Sunday, November 30, 2014

Laura's Hummus & Pitas

We eat hummus a lot. Laura makes super good hummus. She is pretty handy at making pitas too. I love hummus as a spread in a veggie wrap.

Laura's Hummus & Pitas


Hummus Recipe

1 can of chick peas, rinsed
1/4 cup tahini
2 large cloves garlic
juice of 1 lemon
1 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp salt

Pour into food processor or blender and whiz it up. Add water as needed - just a splash at a time until it starts to blend well.


Optional:

Add 1/4 cup plain yoghurt. Makes it a bit creamy and adds probiotics.



You can make a more basic hummus with lemon, garlic and chick peas. Nearly as good!

Pita Bread

Laura uses this recipe. She says they're easy to make.

Dough rolled out

Pita frying in olive oil

Pita nearly finished

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Peanut Thai Noodles & Broccoli

This is the fancy name for it. We usually just call it Peanut Butter Spaghetti. We skip the chicken part of this meal now, but we still feel like the rest of this dish stands on its own just fine. The noodles are tangy and delicious and the broccoli has a nice kick.

Garlic Oil

This oil mixture is used for the Thai Peanut Sauce recipe below and the rest is tossed with the broccoli.

Recipe:
6 garlic cloves, peeled
1/2 to 1 teaspoon red-pepper flakes
Kosher salt
4 tbsp sunflower oil

Mince the garlic and mix with the pepper flakes and a pinch of the salt. On a cutting board, with the side of a large knife, mash them together. This is a bit tougher to explain, so I shot a quick video of Laura showing the technique:

Garlic/pepper mashing technique demo

Once it's well mashed, mix it into the oil. Voila!

Thai Peanut Sauce

This sauce is sweet, salty, spicy and sticky and is mixed with spaghetti noodles. Soooo good.

Recipe:
5 tbsp crunchy peanut butter
4 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp rice vinegar
2 tbsp brown sugar
2 tbsp of garlic oil

Mix the above ingredients in a small bowl.Cook a package of spaghetti and mix the sauce in.

Thai peanut sauce

Thai peanut sauce and the rest of the oil mixture

Broccoli

Cut 2 heads of broccoli into florets, wash and steam for about 6 minutes. Toss the steamed broccoli with the remaining spicy oil mixture.

Broccoli with spicy garlic oil