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passata recipes
Pork and black-eyed-pea meatballs in tomato sauce
September 9th, 2009
This recipe was inspired by some quick, cheap and tasty black-eyed-pea balls at an African restaurant called Le Kilimanjaro recently. Black eyed peas have a low GI (38-52) and a carbohydrate portion of 30g per 150g. They are high in fibre, magnesium, folate, iron and protein. I found a recipe for the traditional African version [...]
Shepherds pie with a twist:
August 11th, 2009
Lentils, pumpkins and cannellini beans…who says just because mashed potato is high GI you can’t enjoy this classic dish! We actually think this version is BETTER than the original, and are once again, happy we started cooking with beans. My mum used to make a delicious lentil shepherd’s pie sourced from a book called “passion [...]
Homemade tomato and coriander sauce
July 26th, 2009
A very quick and easy substitute for tomato sauce. Check out the sugar content in all the sauce bottles… there just isn’t a version of tomato sauce which is low in sugar. The sugar and salt content preserves the tomato, so this one won’t last long – only make as much as you need for [...]
Easy tuna, bean & semolina cakes
July 26th, 2009
A Sunday night meal for when the pantry is low. Made from non-perishable food you can keep stocked in the pantry for when you run out of fresh ingredients! The smooth, creamy inside of these cakes along with the crispy crunchy coating goes perfectly with tomato sauce. But why eat sugary shop-bought sauce when my [...]
