Seasonal recipes from your store cupboard
This dish is based around Middle-Eastern flavours and is a lovely starter for a dinner party as it can be made well ahead or a perfect supper served with some flatbread to soak up the zhoug juices. It can be served warm or at room temperature. Roasting cauliflower brings flavour and a slight crispy texture. …
Gado-gado is an Indonesian salad which literally means “mix-mix” since it is made of rich mixture of vegetables such as carrot, bean sprouts, cucumber, green beans, potato with tofu and hard-boiled eggs, all coated in a peanut sauce dressing. The joy of this salad is you can use such a variety of vegetables – raw …
Even if you don’t like tomatoes most people do like a rich tomato sauce. Its worth taking the time in cooking this sauce to reach that creamy richness and give it a full flavour.
This dish combines root vegetables with peppers and courgettes to give a different flavour to traditional ratatouille. I often find that when you see ratatouille it is almost a stew with vegetables swimming in a tomato and oil sauce. When I spent some time in France in my teens, I was served a delicious dish …