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
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.
Spicy nduja, pepper and pasta soup
This soup came about as a bit of a fridge forage and I think it’s my favourite of this years soup season so far, you can omit the nduja if you wish to keep it vegetarian it will still be incredibly punchy and spicy and more importantly warming from the cold outside.
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
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.
Corned beef hash
A classic British cheap meal just like mother used to make, no frills, tasty and hearty.
Hungarian Goulash and Csipetke noodles
Goulash is more of a soup than a stew, it’s packed with lots of vegetables so feel free to swap and mix them up, swap the celeriac for parsnip or skip the potatoes and add some squash, if you don’t have fresh tomatoes then use tinned or tomato puree. The only ingredients you can’t miss out are the paprika and caraway or it simply wouldn’t be a goulash.