An easy squash mash which can be served warm as a side dish or as a dip at room temoerature served with bread and olive oil. Other varieties of squash such as Kabocha or Crown Prince will work equally well. The dish can be made the day before and gently heated. The recipe is from Esme Howarth and I found it in ” Ottolenghi Flavour” by Yotam Ottolenghi and Ixta Belfrage.
Curried baked beans are a delicious and inexpensive dish and this version is from ” Dinner” by Meera Sodha. It can be sereved for breakfast, brunch, lunch or even a midweek supper.
This dish of eggs on potatoes is a Parsi favourite which I found in ” Dinner ” by Meera Sodha. Its one of my favourite new vegetarian recipe books and this dish will be on repeat especially at times when something comforting is required.
The Syrian name for this comforting dish is Muffaraket Batata and I found the recipe in ” Syria Recipes from Home” by Hab Azzam and Dina Mousawi. In the introduction to this dish they descibed how they met a group of young Syrians cooking this in a public park in Lesbos while waiting to register as refugees. Lets hope that many of these displaced individuals can now return to their homeland if they wish to do so. The dish is also popular with pregnant women as it is belived to be a good detoxifier.
These flavour packed and very moreish roast potatoes can be served as a side or a main. If serving as a main top with a fried egg and a drizzle of chilli oil. The recipe is from ” The Asian Pantry” by Dominique Woolf. and goes very well with the Thai Chicken Curry Pie from the same book.
As my husband is vegetarian I cook with eggs quite a lot and am always on the lookout for new recipes. This scrumptious riff on Menemen is an all in one pan dish that I found in the excellent vegetarian Turkish cook book ” Sebze” by Ozlem Warren.
A version of chilli con carne using pork from Yotam Ottolenghi. You can reduce the amount of jalapeno chillies to make it child friendly if you need to.
