Recipe #54 Sweet potato and coriander soup

Shopping list (6 portions)

• 250 gr sweet potato
• 2 medium carrots
• 1 medium onion
• 1 garlic clove
• Saffron
• Sea Salt 
• Black pepper
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil
• Handful of fresh coriander (chopped)
• Around 8gr fresh ginger
• Handful of orizo pasta

Method 

Let it boil for 30 min, check if the vegetables are cooked and pure it. Add water if the soup is too thick for you. Add the orizo pasta and let them cook off the heat ( the soup should be hot enough to cook them), and you can stir in more coriander.

Recipe #26 Balsamic Side Salad

Shopping list

• 1 cucumber
• 3 tomatos
• 1 onion
• 1 garlic clove
• handful of coriander leaves
• 2 bell peppers
• olive oil
• balsamic vinegar
• salt & pepper
• juice of 1 lemon
• sprinkle of soy sauce
• sprinkle of sugar

Method

You can roast the peppers or leave them raw.
To roast place them on a oven tray with olive oil drizzled and leave them around 25 min on 200oC.
Let them cool.

Chop the peppers, tomatoes, onion and coriander.
Peel the cucumber and with a peeler start cutting the cucumber with the peeler. You will have very fine slices of cucumber (don't use the interior of the cucumber, its too juicy)
Add the lemon and mash the garlic glove.
Add 3 tablespoons of olive oil and 3 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar. Salt and freshly grounded pepper. To finish sprinkle sugar and a bit of dark soy sauce if you like it.
mix well and serve as a side dish.

Goes very well with falafel. You can add black olives (chopped) or some cold couscous, as below.

Recipe #22 Homemade falafel

I inspired myself on Tory's recipe, look this up here 

Shopping list

• 1 cup of dry chickpeas
• olive oil
• salt
• pepper
• turmeric
• fresh coriander
• ground cumin
• flour
• juice of 1 lemon
• 1 onion
• 3 cloves of garlic
• cayenne pepper
• sunflower oil (about 1 litre)

Method

Place the dry chickpeas in a big bowl and cover it with 2 cups -3 cups of water. Let them soak overnight. Drain the water and rinse them. Place them in a chopper or a food processor. Add the onion and the cloves of garlic. Add a big handful of fresh coriander, a pinch of salt, pepper and cayenne pepper. Add 3 teaspoons of cumin, turmeric and add the lemon juice. Add 3 tablespoons of olive oil and 5 of flour. Mix it on medium speed for about a minute. It should make a paste like misture, you should see some granules and it should not be runny. If needed add more olive oil or flour depending on the result of the misture.
Place your falafel mix in the fridge for at least 1h or 2h.
Then add the sunflower oil into a saucepan or a fryer. Heat it and when hot reduce the temperature to medium. Make little balls of around 1 tablespoon of the mix with your hands and fry it for some minutes. You want them golden brown but not dark brown burned ! :)
Take them out with a slotted spoon and let them cool on some kitchen paper towels. 
Serve with salad, pita bread or rice.
And dip them into fresh hummus !

yummmm !