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Thursday 22 December 2011

CHRISTMAS HONEY COOKIES

                     (This is an easy to make yummy Christmas cookie recipe, suitable for vegetarian) 

Ingredients:
-12g honey                                                           -grated skin of a whole lemon
-250g flour                                                           -cinnamon
-50g butter
-50g sugar
-1 whole egg
-1 egg yellow
-1/2tsp bicarbonate soda

Heat up the honey so its a bit runny and luck warm but not hot. Mix the butter in first then add the renaming ingredients. Make a soft dough. Place the dough into a bowl, cover it and put it in the fridge for over night.

NOTE: it is going to be quite sticky so you can add a bit more flour if is difficult to mix together, but dont worry it will settle after left in the fridge.

Next day take it out from the fridge, leave it for an hour or so to let the pastry warm up a bit as it will be easier to roll out.
Use floured rolling board to roll the pastry approx 1/2 cm high then cut the shapes with cookie cuter.



Beat up the over left egg white and brush the cookies with it.

Place them on a baking tray with baking paper and bake them in a preheated 180 degrees oven for approx 10 minutes. Bake them fast, be careful not to burn them though.


You can use chocolate or other cake decoration to decorate the tops to make them look pretty :)

The cookies will keep fresh for couple of weeks if you store them in a biscuit tin.





 (Note: If you want to make it vegan, use dairy free butter and egg replacement. The texture will only be a bit different,but it will still come out lovely)

Enjoy:) And wishing you all a  wonderful Christmas!! :)

Friday 16 December 2011

WALNUT AND BANANA BREAD



 (This is an easy to bake vegan cake)

Ingredients:

-225g peeled banana                                                  -1 tsp ground cinnamon
-125ml water                                                             -1/2tsp grated nutmeg
-egg replacement for 1 egg                                         -60g walnut
-60ml sunflower oil                                                    -90g raisins or 10g brown sugar
-240g rice or wholemeal flour                                   
-2tsp bicarbonate soda


Place the banana, water, egg replacement and oil in the food processor and process until smooth.
Add the flour, bicarbonate soda and spices and process again.

Break the walnut into small pieces and add to the mixture along with the raisins or sugar. Mix in.
Process only for few seconds until the walnut and raisins are mixed in but not broken.

Place the mixture into a greased loaf tin pan. Bake in a preheated 170 degrees oven for 45 minutes or until brown on top and firm to touch.


Cool for few minutes in the pan then turn it out.





NOTE: If you don`t have a food processor, mash the banana until smooth and mix it with the rest of the ingredients. Either way, the cake will come out lovely.


Serve sliced when cool.
  Enjoy :)






Friday 9 December 2011

NUT ROAST AND VEGGIE RICE WITH DAHL

Serves 2
(Veggie rice with dahl and nut roast from the shop. Home made nut roast recipe coming soon.)

Ingredients dahl:

-1 cup dahl
-1/2 tsp ginger
-1 garlic clove
-1/2tsp turmeric
-1/2tsp cumin
-1/2tsp Indian spicy mix
-salt and pepper

For the rice:
-1 cup of rice
 1/2 onion
-salt
-trimmed fine beans or sugar snap peas
-water
olive oil

For the nut roast:

-pack of granosa mixed nut roast mix( readily available in health and food stores)


Soak  the dahl for few hours so it cooks quicker. Place in a saucepan with water.
Bring to boil and after half hour add the ginger, crushed garlic and spices.
Simmer gentle until the dahl is cooked, thick and smooth. Salt it to taste.


Prepare and bake the nut roast mix according to the packet instruction.


In the meantime cook the rice. 1 cup of rice 2 cups of water.
Use a bit more water if you cook brown or wild rice. Season it with salt.

Finely dice the onion  and cut the beans or peas.
Place in a larger saucepan with olive oil and sweat them for about 10 minutes.
Add the cooked rice and mix it together.






Please check back soon for the home made nut roast recipe.

Enjoy :)






















Thursday 1 December 2011

STUFFED AVOCADO



Serves 2

This is a wonderful and delicious  easy to make starter.

Ingredients:


-1 large ripped avocado
-60g feta cheese
-1/2 tin tuna
-egg free mayonnaise
-couple cherry tomatoes
 -lemon juice and black pepper to taste


Half the avocado and discard the stone. Scoop out the avocado leaving about a cm in around the skin.

Mash the avocado and mix it with the ingredients together.

Season it with black pepper and lemon juice.

 Pile mixture back into the avocado shell.

Cut cherry tomatoes into half and decorate the top.

Enjoy :)