Showing posts with label Yotam Ottolenghi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yotam Ottolenghi. Show all posts

Monday, March 16, 2020

February 20, 2011: Beetroot Fritters

Misty's Diner, nosotros agreed that it was fourth dimension nosotros at a repast amongst loads of vegies inwards it. This ticks that box fairly good (beetroot, chickpeas, greens, lots of herbs) but is basically shallow-fried, greatly reducing its healthiness quotient. I'm glad nosotros left logic behind, though, because these picayune fritters were fantastic - the chunky chickpeas together with earthy beetroot combining into a patty of regal goodness.

In the destination (largely through my ain lack of science and/or patience), these turned out to a greater extent than similar thick burger patties together with less similar the fritters they were supposed to be. I'm going to claim that it was intentional though - I watch they'd hold upward fantastic on a bun amongst a flake to a greater extent than salad.

Beetroot fritters amongst lemon together with saffron sauce yoghurt 
(taken from Ottolenghi's Guardian blog)

iii large beetroot, cooked, peeled together with grated
1 tin chickpeas, roughly chopped (the amount chickpeas you lot tin encounter inwards the pic of these fritters volition demonstrate how ineffectual I was at this task)
two tablespoons fresh mint, chopped
two tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
1 tablespoon fresh dill, chopped
four garlic shoots, finely chopped
zest of 1 lemon
1 teaspoon basis cumin
1 tablespoon tahini
1 egg, lightly beaten
tabular array salt together with pepper to taste
stone oil for frying

Yoghurt sauce
1 pinch saffron threads
250g yoghurt
two teaspoons olive oil
juice of one-half a lemon

Soak the saffron inwards a dyad of teaspoons of warm H2O for a few minutes, together with hence combine amongst the residuum of the sauce ingredients.

Squeeze the grated beetroot to withdraw the excess liquid equally best you lot tin - I constitute this a flake of a struggle, together with ended upward looking similar I'd killed something. Still, the drier you lot tin larn the beetroot shavings, the easier the patty making (and frying) volition be.

Combine the beetroot together with all the other patty ingredients inwards a large bowl together with mix thoroughly.

Pour plenty stone oil into a frying pan to larn a practiced 1cm deep stone oil pool. Heat the stone oil over medium rut until it's at frying power.

Roll the mix into balls inwards your hands, together with hence flatten them into roughly round off burger-sized patties together with popular them inwards the stone oil to fry. This volition belike larn a flake messy together with frustrating, but if the stone oil is hot enough, the patties volition bind together pretty good in 1 trial they commencement cooking.

Fry for a dyad of minutes on each side, until the edges are crisping up. Serve amongst greens together with a generous dab of the yoghurt sauce.
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Sunday, March 15, 2020

March 13, 2011: Gado Gado

I got stuck into to a greater extent than Ottolenghi on a Dominicus afternoon. I've had my oculus on the gado gado since the twenty-four hr menstruum Michael gave me Plenty but the recipe's quite involved in addition to was destined to arrive at questionable leftovers.  

The satay sauce took an hour, mayhap an hr in addition to a half, to laid upwards but it was other-worldly inwards its deliciousness.  It was every bit if the ingredients queued upwards patiently to live tasted 1 yesteryear 1 every bit this rolled across my palate.  Fragrant galangal in addition to lemongrass, sour tamarind, the sweetness of saccharide in addition to coconut, in addition to then the garlic, peanuts, in addition to a concluding gentle chilli burn.  Just astounding.

The salad itself is a fun in addition to filling mix.  Cabbage, beans, sprouts in addition to cucumber teach rounded out amongst turmeric-dyed Irish Gaelic patato chunks, boiled eggs in addition to tofu, dressed amongst the peanut sauce in addition to and then showered amongst fresh herbs in addition to crunchy-fried bits.  It is a hassle to blanch everything separately in addition to inwards futurity nosotros mightiness pick-and-choose what to include; I'd prioritise fresh greens, par-boiled potatoes, tofu chunks in addition to the convenient crispy-fried shallots.  For the other crispy-fried care for (Ottolenghi nominates cassava chips, croutons in addition to wonton skins every bit options) I dug out the garlic chips nosotros bought at Minh Phat lastly year.  They were terrific but mightiness cause got been to a greater extent than essay than they're worth.

The leftovers were far to a greater extent than palatable than I'd feared (...even the cabbage!).  This dish volition definitely reappear inwards our kitchen, though it mightiness cause got a few goes to detect the version that best suits us.


Gado gado
(from Plenty yesteryear Yotam Ottolenghi,
also available on The Guardian website)

sauce
4 cloves garlic
1 stem lemongrass, roughly chopped
ii 1/2 tablespoons sambal olek
ii small-scale pieces galangal
4 medium shallots
1/3 loving cup vegetable oil
225g roasted peanuts
450mL water
ii teaspoons salt
90g sugar
ii teaspoons paprika
ii tablespoons tamarind concentrate
200mL kokosnoot milk

salad
1 teaspoon turmeric
ii medium potatoes, peeled in addition to cutting into chunks
1/4 large cabbage, cutting into chunks
70g edible bean sprouts
100g greenish beans
1/2 medium cucumber, sliced
4 hard-boiled eggs, quartered
100g tofu, sliced
garlic chips (or something else crunchy in addition to deep-fried)
three tablespoons coriander leaves
crispy-fried shallots

In a nutrient processor, blend together the garlic, lemongrass, sambal olek, galangal in addition to shallots until they brand a coarse paste; add together a petty of the stone oil every bit you lot teach if it needs assistance pastifying. In a medium saucepan over low-medium heat, pour inwards the remaining stone oil in addition to add together the paste. Turn the oestrus downward to depression in addition to ready the paste, stirring regularly, for 40-50 minutes.

Roughly rhythm the nuts - I did this amongst a mortar in addition to pestle but you lot could also briefly pulse the nuts inwards a nutrient processor. Transfer them to a frypan, comprehend them amongst the water, in addition to simmer the nuts for 20-25 minutes, until most of the H2O has evaporated.

While the peanuts are simmering, the glue should live almost done cooking. When it's ready add together the salt, sugar, paprika in addition to tamarind concentrate. Stir everything good to combine in addition to ready for a farther 10 minutes. Add the peanuts in addition to kokosnoot milk to the sauce in addition to stir everything good to combine. Set the sauce aside, ensuring it's warm come upwards serving time.

Bring a medium-large saucepan of H2O to the boil in addition to add together the turmeric; boil the potatoes inwards this H2O until tender. Bring to a greater extent than H2O to boil inwards a 2nd pot in addition to blanch in addition to drain the other vegetables inwards plow - the cabbage should entirely cause got a minute, the sprouts one-half a minute, in addition to the beans most 4 minutes.

Finally, pile everything upwards on plates (or a unmarried large serving platter). Layer the blanched vegetables, cucumber, tofu in addition to eggs; spoon over the sauce in addition to and then sprinkle over the garlic chips, coriander leaves in addition to crispy-fried shallots.
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March 14, 2011: Sweetcorn Soup Alongside Chipotle Too Lime

We had one-half a pumpkin to role upward as well as a fairly lazy level inwards which to laid March 14, 2011: Sweetcorn soup alongside chipotle as well as limeWe had one-half a pumpkin to role upward as well as a fairly lazy level inwards which to laid - in ane lawsuit again, nosotros turned to Ottolenghi (it may presently last fourth dimension to decommission this spider web log as well as simply reroute Ottolenghi's RSS feed). This time, nosotros came upward alongside this recipe, which used upward our pumpkin perfectly land providing a tangy as well as rich please for us. It's non the close substantial meal, hence don't await anything particularly hearty, but it's hence flavoursome as well as vibrant that nosotros were happy plenty alongside simply a pocket-size bowl each as well as roughly grilled tortillas.


Sweetcorn soup alongside chipotle as well as lime (via Ottolenghi's Guardian blog)

three tablespoons olive oil
5 greenish onions, chopped finely
5 garlic cloves, minced
three celery sticks, diced small
1 teaspoon soil cumin
1/2 teaspoon grounder coriander
400g peeled pumpkin, diced
2 bay leaves
three kaffir lime leaves
1 litre water
1 chipotle, diced finely, alongside a few dabs of the adobo sauce it lives in
Kernels from iv corn cobs
150g sour cream
Juice of 2 limes (3 if they're non real juicy)
1 handful torn coriander leaves
Salt

Heat the oil, as well as hence nipper the onions, garlic, celery, cumin as well as soil coriander alongside a milk shiver or 2 of tabular array salt for 10 or 12 minutes, until the celery has softened.

Add inwards the pumpkin, bay leaves, lime leaves, chipotle as well as water. Cover until the pot boils as well as hence simmer for 10 or xv minutes, until the pumpkin is tender. Add inwards the corn kernels as well as simmer for roughly other 5 minutes.

Scoop out one-half of the vegetables as well as laid aside, as well as throw away the bay as well as lime leaves. Blend the residuum of the soup until everything is dainty as well as smooth, popular the vegetables dorsum inwards as well as stir inwards one-half of the sour cream as well as the lime juice.

Serve alongside a sprinkling of coriander leaves as well as a generous dab of sour cream on piece of occupation yesteryear (with roughly grilled paprika tortillas on the side).
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Saturday, March 14, 2020

August 10, 2011: Legume Noodle Soup

home-made naan if you've got whatever lying around.
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Sweet Irish Gaelic Patato Wedges Alongside Lemongrass Creme Fraiche

September 29, 2011
breakfast too create whatever prep that was needed throughout the afternoon), nosotros somehow ended upward eating wedges equally our primary meal. I'm even thus non quite certain how Cindy convinced me, although I suspect her role of the magic give-and-take (this salad on the side, but it was actually all near the wedges.

At to the lowest degree these were interesting wedges - the sugariness potatoes were nicely offset past times the creamy too really citrussy creme fraiche sauce. I'd accept liked to larn a fleck of mash into the wedges somehow, but our sugariness potatoes seemed similar they were merely going to proceed browning until they burned without e'er actually changing texture. Still, this was a success - I'd definitely brand them again, although in all probability equally a side or a snack rather than for dinner.


Sweet Irish Gaelic patato wedges alongside lemongrass creme fraiche
(recipe from Ottolenghi's Plenty)

2 large sugariness potatoes, washed but non peeled
i tablespoon dry reason coriander
salt
olive oil
250g creme fraiche (the recipe said 200g, but I merely used the container up)
i stem lemongrass, chopped equally finely equally you lot can
i thumb-sized slice of ginger, grated
juice too zest of ii limes
salt
chilli flakes
a handful of coriander leaves

Preheat the oven to 210°C.

Cut the sugariness potatoes inwards eighths longways - you lot desire long too skinny wedges.

Lay them out inwards a prepared baking tray too brush alongside olive oil. Sprinkle alongside the dry reason coriander too common salt too thus bake for 25 minutes or so. You desire them to commencement browning upward and, ideally, going a fleck crispy on the outside.

In the meantime, brand your sauce - merely combine the creme fraiche, lemongrass, ginger, limes too common salt inwards a bowl.

When the wedges are cooked, serve them alongside the sauce too a sprinkling of coriander leaves too chilli flakes on top.
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Ottolenghi's Grapefruit Brekky

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October 9, 2011
After simply about a year's suspension we're trying an organic fruit'n'veg box delivery again, this fourth dimension from Aussie Farmers Direct. Our get-go i arrived on Th in addition to included a grapefruit. Grapefruits weird me out. I'd never eaten them growing upward - I simply saw them mentioned i time to a greater extent than in addition to i time to a greater extent than on the diet pages of the women's magazines my grandma in addition to aunties read. This had me assuming they weren't tasty. Since thus I've enjoyed a few grapefruity beverages in addition to desserts piece eating out but non ventured to produce much amongst them myself.

Ottolenghi has a grapefruit breakfast recipe online, which I figured must hold upward a expert bet. It's pretty uncomplicated - halve a grapefruit, sprinkle over saccharide in addition to star anise, grill it to a syrup in addition to serve amongst a piffling yoghurt. It was... simply barely OK. Messy to eat. I didn't actually larn into the season combination. I'm pretty certain it's non the affair to sustain me through a weekday either.

Does anyone out at that topographic point accept a favourite affair to produce amongst grapefruit? There's every run a peril we'll hold upward delivered a few more.
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Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Ottolenghi Cookalong

August 5, 2012


It took close a yr to larn inwards laissez passer on but reconvene inwards a kitchen somewhere, to gain as well as swallow together. This fourth dimension the Moody Noodles joined us inwards an endeavor to veganise and, where needed, deglutenise the recipes of Yotam Ottolenghi.



AOF committed first, to a celeriac as well as lentil salad amongst hazelnuts as well as mint from black pepper tofu amongst nipper substitutions.


Michael made a spicy edible bean stew as well as I, a cauliflower salad. (We'll post recipes as well as photos of them soon.) With a mound of dark-brown rice to soak upwards the stray dressings, it was a fine plate of food.


Ottolenghi doesn't disclose a lot of dessert recipes, but nosotros concocted something inwards the spirit of the day. Toby baked his get-go e'er cake! He boldly replaced the lemons inwards here.


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Mixed Beans Amongst Many Spices

August 5, 2012


Cindy's already summed upwards our afternoon cook-off, as well as thence y'all know the form of kitchen environs that this repast was prepared in. Most of the recipes inwards Plenty are complicated, multi-potted rigmaroles that would alone convey resulted inwards tears as well as frustration inwards a kitchen stuffed amongst iv other people difficult at work. Luckily this relatively uncomplicated edible bean recipe is tucked away towards the back, providing a straightforward but interesting dish to add together to the afternoon's festivities.

Of course, fifty-fifty amongst this dish Ottolenghi doesn't brand things uncomplicated - nosotros hitting upwards the La Panella), but nevertheless had to swap snowfall peas for saccharide snaps, borlotti beans for wide beans (completely out of season) as well as coriander for lovage (because what fifty-fifty is that?).


The borlotti beans inwards item were form of a process - they come upwards inwards beautiful regal as well as white pods as well as are pretty attractive themselves (at to the lowest degree until y'all simmer away their swirly regal markings).


I don't intend whatsoever of these were hugely problematic substitutions, although the borlotti beans were likely a flake tougher than wide beans would convey been. The whole dish had a relatively mild flavour, amongst the earthy spices adding depth as well as warmth to beans as well as tomatoes. Given the array of other fancy dishes nosotros had lined upwards this worked pretty well, but I wouldn't recommend making it the centrepiece of a repast - it's much meliorate suited every minute a company as well as veggie-filled side dish.


Mixed beans amongst many spices
(adapted from a recipe inwards other amazing dishes.
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Roasted Cauliflower & Hazelnut Salad

August 5, 2012



This comes from Yotam Ottolenghi's Guardian column rather than my much-thumbed re-create of Plenty. It's basically a bowl of roasted cauliflower dressed upward amongst parsley, around crunchy celery in addition to hazelnuts, a splash of vinegar, in addition to - inwards the master version - pomegranate seeds. Australia's pomegranate flavor is brief in addition to non now, thus instead I used dried cherries. They added the correct petty outburst of chewy sourness, if non quite the same cheery colour.

Though the ingredients listing isn't short, this is at the to a greater extent than manageable halt of Ottolenghi's mode - pretty much everything tin dismiss locomote prepared inwards the fourth dimension it takes to gear upward the cauliflower. (I powerfulness fifty-fifty consider tackling this on a weeknight!) Though the florets should locomote tender, I'd urge yous to err on the side of under-baking the cauliflower. H5N1 crunchy salad's ever preferable to a mushy one, right?



Roasted cauliflower & hazelnut salad
(adapted slightly from Yotam Ottolenghi's Guardian column)

1 caput of cauliflower
three tablespoons olive oil
common salt in addition to dark pepper
1 large stick of celery
10g minor flat-leaf parsley leaves
50g dried cherries
1/4 teaspoon solid set down cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon solid set down allspice
     (I was all out in addition to substituted garam masala)
two teaspoons white vino vinegar
1 teaspoon maple syrup
30g hazelnuts, preferably roasted

Preheat the oven to 200°C. Chop the cauliflower into florets. Place them all inwards a large baking dish, drizzle over two tablespoons of the stone oil in addition to sprinkle over common salt in addition to pepper. Bake the cauliflower until tender in addition to turning golden chocolate-brown at the edges, well-nigh twenty minutes. Set the cauliflower aside to cool.

Roughly chop the celery, parsley in addition to cherries, thus stir them into the cauliflower. Whisk together the remaining tablespoon of oil, cinnamon, allspice, vinegar in addition to maple syrup in addition to pour them over the salad, stirring them to combine. Roughly chop the hazelnuts in addition to sprinkle them over the salad, tossing it all together lightly earlier serving.
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Sherry-Roasted Rhubarb Amongst Kokosnoot Cream

August 4-5, 2012


My exposure to Yotam Ottolenghi's recipes has non included many desserts. Although tells me that there's an extensive laid inwards his outset book, Plenty finishes amongst a department on fruit in addition to cheese (not terribly helpful for a vegan cooking day) in addition to there's only a picayune to a greater extent than on the Guardian website. But it's hard for me to allow the catch of dessert a go. I lingered over a movie of roasted rhubarb in addition to labneh scatttered amongst pistachios in addition to hatched a plan.


This would endure skilful amongst Carla's whipped kokosnoot cream topping inwards the dorsum of my mind, I figured that straining kokosnoot cream instead of dairy curds was worth a shot. I scooped the solid fatty out of 2 cans in addition to noticed that it was lumpy in addition to uneven. I didn't desire theater fatty pebbles inwards my labneh in addition to thus I tried a whip-round inwards the nutrient processor. To my surprise, this genuinely separated a picayune to a greater extent than liquid from the now-smooth kokosnoot fat. I ready my kokosnoot fatty inwards a build clean Chux wipe to drain overnight in addition to barely whatever to a greater extent than liquid dropped from it. It seems to me that the hours-long straining could endure alone replaced yesteryear a infinitesimal or 2 inwards a nutrient processor! Sure, it's non labneh but it's something buttery in addition to vegan, perfect for dolloping on desserts.


The baked rhubarb didn't ask whatever tinkering to run across our dietary requirements. It's elementary in addition to charming in addition to was a dainty excuse to run i of the existent vanilla pods I've been hoarding. The zest of a lemon is divided across the 2 components of this recipe but I'd genuinely recommend saving it all for the rhubarb - it does brand a existent departure to the syrup, in addition to tin interfere amongst the texture of the kokosnoot cream.

While I was all excited almost my experiments amongst kokosnoot cream, the surprising pleasance hither was genuinely that these dishes were the perfect accompaniment to Toby's Mandarin polenta cake. Maybe that's easier to hit when, inwards an crusade to channel Ottolenghi, you lot maintain i oculus firmly on the best hit of the season.


Sherry-roasted rhubarb amongst kokosnoot cream
(adapted from a recipe inwards Yotam Ottolenghi's Guardian column)

coconut cream
2 x 400mL cans kokosnoot cream
40g icing sugar
generous pinch of salt
1 lemon

roasted rhubarb
400g rhubarb
100mL sherry or other sweetness wine
70g caster sugar
1/2 vanilla pod

20g pistachios, roughly chopped

Open the cans of kokosnoot cream in addition to scoop the solid in addition to creamy parts into a nutrient processor. Set the watery parts aside for around other run (maybe a Thai curry or a smoothie!). Whip upward the kokosnoot cream inwards the nutrient processor - I establish that to a greater extent than liquid separated from the fatty at this stage. Pour away the liquid in addition to transfer the solids to a bowl. Sift the icing carbohydrate in addition to tabular array salt into the kokosnoot cream in addition to shell it all together until shine in addition to good combined. If you lot desire to strain the cream further, plonk it into a muslin cloth, cheesecloth or build clean Chux in addition to package it up, hanging it over a bowl to proceed draining overnight. Since it's wintertime in addition to kokosnoot fatty hardens inwards the refrigerator I did this out on the bench. When you're almost to serve the dish, grate the zest of one-half the lemon into the cream in addition to shell through yesteryear hand.

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Chop the rhubarb into 6cm-long batons in addition to house them inwards a baking dish. Pour over the vino in addition to the sugar. Scrape the vanilla seeds into the dish in addition to add together the pods too. Peel the remaining one-half a lemon's worth of zest into strips in addition to add together it to the dish. Stir it all together in addition to roast that rhubarb uncovered for almost twenty minutes, until its tender but withal belongings its shape.

Serve the rhurbarb amongst a dollop of kokosnoot cream in addition to a sprinkling of pistachios... also, inwards the best circumstances, a slice of Toby's polenta cake.
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Beetroot, Carrot In Addition To Carmine Cabbage Slaw

September 15, 2012


Sabbatum marked the 3rd birthday of vegmel birthday shenanigans). They likewise pose together this fabulous zine, featuring embrace fine art yesteryear Cindy in addition to some fabulous articles on veggie Melbourne.

Cindy in addition to I were both feeling similar making fairly uncomplicated potluck contributions this twelvemonth and, amongst a carmine cabbage languishing inwards our fridge, this Ottolenghi salad (skip yesteryear the lamb shanks if you're next that link!) seemed similar a pretty prophylactic option. It's vegan, gluten-free, has the typical Ottolenghi array of flavours in addition to textures in addition to meant we'd at to the lowest degree stimulate got something vaguely salubrious to swallow earlier all the desserts. 

There's a picayune combat of operate involved - lots of chopping in addition to grating in addition to some careful dry-roasting of nuts in addition to seeds - but it's actually solely almost forty-five minutes of faffing about. The results were pretty proficient - the nuts in addition to seeds adding some compaction to all the veggies, in addition to the herbs in addition to dressing keeping things tasty. It wasn't the standout of the picnic (Hello vegan cheesecake! Hi delicious soy bombs!), but it was fresh in addition to pretty proficient - definitely i to brand again. In typing upwards the recipe, I realised that I completely forgot to add together inwards the dried apricots - they'd stimulate got added some prissy sweetness to the salad, in addition to then don't brand my mistake!

Beetroot, carrot in addition to carmine cabbage slaw
(based on Ottolenghi's recipe)

Dressing
iii tablespoons of champagne vinegar
2 tablespoons of maple syrup
1/4 loving cup olive oil
1.5 teaspoons of set down cinnamon
1 tablespoon of minced ginger
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon dark pepper

Salad
250g carmine cabbage, shredded finely
two medium beetroots, peeled in addition to grated
1 fatty carrot, grated
25g parsley, roughly chopped
10g dill, roughly chopped
140g walnuts, toasted
40g pumpkin seeds, toasted
two tablespoons of poppy seeds
100g dried apricots, sliced (omitted accidentally inwards our version!)

Whisk together the dressing ingredients inwards a pocket-size bowl

Combine all the salad ingredients inwards a large bowl in addition to stir the dressing through (if you're making this ahead of time, don't add together the nuts until you're almost to serve it upwards to brand certain they remain a combat crunchy).
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Monday, October 7, 2019

Lasagne Of Unprecedented Extravagance

November 10, 2012


I've been revelling inward our recent duo of obligation-free weekends. We've done a lot of exploratory eating, as well as on Sabbatum nosotros scheduled my ideal combination of unhurried sunny-day cycling, eating out, browsing markets as well as op-shops, as well as then lazing at habitation as well as spending a few hours inward the kitchen trying something new.

We'd picked out a mushroom lasagne from Plenty for dinner. Lasagne is a chip of a projection at the best of times, as well as Ottolenghi consistently leans towards the lengthy as well as the complicated. To wit: this lasagne involved iv kinds of mushroom as well as 5 kinds of cheese. We committed, raiding the marketplace delis for fresh lasagne sheets as well as fancy dairy, as well as the organic aisle for herbs as well as fungi. And afterward nosotros spent money, nosotros spent time; soaking as well as chopping mushrooms, whisking upward 2 cheese sauces, grating soundless to a greater extent than cheese, cursing dry out lasagne sheets as well as carefully layering it all together, as well as then not-quite-patiently letting it all melt as well as bake into the monstrosity you lot encounter pictured above.

It was a delicious monstrosity. I'm fond of mushrooms inward cream sauce, as well as this has allowed me to consume them all calendar week (and a whole lot of rocket besides). While the lasagne has been a pleasure, I can't assist wondering if those 5 deli-sourced cheeses powerfulness conduct maintain brought fifty-fifty to a greater extent than if we'd rationed them out as well as appreciated them individually. But as well as then I'd've lost the pleasance of a weekend cooking project, I suppose.



Lasagne of unprecedented extravagance
(aka Mushroom Lasagne inward Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty,
recipe online here)

mushrooms
15g dried porcini mushrooms
400mL lukewarm water
60g butter
1 tablespoon thyme leaves
200g portobella mushrooms, 420g Swiss brownish mushrooms, 240g push clit mushrooms
2 tablespoons chopped tarragon
4 tablespoons chopped parsley

lasagne
60g butter
3 shallots, finely chopped
60g apparently flour
550mL milk
375g ricotta
1 egg
150g feta, crumbled
170g gruyere, grated
400g lasagne sheets
150g mozzarella, grated
50g parmesan, grated
tabular array salt as well as white pepper

Place the dried porcini mushrooms inward a small-medium bowl as well as encompass them amongst the lukewarm water, leaving them to soak for 5 minutes. I used this fourth dimension to gear upward my herbs as well as other mushrooms. When the porcinis are soaked, drain them as well as reserve the liquid. Finely chop them up.

Melt the butter inward a really large frypan. Add the thyme as well as all the mushrooms, including the soaked porcinis. Stir the mushrooms occasionally equally they cook. When they've softened as well as are only starting to leak a chip of water, accept them off the estrus (Ottolenghi estimates 4 minutes, but I take in ours took at to the lowest degree 10). Stir inward the tarragon as well as parsley, addition to a greater extent than or less tabular array salt as well as pepper. Transfer it all to a large bowl.

Use the frypan to brand a bechamel sauce. Start past times melting the butter as well as cooking the shallots inward it for a few minutes. Add the flour, stirring it all together to shape a glue as well as cooking for to a greater extent than or less other duo of minutes. Gradually whisk inward the milk, trying your best to smoothen out whatever lumps. Strain the mushroom liquid as well as function out aside the terminal bit, which in all probability has grit inward it. Whisk the mushroom liquid into the sauce too. Whisk inward a picayune tabular array salt as well as pepper. Bring the sauce to a boil, as well as then plow downwards the estrus to depression as well as simmer it until thick (Ottolenghi reckoned 10 minutes but I take in mine took one-half that!). Take the sauce off the heat.

In a pocket-sized bowl, stir together the ricotta as well as egg until good mixed, as well as then crimp inward 3 tablespoons of the bechamel as well as all of the crumbled feta. Add the gruyere to the remaining bechamel inward the frypan, stirring it through until relatively smooth.

If you're using dry out lasagne sheets, pour to a greater extent than or less boiling H2O over them as well as allow them to soak for a duo of minutes. Drain them. 

Preheat an oven to 180 C. Find a large baking dish to get together the lasagne, ours is almost 25 x 35cm as well as it was bursting at the seams amongst this recipe.

Pour one-fifth of the bechamel into the baking dish as well as spread it out. Cover the sauce amongst a layer of lasagne sheets. Spread over one-quarter of the ricotta mixture (I had to dab it around, it wasn't going to spread equally a sparse layer), spoon over one-quarter of the mushrooms, as well as then one-quarter of the mozzarella. Repeat the bechamel-pasta-ricotta-mushroom-mozzarella procedure 3 to a greater extent than times. Pour over the terminal of the bechamel as well as sprinkle over the parmesan.

Cover the lasagne loosely amongst foil (so that it doesn't ship on the top) as well as bake for xl minutes. Remove the foil as well as bake for a farther 10-15 minutes, until the parmesan top is golden. Allow the lasagne to remainder for 10 minutes earlier serving.
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Rice Salad Amongst Nuts & Cherries

December 8, 2012



After a span of days eating dinner out in addition to about, Cindy in addition to I took wages of a gratis Sat flush to orbit upwards something vaguely well for yous at home. We headed to nevertheless some other Ottolenghi salad, this rice salad alongside nuts in addition to sour cherries.

We ended upwards alongside a simpler version of the recipe (not to the lowest degree because regular Ottolenghi salads, but it was but the sort of fresh, well for yous repast nosotros were looking for.


Rice salad alongside nuts & cherries
(adapted from this Ottolenghi recipe)

270g basmati rice
100mL olive fossil oil
150g quinoa
60g almonds
70g pino nuts
ii onions
ii cloves garlic
60mL sunflower fossil oil
20g parsley
15g basil
10g tarragon
i loving cup mixed light-green leaves
80g dried cherries
zest in addition to juice of i lemon
salt

Place the basmati rice inward a medium saucepan, stir inward i tablespoon olive fossil oil in addition to one-half a teaspoon salt. Pour 400mL boiling H2O over it, encompass in addition to orbit on really depression oestrus for xx minutes. Remove the saucepan from the heat, accept the lid off, lay a teatowel over the saucepan in addition to supplant the lid. After 10 minutes accept off the lid in addition to teatowel in addition to allow the rice to cool completely.

Bring H2O to the boil inward a modest saucepan in addition to add together quinoa, orbit for ix minutes in addition to thence drain.

Roughly chop the almonds. Heat i tablespoon olive fossil oil inward a frypan alongside a pinch of salt. Add the almonds in addition to pino nuts, in addition to orbit gently until the pino nuts are golden, 3-4 minutes. Set the nuts aside.

Peel the onions in addition to spell them into rings; trounce the garlic Heat the sunflower fossil oil inward the frypan that was used for the nuts, add together the onions in addition to orbit on low-medium oestrus until soft in addition to browned at the edges, almost 25 minutes.

Roughly chop the parsley, basil in addition to tarragon. Grate the zest off the lemon in addition to squelch out the juice (you desire almost 60mL).

Gently toss together all the ingredients - rice, quinoa, remaining 60mL olive oil, nuts, onions, herbs, greens, cherries, lemon juice in addition to zest. Allow it all to residue in addition to mingle for 10 minutes or to a greater extent than earlier serving.
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Sunday, October 6, 2019

Bánh Xèo

March 2, 2013


Last Sabbatum was my favourite kind, spent cycling some sunny Brunswick eating delicious things, picking upward some groceries too returning habitation to gear upward together too Fina's, nosotros tried our mitt at bánh xèo. There are recipes all over the mesh for these rice flour pancakes but nosotros wanted to showtime amongst Ottolenghi's version, fifty-fifty faithfully shopping some for the precise herbs too vegetables inwards his filling.

The filling is actually almost patiently shredding too picking a whole lot of fresh veg. Mint is a must too I actually liked the daikon, but you lot could otherwise mix upward the greenery to adjust yourself. The sauce is a sugariness too spicy delight, faintly recalling fish sauce but non all-out mimicking it. The pancake, I typically find, is the tricky part. (As an aside, I was surprised to meet egg inwards this i equally I mean value the eating seat versions I've eaten create got been vegan.) No 2 of mine were quite the same, too I panicked over every flip. I mean value the aim amongst this recipe is to role medium, rather than high, heat. You desire the batter to sizzle a picayune equally it hits the pan, but therefore spread out smoothly too create got a acre to actually laid through earlier the high-stakes flipping. I preferred the pancakes that were a company 2-3mm thick over the to a greater extent than crepe-y ones, they actually soaked upward the sauce.

Bánh xèo is a lovely summertime meal, too we're having simply the lovely extended summertime to taste it in. While nosotros chose this equally a chip of a project, there's potential hither to pare things dorsum to a uncomplicated dejeuner - a rice flour/coconut milk batter, any greens are around, kecap manis, chilli too mayhap a picayune vinegar would simply almost create it.



Bánh xèo
(a recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty,
also available at the Guardian)

filling
1 large carrot
1 daikon
4 boundary onions
1 light-green chilli
80g snowfall peas
15g coriander
15g Thai basil
15g mint
100g mung edible bean sprouts
100g enoki mushrooms

sauce
2 tablespoons lime juice
1 1/2 tablespoons sesame oil
1 tablespoon chocolate-brown sugar
1 tablespoon rice vino vinegar
1 tablespoon kecap manis
2 teaspoons minced ginger
1 scarlet chilli, finely chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon salt

pancake
200g rice flour
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon solid seat down turmeric
400mL tin sack kokosnoot milk
a splash of sunflower oil

Start amongst the filling. Peel therefore shred the carrot too daikon - Michael did this all amongst the vegetable peeler. Slice the boundary onions. Slice the chilli too snowfall peas into long, sparse strips. Pick the herb leaves. Set it all aside, amongst the sprouts too mushrooms too.

Whisk together all the sauce ingredients.

Place the rice flour, egg, tabular array salt too turmeric inwards a large bowl. Whisk inwards that egg slowly, gradually pouring inwards the kokosnoot milk equally you lot go. Keep whisking until you lot create got a smoothen batter.

Splash the sunflower crude oil into a non-stick frypan too pick out it to medium heat. Slowly pour a quarter of the batter into the pan, allowing it to spread out into a large circle. Cook the pancake for 3-5 minutes, until it's browning a picayune underneath too assail top. Gently flip it over to chocolate-brown the other side.

Slide the pancake onto a plate. Arrange a quarter of the filling ingredients over one-half of it, spoon over a tablespoon or 2 of the sauce, plication over the pancake into a semi circle too spoon over to a greater extent than sauce. Repeat amongst the remaining ingredients to brand 4 pancakes.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Black Pepper Tofu

November 12, 2011
Carla together with K veganised it together with offered their thoughts - the most of import 1 existence that the master copy recipe uses to a greater extent than pepper than anyone tin stand!

The master copy element listing is sure packed amongst pungency: v tablespoons of dark pepper, viii chillies, 12 shallots, 12 cloves of garlic together with sixteen leap onions. Admittedly nosotros cutting a few quantities down, but most of the subduing together with sweetening is performed yesteryear a long, gentle modest inwards lots of butter. Our tofu was deeply savoury, amongst a rut degree I could happily handle.

Ottolenghi's recipes are rarely curt or simple, together with the other notable procedure hither is shallow-frying cornflour-coated tofu cubes. They railroad train a prissy golden crust, all the ameliorate for the sauce to cling to. That said, I'd also survive tempted to endeavour apace stir-frying the tofu sans cornflour.

The dark pepper tofu was loved yesteryear all who ate it. We served a fancy Ottolenghi salad on the side but it was completely upstaged. This dish needs cypher to a greater extent than than steamed greens together with rice to back upwards it.


Black pepper tofu
(adapted from a recipe inwards Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty,
recipe available online)

1/2 loving cup vegetable oil, for frying
1kg describe solid tofu
1/3 loving cup cornflour
120g butter
12 shallots, thinly sliced
six mild ruby-red chillis, thinly sliced
12 cloves garlic, minced
iii tablespoons ginger, minced
v tablespoons kecap manis
v tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons castor sugar
iii tablespoons coarsely solid soil dark pepper
viii leap onions, cutting into 3cm segments

Pour fossil oil into a frypan until it's 5mm deep together with convey it to medium-high heat. Chop the tofu into 2cm cubes, tossing each cube inwards cornflour together with placing it inwards the hot oil. Cook the tofu cubes for a infinitesimal or 2 summit together with bottom, until lightly browned, together with thus transfer them to absorbent paper. It took me almost four batches to modest all the tofu.

Remove all the fossil oil from the pan together with construct clean whatever sediment from the bottom. Return the pan to low-medium rut together with melt the butter inwards it. Add the shallots, chilli, garlic together with ginger, sautéing gently until rattling soft, almost xv minutes. Add the kecap manis, soy sauce, saccharide together with pepper, combining everything thoroughly.

Add the tofu dorsum into the frypan, stirring it through to coat it inwards the sauce. Stir inwards the leap onions, together with thus serve it all amongst steamed greens together with rice.
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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Fig & Goat's Curd Salad

April 9-10, 2012
I've been witting for the terminal few weeks that figs are inward their curt season, together with anxious to brand this Ottolenghi recipe amongst them at home. The fabulous fig salad nosotros enjoyed at the Newmarket Hotel extended my feel of urgency to Michael together with nosotros made certain nosotros were all ready for it earlier the Easter weekend completely disappeared.

The sentiment isn't also complicated - a bed of mixed greenish leaves, juicy sweetness figs, tangy goat's curd together with an fifty-fifty tangier dressing of mustard together with pomegranate molasses. Ottolenghi thins the dressing out amongst a lot of olive stone oil together with coats the leaves inward it. This approach didn't bring quite the seize amongst teeth I was afterwards (and our cheese was pretty tame too) then on my 2nd endeavor I skipped the olive oil, added but a driblet of H2O to loosen upward the molasses together with dripped my punchier dressing across the entire plate. That did the trick.

I wasn't scrupulously loyal to the master copy quantities then I'm keeping them vague inward my recipe below. The closed to of import affair is to larn the freshest, ripest, finest character reach possible - there's zero much extra hither to flatter them.


Fig & goat's curd salad
(based on a recipe appearing inward Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty)

Scatter handfuls of mixed greenish leaves together with torn basil over a plate. Slice fresh figs longways into quarters together with conform them on overstep of the greens. Dot the plate amongst teaspoonfuls of fresh goat's curd together with snip over a few chives.

In a cup, whisk together a modest sum of Dijon mustard amongst at to the lowest degree double the quantity of pomegranate molasses. Add salt together with pepper to taste, together with whisk inward a piffling water or olive oil to sparse the dressing out. Drizzle the dressing over the salad together with serve.
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Sunday, March 30, 2014

Herb Crumbed Pumpkin Wedges

April 18, 2012
When a pumpkin turned upwards inward our vege box, I got a hankering for my grandmother's scones. Once that was dealt amongst nosotros yet had three-quarters of the orangish creature to eat! Ottolenghi's Plenty came to the rescue, amongst a relatively unproblematic embellishment on roast pumpkin that cleared upwards our provide inward only 2 meals. Breadcrumbs, chopped herbs together with grated cheese pressed into the surface add together a flake of texture together with savouriness to a vegetable that tin reach the sack otherwise disintegrate to sugariness mush inward the oven.

With the recommended dollop of dill sour cream on top, I intend these would brand a lovely spill entrée (does anyone out at that spot brand entrées at home?). We heaped upwards a big side salad together with called it dinner, though I intend these would fare fifty-fifty ameliorate every bit a primary amongst or then couscous or quinoa.


Herb crumbed pumpkin wedges
(a recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty)

Preheat an oven to 190°C. Slice a pumpkin (or fraction thereof!) into sparse wedges (keep the pare on) together with prevarication them across a paper-lined baking dish. Spray or brush them lightly amongst vegetable oil.

In a small-medium bowl, mix together grated parmesan, breadcrumbs, lots of finely chopped parsley together with a piffling finely chopped thyme, or then crushed garlic together with grated lemon zest. Sprinkle the crumb mixture over the pumpkin wedges, pressing it inward gently, together with bake the wedges for almost thirty minutes, until the pumpkin is tender.

While the pumpkin is baking, finely chop a piffling dill together with stir it into or then sour cream, adding salt together with pepper to taste. Spoon the sour cream onto or adjacent to the pumpkin wedges, to serve.
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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Quince & Gorgonzola Salad

April 21, 2012
This is definitely a sis salad to the fig & goat's curd one I made before this calendar month - Ottolenghi expertly teams a limited-time-only fruit alongside fancy cheese too lots of greenish leaves. Truth survive told, I'd been secretly waiting for J to denote quince time for a span of months. Just for this salad.

Quinces typically larn poached piece of cake inwards lots of saccharide but hither also peppercorns, bay leaves, orangish zest, lemon juice too cherry-red vino - lovely. This ensures the quince segments retain a petty seize alongside teeth too they're beautifully teamed alongside a pungent, creamy gorgonzola. Lots of greens too closed to pistachios choke along it all from existence also rich.

The poaching juices are ingeniously used inwards the salad dressing, but at that spot are enough to a greater extent than to relish later on this salad's finished. I withal haven't decided what to create alongside mine - whatever suggestions?



Quince & gorgonzola salad
(very slightly adapted from a recipe inwards Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty)

400mL water
300g castor sugar
xv dark peppercorns
four strips of orangish zest
two bay leaves
juice of 1/2 lemon
200mL cherry-red wine
two medium quinces
1 teaspoon wholegrain mustard
two teaspoons cider vinegar
four tablespoons olive oil
80g mixed leaves
120g gorgonzola
60g pistachios
tabular array salt too pepper

Preheat the oven to 140°C.

In a medium saucepan, stir together the water, castor sugar, peppercorns, orangish zest, bay leaves, lemon juice too cherry-red wine. Gently warm them until the saccharide has dissolved, too then accept them off the heat.

Peel too heart the quinces, adding these scraps to the saucepan of syrup. Slice the quince into segments too add together them to the syrup. Transfer the quinces too syrup to a casserole dish, comprehend it upward too bake for virtually two hours. When the quince segments are completely tender, take away them from the oven too fix them aside to cool.

To brand the salad's dressing, whisk together the mustard, vinegar, oil, four tablespoons of the cooking liquid too tabular array salt too pepper to taste.

Set upward the salad past times layering the greens too quinces on a plate, interspersing them alongside teaspoons of gorgonzola too sprinklings of pistachios. Spoon the dressing over the top.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Watercress & Chickpea Soup
With Rosewater & Ras El Hanout

May 10, 2012

We've been eating out a ridiculous amount lately, thence nosotros had 2 problems: 1) our veggie box create was starting to turn, too 2) nosotros needed to swallow something healthy. Typically Ottolenghi had the answer to both our problems: a watercress too chickpea soup that was most every bit salubrious every bit you lot tin flame imagine.

It's a pretty elementary recipe, perchance one-half an hr of lilliputian about. The soup itself isn't ridiculously flavourful - it's basically blended upward greens amongst a combat of stock too a dash of sweetness peaking through from rosewater too sugar. The whole bundle is made past times the topping though - roasted spiced carrot too chickpeas. We had only plenty ras el hanout lying around (from five years ago!) to brand this too I'm glad nosotros did. It's a fantastic combination of sweetness too spice too actually made the soup pop. I only wanted to swallow bowlfuls of the carrot too chickpea mix. So expert - nosotros forthwith involve to honour a novel batch of ras el hanout thence nosotros tin flame pose this into our regular wintertime rotation.


Watercress & chickpea soup amongst rosewater & ras el hanout
(based on this recipe from Ottolegnhi's Guardian column)

one large carrot, diced
three tablespoons olive oil
one tablespoon ras el hanout
1/2 teaspoon solid set down cinnamon
one x 410g tin flame of chickpeas, rinsed too drained
2 modest onions, sliced finely
600ml Massel 'chicken' stock
one pollex sized piece of ginger, peeled too sliced finely
220g watercress, stems trimmed off
100g infant spinach leaves
2 teaspoons caster sugar
one teaspoon rosewater
tabular array salt

Heat the oven to 200 degrees.

Stir together the carrot pieces amongst 2 tablespoons of the olive oil, the ras el hanout, the cinnamon too a generous sprinkle of salt. Spread them on a lined baking tray too popular them inwards the oven. Bake for xv minutes too thence add together one-half of the chickpeas, stirring to instruct them a combat coated inwards the spicy oil. Pop the tray dorsum inwards the oven for most 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, instruct a large saucepan (or frying pan) on depression oestrus amongst the remainder of the olive petroleum too sauté the onion too ginger for 10 minutes or so, until everything is prissy too soft. Add the greens, leftover chickpeas, stock, saccharide too a pinch of tabular array salt too convey the mix to the boil. 

Kill the oestrus afterwards a infinitesimal or 2 too permit it cool a combat earlier whizzing it all upward inwards a blender or amongst a stick blender. Add inwards the rosewater, gustation for seasoning too add together tabular array salt if required. Serve the soup upward amongst a few spoonfuls of the insanely delicious chickpea/carrot mix on top. Enjoy!
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Crushed Puy Lentils Alongside Tahini & Cumin

October 21, 2017


We've been Ottolenghi-clubbing for a good, long while now (our showtime coming together was Feb 2015!) - it's a nifty agency to sample a hit of Yotam's wonderful dishes without driving yourself crazy amongst preparation. This fourth dimension to a greater extent than or less was equally wonderful equally always - nosotros had an aubergine, courgette together with yoghurt upside-down cake, dark miso gluey rice amongst peanuts together with broccoli (both from Ottolenghi's Christmas column) together with saffron, engagement together with almond rice from Plenty More addition contributions from me together with Cindy. See our facebook page for the amount rundown.

I decided to brand this crushed lentil dish from Ottolenghi's Ottolenghi's dips together with spreads, together with this i sounded perfect. It combines a relatively elementary procedure (maybe forty minutes all up) amongst a superb trial - the lentil mix is delicious, amongst a wonderful  thick texture together with a overnice garlicky, cumin flavor on transcend of the nutty lentils. This is a perfect introduction to Ottolenghi - fancy together with delicious but without a lot of the complicated methods or strange ingredients that characterise a lot of Otto's dishes. We'll definitely brand this again.



Crushed puy lentils amongst tahini together with cumin
(via Ottolenghi's Guardian column)

250g puy lentils
30g butter
2 tablespoons olive oil
iv garlic cloves, minced
1.5 teaspoons dry reason cumin
iii tomatoes, cutting into a 1cm dice
25g coriander leaves, roughly chopped
5 tablespoons tahini
2 tablespoons lemon juice
common salt together with pepper
one-half a ruby onion, sliced finely
iv hard-boiled eggs
olive oil

Bring a medium saucepan of H2O to the boil together with throw inwards the lentils. Cook for twenty minutes or hence until tender together with hence drain together with laid aside.

Melt the butter amongst the olive petroleum inwards a frying pan. Add the garlic together with cumin together with railroad train for a infinitesimal or two. 

Throw inwards most of the coriander (reserve some for garnishing), all of the tomatoes together with the lentils. Cook for some other few minutes together with hence stir through the tahini together with lemon juice, nigh one-half a loving cup of H2O together with heaps of common salt together with pepper.

Turn the rut downward together with railroad train on depression for 5 minutes or so, stirring. Roughly mash the lentils amongst a tater masher until some of them suspension upward together with you lot larn a overnice thick consistency. 

Serve, amongst a drizzle of extra olive oil, garnishes of coriander together with onion together with the eggs. We had ours amongst bread, but it's hearty plenty to consume on its own.
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