Popular throughout Barbados, spiced lentil cakes are a beloved snack enjoyed as a quick bite, party food, or satisfying light meal. This recipe takes inspiration from those traditional Bajan flavours, transforming lentils into deliciously seasoned patty’s filled with aromatic vegetables and warming spices. Rich in protein and fibre, lentils make an excellent meat-free alternative while delivering plenty of hearty flavour and texture.
Lentil Patties
Lentil and thyme no knead loaf
I created this bread using black wheat flour but any good quality wholemeal flour will work. You can start this bread the night before as it rests for 14-18 hours.
Adding extra plant protein in your bread with lentils is not only good for you but also helps create a lovely moist and soft bread.
Cornflake flap jack
Chewy, sweet and buttery, flapjacks are easy to make, traditionally made just with oats but here I’ve pimped them up with some cornflakes and raisins. Don’t be confined to cornflakes through, feel free to use crunchy nut cornflakes, rice krispies or go chocolaty and use cocoa pops.
Makes 16 squares
Spanakopita – Greek Spinach Pie
Add a touch of Greek into your life with this traditional spinach and feta pie, this is an easy, straightforward pie to put together, Depending on where you buy your filo you may need to cut to size so adapt as you go, just don’t skrimp on the butter whatever you do.
Original recipe by Angela Boggiano from her book Pie.
Brie and caramelised onion galette
Who doesn’t like a baked cheese? There is nothing nicer to indulge in than rivers of rich earthy brie cheese oozing out of buttery pastry melting together with sweet caramelised onions and then moped up with crusty bread, serve on it’s own or with some sharp tangy pickles on the side.
Liquorice biscuits with blackberry curd
We adore liquorice in any format it happens to be, sweet, flavoured or salty, so these tasty biscuits are a delight to us but maybe an acquired taste to others.
These are a variation on what is more commonly known as thumb print cookies.
Broccoli, halloumi, shallot, mint and pine nut cake
This is a very easy and simple vegetarian pie with no pastry either. It is a very flexible recipe and you can change the vegetables, the cheese and herbs to whatever you have to hand. We have made this using green beans, goats cheese, thyme and walnuts which was equally delicious. Next time we might try cabbage, caraway, parsley and sunflower seeds.
Christmas donuts
This is not truly a donut batter as it contains no yeast but I used a donut tin to create the round cakes. If you don’t have a donut tray then this mixture is very similar to a muffin mix so feel free to use a muffin tray instead. This recipe can be made using any mincemeat of your choice but for an extra treat why not try making our superfood goji and cranberry mincemeat instead.
Banana, coconut, allspice and pecan muffins
Homemade muffins are an absolute pleasure to make, the variety at hand is almost endless and once you master the method it becomes so easy, wet ingredients, dry ingredients, mix and bake, simple as that. These muffins came about after testing recipes from Caribbean Modern. Banana, allspice and coconut, classic ingredients of the islands.
Champagne marmalade bar with marmalade vodka glaze
Loaf cakes are a very easy way to get your cake fix.