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    Print Recipe Chouriço and calamari salad Serves: 4 Cooking Time: 15 mins Ingredients 100g calamari tubes, sliced or left whole, rinsed and patted dry 15ml (1 tbsp) flour 5ml (1 tsp) paprika salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste 50g chouriço, cut into 1cm slices 1 punnet salanova lettuce, rinsed and washed 1 red

    Mushroom tofu pockets is a heavenly for those with earthy tastes. Mushrooms are like meat to vegetarians. My winning dish combines mushrooms, tofu and sushi rice – what…

    Although the ingredients on their own – thyme,origanum and sesame – are well known, their combination in a mixture called za’atar is rather unusual. Za’atar is more of a herb than a spice blend and typically comprises a combination of sesame seeds, dried thyme, origanum, sumac and a little salt

    Print Recipe Grilled lamb chops with soft cheesy polenta Serves: 2 Cooking Time: 1 hour 20 mins Ingredients 6 lamb chops, trimmed of any thick pieces of fat 1 small dried red chilli, crushed 3 fresh thyme sprigs, leaves picked zest and juice of 1 lemon extra virgin olive oil 850ml water 125g polenta 15ml
    Print Recipe Chocolate chilli pots Serves: 6 Cooking Time: 15 mins plus extra for setting Ingredients 250ml (1 cup) fresh cream 200g chilli chocolate, plus extra to serve 2 large egg yolks 45ml (3 tbsp) good brandy 100g unsalted butter Instructions 1 Heat the cream in a pot until just boiling. Remove from the heat
    Print Recipe Chocolate truffle torte Serves: 1 Cooking Time: 40 mins Ingredients BASE 350g biscotti 150g butter, melted 5ml ground allspice FILLING 250ml fresh cream 500g 70% dark chocolate, finely chopped STRAWBERRIES 250g strawberries 30ml castor sugar 25ml vermouth per slice, to serve Instructions 1 To make the base, grind the biscotti to coarse crumbs
    Print Recipe Chilli sauce Serves: 500ml Cooking Time: 20 mins Ingredients 200ml olive oil 1 onion, finely chopped 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped 500g red chillies, chopped Instructions 1 Heat 60ml (¼ cup) of the olive oil over a medium heat and sauté the onion and garlic for 5 minutes. Add the chillies and cook