This recipe is all about that sauce combining with the tender potato gnocchi. And wow that sauce. It’s full of deep umami rich flavour thanks to the sweet and sticky sundried tomatoes and sherry. And full of freshness form the basil. The ability of the eggplant to soak up flavour is what really make sit. Along with a good lug of extra virgin olive oil.
This is my favourite quick vegan ragu. By adding the new Thompson’s hemp seeds you get extra protein in each serve which is ideal if you’re going meat free. When I’ve made vegetarian or vegan ragu using eggplant before I’ve slow roasted the ingredients to try and amp up the flavour but it turns out there’s a very simple short cut. A short cut that doesn’t compromise on flavour, I promise.
I’ve made this curry 3 weeks in a row now. Partly because I was perfecting the recipe and partly because it’s delicious and comforting. The lamb is super tender and the eggplant is just starting to collapse into the sauce making it creamy and delicious. You need to stock your freezer with it now.
This is a filling and fragrant curry filled with the flavours of coconut and ginger. The turmeric gives great colour and the lentils add some extra protein to this vegetarian curry.
This lasagne is packed full of vegetables, I’ve literally stuffed in as many as I could. The ragu is made of vegetables, most of the pasta layers are actually vegetables. The bechamel sauce is actually vegetables. All the vegetables. You can feel really high and mighty about this one.
I’m having a love affair with pasta at the moment. Pasta with rich comforting sauces. Sauces full of things that are good for you. Like this one, it’s got tonnes of flavour, is full of vegetables and the sauce can be used in lots of different ways.
I never used to be an eggplant fan. It was too often, butter, soggy or watery. I’ve learnt that when it’s cooked in certain ways it is so delicious. This is one of those ways, in this little recipe the eggplant becomes meaty and laden with umami rich flavours from the miso paste. The crisp lettuce cups are a perfect foil to this salty richness.