Tag: raisins

  • Cabbage and bean curry salad with apple

    Cabbage and bean curry salad with apple

    Recipe for cabbage and bean curry salad with apple

    Combine about 1 spoonful per person of (vegan) mayonnaise with a good dash or two of curry powder and a squeeze of lemon juice.

    Take whole leaves from the cabbage, cut them lengthways, stack the lengths and now thinly cut so you get thin (scruffy) juliennes.

    (By using whole leaves, you can keep the rest of the cabbage for longer than if you would just start cutting away, damaging the whole vegetable. Cool, right?)

    Combine the cabbage julienne with the curry mayo.

    Add in freshly cut apple, sliced celery stalk, cooked beans, mixed nuts (or use your favorite, walnut is great in this salad) and raisins.

    If you like spicy, add some finely chopped fresh ginger. Add salt and lemon juice to taste.

    Serve topped with toasted (black or white, I used black) sesame and pumpkin seeds.

  • Carrot ginger oat sweetbread

    Carrot ginger oat sweetbread

    This one started with a quick experiment that turned out exceptionally well :). Since then, I’ve been adding and subtracting ingredients to tweak it to near perfection. Next time, I’ll use yeast instead of baking powder, as that is more natural.

    Recipe for carrot ginger oat sweetbread

    • 1 cup of oats, ground into flour
    • 1 half cup of whole grain wheat
    • 24 grams of vanilla sugar (3 typical 8 grams sachets)
    • 1 sachet of baking powder (or enough for the amount of flour, check label)
    • 1 half big carrot
    • 1 thumb sized piece of ginger
    • 2 eggs, beaten
    • 1 half banana in small pieces (or use figs, I haven’t yet but imagine they’d work even better with the carrot!)
    • 1 handful of crunched nuts & raisins mixture

    Thinly grate or finely chop the carrot and ginger. I use the herb chopper of my immersion blender (staafmixer).

    Combine the flours, vanilla sugar and baking powder. Add the eggs, half a cup of water (careful! You can always add more), carrot and ginger and mix. The mixture should be thick and slightly running. Spoon in banana pieces, crunched nuts and raisins to taste and put in the oven at 180 degrees for 30 minutes.

    Serve topped with honey and cinnamon (don’t forget, it really boosts the flavors!)

    Lovely, right?