Happily serves 4
This stew brings all the Spanish flavours and typical Spanish ingredients into one pot for you to enjoy any time of year, all that’s required is a bowl and a spoon and some chunky bread for dunking.
Spanish Chicken, Chorizo and Chickpea Stew
Poor mans potatoes, patatas a lo pobre
This classic Spanish dish is utterly delicious and addictive, one of my favourite potato dishes to make. This can be served on it’s own, with a fried egg, jamon or as a side dish to accompany any meat or fish dish.
Serves 2-3 either as a main or a side.
Chicken Patia
This is a modern day tasty parsi recipe, much like an Indian sweet and sour. You can swap the chicken for prawns if you like, tofu, paneer and peas or a combination of your chosen vegetable.
Add extra chilli if you like your curries a bit spicier, either extra chilli powder or chopped red chillies added to the onion mixture. Serve with rice or Indian breads.
Serves 2-3
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.
Cuban Beef Picadillo
There are no doubt many variations of this recipe, it is a piquant, kind of sweet and sour spicy mince which can be served on it’s own with rice or loaded onto fries, or you can use it to make empanadas or even papa rellenas which are meat-stuffed potatoes.
5 Pea and ham soup
A quintessential British soup made using a mixture of dried British peas and smoked ham, healthy and vibrant and super easy to make using a pressure cooker.
Spicy Southwestern Garbanzo Beans or Chickpeas to us
This was a recipe from an old American cook book that I have adapted to suit my taste which is for it to be more spicy and less sweet, this dish is quite addictive and can be served hot or room temperature, serve with rice, pickles, flatbreads, on toast or just on their own with a spoon
Purple potato, tomato and bacon salad with Old Bay and mustard dressing
A delightful summery salad to make whilst in tomato season is made all the better if you can get some heritage purple potatoes, don’t worry if you can’t, any good quality small potatoes will suffice. Old Bay seasoning is a classic American seasoning which believe it or not has only just arrived on sale in the UK. Omit the bacon if you want to go vegan and replace with some smoked tofu and make the dressing clearly without the bacon oil.
Parmesan and Miso Cabbage rice
This recipe was put together as a result of reading an article about a 5 ingredient miso, parmesan spaghetti recipe and the lemon, black pepper, pecorino and cabbage rice recipe by Sabrina Ghayour, a favourite cookbook chef of mine, from her vegetarian book Bazaar. I have used a white soya miso here, white barley miso or indeed any miso of choice would work well, you’ll get the same flavour just a different coloured end result, but who cares about the colour when it tastes so good.
Prawn and spinach risotto
We do love a risotto, it’s pleasurably soothing and relaxing to make and the rich, creamy result is perfect comfort food, all that’s required is some patience for stirring, a bowl and a spoon. There is no cheese in this recipe but feel free to indulge and don’t be afraid to use extra virgin olive olive when frying the vegetable base, if Italians can use it for cooking them so can you.