And skinny it is! Lovely in texture and flavors. You can pimp it up with finely sliced bacon and we added some more Parmesan on top, just because we like it. Ingredients (serves 2) 200 g freshly podded or frozen peas 1 tablespoon flaked almonds 1 small clove of garlic ½ a bunch of fresh…
Category: Lunch
Tender and crisp chicken legs with sweet tomatoes
For BUX lunch I made one batch with the cannellini beans and the other with new potatoes. Both got the thumbs up. The chicken legs were less crisp then I expected but I did cover them with lots of ingredients, so they really didn’t get a chance…The meat did fall from the bone. Next time…
Slut’s Spaghetti
Our Spanish & Italian Buxers new immediately what I meant with this dish: Spaghetti alla putana. A working girl’s pasta is what Jamie Oliver calls it… let’s stick with that translation. In all languages the translation of this pasta dish passed the table for lunch. That’s what you get when you put a bunch of…
Red Prawn and Mango Curry
This recipe did not go according to plan in my kitchen today, but the only one to blame for this was myself. No worries, lesson learned again. You only get better by making mistakes, somebody told me ones… or twice. 😉 The taste was nice but spicy, so keep on tasting the curry along the…
Roast chicken with saffron, hazelnuts and honey
Chicken thighs were used for the BUX lunch instead of large chickens. Also,unfortunately, the rosewater was left out. But I did find some in a little supermarket for the next time I make this gorgeous recipe. The hazelnuts are the cherry on top! Ingredients (serves 4) 1 large organic or free-range chicken, divided into quarters:…
Couscous with dried apricots and butternut squash
Tip: make this recipe one day before use. By then all the ingredients will have mixed so well, it’s like they have had a good party in the fridge! Ingredients (serves 4) 1 large onion, thinly sliced 6 tbsp olive oil 50g dried apricots 1 small butternut squash (about 450g), peeled, seeded and cut into…
Mixed mushrooms with cinnamon and lemon
This dish is easy to make and so delicious. The cinnamon, thyme and lemon juice make it all very special, a great lunch with some dark bread to soak up the juices. Thank you Ottolenghi for another lovely recipe! My team loved it. 🙂 Ingredients (serves 6-8) 400g button mushrooms 400g chestnut mushrooms 300g shiitake…
Rigatoni with fennel sausage sauce and pecorino-and-anchovy pesto
This recipe was a bit of work for 35 people, but we finished this Ottolenghi week off on a high. Definitely try this at home. Ingredients (serves 4) About 2½ tbsp olive oil 6 Italian fennel sausages (400g), cut into 1.5cm-thick slices 1 large onion, peeled and chopped 1 fennel bulb, trimmed and roughly chopped;…
Bridget Jones’ grilled salmon with pine nut salsa
Another great Ottolenghi recipe. The story behind this dish is funny. In the film Bridget Jones’ baby, the gorgeous Patrick Dempsey makes dinner for Bridget and calls it Ottolenghi salmon. Apparently, the great chefs at Ottolenghi themselves never heard of it! But, as good sports as they are, they took the recipe up in one…
Ricotta tart
These shortcrust cuties were already made and bought from my grocery supplier. We made 7o of them today! I do like to fill them with anything I fancy. Today it was with ricotta, following this recipe. The sundried tomatoes on top are the zing to the tarts. Ingredients (serves 6-8) 200g shortcrust pastry 30g unsalted…
BUX Lunch 