FoodSavvy Recipes
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Leftover Sunday Lunch Pie
Monday night is now pie night, it’s official. This is the perfect dinner to use up delicious leftovers from Sunday lunch.
Hungarian Mushroom Soup
This recipe is a great way to use up spare milk and of course includes delicious mushrooms.
Fish or ‘To-Fish’ and Chips and Mushy Peas
Fish and chips is the UK’s national dish. But can the paper that’s replaced traditional newspaper wrap be popped into your recycling bin? In short, no. That’s because it absorbs grease and odours, rendering it no good. Save the waste and knock up a delicious stay at home treat.
We’ve included a plant based version using lemon juice, caper brine and a splash of white wine vinegar to recreate all the flavours of the seaside.
Chinese Curry
Our Chinese curry recipe is 100% plant based and we have paired it with marinated tofu to give an amazing texture to go with the flavour. This is a great one to use up leftover veg that is looking for a home. Go on try it – ‘Chinese curry!’
Warm New Potato, Purple Sprouting Broccoli and Miso Salad with Pickled Shallots
A ridiculously tasty salad, where the sweetness of new season potatoes plays against the saltiness of miso, the acidity of pickled shallots and the crispness of roasted purple sprouting.
Locally produced seasonal food is tasty and healthy as nutrients and flavours have fully developed. Eating local foods in season offers an environmental bonus. The produce will have travelled less miles, it is less likely to be found in plastic packaging and will have needed fewer pesticides and inorganic fertilisers to grow.
Ital Jerk Tofu Kebabs
Jerk is the taste of Jamaica, and its scent rides on the cooling breeze all around the island. Legend has it that the native people of the island used to smoke their food over the wood from the allspice trees that grow all over the island. The main flavour in a jerk seasoning is, therefore, allspice, but also ginger, lime, thyme, cinnamon and Scotch Bonnet chilli peppers.
Pea and Mint Soup
Simplicity and flavour marry up in this soup. Peas and garden mint are a match made in heaven. With just a few ingredients this dish is a great option for when it is tricky to get to the shops.
Tom’s Vegetarian Moussaka
This vegetarian moussaka is full of flavour and sustenance. Fresh, flavoursome produce is center stage in this recipe that make use of every ounce of an ingredient. If you prefer meat, add 200 grams of sautéed ground lamb to the recipe instead of the lentils.
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