This combination of four dishes is a great way to use the abundant courgettes and beans available at this time of year. Of course each of these dishes can be used separately, the fritters are lovely as a breakfast dish or cold spread with butter. The tomatoey garlicky beans are a dish we often had…
Category: side dishes
Almond and parsley pesto
This pesto is very quick and easy to make and is very useful with so many dishes, great with roast vegetables, chicken, a sauce with courgetti or it can be thinned with extra oil or lemon juice into a lovely dressing for salads. Keeps in the fridge for a week, try and keep a thin…
Hard boiled egg and parsley salsa
This hard boiled egg salsa is great with meat or fish but also great as a light lunch piled onto cos lettuce leaves. It is quick and simple to make and can be pulled together in just 15 minutes.Ingredients. 3 generous tablespoons of pine nuts. 2 scant tablespoons of capers. juice of 1 lemon. 30ml…
Chicken liver pate
Chicken liver pate is excellent for a low carb high fat diet. Liver is extremely nutrient dense, an all round good source of many vitamins and minerals, The only carbs in liver pate come from the onions, so it’s a snack you can eat a lot of. Of course you need to find a way…
Sunflower seed and coconut crackers
These crackers are so simple to make and are quite different from the flax seed crackers, they are more fragile but quite yummy just eaten on there own or topped with hummus or crumbled onto salads or roast vegetables. Ingredients 1/2 cup of sunflower seeds, I like to use sprouted seeds but it’s not necessary. 1…
Cavelero Nero with garlicky sunflower seed butter
Cavelero Nero is a deep green Tuscan kale and like all kale is packed with vitamins K, A & C, minerals such as manganese and copper, omega 3 fatty acids plus it is rich in carotenoid & flavonoid antioxidants. It is a great winter food as it is plentiful in the shops or in the…
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