Sweet Potato Risotto

One thing i always have when i go out to restaurants is risotto. I know its quite a simple dish but i can never make is as good as you get it in an Italian restaurant! Though this is the case, i do make it now and again. I have a mass of sweet potatoes so here we are… sweet potato risotto with my home made pesto!

Ingredients:

150/200g Risotto rice

3 medium sweet potatoes

1 stock cube

1 large onion

1 corrugate

3 garlic cloves

salt and pepper for seasoning

Step 1:

Chop up all the veggies and fry in a little oil.

Step 2:

Add the risotto rice, just cover with boiling water and add the stock cube. Season with salt and pepper.

Step 3:

Bring to a light boil and keep adding a small amount of water… until the rice is plumped and cooked.

Once cooked add a table spoon of the homemade pesto!

Deconstructed Turkey Burger

I haven’t had a burger in since I don’t know when and today I had a real craving. So I did what info best… Made my own!

These are really simple to make and taste delicious. I don’t eat bread so they are bun-less but you could quite easily add a burger bun and a Alan of cheese to gourmet it up!

Ingredients:

500g turkey mince
1 egg
2 tbs of wheat free flour
1 tbs of dried sage
Salt and pepper for seasoning
5 mushrooms
1 onion
4 garlic cloves
1 red pepper

Step 1:

Mix the mince meat with the egg, flour, sage, salt and pepper.

Step 2:

Form the mixture into 6 balls. Heat a griddle or frying pan, add each ball and pat down into the obligatory burger shape.

Step 3:

Chop the peppers, onions, mushrooms and garlic. Fry these off after the burgers are cooked.

Step 4:

Prepare the salad and construct as you wish.

Individual Ginger & Lime Cakes

This has been quite the week for baking. Banana muffins, blueberry muffins and now Ginger & Lime cakes!

I wasn’t too sure how these were going to turn out as I totally made the recipe up lol but I gotta say… They are amazing! Even if I do say so myself.

So easy easy to make, taste delicious and as always wheat & gluten free!

Ingredients:

225g rice flour
100g wheat free oats
1 heaped tbs of baking powder
2 tbs of honey
2 tbs rice bran oil (vegetable oil would be fine)
50g of chopped dried pineapple
3 tbs of dried ginger
80 – 100g of fresh ginger (grated)
1 egg
1/2 pint water
1 tbs of vanilla extract

For the frosting:

250g mascarpone
150g cream cheese
2 limes (juice and rind)
1 lemon (juice and rind)
3 tbs of sweetener (not essential)
Crystallised ginger (for decoration)

Step 1

Combine all the dry ingredients including the fresh ginger and pineapple. Then add the egg, oil and vanilla mixing until everything is combined.

Step 2

Add the water in stages. A little at first then keep adding until the mixture resembles a thick batter. The whole half pint may not be needed.

Step 3

Spoon into muffin cases or as I did here, I bought some square cardboard cake cups. It’s Easter and I was feeling fancy!

You wanna bake these for about 15 – 20 minutes on gas mark 4, 350 fahrenheit or 180 celsius.

Step 4

While these are baking mix together the cream cheese, mascarpone, juice of two limes, 1 lemon and the rind of both.

You can add sweetener or even icing sugar to sweeten it up but I haven’t and don’t think it’s essential.

Step 5

Once the cakes are cooked, remove from the oven and allow to cool.

Once cooled, lather with the frosting, grate over some lime rind and top with a piece of crystallised ginger!

Cuppa tea and your good to go!

10 Minute Stir Fry

Forget Jamie and his 30 minute meals. This is my 10 minute meal and it’s fully amazing even if I do say so myself!

I have found that the key to quick meals is big heat and small food.

By which I mean you wanna get that pan as hot as you can and chop things like meat, which takes a longer time to cook, as small as you can.

This is no real revolution I’m sure, but is something I realised when I went to one of them noodle take out places. They cook the food sooo quickly and noticed the high heat/ small chunks situation.

Anyway, here my quick and easy stir fry.

Ingredients:

1 Chicken breast diced
1Onion
1 Red pepper
2Garlic cloves
1 Floret of pok choi
2 tbs of sesame seeds
1 handful of Sugar snap peas
3tbs of light soy sauce
3tbs of dark soy sauce

Preparation is the key! Chop everything up into chucks or slices as you prefer.

Chicken takes longer to cook so get your pan as hot as you can. Use rapeseed oil as its super healthy. See my previous post about its benefits.

Chuck in the chicken and fry till golden which depending in your chunks should take 4-5 minutes.

Then add in all the vegetables and cook till softened. Just before the end cooking toss in the sesame seeds, light soy and dark soy sauce cooking for a further 5 minutes.

Then serve up and your done! Enjoy!