HEADY SPICED RICE & LENTILS BOWL
One of our favourite meals on cool Spring evening is this wonderfully spiced bowl of goodness. It’s a great balance between the meaty, savoury flavours of the lentils and chewy fried rice, fragrant spice and the comfy sweetness of butternut squash. Most importantly it’s filling and satisfying, even for our most carnivorous friends.
Creamy Vegan Béchamel (White) Sauce
As one of the French cuisine’s ‘Mother Sauces’, the humble béchamel or ‘white sauce’ faces uphill battles when it comes to vegan or allergen-free cooking. Typically make from cow’s milk, butter and wheat flour, it sets off a few alarm bells for friends and family with food intolerances. For our plant-based version, we’re using some alternative ingredients that make for a super easy and wonderfully creamy sauce, here prepared with a heady bit of spice and served with shiitake mushrooms ...
Tangy Gooseberry & Mustard Pasta
Sometimes brilliant flavour harmonies appear in totally unexpected combinations of ingredients. And so it was with a tub of fresh gooseberries in the fridge, that we came up with this surprisingly exotic and moreish pasta dish. There’s a nice kick from the mustard, a slightly tart sweetness from the berries, and a deeply satisfying basil undertone. We dare you to try it!
Umami napoletana
Knowing how to cook up a few simple sauces in a flash is a real super power in the kitchen! After all, the perfect sauce can turn any ingredient into a gourmet meal. We’ve selected our three favourite staples: tomato sauce, green pesto and creamy béchamel, with super quick fixes for whipping up each on in no time. Let’s start with a Napoletana-style tomato sauce that’s absolutely packed with satisfying umami flavours.
Super Supper Soup
Every now and again one of those days strike. You know what we’re on about… The kind of cold, hard, long day that can only be soothed by a prize bowl of delicious, comforting, umami-packed, creamy soup. It warms you up, fills you up, and lifts your spirits right from the first spoonful.
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