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This recipe can be doubled up and prepared in advance or frozen in individual portions. If you have trouble getting your children to eat vegetables cut the vegetables into smaller dice and most won’t know they are there. You could use most vegetables that need using up from the fridge such as broccoli, carrot, butternut squash, cabbage, cauliflower, marrow, leeks, babycorn, sweetcorn, peas… the list goes on.
For pastry making or to thicken sauces, soups, stews and casseroles.
Usually the darker green the oil, the richer the flavour.
Unsalted is better for cooking.
Easy spread butter is ideal for sandwiches and toast.
Add to eggs for omelettes, grate onto soups or salads.
Worth keeping a few different types.
Concentrate made from paste type tomatoes that have high pectin content.
When they’re cooked down, they’re put through a strainer to remove skins and seeds, and reduced further until almost all of the moisture has evaporated. Usually a recipe will call for a tablespoon or two, just enough to enrich a beef stew, for instance, or to deepen the flavour of a sauce made with fresh tomatoes.
Best used as a condiment.
Consider tablesalt, sea salt or crystals.
Sea salt’s pronounced and salty flavour means less is required to season food.
Great for instant pizza sauce, pasta, curry sauces.
organic, full fat, semi-skimmed.
If milk turns sour (and this when it smells or tastes sour not when it has reached the best before date) it is excellent for making scones
Made from your meat and fish bones.
Frozen in ice cubes for gravies, risotto and cooking rice. Once frozen, remove from the ice trays and pack into freezer bags. Use stock powder or cubes if you do not have any home made available.
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I make the usual lasagne, this one looks a bit healthier, been looking for a good vegetarian recipe will definitely try it.
I made half the portion stated in the recipe and it made 6 smallish portions. Was a bit dubious about it - having not made lasagne before, but the results were delicious and it's made it into my favourite recipes folder.
This is a real winner. My 8 month old loved it semi lumpy, my 4 year old woolfed it down, and my husband who hates most vegetables even raved on about it to his Dad!
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