
Feta and greens toasted tortilla with Jalapeño Jam
Green salad and feta on toasted flour tortillas with spicy jalapeño jam
Green salad and feta on toasted flour tortillas with spicy jalapeño jam
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My favourite curry is a chicken or butternut squash tikka tandoori masala, here’s my version. .
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Course: Lunch, Dinner or Supper
Oven temp: n/a
Marinating time: 12 hours
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 3 – 4 hours
Serves 6
equipment
Roasting tin
Heavy based saucepan (large)
Heavy chopping board
Cooks knife
3 tbsp of tandoori spice mix
3 tbsp of mint sauce
3 tbsp of Greek yoghurt
50ml of cold pressed rapeseed oil
5g of sea salt
1 lemon
method – marinating
Cut each thigh into 4 or 6 depending on the size.
Coat the chicken with the tandoori spice mix, lemon juice and rapeseed oil and sit for 30 minutes.
Now add the yoghurt and marinate over night.
The next day whilst the gravy is slowly simmering away cook the chicken thighs for 30 minutes on 180oC ready to add to the gravy later on.
ingredients – gravy
100ml of cold pressed rapeseed oil ( I use Bennet and Dunns)
4 onions peeled and small diced
8 garlic cloves peeled and grated
40g of peeled and grated / minced ginger
3 red peppers ( capsicum) slice into 1cm squares
800g of chopped tomatoes
100g of tomato paste
500ml water
1 tbsp of fenugreek seeds
1 tbsp of black mustard seeds
2 tbsp of coriander seeds
2 tsp of cumin seeds
1 tsp of ground coriander
1 tsp of ground cardamom
1 scotch bonnet de-seeded and finely diced
2 tsp of dried chilli flakes
1 bunch of fresh coriander – use stalks for gravy and leaves to garnish at the end.
1 tbsp of ground madras curry powder
1 tbsp of turmeric
1 tbsp of smoked paprika
100g of Greek Yoghurt
1 lime
method – gravy
Allow the seeds to toast in the pan for 30 seconds ensuring they do not burn.
Now add the oil and onions and allow to simmer for about 20 minutes until soft.
Add the diced peppers and scotch bonnet for 5 minutes then add the ginger and garlic and all the other dry powder spices.
Immediately stir in the tomato paste and chopped tomatoes with the water.
Stirring occasionally allow this to simmer for 3 hours. If it starts to thicken too much just add little more water.
If you have a slow cooker put the sauce in it and go to the pub.
Once ready to eat add in the roasted chicken thighs with the lime juice and cook for a further 30 minutes.
To finish the sauce add the yoghurt, mix in well and chopped coriander leaves. Done.
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try this for brunch or lunch soon, if you don’t want to make the crumpets just buy some to save you time.
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Course: any time of day
Oven temp: 190˚c
Preparation time: 1 week but once you have your sour dough starter it’s ready to use everyday if you keep feeding it. Just add equal amounts of bread flour and water each day or keep in the fridge and feed once a week.
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Makes 6
ingredients
equipment
method
serving suggestion
Eat these with a nice red wine.
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I’m not a baker by trade or even had any formal training on baking but just as with cooking, I’m curious so I’m teaching myself. I usually read up about 5 different recipes for the same item and then try the first one that makes sense. It usually turns out to be the right choice trusting my instinct. A lot of recipes that you will find online or in books will set you up for failure from the beginning because they are either overly complicated by the cook who writes them or they just tend to miss vital information. In my recipes I am developing how I write them to try and put my head in the head of an novice and include all the crucial info to help the learner understand what they have to do what the recipe asks of them for success.
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Course: any time of day
Oven temp: 220˚c
Preparation time: 1hr 45mins
Cooking time: 22 minutes
Makes 4
ingredients
10g of Maldon sea salt
10g of fast action dried yeast
370ml of tepid water
equipment
Thick cloth or couche
Flour dredger or sieve
Dough scraper
Dough cutter
Baking stone or strong metal baking tray
Parchment paper
method
Turn the dough out of the mixing bowl and scrape every last bit out. Clean and dry the bowl then brush with a little oil to coat and put the dough back into bowl.
Leave for 1 hour or until doubled in size and then carefully turn out onto your work surface. Cut the dough into 4 equal pieces weighing them on your scales to be certain.
You need to be handling the dough gently otherwise you will knock too much air out.
Carefully shape the dough (check YouTube)
Roll each piece with th peplums of your hands tapering off towards the ends. Place in the flour dredged couch or thick tea towel and allow to rise again covered with a cloth or plastic bag for an hour. Whilst waiting pre heat your oven to 220oC and place a metal baking tray in the bottom of the oven.
Once you are ready to bake carefully transfer the baguettes from the linen to a parchment lined baking tray. and make 4 slices across the tops.
Place in oven and for some boiling water into the tray that is sat on the bottom of the oven. The steam will help to create a really nice crust.
Bake for about 20 minutes and once ready allow to cool for a while before getting the cheese out!
serving suggestion
Best eat these baguettes with salami or cheese or ham or beef or whatever takes your fancy.
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Everyone at some point during their lives should try this chicken tikka scotch egg with cucumber salad and curried mayonnaise.
useful info
Course: Starter or Lunch
Oven temp: 180˚c
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Serves 6
ingredients
6 blue shell eggs
1 normal egg whisked
480g of chicken thigh
3 tbsp of tandoori spice blend may contain mustard
1 small bunch of fresh coriander
1 tbsp of mint sauce
1 tbsp of yoghurt contains milk
8 pre cooked popadoms
1 tsp of maldon sea salt
1 cucumber
A handful of pea shoots, mint leaves and mustard cress
Good quality mayonnaise or homemade will contain eggs
1 tbsp of madras curry powder may contain mustard
equipment
Magimix food processor with blade
Deep fat fryer
4 mixing bowls
A decent potato peeler
Measuring spoons
method
serving suggestion
Serve as a starter as it is or add a green salad and some takefood piccalilli madras for a more substantial lunch.
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