Puy lentil salad with roasted peppers, red onions and soft fresh goat's cheese makes for a glorious light vegetarian meal or even a side.
Vegetarian Recipes
Roast Bombay potatoes or Bombay aloo featuring roasted & lightly crushed baby potatoes cooked in whole spices with red onions and tomatoes.
Summer vegetable soup is an easy, light soup that is a celebration of the great produce available from a spring and summer veggie patch.
Mini or individual lemon meringue pie, turns the classic British dessert into individual tarts topped with blow-torched Italian meringue.
Cream of "wild" mushroom soup embraces the increasing availability of cultivated wild mushrooms to create a silky soup with bags of flavour.
Ricotta gnocchi are lighter, quicker and much easier to make than their potato brethren; mine come with a delicious caper butter sauce.
Roasted garlic pasta with tomatoes and spinach uses two whole heads of sweet and buttery slow-cooked garlic to form a spaghetti sauce.
Broccoli and Stilton soup is an old-school British classic; the bold flavour of blue cheese and sage sings through in this easy winter warmer.
Aloo gobi matar ki sabzi, a gloriously filling, heavily spiced Indian or Punjabi vegan sabzi curry featuring potatoes, cauliflower, and peas.
Ribollita is a glorious, hearty tomato, bean and bread stew or soup bulked out with greens. My simpler version is vegetarian and delicious.
These baked pears go off in a savoury direction & feature blue cheese, a savoury crumble & cider sauce and they are the perfect side dish for pork!
Tomato consomme or brodo is a clear tomato soup; it has an intense flavour and is easy to make, I serve it with tortellini and tomatoes.
Cream of asparagus soup, a wonderfully easy and delicious recipe that screams of spring/early summer with delicate flavours and a silky texture.
Breaded fried goat cheese in a crisp golden crumb with a creamy pea puree is an indulgent treat packed with sweet, sour and salty flavours.
Curried cauliflower veloute soup served with turmeric potatoes features classic European techniques and glorious spicy Indian flavours.
Roasted cauliflower steak is quickly seared and cooked in the oven with a glaze of pomegranate molasses and a sprinkling of zaatar and sumac.
Roasted butternut squash risotto with sage that's cooked in the classic way, resulting in a rich and creamy meal that I top with blue cheese.
Celeriac soup is an easy, creamy, comforting recipe made from celery root; my version features the flavours of fennel and black pepper.
Cauliflower and ricotta cheese cannelloni on a simple tomato base, topped with mozzarella, bechamel and parmesan, then baked until golden.
Savoy cabbage and white bean soup is a delicious, easy and frugal vegan munch that is hearty enough to keep you full on cold winter nights.