Tag: root vegetables

Harissa & Maple Glazed Root Veg & Chicken Traybake

Harissa & Maple Glazed Root Veg & Chicken Traybake

I was inspired to make this dish when I came across a recipe for a maple and harissa spiced glaze on the Vitamix website. It suggested you pour it over carrots, but I wanted something more substantial so I came up with this instead. The 

Ingredient of the Week: Carrot

Ingredient of the Week: Carrot

When I was a child I would only ever eat carrots raw. Even when my mum was making a Sunday roast dinner, she would have to leave some raw carrot to one side to go on my plate rather than give me cooked ones. I 

Cottage Pie with Root Vegetable Mash

Cottage Pie with Root Vegetable Mash

One dish that really takes me back to childhood and having dinner cooked for me by my mum is cottage pie. Whenever I eat it, it brings back memories of the whole family sat together eating dinner. It would be one of her dishes that 

Chicken with Roast Cauliflower & Root Vegetable Quinoa

Chicken with Roast Cauliflower & Root Vegetable Quinoa

Cauliflower is one of Neil’s favourite vegetables, especially if it has been roasted like in this recipe, so that parts of it have started to caramelise and crisp up. We are both big fans of different textures in our meals and this one is a 

Chorizo, Root Vegetable & Barley Risotto

Chorizo, Root Vegetable & Barley Risotto

I love a bowl of risotto. When cooked well the flavour that you can infuse from the stock in to everything else is just delicious. Add chorizo in to the mix and you are on to a winner! Every meal is improved if you add 

Sausage & Root Vegetable Stovies

Sausage & Root Vegetable Stovies

Stovies is a traditional Scottish dish. Typically it is made up of all the left over ingredients from a roast dinner, cooked in one pot and served like a stew. It would consist of fatty cuts of meat, onions, lard, potatoes and possibly the odd 

Chicken, Root Veg and Lentil Dahl

Chicken, Root Veg and Lentil Dahl

This was a recipe that I very much built on. I got my inspiration from a simple swede dahl recipe I found on the internet but for me it didn’t have enough variety of vegetables. I try to include at least 3 varieties in all