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Vegetable Soup

By john french
Quick, easy and healthy too - lovely served with fresh baked bread
- 1 Tin Chopped Tomatoes
- 500g mixed veg fresh or frozen of your choice
- 1 litre of vegetable stock
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Mexican Tostadas

By HappyChappy11
These spicy mexican tostadas makes a great change from traditional meals; colourful and tasty!!
- 2 red onions
- 2 limes
- seasoning
- 1 1/2 tbsps sunflower oil
- 2 garlic cloves
- 2tsp ground cumin
- 1tbsp tomato puree
- 1tbsp chipotle paste
- 400g kidney bean tin
- 4 corn tortillas
- 80g radishes
- large handful fresh coriander
Summer feta and green veg lasagne

By Katie of blog www.katielovescooking.wordpress.com, Katie Loves Cooking
A lasagne full of gorgeous summery flavours and topped with pretty asparagus tips
- Oil
- 3 cloves crushed garlic
- Half a 30g tin anvhovies, chopped
- Load of asparagus, tips left intact and rest chopped
- 4 spring onions, chopped
- Few handfuls peas
- Few handfuls spinach
- 300ml single cream
- Bunch of fresh mint, chopped
- Grated zest of 1/2 a lemon
- 2 blocks of feta
- Bit of veg stock if necessary (I used Veg oxo cubes in boiled water)
- Lasagne sheets
Rib of beef with porcini and red wine gravy

By jeves
Pick out the larger mushrooms and put them in the hot stock
- 25g (1oz) dried porcini muchrooms
- 400ml (14fl oz) hot beef stock
- 2 thyme sprigs, finely chopped
- 3 Garlic cloves, crushed
- 3tbsp olive oil
- 2.5kg (5lb) beef bone in carvery rib
- 2 shallots, finely chopped
- 1tsp plain flour
- 200ml (7oz) red wine
Spinach and cream cannelloni

By gribouille
Cook the lasagne pasta as directed on the packet (usually al dente), drain and cool under cold water
- Enough lasagne sheets for the size of your dish and number of guests,
- 1 kilo of spinach (preferably fresh)
- 125 gr of crème fraîche
- Grated cheese.
- Salt and pepper.
Gammon Cooked In Apple Juice And Honey

By BristolBites, Bristol Bites
Gammon has the tendency to be very salty - this recipe from Indian chef Romy Gill solves that problem! Visit www
- - Unsmoked gammon joint
- - 1 litre apple juice
- - 3tsp light honey
- - 1 white onion, sliced
- - 3 bay leaves
- - 6 whole cloves
- - 8 peppercorns
- - 1 inch cinnamon stick
- - 1 heaped tsp garam masala
Chicken Kasha (Slow cooked chicken in spicy yoghurt curry )

By Joydeep Pal, Joydeep's World of Food
A very popular Bengali Main dish, Chicken Kasha, is cooked almost everywhere
- 1 kg Chicken (washed and medium pcs)
- 100 gm Yoghurt or curd
- 2 pc Tomato (big)
- 3 or 4 Green Chillies
- 2 tablespoons of Ginger Garlic Paste
- 6-8 tablespoons of Oil : Mustard (preferred)/Sunflower oil
- Medium Size Onion: 2 nos
- Spices:
- Cummin Whole(Jeera): 1/4 teaspoon
- Cinnamon (Darchini): 1/4 of a stick
- Cardamom (Elaichi): 3 small one
- Clove (Labongo/laung): 3
- Bay leaves (Tejpata) : 3
- Black peppercorns (Golmorich) : 10
- Garam Masala: ½ teaspoon
- Cumin powder (Jeera): 1 table-spoon
- Turmeric powder (Halud/Haldi): 1 tea-spoon
- Sugar: 1 tea-spoon
- Water
- Salt to Taste
(Stuffed Cabbage Rolls)

By GMulligan
To make the meat stuffing, combine the pork, veal, rice, garlic, stock, pepper (or chilli flakes) and parsley with ...
- For the cabbage rolls:
- 500g pork mince
- 500g veal mince
- 200g arborio rice
- 1 tablespoon sweet paprika
- 4 clove garlic, crushed
- 1 1/2 – 2 tablespoons stock
- pepper (or chilli flakes which are not traditional but tasty)
- 1/2 cup chopped continental parsley
- 1 big jar pickled cabbage
- For the sauce:
- 1L low salt chicken stock (or water)
- 1 can crushed tomatoes
- 400g smoked speck, sliced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons plain flour
- 1 clove garlic, crushed
- 1 tablespoon sweet paprika
- a little extra stock or water
Lamb Bhuna

By marisab
In a heated pot of oil or ghee add Lamb Pieces Ginger paste 1 tbs Garlic Paste 1 tbs Tomatoes 2 medium Onions 3
- Lamb Pieces
- Ginger paste 1 tbs
- Garlic Paste 1 tbs
- Tomatoes 2 medium
- Onions 3 large
- bay leaves 4
- cardamoms 6
- cinnamon sticks 2 small
- salt to taste
- 1-1/2 tbs mixed masala
- 1/4 tbs tumeric
- 1/2 tbs coriander powder
- 1/4 tbs ground cumin
Cornish chicken with lemon and maple syrup

By Paul T
Mix all the ingredients for the stuffing and fill the chicken
- 1 Cornish chicken
- The stuffing:
- · 1 piece of baguette bread cut into small pieces
- · 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
- · 2 tsps maple syrup
- · 1 spring onion, minced
- · 1 pinch of rosemary
- · 1 pinch of sage
- · Salt and pepper (to taste)
- The marinade:
- · Juice of 1 lemon
- · 30 ml of olive oil
- · 30 ml maple syrup
- · 1 tsp. mustard
- · 1 sprig of rosemary
- · 6 sage leaves
- · 1 clove of garlic, crushed
Mackerel Fried Rice

By imposter88
Quick, easy, cheap and tasty
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp Massaman Thai curry paste
- 3 eggs, beaten
- Pinch of caster sugar
- 2 measures of cooked rice (basmati or longgrain)
- Small bunch spring onions, chopped
- 1/2 tin garden peas
- 2 tbsp light soy sauce
- 2 tins of mackerel fillets in brine, drained
- A few slices of cucumber, halved
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