Featured Recipe
Puff Pastry Carrots
Saturday, July 05, 2025 |
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These adorable carrot-shaped flaky pastries are filled with a delectable roasted carrot hummus—they can be filled with herbed cheese or tuna cream if you ain’t into hummus and would make a fun starter or snack.
If you don’t have those cone-shaped moulds, make your own with aluminum foil and baking paper. Cut a regular baking paper into 4 rectangles. Roll up each rectangle into a funnel and secure the baking paper at the sides with a stapler. To make the funnel a little more stable, place a small ball of aluminium foil in the funnel and press the top ends of the baking paper roughly into the funnel.
Cucumber Salad with Kefir Dressing and Falafel
Tuesday, July 01, 2025 |
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Full of zing, crunch and fresh flavour, this recipe is a great way to use up some leftover homemade falafel. Whether it’s for breakfast, brunch or a quick snack, it’s a dish to enjoy with your family and friends. It is wonderful to enjoy it as a salad, but equally delicious stuffed into pitta pockets or with charred wraps. It’s very easy to make falafel at home, either using soaked chickpeas, or canned one for ease, and they can be fried, baked or airfried. Or just buy a pack of those premix and you will have the dinner in 30 minutes.
Air Fryer Falafel
Tuesday, May 27, 2025 |
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Falafel epitomises Middle Eastern cuisine like no other dish.The gluten free (without pitta) chickpea balls with a crispy exterior and a chunky, soft interior are a street food staple and always a huge hit. Many people are put off by deep-frying them at home. However, this can be quickly solved by preparing falafel in a air fryer.
Opinions differ as to how good falafel is made. Every nation in the Levant region has its own recipes and spices that they prefer. However, they all agree that the best falafel balls are not made from pre-cooked chickpeas. The grainy, chunky texture is crucial for achieving the best falafel, but if you use tinned chickpeas, they will be too dense, mushy and, in the worst case, very dry. You can shape them either in balls or patties if you want to stuff them in pitta pockets.
Sherry-glazed Chorizo and Borlotti Beans
Thursday, May 22, 2025 |
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Very often just a few ingredients are all that’s needed to make a really flavourful and comforting meal with minimum effort. Get a spoon and dig in! I used canned borlotti beans, making this recipe a total cinch to put together, but broad beans, butter beans or chickpeas would work beautifully. If desired, add a tablespoon of honey to make it sweet and spicy. Serve with a steaming bowl of saffron scented rice or crusty bread for an even more substantial meal.
Chicken with White Beans, Capers and Lemon
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 |
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Easy and perfectly juicy roasted chicken with tangy white beans combined with lemon and dill for a warming and hearty high protein dinner that the whole family will love. This is made with bone-in skin-on chicken thighs, but drumsticks would work just as great. While any white bean with or without mirepoix will do, I prefer cannellini, aka white kidney beans, to navy beans or pea beans.
Maghmour Lebanese Aubergine Stew with Chickpeas
Monday, February 10, 2025 |
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A simple and tasty aubergine stew with chickpeas simmered in a garlicky tomato sauce from Lebanon. Traditonally, the aubergine would have been deep-fried in copious amounts of olive oil. I chose to airfry them with avocado oil which I need to use up soon, and it’s easier and less messy. Great as an appetizer, topping for some crusty bread or flatbread or as a main course. It can be served warm or at room temperature. Baharat, an Arabic spice mix, gives the maghmour the necessary zing and makes it really tasty.
Baked Falafels with Chia and Pistachio
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 |
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These naturally gluten free falafel taste super delicious and a little different to the classic version using canned chickpeas and incorporating chia and pistachios into the mixture. Plus they are baked instead of fried, making them perfect for those who don’t want to deal with deep frying in their kitchen. Serve them with yoghurt dressing or hummus and some seasonal salad. Alternatively, tuck them into pitta pockets with yoghurt dressing and coleslaw.
Charred Sweetheart Cabbage and Butter Beans with Caperberry Vinaigrette
Friday, January 17, 2025 |
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Budget-friendly, healthy and versatile, these charred sweetheart cabbage with white beans and freshly grated Parmesan will be a favourite on your dinner table in no time at all. Use savoy if you can’t find sweetheart cabbage and cannellinis are a great substitute for butter beans.
Sweetheart, also known as pointed cabbage or hispi cabbage, is a part of the cruciferous vegetable family, but milder, sweeter and more salad-like in taste and texture, and it also cooks faster.
Aubergine Dhansak
Friday, December 13, 2024 |
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Dhansak is a popular Indian dish with it's roots in Persian cuisine. Traditionally, dhansak curry is made with mutton or goat, lentils and vegetables. This recipe uses eggplants without meat, but is still bursting with flavour and sure to become a favourite if you enjoy curry. You can use whatever vegetables you like, pumpkin, carrot, or cauliflower all work great. Dhansak is normally quite mild, but if you prefer really hot curries then it is easy to spice it up.
Easy Red Lentil Curry with Pasta
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 |
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What a simple yet flavourful treat: this lentil curry with pasta provides you with new energy and fills you up without making you feel unwell. The nutty creamy red lentils combined with sweet tangy tomato and aromatic curry are simply brilliant. The secret is that you first roast the lentils with spices so that the smoky flavour can develop. You can serve the curry with pasta or rice.
Prawn Salad with Chickpeas and Pinenuts
Saturday, November 30, 2024 |
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This warm salad of spicy prawns, chickpeas and pine nuts comes together in just 15 minutes and requires very little effort. I used a small chilli pepper for a little heat, leave it out if you don't like. Swap the arugula for baby spinach or mâche and pinenuts for cashews or hazelnuts. Enjoy it with some homemade bread or cooked wholegrains.
Falafel with Green Pea Hummus
Thursday, November 14, 2024 |
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Sure you can easily buy crispy falafel from any kebab shop, but you can also simply make them yourself at home! Whether served on their own, with hummus or in a wrap - these crispy falafel made with chickpea flour and oriental spices always work! They are easy and quick to prepare and taste super with pea hummus which has has an extra kick from chilli flakes.