Category: Side dishes
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Sticky vegan miso roasted carrots
Years ago, I used to make slow cooked parmesan carrot dish as one of my regular dinner party dishes. It was so good… carrots cooked down with loads of butter until they were dense little nuggets of carroty, caramelized, buttery goodness and sprinkled with parmesan – each bite was a umami flavour bomb. When I…
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Green Bean Salad with Fried Almonds
Generally when I make a green bean salad I keep it pretty simple I cook the green beans, blanche them in an ice bath then dress them with olive oil and vinegar season them salt and pepper and that’s it. For special occasions when I want something a bit fancier I often make this green…
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Turkish Beetroot Salad Recipe
I’ve have a life long love of beetroot. One of my early culinary memories is at the age of four or five making a beetroot and mayonaise sandwich at the family lunch table and being so engrossed in this task, that I missed the action of my father killing a tiger snake in the paddock…
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Delicious Black Barley Salad with Cauliflower and Pomegranate
Black barley is an ancient grain, unlike modern barley where the husk is removed the husk on black barley is kept intact. This makes it a nutritionally rich source of vitamins B and E, calcium, iron and potassium. It is also cholesterol free and a good source of fiber and selenium. I recently cut out…
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Refreshing Cucumber Salad: Simple and Versatile
This simple cucumber salad can be adapted to almost any style of cuisine. It works well as a side in a larger meal or is a refreshing add on as part of a cheese platter or in sandwiches. It’s a salad for when you can’t be bothered to make a salad but need something fresh…
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Easy Asian Smashed Cucumber Salad with Garlic
I first fell in love with this smashed cucumber salad at ShanDong MaMa an eatery in Melbourne, famous for its dumplings and home-style, Northern Chinese cuisine. The first time I ate this salad I went home and googled recipes for smashed cucumber salad, because I absolutely had to recreate it at home. There were a…
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Korean Rice Bowls: Mung Bean Sprout Salad Recipe
Continuing with my love of Korean side dishes or banchan, is this simple mung bean sprout side. Apart from being an essential part of the Korean rice bowl – Bimbimbap, this recipe uses an entire packet of bean sprouts, so it solves the problem of having half a pack of bean sprouts rotting away in…
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Easy Banchan Recipe for Irresistible Korean Braised Potatoes
My favorite thing about eating out at Korean restaurants is all the little side dishes or banchan that come out before the meal, that often make the main meal slightly redundant. My absolute favorite banchan is gamja jorim. Sweet, salty, crispy potatoes – How can you go wrong? The thing was, I never felt I…
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Soothing Fennel, Potato, and Leek Gratin Recipe
This is my favorite potato gratin, the combination of leeks, potato and fennel is altogether incredibly soothing and comforting. You can serve it as a side as part of a bigger meal but I’ve served it on its own with a greens and beetroot salad – called it dinner and been well satisfied. Fennel, Potato…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 