I put together this soup predominantly by a few ingredients I had left over in the fridge and I needed too use them up. I had bought some yellow sticker mushrooms and very kindly been sent some amazing oat miso to finish this soup off, but you can use any miso you have.
Dreamy, creamy, mushroom, miso and bean soup
Laal Maas beans
Laal Mass beans is a fiery dish, traditionally made with lamb or mutton and translates to red meat, ‘laal’ is red, for the red fiery sauce made with dried red chillies and ‘mass’ for meat.
I wanted to create a sauce using all the traditional spices and ingredients to which I could simply add some beans, in this case some meaty butterbeans and some green beans which are perfectly happy being braised until soft.
Spanish Chicken, Chorizo and Chickpea Stew
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.
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
Turkish pepper, black-eyed bean and quails egg salad with za’atar
Summer isn’t over until the salad days end. This is a very simple salad to make no longer than the time it takes to boil and egg or two, a classic from Turkish Cuisine, can be a simple side salad or a main on it’s own. I’ve used quails eggs here but you can use regular chicken eggs and if you can’t get Turkish peppers, regular peppers are absolutely fine.
Roasted carrot, courgette and chickpea salad, rose harissa, lime and mint
This middle eastern inspired salad came about after a glut of courgettes were delivered to us from a neighbour and we had some carrots that needed using in the fridge. Rose Harissa is an amazing chilli paste that can be used in many ways, once you start using it you’ll never stop.
Red Dragon Pie
Named red dragon pie because the Chinese call adzuki beans ‘red dragon’, these beans are packed with goodness, protein, fibre, potassium, magnesium, Vitamin B6 and iron.
A delicious potato topped savoury umami rich pie, perfect for a meat free dinner.
Caribbean black eye pea, aubergine and ham hot pot
A delicious warming one pan meal to sooth your soul.
Smoked ham hock, black beans and black garlic
This is like a cross between Cuban beans and an American dish called Hoppin John both of which are from southern America. Ham hocks are available at most butchers and are very cheap to, giving you lots of meat and some very tasty instant stock whilst cooking the hock. Try and source a smoked hock as it will really make the difference here complimenting the sweet black garlic however feel free to use a regular one. Anyone adverse to garlic and thinks 10 cloves is too much then think again as black garlic is nothing like the raw pungent garlic you may fear, it has a sweet almost balsamic taste that would disperse of any fear you my have.