Tag: tahini
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Creamy Cannellini Bean Puree Recipe with Pickled Mushrooms and Pitta Croutons
This cannellini puree makes a brilliant starter on its own, works well in a broader mezze spread as well as making a nice side with some kind of vegetable fritter or roasted veggies like cauliflower or broccoli. It is lighter than a regular hummus style dip and a bit more versatile in the way you…
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Irresistible – Salted Sesame Chocolate Cookies Recipe with Tahini and Dark Chocolate
I’ve got quite a few chocolate chip cookie recipes on this website, and each one of those recipes in some way aspires to greatness so I’m a bit reluctant to add yet another chocolate chip cookie into the canons of cookie greatness … but these cookies!!! I recently made a double batch of these to…
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Broad Bean and Chickpea Fritters with Fragrant Green Tahini
It’s broad bean season and I never feel I do fresh broad beans justice but I’m trying to change that this year. If you get over the hassle of the double peeling they are a fantastic celebration of spring. This broad bean and chickpea fritters are similar to falafel but they don’t require all the…
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Margaret Fulton’s Peanut Butter Cookies: A Classic Recipe
Peanuts and peanut butter seem to be having a renaissance. When I go down to Melbourne ,which is the centre of hipster food in Australia, peanuts seem to have squeezed their way back onto menu of all the best cafes. I even saw peanut and jelly pancakes on the breakfast menu at Lolo & Wren…
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Paula Wolfert’s Creamy Vegan Hummus
I’ve made a lot of hummus over the years. When I’m in a rush, I use canned chickpeas, throw them in the processor and in five minutes, I have a pretty decent hummus that is miles ahead of any of the tubs of supermarket hummus you can buy. But, if you want to make a…
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Middle-Eastern Vegetarian Eggplant ‘Cordon Bleu’ Recipe with Haloumi and Mint
Years ago, whenever I had a dinner party, one of my standards was (depending on the season) crumbed eggplant slices or cauliflower florets, fried in olive oil and served with a garlic yoghurt sauce. They were always a hit because, seriously, who can resist anything that is both crumbed and fried. When you add some…
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Quick and Easy Green Hummus
I’ve made a lot of hummus in my time. Now the absolute best hummus is made with freshly-cooked chickpeas and ground when the chickpeas are freshly cooked. It’s even better if you use those tiny, nuggety organic chickpeas which are packed with flavour. I’ve got a couple of recipes for hummus on this site including…
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Ultimate Tabbouleh and Smokey Baba Ganoush Recipe
Tabbouleh and baba ganoush would have to be my two favourite things to eat in the world. If I were given a choice of my last meal, that is what I would choose – I would need some flat bread to eat with them and, perhaps, if I was feeling greedy I would ask for…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 