Some yummy main course goodies

To warm the cockles...

Barbie and Nigel's Baked Felafel

Summary

Yield4
Source

Barbie and Nigel

Prep Time1 hour

Description

From the cuisine of Israel. Coquettes, cooked in the oven and served in any flat bread you wish, with lettuce, tomato and cucumber.

Ingredients

  • 4 c cooked chick peas (supermarket in a tin)
  • 3 clv garlic, medium
  • 1⁄2 c finely minced celery and spring onions
  • 1⁄2 t ground cummin
  • 1⁄2 t tumeric
  • 1 pn black pepper
  • 3 tbsp tahini
  • 3 tbsp flour or fine breadcrumbs
  • 2 eggs, beaten

Instructions

Combine all ingredients (I put them all in the food processor)
Put in the fridge for 1/2 hour to chill if you are not too hungry
Spoon on to well greased oven trays, whatever size 'thingies' you want to put in your bread.
Bake at Mod. temp for about 20 mins. or 'til cooked

Serve with Tahini sauce, on your favorite flat bread.

Happy Eating

Phil's Lentil Bolognese

Summary

Yield4
Source

Phil

Prep Time45 minutes

Description

A perennial favourite.

Ingredients

  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 onion
  • 2 clv garlic
  • 2 carrots, grated
  • 2 stick celery, chopped
  • 2⁄3 c red lentils
  • 400 g chopped tomatoes
  • 2 tbsp tomato paste
  • 2 c vegetable stock
  • herbs/salt/pepper as desired

Instructions

Gently fry the onion, garlic, carrots and celery for about 5 minutes, until soft.
Add lentils, tomatoes, puree, stock, herbs.
Bring to boil, then partially cover and simmer for 20 minutes until thick and soft. (you may need to cover completely/uncover to achieve desired consistency).

Serve with your favourite pasta.

Sarah's Venerable Vege-burgers

Summary

Yield4
Source

Sarah

Prep Time20 minutes

Description

Super easy, super tasty.

Ingredients

  • chunk of desired pumpkin
  • some cashew nuts (probably around 50-100gms)
  • grated carrot
  • either a couple of leaves of silverbeet, half a bunch of fresh spinnach, or half a block of frozen spinnach
  • an egg, or two if your mixture does not bind well
  • some breadcrumbs - as much as it takes to make the mixture not too tacky
  • basil, oregano, parsely, or whatever you like to taste
  • a teaspoon or two of whole-grain mustard
  • oil, for frying

Instructions

Any other things that you may particularly like, e.g. Pavlina suggested some mushrooms.

Roast, boil or steam (depending on your dietry requirements - roasting
is most tasty I think) chunks of pumpkin.

Either VERY lightly mash the pumpkin, or dice it into cubes exactly
1cmX1.2cm.

Place the pumpkin in a nice-looking bowl, and add the green leaves (no silly
business, please). If you are using fresh leaves, they should probably have
a few minutes steaming, so that they are nice and tender.

Roughly crush and add the cashew nuts. Add one fresh, free-range egg. Fold all the ingredients together. Encourage them blend happily.

Add some of your favourite herbies, and salt and pepper if you are that way inclined.

Add some breadcumbs, until the mixture looks like it might consider being able to form into ball-shapes (about the size of a squash ball. I think - I haven't played squash for a long time). Maybe a little bigger - G..

You can then roll the perfectly even balls in some extra breadcrumbs, so as to give the burgers a crusty outside.

Get the fat nice and hot in a frypan, and fry the little burgers 'till they are nice and evenly brown (or you could use the BBQ).

Eat with bread (grilled), salad, sauce, cheese, or whatever else you want.

P.S. If the burgers do not work out, it either means that your cooking needs
a bit more practice, or that I have accidentally left something essential out of the recipe. Let The Eatery know if you have any suggestions).

Stuffed Butternut Pumpkin

Summary

Yield4
Source

Barbie and Nigel

Prep Time1 hour

Description

A hearty winter warmer.

Ingredients

  • 1 small butternut pumpkin halved & seeds removed
  • 10 garbanzo beans, cooked skinned
  • 1 small onion, peeled
  • 1 t soy sauce
  • 1 small zucchini
  • 1 tbsp tomato paste
  • 1 small turnip
  • 1 t curry powder

Instructions

Process the onion, zuc., turnip and beans with the cutting blade. Add the curry, soy sauce and tomato paste. Divide the filling and place in pumpkin halves.

Bake 45 mins