Sweet Potato Salad

Sweet Potato Salad

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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas 4.
  • Scrub the sweet potatoes clean, place in a roasting tray and bake for 1 hour, or until soft through.
  • Once done, roughly chop the tomatoes, trim and finely slice the spring onions, then toss it all with 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil and a splash of red wine vinegar.
  • Taste and season to perfection with sea salt and black pepper.
  • Tear the soft sweet potatoes between two plates.
  • Toss the rocket through the tomatoes, then pile on top.
  • Crumble over the feta, drizzle with 1 teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil and sprinkle from a height with a pinch of pepper.
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Course; Salad
Diets; Vegetarian

Watermelon, Radish & Feta Salad

Watermelon, Radish & Feta Salad

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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Toast the pine nuts in a dry non-stick frying pan on a medium heat for 1 minute, or until lightly golden, tossing regularly, then remove.
  • Cut off the watermelon rind, pick out any seeds, then slice as finely as you can.
  • Very finely slice the radishes, keeping any nice leaves attached, then gently dress both with 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil and 2 tablespoons of red wine vinegar.
  • Taste and season to perfection with sea salt and black pepper.
  • Arrange the watermelon and radishes on your plates or a sharing platter, sprinkle over the pine nuts, then pick over the mint leaves.
  • Crumble over the feta, and finish with a pinch of pepper from a height
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Course; Cheese / Salad

Tasty Warm Lentil Salad

Tasty Warm Lentil Salad

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Ingredients

  • 1 × 50g tin of anchovies in oil
  • 1 preserved lemon 20g
  • 400 g tenderstem broccoli
  • 1 –2 fresh mixed-colour chillies
  • 2 × 250g packets of cooked lentils

Instructions

  • Put all the anchovies and their oil into a blender with 1 tablespoon of liquor from the preserved lemon jar and a splash of water.
  • Blitz until smooth, loosening with a little more water, if needed.
  • Trim the broccoli and blanch in a large pan of boiling salted water for 3 minutes, or until just tender, while you quarter the preserved lemon and trim away the seedy core, then finely chop the rind.
  • Finely slice the chillies.
  • Drain the broccoli, return to the pan over the heat and toss with the lemon, most of the chilli and 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil.
  • Add the lentils and toss for 2 minutes, then divide between plates, drizzle over the anchovy dressing and scatter with the reserved chilli.
  • Finish with ½ a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil.
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Course; Fish / Salad
Diets; Gluten-Free

Crispy Smoked Mackerel

Crispy Smoked Mackerel

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Ingredients

  • 2 × 70g smoked mackerel fillets
  • 300 g vac-packed beetroots
  • 50 g watercress
  • 2 teaspoons creamed horseradish or use fresh, if you prefer
  • 2 tablespoons natural yoghurt

Instructions

  • With a sharp knife, slash the mackerel skin at 1cm intervals, then place skin side down in a non-stick frying pan on a medium heat to get super golden and crisp.
  • Meanwhile, drain the beets, saving the liquor.
  • Finely slice the beets – I like to use a crinkle-cut knife.
  • Arrange on your plates and pile the watercress on top.
  • Stir the horseradish into the yoghurt, then taste and season to perfection with sea salt and black pepper.
  • Place the crispy mackerel on top of the salads, then dot around the horseradish yoghurt.
  • Mix the beet juice with 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil and drizzle over the top, then tuck in.
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Course; Fish / Salad
Diets; Gluten-Free

Cherry Chard Wild Rice

Cherry Chard Wild Rice

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Ingredients

  • 150 g mixed wild rice
  • 200 g mixed-colour chard
  • 60 g dried sour cherries
  • 20 g shelled unsalted walnut halves
  • 40 g feta cheese

Instructions

  • Cook the rice in a pan of boiling salted water according to the packet instructions.
  • Trim the chard stalks, cut them off and pop into a colander with the leaves on top, cover and steam above the rice for 3 minutes, then remove.
  • Meanwhile, finely chop the cherries and, in a large bowl, mix with 1 tablespoon each of red wine vinegar and rice cooking water, then 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil.
  • Finely slice the walnuts, then the chard stalks, shred the leaves.
  • Drain the rice well, add to the cherry dressing bowl with all the chard and crumble in the feta.
  • Toss well, then taste and season to perfection with sea salt and black pepper.
  • Dish up, and sprinkle over the walnuts.
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Course; Rice / Salad

Beef, Beets & Horseradish

Beef, Beets & Horseradish

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Ingredients

  • 160 g raw mixed-colour baby beets
  • 3 heaped teaspoons creamed horseradish
  • 3 heaped teaspoons half-fat crème fraîche
  • 50 g watercress
  • 40 g finely sliced bresaola

Instructions

  • Scrub the beets clean, reserving any nice leaves, then finely slice into matchsticks with good knife skills or using the julienne cutter on a mandolin (use the guard!).
  • Dress with ½ a tablespoon each of extra virgin olive oil and red wine vinegar, the horseradish and crème fraîche, then season to perfection with sea salt and black pepper.
  • Delicately toss with the watercress and any reserved beet leaves.
  • Divide up the bresaola between your plates, followed by the beet salad, then drizzle with 1 teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil, and serve.
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Course; Beef / Salad
Diets; Gluten-Free

Tuna Butter Bean Salad

Tuna Butter Bean Salad

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Ingredients

  • ½ a red onion
  • 1 celery heart
  • ½ a bunch of fresh flat-leaf parsley 15g
  • ½ × 660g jar of butter beans
  • 1 × 220g jar of tuna in olive oil

Instructions

  • Peel the red onion and slice it as finely as you can.
  • In a large bowl, scrunch it with ½ a tablespoon of red wine vinegar and a little pinch of sea salt.
  • Trim and finely slice the celery and pile on top of the onion.
  • Finely slice the parsley stalks, add to the bowl, then pick over the leaves.
  • Drain the beans and place in a single layer in a hot non-stick frying pan on a medium-high heat with 1 teaspoon of olive oil.
  • Have faith, let them crisp up and get golden on the bottom, then turn so they crisp up on the other side.
  • Drizzle 1 tablespoon each of extra virgin olive oil and red wine vinegar over the onion salad, drain and flake in the tuna, then gently toss it all together.
  • Divide the popped beans between your plates, pile the salad on top and sprinkle from a height with a good pinch of black pepper, then tuck in.
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Course; Butter / Fish / Salad
Diets; Gluten-Free

Duck & Orange Salad

Duck & Orange Salad

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Ingredients

  • 2 × 150g duck breast fillets skin on
  • 1 baguette
  • 15 g shelled unsalted walnut halves
  • 3 regular or blood oranges
  • 30 g watercress

Instructions

  • Score the duck skin, rub all over with sea salt and black pepper, then place skin side down in a large non-stick frying pan on a medium-high heat.
  • Sear for 6 minutes, or until the skin is dark golden, then turn and cook for 5 minutes, or to your liking.
  • Remove to a board to rest, leaving the pan on the heat.
  • Slice 10 thin slices of baguette (keeping the rest for another day).
  • Place in the hot pan with the walnuts to toast and get golden in the duck fat, then remove and arrange the toasts on your plates.
  • Meanwhile, top and tail the oranges, cut away the peel, then finely slice into rounds (removing any pips).
  • Finely slice the duck, place on the toasts, dotting any extra slices in between, then add the oranges in and around.
  • Dress the watercress with any resting juices on the board, then sprinkle over.
  • Finely grate or crumble over the walnuts, sprinkle from a height with a little extra seasoning, and serve.
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Course; Duck / Fruit / Salad

Smoked Salmon Plates

Smoked Salmon Plates

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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Use a speed-peeler to strip the cucumber lengthways into fine ribbons.
  • In a bowl, toss it with a small pinch of sea salt and 2 tablespoons of red wine vinegar, and scrunch to quickly pickle it.
  • Pick and mix in most of the dill.
  • Drape and divide the smoked salmon between two plates.
  • Halve, destone, peel and add the avocado.
  • Pile the cucumber ribbons delicately to one side, filling the avocado halves with the cucumber liquor.
  • Spoon over the cottage cheese, then drizzle with 1 teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil, add a pinch of black pepper from a height, pick over the remaining dill, and tuck on in.
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Course; Fish / Salad
Diets; Gluten-Free

Broad Bean Salad

Broad Bean Salad

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Ingredients

  • 200 g fresh podded or frozen broad beans
  • 30 g whole almonds
  • 1 × 480g jar of roasted red peppers in brine
  • ½ a bunch of fresh flat-leaf parsley 15g
  • 30 g Manchego cheese

Instructions

  • Boil the beans in a pan of boiling salted water for 3 minutes, then drain and pinch the skins off any larger beans.
  • Toast the almonds in a dry griddle pan on a medium heat until lightly golden, tossing regularly, then remove and finely slice.
  • Drain the peppers and open out flat, then char on the hot griddle until bar-marked on one side only.
  • Remove and slice 1cm thick.
  • Finely slice the parsley stalks, pick the leaves, then toss with the broad beans, peppers, 1½ tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil and 1 tablespoon each of red wine vinegar and brine from the pepper jar.
  • Taste, season to perfection with sea salt and black pepper, and divide between your plates.
  • Finely shave over the cheese with a speed-peeler, drizzle with 1 teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil, scatter over the almonds, and serve.
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Course; Salad