The Recipe Thread (EADD Version)

[TheSpade]

Tomorrow I'm making Spinach and Sweet Potato Curry.

You need
1 Onion
2 cloves garlic
1 or 2 chilli peppers
7500g of Sweet Potato
225g of Spinach
One or two tins of chopped tomatoes
250ml of Chicken / Veg Stock.
1 tablespoon of curry powder.
Sprinkiling of chilli powder, tumeric and paprika.


Fry Onion, garlic and chilli.
Add spices, fry for another minute.
Add diced potato and stock.
Cook for 10 mins or until tender and cooked.
Add spinach and tomatos.
Cook until spinach has wilted.

Serve with rice, naan, whatever.

I'll prob add more veg into this I'd imagine, have some peppers, spring onion, carrots etc that I need to do something with.

 

[tribal girl]

Does anyone have a good recipe for spicy Moroccan style fish?. Preferably for red snapper or mackerel.

 

[TheSpade]

On Friday I'm going to make Spicey Bean Sausage Stew

Ingredients:
8 Sausages
1 Onion
2 garlic cloves
400g of cannellini beans
300g of kidney beans
qtr tsp of nutmeg
qtr tsp of ground cloves
qtr tsp of cayenne pepper
half tsp of dried thyme
2 tins of chopped tomatoes

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Fru sausages till brown.
Once brown set them aside on a plate.
Fry onion till brown.
Add garlic fry for another min or two.
Stir in nutmeg, cloves, cayenne and thyme.
Pour in tomatoes.
Add sausages and beans to the pan.
Season with salt and pepper.
Stir everything up and let simmer for a bit till everything is cooked.

Serve with mash, baked potato, veg etc.

 

[tribal girl]

^Have you made these before?

 

[TheSpade]

Nope I haven't, both taken from the BBC website.

 

[duck_racer]

Sausage casserole:

You can make this winey if you want to, depending on how you want the dish turning out.

Fry off some chopped up (thirds/quarters) good quality pork sausages until they're browning then add red onion and garlic. You don't need oil the fat will come out of the sausages. Chuck in a bit of chorizo too for some more smokey flavour. Add to the pan some beans, I'd go for 2 tins of varying. Last night I used Flagelot for flouriness and azuki for colour. Fry the beans off for a couple of minutes and add some salt and pepper. Tip in some white wine and a bit of white wine vinegar. Flash cook the alcohol off and add a tin of chopped tomatoes, some thyme and if you have it some saffron. A dash of chilli powder is good too and some Hendersons Relish is good too. Add a vegetable stock cube and a cup or two of water.

Let this cook for half an hour/40 minutes on a low simmer to reduce down and let the flavours develop. Add some chopped parsley and season to taste.

Serve and scoff

 

[duck_racer]

Salmon ala Jewbag

Buy a piece of salmon and skin it.

Cut it into slices about 1/2 centimetre thick. Drizzle some lemon juice and olive oil over, season well and eat.

Yum.

 

[tribal girl]

^Does saffron actually have any taste or is it just for colour?

 

[TheSpade]

You don't need oil the fat will come out of the sausages.

I tried this before and it just didn't work, ended up with them sticking to the bottom of the pan. Cooked on a low heat as well.

A splash of olive oil won't do any harm anyway, no?

 

[Shambles]

^Does saffron actually have any taste or is it just for colour?

It has quite a strong taste but hard to describe.

It tastes expensive and yellow.

 

[duck_racer]

^Does saffron actually have any taste or is it just for colour?

It kinda tastes like sweet hay. More of an aromatic thing than a taste but it compliments the chorizo really well. Very expensive but I just brought a load back from India on the cheap

You want a fairly high heat (and decent non-stick pan) to get the oil out of the sausages. If you get a bit of burn/stickage it'll only add to the flavour and it'll cook off during the simmering period. No harm in putting more oil in though.

 

[tribal girl]

Ah, cheers. I always wondered and I've never come across a recipe where I've needed to use some. I knew it was pricey though.

 

[TheSpade]

My birds mate hasn't stopped going on about how good the Daal was I made last week, they went to an Indian the other night for a meal which is really top notch and she had a Daal....apparently mines was miles better. :D

Cheers again for the recipe.

 

[TheSpade]

Just sampling the potato and spinach curry. Delicious.

 

[We_come1]

Anyone got a good Sardine Recipe?

 

[B9]

^ Tinned ones? Toast some brown bread & spread the sardines on it (adding pepper& vinegar is good IMO) - then put under a hot grill for a minute. Simple, cheap, elegant (?) & easy

 

[We_come1]

^Fresh. But wen't a very similar route in the end. Might've tried something fancy but no sense spoiling them really. Probably my favourite fish.

 

[duck_racer]

Anyone got a good Sardine Recipe?

Mediterranean style:

Season the whole fish and stuff with a bit of lemon thyme, garlic and lemon. Drizzle over some olive oil.

Grill or bbq for a few minutes either side and serve with french bread, a green salad, fresh tomato salsa and lots more oil and lemon.



You can't fuck about with sardines they're too tasty and delicate to put in dishes..

 

[We_come1]

^ Very true. Though i made an escabeche with them a while ago that was rather tasty,softened the bones nicely too. Took hours to mariande though and couldn't be arsed with that today. went for lemon juice/zest, balsamic vinegar and olive oil dressing then grilled on some bread.

 

[B9]

Understated & sophisticated - you impress me, for a fucking student, with such culinary artistry.


I feel I ought to add I am very easily impressed