March 13, 2011: Gado Gado

I got stuck into to a greater extent than Ottolenghi on a Dominicus afternoon. I've had my oculus on the gado gado since the twenty-four hr menstruum Michael gave me Plenty but the recipe's quite involved in addition to was destined to arrive at questionable leftovers.  

The satay sauce took an hour, mayhap an hr in addition to a half, to laid upwards but it was other-worldly inwards its deliciousness.  It was every bit if the ingredients queued upwards patiently to live tasted 1 yesteryear 1 every bit this rolled across my palate.  Fragrant galangal in addition to lemongrass, sour tamarind, the sweetness of saccharide in addition to coconut, in addition to then the garlic, peanuts, in addition to a concluding gentle chilli burn.  Just astounding.

The salad itself is a fun in addition to filling mix.  Cabbage, beans, sprouts in addition to cucumber teach rounded out amongst turmeric-dyed Irish Gaelic patato chunks, boiled eggs in addition to tofu, dressed amongst the peanut sauce in addition to and then showered amongst fresh herbs in addition to crunchy-fried bits.  It is a hassle to blanch everything separately in addition to inwards futurity nosotros mightiness pick-and-choose what to include; I'd prioritise fresh greens, par-boiled potatoes, tofu chunks in addition to the convenient crispy-fried shallots.  For the other crispy-fried care for (Ottolenghi nominates cassava chips, croutons in addition to wonton skins every bit options) I dug out the garlic chips nosotros bought at Minh Phat lastly year.  They were terrific but mightiness cause got been to a greater extent than essay than they're worth.

The leftovers were far to a greater extent than palatable than I'd feared (...even the cabbage!).  This dish volition definitely reappear inwards our kitchen, though it mightiness cause got a few goes to detect the version that best suits us.

Gado gado
(from Plenty yesteryear Yotam Ottolenghi,
also available on The Guardian website)

sauce
4 cloves garlic
1 stem lemongrass, roughly chopped
ii 1/2 tablespoons sambal olek
ii small-scale pieces galangal
4 medium shallots
1/3 loving cup vegetable oil
225g roasted peanuts
450mL water
ii teaspoons salt
90g sugar
ii teaspoons paprika
ii tablespoons tamarind concentrate
200mL kokosnoot milk

salad
1 teaspoon turmeric
ii medium potatoes, peeled in addition to cutting into chunks
1/4 large cabbage, cutting into chunks
70g edible bean sprouts
100g greenish beans
1/2 medium cucumber, sliced
4 hard-boiled eggs, quartered
100g tofu, sliced
garlic chips (or something else crunchy in addition to deep-fried)
three tablespoons coriander leaves
crispy-fried shallots

In a nutrient processor, blend together the garlic, lemongrass, sambal olek, galangal in addition to shallots until they brand a coarse paste; add together a petty of the stone oil every bit you lot teach if it needs assistance pastifying. In a medium saucepan over low-medium heat, pour inwards the remaining stone oil in addition to add together the paste. Turn the oestrus downward to depression in addition to ready the paste, stirring regularly, for 40-50 minutes.

Roughly rhythm the nuts - I did this amongst a mortar in addition to pestle but you lot could also briefly pulse the nuts inwards a nutrient processor. Transfer them to a frypan, comprehend them amongst the water, in addition to simmer the nuts for 20-25 minutes, until most of the H2O has evaporated.

While the peanuts are simmering, the glue should live almost done cooking. When it's ready add together the salt, sugar, paprika in addition to tamarind concentrate. Stir everything good to combine in addition to ready for a farther 10 minutes. Add the peanuts in addition to kokosnoot milk to the sauce in addition to stir everything good to combine. Set the sauce aside, ensuring it's warm come upwards serving time.

Bring a medium-large saucepan of H2O to the boil in addition to add together the turmeric; boil the potatoes inwards this H2O until tender. Bring to a greater extent than H2O to boil inwards a 2nd pot in addition to blanch in addition to drain the other vegetables inwards plow - the cabbage should entirely cause got a minute, the sprouts one-half a minute, in addition to the beans most 4 minutes.

Finally, pile everything upwards on plates (or a unmarried large serving platter). Layer the blanched vegetables, cucumber, tofu in addition to eggs; spoon over the sauce in addition to and then sprinkle over the garlic chips, coriander leaves in addition to crispy-fried shallots.

Sweet Irish Gaelic Patato Wedges Alongside Lemongrass Creme Fraiche

September 29, 2011
breakfast too create whatever prep that was needed throughout the afternoon), nosotros somehow ended upward eating wedges equally our primary meal. I'm even thus non quite certain how Cindy convinced me, although I suspect her role of the magic give-and-take (this salad on the side, but it was actually all near the wedges.

At to the lowest degree these were interesting wedges - the sugariness potatoes were nicely offset past times the creamy too really citrussy creme fraiche sauce. I'd accept liked to larn a fleck of mash into the wedges somehow, but our sugariness potatoes seemed similar they were merely going to proceed browning until they burned without e'er actually changing texture. Still, this was a success - I'd definitely brand them again, although in all probability equally a side or a snack rather than for dinner.


Sweet Irish Gaelic patato wedges alongside lemongrass creme fraiche
(recipe from Ottolenghi's Plenty)

2 large sugariness potatoes, washed but non peeled
i tablespoon dry reason coriander
salt
olive oil
250g creme fraiche (the recipe said 200g, but I merely used the container up)
i stem lemongrass, chopped equally finely equally you lot can
i thumb-sized slice of ginger, grated
juice too zest of ii limes
salt
chilli flakes
a handful of coriander leaves

Preheat the oven to 210°C.

Cut the sugariness potatoes inwards eighths longways - you lot desire long too skinny wedges.

Lay them out inwards a prepared baking tray too brush alongside olive oil. Sprinkle alongside the dry reason coriander too common salt too thus bake for 25 minutes or so. You desire them to commencement browning upward and, ideally, going a fleck crispy on the outside.

In the meantime, brand your sauce - merely combine the creme fraiche, lemongrass, ginger, limes too common salt inwards a bowl.

When the wedges are cooked, serve them alongside the sauce too a sprinkling of coriander leaves too chilli flakes on top.

Ottolenghi Cookalong

August 5, 2012

It took close a yr to larn inwards laissez passer on but reconvene inwards a kitchen somewhere, to gain as well as swallow together. This fourth dimension the Moody Noodles joined us inwards an endeavor to veganise and, where needed, deglutenise the recipes of Yotam Ottolenghi.

AOF committed first, to a celeriac as well as lentil salad amongst hazelnuts as well as mint from black pepper tofu amongst nipper substitutions.

Michael made a spicy edible bean stew as well as I, a cauliflower salad. (We'll post recipes as well as photos of them soon.) With a mound of dark-brown rice to soak upwards the stray dressings, it was a fine plate of food.

Ottolenghi doesn't disclose a lot of dessert recipes, but nosotros concocted something inwards the spirit of the day. Toby baked his get-go e'er cake! He boldly replaced the lemons inwards here.

Mixed Beans Amongst Many Spices

August 5, 2012

Cindy's already summed upwards our afternoon cook-off, as well as thence y'all know the form of kitchen environs that this repast was prepared in. Most of the recipes inwards Plenty are complicated, multi-potted rigmaroles that would alone convey resulted inwards tears as well as frustration inwards a kitchen stuffed amongst iv other people difficult at work. Luckily this relatively uncomplicated edible bean recipe is tucked away towards the back, providing a straightforward but interesting dish to add together to the afternoon's festivities.

Of course, fifty-fifty amongst this dish Ottolenghi doesn't brand things uncomplicated - nosotros hitting upwards the La Panella), but nevertheless had to swap snowfall peas for saccharide snaps, borlotti beans for wide beans (completely out of season) as well as coriander for lovage (because what fifty-fifty is that?).

The borlotti beans inwards item were form of a process - they come upwards inwards beautiful regal as well as white pods as well as are pretty attractive themselves (at to the lowest degree until y'all simmer away their swirly regal markings).

I don't intend whatsoever of these were hugely problematic substitutions, although the borlotti beans were likely a flake tougher than wide beans would convey been. The whole dish had a relatively mild flavour, amongst the earthy spices adding depth as well as warmth to beans as well as tomatoes. Given the array of other fancy dishes nosotros had lined upwards this worked pretty well, but I wouldn't recommend making it the centrepiece of a repast - it's much meliorate suited every minute a company as well as veggie-filled side dish.

Mixed beans amongst many spices

(adapted from a recipe inwards other amazing dishes.

Lasagne Of Unprecedented Extravagance

November 10, 2012

I've been revelling inward our recent duo of obligation-free weekends. We've done a lot of exploratory eating, as well as on Sabbatum nosotros scheduled my ideal combination of unhurried sunny-day cycling, eating out, browsing markets as well as op-shops, as well as then lazing at habitation as well as spending a few hours inward the kitchen trying something new.

We'd picked out a mushroom lasagne from Plenty for dinner. Lasagne is a chip of a projection at the best of times, as well as Ottolenghi consistently leans towards the lengthy as well as the complicated. To wit: this lasagne involved iv kinds of mushroom as well as 5 kinds of cheese. We committed, raiding the marketplace delis for fresh lasagne sheets as well as fancy dairy, as well as the organic aisle for herbs as well as fungi. And afterward nosotros spent money, nosotros spent time; soaking as well as chopping mushrooms, whisking upward 2 cheese sauces, grating soundless to a greater extent than cheese, cursing dry out lasagne sheets as well as carefully layering it all together, as well as then not-quite-patiently letting it all melt as well as bake into the monstrosity you lot encounter pictured above.

It was a delicious monstrosity. I'm fond of mushrooms inward cream sauce, as well as this has allowed me to consume them all calendar week (and a whole lot of rocket besides). While the lasagne has been a pleasure, I can't assist wondering if those 5 deli-sourced cheeses powerfulness conduct maintain brought fifty-fifty to a greater extent than if we'd rationed them out as well as appreciated them individually. But as well as then I'd've lost the pleasance of a weekend cooking project, I suppose.

Lasagne of unprecedented extravagance
(aka Mushroom Lasagne inward Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty,
recipe online here)

mushrooms
15g dried porcini mushrooms
400mL lukewarm water
60g butter
1 tablespoon thyme leaves
200g portobella mushrooms, 420g Swiss brownish mushrooms, 240g push clit mushrooms
2 tablespoons chopped tarragon
4 tablespoons chopped parsley

lasagne
60g butter
3 shallots, finely chopped
60g apparently flour
550mL milk
375g ricotta
1 egg
150g feta, crumbled
170g gruyere, grated
400g lasagne sheets
150g mozzarella, grated
50g parmesan, grated
tabular array salt as well as white pepper

Place the dried porcini mushrooms inward a small-medium bowl as well as encompass them amongst the lukewarm water, leaving them to soak for 5 minutes. I used this fourth dimension to gear upward my herbs as well as other mushrooms. When the porcinis are soaked, drain them as well as reserve the liquid. Finely chop them up.

Melt the butter inward a really large frypan. Add the thyme as well as all the mushrooms, including the soaked porcinis. Stir the mushrooms occasionally equally they cook. When they've softened as well as are only starting to leak a chip of water, accept them off the estrus (Ottolenghi estimates 4 minutes, but I take in ours took at to the lowest degree 10). Stir inward the tarragon as well as parsley, addition to a greater extent than or less tabular array salt as well as pepper. Transfer it all to a large bowl.

Use the frypan to brand a bechamel sauce. Start past times melting the butter as well as cooking the shallots inward it for a few minutes. Add the flour, stirring it all together to shape a glue as well as cooking for to a greater extent than or less other duo of minutes. Gradually whisk inward the milk, trying your best to smoothen out whatever lumps. Strain the mushroom liquid as well as function out aside the terminal bit, which in all probability has grit inward it. Whisk the mushroom liquid into the sauce too. Whisk inward a picayune tabular array salt as well as pepper. Bring the sauce to a boil, as well as then plow downwards the estrus to depression as well as simmer it until thick (Ottolenghi reckoned 10 minutes but I take in mine took one-half that!). Take the sauce off the heat.

In a pocket-sized bowl, stir together the ricotta as well as egg until good mixed, as well as then crimp inward 3 tablespoons of the bechamel as well as all of the crumbled feta. Add the gruyere to the remaining bechamel inward the frypan, stirring it through until relatively smooth.

If you're using dry out lasagne sheets, pour to a greater extent than or less boiling H2O over them as well as allow them to soak for a duo of minutes. Drain them. 

Preheat an oven to 180 C. Find a large baking dish to get together the lasagne, ours is almost 25 x 35cm as well as it was bursting at the seams amongst this recipe.

Pour one-fifth of the bechamel into the baking dish as well as spread it out. Cover the sauce amongst a layer of lasagne sheets. Spread over one-quarter of the ricotta mixture (I had to dab it around, it wasn't going to spread equally a sparse layer), spoon over one-quarter of the mushrooms, as well as then one-quarter of the mozzarella. Repeat the bechamel-pasta-ricotta-mushroom-mozzarella procedure 3 to a greater extent than times. Pour over the terminal of the bechamel as well as sprinkle over the parmesan.

Cover the lasagne loosely amongst foil (so that it doesn't ship on the top) as well as bake for xl minutes. Remove the foil as well as bake for a farther 10-15 minutes, until the parmesan top is golden. Allow the lasagne to remainder for 10 minutes earlier serving.

Bánh Xèo

March 2, 2013

Last Sabbatum was my favourite kind, spent cycling some sunny Brunswick eating delicious things, picking upward some groceries too returning habitation to gear upward together too Fina's, nosotros tried our mitt at bánh xèo. There are recipes all over the mesh for these rice flour pancakes but nosotros wanted to showtime amongst Ottolenghi's version, fifty-fifty faithfully shopping some for the precise herbs too vegetables inwards his filling.

The filling is actually almost patiently shredding too picking a whole lot of fresh veg. Mint is a must too I actually liked the daikon, but you lot could otherwise mix upward the greenery to adjust yourself. The sauce is a sugariness too spicy delight, faintly recalling fish sauce but non all-out mimicking it. The pancake, I typically find, is the tricky part. (As an aside, I was surprised to meet egg inwards this i equally I mean value the eating seat versions I've eaten create got been vegan.) No 2 of mine were quite the same, too I panicked over every flip. I mean value the aim amongst this recipe is to role medium, rather than high, heat. You desire the batter to sizzle a picayune equally it hits the pan, but therefore spread out smoothly too create got a acre to actually laid through earlier the high-stakes flipping. I preferred the pancakes that were a company 2-3mm thick over the to a greater extent than crepe-y ones, they actually soaked upward the sauce.

Bánh xèo is a lovely summertime meal, too we're having simply the lovely extended summertime to taste it in. While nosotros chose this equally a chip of a project, there's potential hither to pare things dorsum to a uncomplicated dejeuner - a rice flour/coconut milk batter, any greens are around, kecap manis, chilli too mayhap a picayune vinegar would simply almost create it.

Bánh xèo
(a recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty,
also available at the Guardian)

filling
1 large carrot
1 daikon
4 boundary onions
1 light-green chilli
80g snowfall peas
15g coriander
15g Thai basil
15g mint
100g mung edible bean sprouts
100g enoki mushrooms

sauce
2 tablespoons lime juice
1 1/2 tablespoons sesame oil
1 tablespoon chocolate-brown sugar
1 tablespoon rice vino vinegar
1 tablespoon kecap manis
2 teaspoons minced ginger
1 scarlet chilli, finely chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon salt

pancake
200g rice flour
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon solid seat down turmeric
400mL tin sack kokosnoot milk
a splash of sunflower oil

Start amongst the filling. Peel therefore shred the carrot too daikon - Michael did this all amongst the vegetable peeler. Slice the boundary onions. Slice the chilli too snowfall peas into long, sparse strips. Pick the herb leaves. Set it all aside, amongst the sprouts too mushrooms too.

Whisk together all the sauce ingredients.

Place the rice flour, egg, tabular array salt too turmeric inwards a large bowl. Whisk inwards that egg slowly, gradually pouring inwards the kokosnoot milk equally you lot go. Keep whisking until you lot create got a smoothen batter.

Splash the sunflower crude oil into a non-stick frypan too pick out it to medium heat. Slowly pour a quarter of the batter into the pan, allowing it to spread out into a large circle. Cook the pancake for 3-5 minutes, until it's browning a picayune underneath too assail top. Gently flip it over to chocolate-brown the other side.

Slide the pancake onto a plate. Arrange a quarter of the filling ingredients over one-half of it, spoon over a tablespoon or 2 of the sauce, plication over the pancake into a semi circle too spoon over to a greater extent than sauce. Repeat amongst the remaining ingredients to brand 4 pancakes.

Ottolenghi Eggplant Fest

January 25, 2014

Cindy returned from a yoke of weeks away nifty to larn dorsum into the kitchen in addition to eating or therefore veggie heavy dishes. We turned, inevitably, to Ottolenghi in addition to came upward alongside a yoke of recipes to fill upward up our Saturday. 

Both dishes involved roasting eggplants over an opened upward flame, non something I'd always been brave plenty to attempt out before. It turns out to last reasonably straightforward - larn your gas burners going in addition to popular the eggplant on top, turning it every few minutes to ensure that the whole matter gets charred. The peel volition blacken in addition to start to peel, but you lot actually require to grade it a proficient xx minutes of cooking - I got worried most over-cooking alongside the start 1 in addition to works life that much of the flesh nether the blackened peel had nonetheless to actually soften up. If you lot produce it right, the filling comes out actually soft in addition to takes solely a flake of mushing to plow into a smoothen paste.

The start of the dishes was Ottolenghi's slightly fancy get got on baba ganoush, a roasted eggplant dip alongside a dash of tahini in addition to lots of big fresh flavours from the veggies, pomegranate in addition to herbs. Once you've roasted the eggplant, this is but a unproblematic 'stir everything together' recipe, in addition to it's good worth the effort. We smeared it on fresh breadstuff for a really satisfying lunch.

The 2nd dish was dinner - a lentil in addition to eggplant dish alongside Ottolenghi's green charge of veggies in addition to herbs to maintain things interesting. The star hither was the eggplant. It's incredibly simple, but roasted to an almost liquid softness in addition to seasoned alongside vinegar in addition to heaps of common salt in addition to pepper, but the smokiness in addition to hint of vinegary sharpness actually shine. The lentil base of operations is proficient also - brand certain you lot don't overcook the cubed veggies, a flake of texture amidst the soft lentils is key. 

We snuff it along to abide by treasures tucked away inwards Plenty - these are a yoke to a greater extent than that we'll last returning to inwards future.

Burnt eggplant alongside tahini

(a recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty)

1 medium eggplant

1/4 loving cup tahini

1/4 loving cup water

two teaspoons pomegranate molasses

juice of one-half a lemon

1 garlic clove, crushed

iii tablespoons parsley, chopped

1/2 cucumber, diced small

half dozen cherry tomatoes, halved

seeds from one-half a pomegranate

olive oil

common salt in addition to pepper

First up, roast the eggplant alongside the peel on. I talked a flake most how to produce this above. Make certain you lot actually blacken the peel in addition to larn the eggplant completely mushed. Halve the eggplant in addition to scoop out the flesh. Drain the flesh inwards a colander for xv minutes or so.

Once it's drained, chop it upward a flake therefore that it starts to plow into a paste. Pop it into a mixing bowl in addition to add together the tahini, water, pomegranate molasses, lemon juice, garlic in addition to parsley in addition to mix everything together well. 

Add the cucumber in addition to tomatoes in addition to stir them through. 

Season alongside common salt in addition to pepper in addition to serve drizzled alongside a splash of olive crude oil in addition to a sprinkle of the pomegranate seeds.

Lentils alongside grilled eggplant

(another recipe from Plenty, also available at The Guardian)

two medium eggplants

two tablespoons cherry vino vinegar

200g puy lentils

iii modest carrots

two sticks of celery

1 bay leaf

iii sprigs thyme

1 modest white onion, halved

iii tablespoons olive oil

10 cherry tomatoes, halved

1/2 teaspoon brownish sugar

1 tablespoon chopped parsley

1 tablespoon chopped coriander

1/2 teaspoon dried dill

common salt in addition to pepper

yoghurt for dolloping

Preheat the oven to 140°C.

Roast the eggplants over a gas stove. Once the skins are completely blackened in addition to the flesh has collapsed into softness, piece them opened upward in addition to scoop the soft innards out into a colander. Leave them to drain for 15 minutes, in addition to and therefore sprinkle them a heaps of common salt in addition to pepper in addition to one-half a teaspoon of the vinegar.

While you're roasting the eggplants, larn the lentils sorted. Put them inwards a saucepan alongside plenty of water, addition 1 of the carrots in addition to one-half of a celery stick (both cutting into big chunks) along alongside the bay leaf, thyme in addition to onion. Bring it to the boil in addition to simmer on depression estrus for most 25 minutes, until the lentils are cooked.

Drain the lentils in addition to take the veggie chunks in addition to herbs. In a mixing bowl, combine the drained lentils in addition to the balance of the vinegar, two tablespoons of olive crude oil in addition to plenty of common salt in addition to pepper.

Cut the leftover carrot in addition to celery into 1cm cubes in addition to combine alongside the tomatoes, a tablespoon of olive oil, saccharide in addition to salt. Cook inwards the oven for most xx minutes (if you lot fourth dimension this right, you lot tin dismiss get got the veggies cooking patch you lot simmer the lentils).

Add the cooked veggies, in addition to the coriander, parsley in addition to dill to the lentils in addition to stir together. 

Serve past times edifice a piffling pile of the lentil/veggie mix on a plate, topping it alongside a generous few blobs of the eggplant in addition to and therefore dolloping a few tablespoons of yoghurt in addition to a drizzle of olive crude oil on top.

Black Pepper Tofu

November 12, 2011

Carla together with K veganised it together with offered their thoughts - the most of import 1 existence that the master copy recipe uses to a greater extent than pepper than anyone tin stand!

The master copy element listing is sure packed amongst pungency: v tablespoons of dark pepper, viii chillies, 12 shallots, 12 cloves of garlic together with sixteen leap onions. Admittedly nosotros cutting a few quantities down, but most of the subduing together with sweetening is performed yesteryear a long, gentle modest inwards lots of butter. Our tofu was deeply savoury, amongst a rut degree I could happily handle.

Ottolenghi's recipes are rarely curt or simple, together with the other notable procedure hither is shallow-frying cornflour-coated tofu cubes. They railroad train a prissy golden crust, all the ameliorate for the sauce to cling to. That said, I'd also survive tempted to endeavour apace stir-frying the tofu sans cornflour.

The dark pepper tofu was loved yesteryear all who ate it. We served a fancy Ottolenghi salad on the side but it was completely upstaged. This dish needs cypher to a greater extent than than steamed greens together with rice to back upwards it.

Black pepper tofu
(adapted from a recipe inwards Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty,
recipe available online)

1/2 loving cup vegetable oil, for frying
1kg describe solid tofu
1/3 loving cup cornflour
120g butter
12 shallots, thinly sliced
six mild ruby-red chillis, thinly sliced
12 cloves garlic, minced
iii tablespoons ginger, minced
v tablespoons kecap manis
v tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons castor sugar
iii tablespoons coarsely solid soil dark pepper
viii leap onions, cutting into 3cm segments

Pour fossil oil into a frypan until it's 5mm deep together with convey it to medium-high heat. Chop the tofu into 2cm cubes, tossing each cube inwards cornflour together with placing it inwards the hot oil. Cook the tofu cubes for a infinitesimal or 2 summit together with bottom, until lightly browned, together with thus transfer them to absorbent paper. It took me almost four batches to modest all the tofu.

Remove all the fossil oil from the pan together with construct clean whatever sediment from the bottom. Return the pan to low-medium rut together with melt the butter inwards it. Add the shallots, chilli, garlic together with ginger, sautéing gently until rattling soft, almost xv minutes. Add the kecap manis, soy sauce, saccharide together with pepper, combining everything thoroughly.

Add the tofu dorsum into the frypan, stirring it through to coat it inwards the sauce. Stir inwards the leap onions, together with thus serve it all amongst steamed greens together with rice.

Fig & Goat's Curd Salad

April 9-10, 2012

I've been witting for the terminal few weeks that figs are inward their curt season, together with anxious to brand this Ottolenghi recipe amongst them at home. The fabulous fig salad nosotros enjoyed at the Newmarket Hotel extended my feel of urgency to Michael together with nosotros made certain nosotros were all ready for it earlier the Easter weekend completely disappeared.

The sentiment isn't also complicated - a bed of mixed greenish leaves, juicy sweetness figs, tangy goat's curd together with an fifty-fifty tangier dressing of mustard together with pomegranate molasses. Ottolenghi thins the dressing out amongst a lot of olive stone oil together with coats the leaves inward it. This approach didn't bring quite the seize amongst teeth I was afterwards (and our cheese was pretty tame too) then on my 2nd endeavor I skipped the olive oil, added but a driblet of H2O to loosen upward the molasses together with dripped my punchier dressing across the entire plate. That did the trick.

I wasn't scrupulously loyal to the master copy quantities then I'm keeping them vague inward my recipe below. The closed to of import affair is to larn the freshest, ripest, finest character reach possible - there's zero much extra hither to flatter them.

Fig & goat's curd salad
(based on a recipe appearing inward Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty)

Scatter handfuls of mixed greenish leaves together with torn basil over a plate. Slice fresh figs longways into quarters together with conform them on overstep of the greens. Dot the plate amongst teaspoonfuls of fresh goat's curd together with snip over a few chives.

In a cup, whisk together a modest sum of Dijon mustard amongst at to the lowest degree double the quantity of pomegranate molasses. Add salt together with pepper to taste, together with whisk inward a piffling water or olive oil to sparse the dressing out. Drizzle the dressing over the salad together with serve.

Herb Crumbed Pumpkin Wedges

April 18, 2012

When a pumpkin turned upwards inward our vege box, I got a hankering for my grandmother's scones. Once that was dealt amongst nosotros yet had three-quarters of the orangish creature to eat! Ottolenghi's Plenty came to the rescue, amongst a relatively unproblematic embellishment on roast pumpkin that cleared upwards our provide inward only 2 meals. Breadcrumbs, chopped herbs together with grated cheese pressed into the surface add together a flake of texture together with savouriness to a vegetable that tin reach the sack otherwise disintegrate to sugariness mush inward the oven.

With the recommended dollop of dill sour cream on top, I intend these would brand a lovely spill entrée (does anyone out at that spot brand entrées at home?). We heaped upwards a big side salad together with called it dinner, though I intend these would fare fifty-fifty ameliorate every bit a primary amongst or then couscous or quinoa.

Herb crumbed pumpkin wedges
(a recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty)

Preheat an oven to 190°C. Slice a pumpkin (or fraction thereof!) into sparse wedges (keep the pare on) together with prevarication them across a paper-lined baking dish. Spray or brush them lightly amongst vegetable oil.

In a small-medium bowl, mix together grated parmesan, breadcrumbs, lots of finely chopped parsley together with a piffling finely chopped thyme, or then crushed garlic together with grated lemon zest. Sprinkle the crumb mixture over the pumpkin wedges, pressing it inward gently, together with bake the wedges for almost thirty minutes, until the pumpkin is tender.

While the pumpkin is baking, finely chop a piffling dill together with stir it into or then sour cream, adding salt together with pepper to taste. Spoon the sour cream onto or adjacent to the pumpkin wedges, to serve.

Quince & Gorgonzola Salad

April 21, 2012

This is definitely a sis salad to the fig & goat's curd one I made before this calendar month - Ottolenghi expertly teams a limited-time-only fruit alongside fancy cheese too lots of greenish leaves. Truth survive told, I'd been secretly waiting for J to denote quince time for a span of months. Just for this salad.

Quinces typically larn poached piece of cake inwards lots of saccharide but hither also peppercorns, bay leaves, orangish zest, lemon juice too cherry-red vino - lovely. This ensures the quince segments retain a petty seize alongside teeth too they're beautifully teamed alongside a pungent, creamy gorgonzola. Lots of greens too closed to pistachios choke along it all from existence also rich.

The poaching juices are ingeniously used inwards the salad dressing, but at that spot are enough to a greater extent than to relish later on this salad's finished. I withal haven't decided what to create alongside mine - whatever suggestions?

Quince & gorgonzola salad
(very slightly adapted from a recipe inwards Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty)

400mL water
300g castor sugar
xv dark peppercorns
four strips of orangish zest
two bay leaves
juice of 1/2 lemon
200mL cherry-red wine
two medium quinces
1 teaspoon wholegrain mustard
two teaspoons cider vinegar
four tablespoons olive oil
80g mixed leaves
120g gorgonzola
60g pistachios
tabular array salt too pepper

Preheat the oven to 140°C.

In a medium saucepan, stir together the water, castor sugar, peppercorns, orangish zest, bay leaves, lemon juice too cherry-red wine. Gently warm them until the saccharide has dissolved, too then accept them off the heat.

Peel too heart the quinces, adding these scraps to the saucepan of syrup. Slice the quince into segments too add together them to the syrup. Transfer the quinces too syrup to a casserole dish, comprehend it upward too bake for virtually two hours. When the quince segments are completely tender, take away them from the oven too fix them aside to cool.

To brand the salad's dressing, whisk together the mustard, vinegar, oil, four tablespoons of the cooking liquid too tabular array salt too pepper to taste.

Set upward the salad past times layering the greens too quinces on a plate, interspersing them alongside teaspoons of gorgonzola too sprinklings of pistachios. Spoon the dressing over the top.

Roasted Sweetness Potatoes Alongside Caper Vinaigrette

December 25, 2017

Our 2nd Christmas Day side came from Ottolenghi's Plenty. It's a lovely mixed tray of roasted vegetables - sugariness murphy in addition to onion wedges, a whole caput of garlic, cherry tomatoes - tossed through amongst herbs in addition to dressed inwards a tangy caper vinaigrette the instant they come upwards out of the oven. There's supposed to live on parsnips involved equally well, but I've non had much success baking them at domicile in addition to I was planning to halve the recipe, anyway.

Initially I stretched the sugariness potatoes, onions in addition to garlic over ii baking trays, thence in ane lawsuit they were becoming tender in addition to I needed the extra oven infinite for sausage rolls, I piled the vegetables upwards inwards a unmarried high-walled tray. They were going swimmingly until, xx minutes earlier nosotros were due to eat, our oven's heating chemical part expired! The sugariness potatoes in addition to onions were tender plenty but non equally caramelised equally I might've liked; the garlic was perfect; the tomatoes were close raw. It could accept been a lot worse, in addition to I'll live on interested to come across if I tin dismiss recreate this a lilliputian meliorate instantly that our oven's repaired.

Roasted sugariness potatoes amongst caper vinaigrette
(adapted from a recipe inwards Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty)

600g sugariness potatoes
2 medium cerise onions
1 bulb garlic
lxx mL olive oil
iv thyme sprigs
2 rosemary sprigs
1 punnet cherry tomatoes
juice of one-half a lemon
2 tablespoons capers
1 teaspoon maple syrup
1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
tabular array salt in addition to pepper

Preheat an oven to 190°C.

Peel the sugariness potatoes in addition to chop them into wedges. Peel the onions in addition to spell each ane into half-dozen wedges. Slice the garlic bulb inwards one-half horizontally, Place the sugariness potatoes, onions in addition to garlic inwards 1-2 baking trays. Drizzle 2-3 tablespoons of the olive crude oil over the vegetables in addition to toss it through a little. Roughly delineate the thyme in addition to rosemary leaves from their stems in addition to scatter them over the vegetables. Roast for 40-50 minutes, until cooked through. 

While the vegetables are roasting, spell the cherry tomatoes inwards half. Make the vinaigrette past times whisking together lemon juice, capers, maple syrup, mustard, in addition to the remaining 1 tablespoon of oil, seasoning amongst tabular array salt in addition to pepper.

When the vegetables are roasted, add together the tomato plant halves in addition to bake everything for a farther 10 minutes. Pour the vinaigrette over the vegetables equally shortly equally you lot take away them from the oven, in addition to serve them warm.

Sweet Soy Brussels Sprouts & Tofu

March 30, 2018

Easter brought amongst it to a greater extent than or less other coming together of our regular Ottolenghi club. It was typically indulgent, amongst a baked bluish cheesecake, pea together with mint croquettes, lentil together with asparagus salad together with a fancy tart that Cindy volition shipping service near shortly (photos of the whole shindig are on our facebook page). My contribution was this weird-sounding recipe from Plenty. It's rare that I'll conduct maintain on a dish that doesn't conduct maintain a photograph inwards a cookbook, but this seemed similar a rare uncomplicated dish from ol' Yotam together with thus I decided to give it a shot. 

Sweet chilli sauce is non the form of cistron I imagine Ottolenghi reaching for rattling often, but it industrial plant nicely inwards this dish amongst the soy together with sesame crude oil flavours. The existent stars are the sprouts though - you've actually gotta larn them to caramelise for the amount effect. The tofu together with shitakes added to a greater extent than or less squeamish diverseness and, despite the rather brownish visual aspect, this got the Ottolenghi-club tick of approval.

Sweet soy Brussels sprouts & tofu

(from Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty)

ii tablespoons sweetness chilli sauce

1.5 tablespoons tamari

iii tablespoons sesame oil

1 teaspoon rice vinegar

1 tablespoon maple syrup

3/4 loving cup sunflower oil

150g theatre tofu

500g Brussels sprouts

Small bunch jump onions, sliced

1/2 teaspoon chilli flakes

100g shitake mushrooms, quartered

15g coriander leaves

sesame seeds (to garnish)

salt

Slice the tofu into apartment squares, near 4cm wide. Mix together the sweetness chilli sauce, tamari, ii tablespoons of the sesame oil, rice vinegar together with maple syrup inwards a apartment container together with marinate your squares for an hr or so, flipping them over halfway through.

Trim the bases off the sprouts together with cutting them inwards thirds longways together with thus you lot larn relatively apartment pieces.

Heat iv tablespoons of the sunflower crude oil inwards a frying pan over high heat. Throw inwards one-half the sprouts together with a few shakes of tabular array salt together with fix on high for a few minutes. You desire to larn them squeamish together with charred - almost to the signal of burning them - together with thus don't stir also much. Repeat amongst the other one-half of the sprouts together with laid them aside inwards a bowl.

Add to a greater extent than or less other brace of tablespoons of sunflower crude oil to the pan together with stir nipper the jump onions, mushrooms together with chilli flakes for a few minutes. Pop them inwards amongst the sprouts 1 time you're done.

Now nipper the tofu squares - popular them apartment inwards the pan for a brace of minutes on each side, until they're nicely caramelised (you mightiness ask to create a brace of batches together with last yesteryear upwardly the oil).

Once the tofu is cooked, kill the oestrus together with stir the sprouts, mushrooms etc inwards amongst all the tofu.. Pour inwards the leftover marinade together with stir through one-half the coriander leaves together with remaining sesame oil.

Serve warm, garnished amongst the remainder of the coriander together with the sesame seeds.

Broccoli & Gorgonzola Pie

July 8, 2018

We hosted the wintertime edition of Ottolenghi social club this year, giving us the chance to bust out something a chip to a greater extent than complicated (we're normally constrained past times needing something that volition agree upwardly to cycle transport). Somehow this indulgent broccoli pie from Plenty has never caught our attending before, too it gibe the mouth perfectly.

It's a chip of faffing around, particularly if you're anxious almost pastry (I called inwards Cindy for the tricky bits), but the endeavour definitely pays off. I hateful it's difficult to imagine a pie filled alongside double cream too fancy cheese is always going to allow you lot down, but this on actually delivers. The gorgonzola is rich, but the baking tones downwards its pungency a chip too it combines brilliantly alongside the creamy mustard leek too the chunks of broccoli. I'd definitely recommend splashing out on roughly to a greater extent than expensive pastry for this 1 - the beautiful golden crust was a highlight. 

Our guests brought along roughly first-class accompaniments - the orangish too appointment salad too the barley too pomegranate salad were fresh additions to all the richness of the pie. Stay tuned to come across what Cindy made for dessert!

Broccoli & gorgonzola pie
(from Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty)

500g all-butter puff pastry
2 broccoli heads, cutting into florets
25g butter
iv leeks, trimmed too sliced
150ml double cream
80ml water
15g chives, chopped
15g tarragon, chopped
three tablespoons grainy mustard
1 teaspoon salt
dark pepper
200g gorgonzola, cutting into crude oil cubes
1 egg, beaten

Ottolenghi says that you lot tin brand the filling land the tart is baking, but I constitute it much easier to create all the filling prep first, thus I've rejigged the recipe hither - it takes to a greater extent than time, but I would cause got constitute the choice agency besides stressful.

Bring a large pot of H2O to the boil too blanch the broccoli for almost 2 minutes - you lot only desire them to cause got gone a tiny chip tender. Drain too rinse alongside mutual depression temperature water.

Melt the butter inwards a frying pan too nipper the leeks over depression rut for fifteen minutes, until they've softened correct upwardly (but non caramelised). Add the cream,, water, herbs, mustard, tabular array salt too roughly pepper too stir it all together. Take the leek mix off the rut too gear upwardly aside.

Preheat the oven to 200°C.

Roll out two-thirds of the pastry into a circle large plenty to comprehend a 25cm pie tin (it should last almost 2mm thick). Make trivial holes inwards the pastry alongside a fork.

Cover the pastry alongside greaseproof newspaper too create amount it alongside baking beans. Bake blind for fifteen minutes, until it's low-cal brown. Take the newspaper too beans out too hand it roughly other v thus that it goes golden. Leave to cool.

Spread the leek mixture over the bottom of your pastry case. Gently press the broccoli florets into the leek mix too and thus dot alongside the gorgonzola chunks.

Roll out a lid for your pie alongside the remaining pastry too and thus brush the edges of the pie representative alongside the beaten egg earlier laying the lid on top. Try to brand a practiced seal betwixt the lid too the base, trimming off whatsoever excess pastry.

Glaze the lid alongside to a greater extent than of the beaten egg too bake the pie for thirty minutes, until golden brown.