Category: Light Meals
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Julie’s Asian Supermarket Tour: Paratha Recipe
Read the other installments of Julie”s Asian Supermarket Tour Parathas are really delicious little flat breads, which are plain or stuffed with potatoes, herbs, spices, paneer, mint, etc. Paratha Recipe Ingredients 2 cups wholewheat flour Water Pinch salt 1 cup veg/sunflower oil (2 tbsps to knead dough and the rest to fry the parathas) Stuffing…
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Best Breakfasts and Mexican Scrambled Eggs
The reliably hilarious and wonderful writer Grace Dent had a piece in the Guardian last week about breakfasts. Like Ms Dent, I am old enough to remember when orange juice was served alone as a starter, and am also grateful that breakfasts have improved from the days of tepid Ready Brek and soggy white toast.…
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Happy Pancake Tuesday!
Feck eating healthily today, for today is Pancake Tuesday! I made a vat of pancake batter last night (it’s best if it gets to sit overnight) to bring into work, where we’ll be cooking it up in our office kitchen with savoury fillings for lunch, followed by the highlight – a classically delicious plain pancake…
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Reader’s Recipe: Becky’s Lighter Falafel
Mmmmmm falafel. There are few things tastier than those little deep-fried balls of crunchiness, and the flavours of the salads and sauces that they come with are pretty special as well. Our reader Becky has helpfully given us a recipe for falafel that avoids deep-frying, and makes it a healthier choice. It’s also an easy…
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Wednesday Wind-down: Pasta with Roasted Fennel
This is a very tasty, cheap and easy midweek supper containing one of my favourite ingredients, fennel. Unbelievably good roasted. This served two large portions, but would easily stretch to three lunches or lighter dinners. The parsley brings some much needed colour and an added freshness to the dish. I only use wholewheat penne; it…
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Recipe: Raspberry vinagarette
I’m determined to find sick and twisted ways of forcing history’s five greatest foods – anchovies, honey, mustard, raspberries, and chicken wings – to live together in one tiny room and swap each other around in surprising combinations (I know, I know, mustard is a condiment not a food). Honey and mustard are in love,…
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Mezze recipes, part two
I’m really loving Anissa Helou’s fantastic mezze recipes, as well as the stories on her wonderful blog. She currently has a lovely tale to tell about chocolates made from camel milk. Here’s two more mezze recipes from her excellent book Modern Mezze; check out more of her books here. Mezze are so versatile: they make…
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Mezze recipes, part one
I’ve been watching Jamie Oliver’s New European Series – so far I’ve seen him in Morocco, Spain and, most recently, Greece. This episode was all about simple ingredients simply put together. He went spear fishing, met up with some bee keepers and nibbled on some goats cheese with a Greek Orthodox monk. Some of the…
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Recipes: Beef up a summer salad with bread
Bread doesn’t have to mean sandwiches and breakfast toast. As these Nigel Slater recipes show, bread can make a summer salad more substantial or make a side dish more filling. His ‘Salad of peas, beans and bread’ is an unusual combination and the perfect dish if the usual leafy salad doesn’t quite satisfy or fill…
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Recipes: Vietnamese – perfect summer food
Vietnamese cuisine is fresh, subtle and really satisfying. Vietnamese lime grilled prawns are a great bbq recipe that is simple but exotic. I had them at many beachside locations on my Honeymoon in Vietnam. The combined flavours of lime and pepper give the prawns a citrus kick that is quite unusual. Vietnamese pancakes are also…