Notes about Recipes in this book

• Caramelised mushrooms and spinach with poached eggs and red pepper Romesco sauce

  • Agaillard on November 10, 2018

    Nice and healthy - but nothing extraordinary and a bit strange, but then again all of the recipes in that book gave me that feeling - i.e. associating pepper/almond sauce with mushroom and spinach, garlic egg and toasted bread? Will probably not make again, or maybe just the Romesco sauce!

• Chickpea curry

  • SugarFree_Vegan on September 26, 2020

    Super easy and budget friendly recipe, very easy to veganise too (which I did but subbing plant based yoghurt). Makes 2 very large portions but you could easily use the left overs for another day as it keeps very well.

  • Agaillard on July 29, 2023

    I liked it but did not love it. It is nice, healthy, a tad original with two kinds of peas but a bit bland and in line with what you would expect from a standard vegetable curry. Served with flat bread (and with yogurt/almonds as advised). This does yield enough for 3 servings for my small French appetite but it does keep and freezes well.

• Aubergine stew with cauliflower rice

  • SugarFree_Vegan on August 24, 2018

    I made this by significantly reducing the oil content as I wanted to make it for one of my 5:2 fasting day evening meal and needed it to come in below 400 calories! I steam fried the veggies and only needed to add a spritz of oil when I added the garlic as I think it helps with how it cooks if you do. The cauliflower 'rice' is lovely with this and it all makes for a really healthy and tasty meal. The stew could be made in advance and reheated and the cauliflower only takes 5 mins or so to cook so it comes together very quickly at the end.

• Chicken fajitas

  • SugarFree_Vegan on January 24, 2019

    The recipe for the chickpea flour tortilla is amazing, really easy to make - one thing, I needed to add much more water to my batter to make them less stodgy, it needs to be the consistency of a slightly thick crepe batter. I also made them in advance and then reheated them quickly in a dry skillet/pan and kept them in the oven for a few minutes whilst I toasted the remainer. The filling is very easily veganised which is what I did, you can use either a pre-made mock meat, jackfruit, tofu or tempeh and add a little tomato puree (paste) and some water to make the mix a little more moist. Really delicious and the tortilla recipe would work with some many other recipes too.

• Pan-fried sea bass with spicy butter bean stew

  • sarahj22 on July 19, 2017

    This was lovely - a light, flavourful and comforting dinner that's quick and easy enough for a weeknight. The combination of soft beans, spicy chorizo and crispy fish is gorgeous. I added a little bit more stock and spice to create extra sauce so ours was probably soupier than the author intended, but I enjoyed it like that. I'll definitely repeat this recipe.

• Red Thai salmon curry

  • Agaillard on April 15, 2018

    Deceptively bland... I could not taste the salmon really much and the spice blend was lacking flavour. I used asparagus i/o courgettes which I cut julienne mode (as in very thin strips) and they were great and added a bit of flavour. Overall though will not do again I think or would try to add a twist to it..

• Roasted cauliflower and spiced lentils

  • Agaillard on February 25, 2017

    That was... not bad, but a strange mix of flavours. The cauliflower and especially the simple and effective sauce worked wonderfully. More the sauce than the cauliflower, very addictive, I kept dipping into it! The peanuts are a nice touch. The lentils I think work, but they did not strike me especially. But the lemon juice and the tomatoes I think, did not go with the rest of the flavours. So while I will keep the wonderful cauliflower sauce, I am not sure I will do again as a whole? Maybe, but undecided and if I do will probably twist it.