! Leeks, beans, peas whatever you like.
vegan stew
Here's my attempt at this recipe challenge !
Vegan Stew (serves 2)
1 green pepper
1 red pepper
1 yellow pepper (the colour makes no difference to the flavour but makes it look more colourful on the plate)
2 tbsp veg oil
2 cloves garlic
4 ripe tomatoes
1 small aubergine
sea salt to taste
pinch cayenne pepper
6 tabs water
5/6 oz cooked brown rice
Brown rice normally takes about 40/45 mins to cook but you can speed it up as follows. Before you go to work in the morning put the rice in a pan/bowl and cover with boiling water. Cover the pan/bowl and leave to stand for at least 6 hours. When you want to cook it, drain it well, cover with fresh water and cook as normal - should take about 20/25 mins.
1. Drain soaked rice, cover with fresh water and put on to cook.
2. Slice the onion and peppers thinly. Saute them in the oil until soft(about 5/10 mins quicker if you keep the pan covered)
3. Crush the garlic, chop the toms, dice the aubergine, add to the pan and cook a few mins longer.
4. Add seasoning then water. bring to the boil then lower heat. Cover and simmer for about 10 mins (if it starts to dry out, add a bit more water).
5. Drain the cooked rice and stir in. Mix well
6. Serve and eat.
I would normally leave the cayenne pepper out but liven it up with a bit of soy sauce but I think that would count as "processed"? :confused: