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Cauliflower and Cheese Soup – Mary Berry

This is very quick and you can make it in an Instant Pot or on the stove – both methods given.

  • tablespoon of oil
  • 1 onion, chopped

Saute in Instant Pot or gentry fry in the pan until translucent

  • 1 Cauliflower

Chop into florets, slice the stalk and pale leaves. Add to the pot and cook for a minute or two

  • 2 tbs plain flour

Add to the pot and stir about

  • 1 litre vegetable stock

Stir in, cover and cook. Instant Pot Soup setting for 10 minutes or hob for 15-20 minutes until tender.

  • 50g blue or cheddar cheese (or vegan cheese/equivalent)

Stir in and melt. Zip with a hand blender and adjust the seasoning, you might need a little salt and white pepper.

Very veggie dhal

This makes a great main-meal dhal, which can be vegan, vegetarian or meaty depending what you put on top of it.  It can also be a curry side. This serves 6 or more but you can scale it down.

  • 1 Tbs oil
  • 1/2 an onion
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1.5 Tbs ginger, freshly grated
  • 1 red chilli, finely chopped

Heat the oil in a pan and gently fry unil soft. Add

  • 1 heaped tsp turmeric
  • 1 heaped tsp garam masala
  • 1 tsp ground cumin

Fry for one minute. Add

  • 3 cups split red lentils
  • 2 courgettes grated

Fry one minute. Add

  • 1.2 litres water

Simmer for 20 minutes. Keep an eye on it and add water if it looks like it is drying out. Then add

  • 3 cups roughly chopped spinach
  • 1 x 400g can chick peas
  • 1x 400 ml can Coconut milk
  • 1 tsp tamari or soy sauce or salt

Simmer for another 10 minutes until thick. Adjust the seasoning, you may need more salt. Meanwhile, in another pan heat

  • 1 Tbs oil
  • 1 tsp chilli flakes
  • 1.5 tsp cumin seeds

Fry gently until the aromas are released.

Serve into bowls, topped with the chilli/cumin oil.  You can serve as it, with rice or breads (vegan), or

Top with hard-boiled egg and youghurt (vegetarian), or

Serve with a dry meat curry or tandoori grilled chicken or lamb

Tomato Tabbouleh Salad

This is an easy lunch salad as long as you plan ahead with the bulgur wheat! You can us a variety of proteins for this to make it a more substantial dish, or you can use it as a side. For 2 portions (main) or 4 portions (side):

  • 100 gm Bulgur wheat
  • 400ml water

Simmer 15 minutes covered, turn off the heat and leave for 10 minutes. Meanwhile

  • 1tbs olive oil
  • 1 tbs tomato puree
  • 1 tbs lemon juice
  • 1/4 tsp ground allspice

Mix to make a dressing. When the bulgur is cooked, fluff it up. It should have absorbed all the water. Mix in the dressing and leave to cool.

  • 2 dried figs or dates, chopped
  • 2 spring onions chopped, or chives
  • 250g cherry tomatoes, halved
  • handful of mint leaves, shredded
  • handful of parsley, chopped
  • Optional – 1/4 cucumber cubed

Mix up with the cooked bulgur to make a salad. If you are serving this as a main course salad, you can top with:

  • fried halloumi (vegetarian) or…
  • Smoked mackerel fillets, or…
  • Falafel (vegan), or…
  • Grilled chicken breast, or…
  • beef mince kofta, or…
  • Lamb meatballs

and a few fancy lettuce leaves alongside. Pittas, yoghurt, hummus, Lebanese pickles all start to make this look like a feast.

Vegan courgette fritters that non-vegans will love

Makes about 16 fritters: serves four as a main meal or eight as part of a brunch

  • 3 cups (500g) grated courgettes, water squeezed out
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 cup (125g) plain flour
  • 1/4 cup (15g) nutritional yeast
  • 1 and 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp garlic puree
  • 2 spring onions chopped, or chives
  • 1/4 cup (56g) meted vegan butter or spread

Mix that lot in a bowl. The batter should be fairly stiff, adjust flour or water until it is. Heat a frying pan, add

  • 2 Tbsp olive oil

Put fritter-sized blobs of batter in the pan. Fry 2-3 minutes per side until brown and crispy, and cooked through. They will be crispy on the outside and soft in the middle. You may have to do this in batches. Keep warm until ready to serve.

 

Parsnip, hazelnut and apple soup

This is a really “different” soup that is good for everyday and would stand up for a dinner party starter too.

  • 100g hazelnuts, roughly chopped
  • Bunch of sage leaves (about 20)
  • 500g parsnips, peeled and chopped into 1cm cubes
  • 2 eating apples, peeled and cut into cubes
  • 4tbs oil

Heat your oven to 200C. Reserve a few sage leaves, 1 tbs of oil and 15g of nuts. Toss the rest into and oven tray and roast for 30 minutes until tender and slightly charred.

  • 1 litre vegetable stock

Remove the sage leaves from the tray and discard. On the stove top, pour the stock into the tray and bubble until the charred bits in the tray have loosened and incorporated into the liquid. Blend until smooth. If it is too thick, add some more stock.

Fry the reserved sage leaves and hazelnuts in oil until the leaves are crispy and the nuts are brown.

  • 4 tbs creme fraiche (or vegan alternative)

Serve the soup in bowls with a spoon of creme fraiche and a scatter of nuts and leaves.

 

Chana Masala (Chickpea curry)

  • 200g dried chickpeas (or 2 x 400g tins chickpeas, drained and rinsed) – dried chickpeas have a better taste and texture than tinned

If using dried chickpeas, soak them overnight, covered, in a pan of lukewarm water. The next morning, drain the water and cover with fresh water. Add ½ tsp salt and boil until soft (about 1½-2 hours). Drain and set aside.

  • 2 garlic cloves, crushed
  • Thumb-size piece fresh ginger, grated
  • 1 medium green chilli, finely chopped

Put the garlic, ginger and chilli in a small bowl and mix together into a coarse paste.

  • 3-4 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 large onion, finely chopped
  • 1 tsp cumin seeds
  • 400g tin chopped tomato

Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan over a medium heat and fry the onion for 10-15 minutes until soft and starting to brown. Add the cumin seeds and the ginger, garlic and chilli paste, and cook for a few seconds. Add the tomatoes and stir for 2 minutes, adding salt to taste.

  • 1 level tsp ground turmeric
  • ¼ tsp chilli powder
  • 1 tsp garam masala
  • ½ tsp ground coriander
  • ½ tsp ground cumin

Add the turmeric, chilli powder, garam masala, ground coriander and ground cumin and stir well, then add the chickpeas and cook for 15 minutes.

  • Handful fresh coriander, chopped
  • Natural yogurt and lemon wedges to serve (vegan yoghurt for vegans)

Stir in the chopped coriander and serve with a dollop of yogurt and lemon wedges to squeeze over.

Best ever butternut squash soup

Ten out of ten for this one. You can use any type of squash or pumpkin but butternut is the best.

  • 1 butternut squash, peeled, seeded, cubed
  • 2 celery stalks sliced
  • 3 leeks sliced
  • 2 carrots sliced
  • 1 tsp black mustard seeds
  • 30g butter or Bertoli (or oil if you want vegan)

Chuck everything in a big pot and sweat gently for 10 minutes.

  • 1.2L light chicken (or vegetable stock to make it vegan)

Add the stock and simmer for 25 minutes. Whizz with a stick blender. Adjust seasoning and serve.

Even more incredible with Gremolata sprinkled on top:

  • 1 tbs parsley chopped finely
  • 2 cloves garlic chopped finely
  • zest of one lemon

Mix the above. That is Gremolata. Sprinkle on meat and fish to zap it up a bit if it needs it.

 

Roast Vegetable Salad

Simple to make and flexible with main ingredients. Firstly make this awesome dressing which would go with other things too.

  • 50g cashew nuts

Boil 3 minutes. Add

  • 2 garlic cloves

Boil 2 minutes more. Drain, remove garlic skins and add to a blender (stick blender is best) with

  • Juice of a lemon
  • 2 tsp onion powder
  • half a cucumber

Zap. Add the other half of a cucumber and zap again. You can experiment by adding herbs – tarragon, chives, etc but I am not sure that is necessary.

For the salad – you can swap vegetables around but I used the following:

  • Red cabbage, cut into thin slices including the core so it stays together as a “steak”
  • Sweet potato, peeled and cut into 2cm cubes
  • Courgette, sliced
  • oil

Fry in a hot pan until charred. Transfer to an oven 180C fan, season  and roast 30 minutes. Less if your charring took a while. Take them out when soft all the way through, and cool for a bit. Meanwhile…

  • Broccoli florets
  • Chives chipped or spring onions in 3 cm lengths

In the same pan, add a  bit more oil then toss the broccoli and chives around and char until bright green with charred bits. They should be still crunchy but not raw. Remove.

  • Tofu (vegan) or halloumi (vegetarian)

In the same pan, sear until browned.

  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Lettuce hearts, quartered

Arrange the roasted and seared items with the fresh items in a  tasteful display on your platter. Serve with the sauce.

You could also try asparagus, treated like the broccoli; button mushrooms left whole and fried with garlic and herbs in olive oil; swede or parsnip treated like the sweet potato.

 

Onion Rings

The best side with Daddy Burgers. You will need:

  • Large onion, sliced into 1cm slices and rings separated (1 onion = 2 servings)
  • Fizzy water
  • Self-raising flour
  • Oil for deep frying

Make a batter with the flour and water, the consistency of double cream. Start with a cup of flour and add water until it looks right. Heat your oil in a saucepan to 180C. Dip onion rings into the batter and deep fry for 2-4 minutes until they look light brown. Drain on kitchen paper, serve with plenty of salt. Salt and deep frying are bad for you but the onion is good so I guess it cancels out.

Butternut squash and lentil dhal

Easy.

  • prepared squash
  • 2 tbs mild curry paste
  • oil
  • seasoning

Put cubes of squash in an oven tray, toss in oil and curry paste and season. Cook in a 200C oven for 30 minutes until soft. Meanwhile…

  • 200g green lentils
  • 600ml vegetable stock

Put in a pan and simmer 40 minutes or in a pressure cooker for 6 minutes.

  • 100g spinach
  • 1 lime, zested and juiced
  • pack of coriander, leaves chopped

Add to the lentils. Add the squash and heat until the spinach has wilted.

  • 1tbs desiccated coconut

Heat in a pan until slightly brown

  • 50 pomegranate seeds

Serve in bowls.  Add pomegranate seeds and coconut on top. Serve with warm naan breads and plain yoghurt.

 

 

 

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