I made e a very tasty lentil & butter bean curry with brown rice for tea tonight. Very simple to cook so ideal as a tasty dish for a beginner. Ingredients 1 Onion A little vegetable oil Some tomato puree Garam masala Ground ginger Paprika Fenugreek 1 400g tin chopped tomatoes A splash of red
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Submitted by: Donna Sanders Batch cooking today…Vegan Bolognese. This has given me 8 meals worth under £5.00I have made up 1 lasagna and 7 portions of bolognese 😋 Ingredients 100g dried soya mince, rehydrated 2 onions, chopped 4 cloves garlic, minced 2 sticks celery, diced 2 carrots, grated 1 courgette, grated 5 large white mushrooms, chopped
These are my Beanie Balls-or Vegan meatballs if you must. I’ve made them today ready for the freezer which is why they are in cake tins. My mix made 16. These are rather delicate so best to handle frozen rather than thawed. Ingredients: 1 tin kidney beans drained 1 teaspoon garlic granules A sprinkle of
Let’s talk sugar! There are so many types out there both white and brown not even mentioning the “fancy” ones. Thinking of what is used most. Granulated, Caster, Icing, Muscovado, Demerara, Soft Brown, Dark Brown, and the list goes on. I am just going to focus on white sugar though. I only buy one type
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This can be made vegetarian Vegan and Gluten-Free dependant on your stock cube choice/curry powder So often, when we are looking into soups they have added ingredients we really do not want. This one is low carb, low calorie and low salt. The only salt added is whatever is in the stock cube so you
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I’ve been making more Vegetarian dishes recently and I am going back to what I cooked within the 1970s and ’80s which is Beans and Pulses and T.V.P. T.V.P. is Textured Vegetable Protein and comes in many forms. Mostly today it is ready prepared and sold as Veggie mince. This is often frozen and can
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People often ask if they can make rice pudding without the use of an oven. The answer is a simple Yes. The real difference is that this pudding won’t have any skin on the top so if you actually don’t like the skin anyway this is definitely for you. Ingredeints 200g pudding rice/arborio rice/short grain
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As I made my own pasta sauce today I decided I had the best use it in a pasta bake. Mine is Chicken because we cooked a whole chicken yesterday. However, this recipe also applies to vegetables or tuna if you prefer. If you want a Vegan or Vegetarian version you can add Quorn or
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I have made my vegan aquafaba cake again tonight as I had the juice from a tin of kidney beans to use. The amount of Aquafaba used today’s was the water from 2 tins plus a bit of tap water until the mix was the right consistency. This recipe uses oil instead of butter and
Submitted by: Miki Knight Soaking dried beans overnight in bulk and cooking the next day will save time and money. I soak various beans overnight, pinto, black turtle, cannelloni, haricot, chickpeas, soya beans etc Cook next day times vary between 60 n 90 mins, read packs… I always do a hard boil for 10 mins
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