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Pomegranate and beetroot soup
This is somewhere between goulash and borscht, with the addition of the spicy, smoky overtones of chipotle chilli and the sour-sweetness of pomegranate. The meat needs three hours in the pan, so get it going in good time
Ingredients:
- 500g lamb shank or pork ‘osso buco’, sinew removed and cut into 4cm pieces
- 500ml 100% pomegranate juice
- 500ml chicken stock
- 500ml water
- 4 beetroots peeled and cut into 4cm chunks (700g)
- 100g creme fraiche or soured cream to serve
- 2tsp chipotle flakes
- 1tsp ground cumin
- 0.75tsp chilli flakes
- 100g tomato paste
- 5 garlic cloves peeled and roughly chopped
- 0.5 onion roughly chopped
- 60g pancetta cubes
- 75ml olive oil
- 2.5tsp salt
- 25g chives finely chopped
- 15g dill finely chopped
- 120ml olive oil
- 0.5tsp salt
- 150g sourdough bread toasted, crusts removed and cut into 3cm pieces
Instructions:
- Put all the paste ingredients in the small bowl of a food processor, blitz to a smooth paste, then scrape into a large, cast-iron pot for which you have a lid.
- Add the meat, set the pot on a high heat and fry for seven minutes, stirring every now and then; turn down the heat to medium if the meat or paste begin to catch and burn.
- Pour in the pomegranate juice, stock and water, add the beetroot, then bring to a boil.
- Turn the heat to medium-low, cover the pot and leave to cook for three hours, until the meat is completely tender.
- Meanwhile, make the croutons.
- In a medium bowl, mix the herbs with the oil and a half-teaspoon of salt, then add the toasted bread and mix until it’s completely coated in the green oil.
- Divide the soup between four bowls, top each serving with a generous spoonful of the creme fraiche, finish with the herb croutons and their oil, and serve.
Dal pita
Traditionally, the noodle dough is freshly made while the dal is cooking, but dried lasagne sheets (or any dried pasta in need of using up) work really well as a substitute
Ingredients:
- 200g chana dal
- 200g yellow split peas
- 100ml olive oil
- 2 onions, peeled and finely chopped (300g net weight)
- 6cloves garlic, peeled and thinly sliced
- 5g fresh thyme, stalks and all
- 4 stems curry leaves, picked, to give 40 leaves (5g) in total
- 2 hot dried chillies
- 1.5tsp black mustard seeds
- 1.5tbsp cumin seeds
- 1.5tsp ground turmeric
- Salt and black pepper
- 200g lasagne sheets, roughly broken into bite-sized pieces
- 6 ripe vine tomatoes (900g)
- 100g banana shallots, peeled and thinly sliced
- 3cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
- 2 hot red chillies, cut into thin rounds
- 3tbsp lemon juice
- Salt and black pepper
- 50ml olive oil
- 30g coriander, roughly chopped
Instructions:
- Wash the chana dal and the split peas under cold running water until the water runs clear. Transfer to a large bowl, cover with plenty of hot water and leave to soak for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, put the oil in a very large, high-sided saucepan and place on a medium-high heat. Add the onion, garlic, thyme, curry leaves and dried chillies, and fry gently, stirring frequently, for 14 minutes, until lightly golden.
- Add the mustard, cumin and turmeric, fry for another minute, then drain the dal and split peas and add to the pan with two and a half litres of boiling water and a tablespoon of salt. If your pan isn’t big enough to hold all the water at once, hold some back and add it later, once some of the water has been absorbed.
- Turn the heat to high – the soup should be rapidly simmering – and leave to cook for an hour, stirring occasionally and skimming any scum off the top with a slotted spoon.
- Meanwhile, make the salsa. Heat a griddle on a high heat, add the tomatoes, and char, turning regularly, for 20 minutes, until the skins are blackened and blistered all over. Set aside to cool.
- Put the shallots in a medium bowl with the garlic, chillies, lemon juice and two and a half teaspoons of salt, then mix together with your fingers, crushing the shallots lightly in your hand.
- Peel off and discard the tomato skins, then roughly chop the flesh. Add to the shallot bowl with the oil, a good grind of pepper and the coriander, mix well, then transfer to a serving bowl.
- Using a potato masher, lightly crush the dal, taking care not to mash it completely. Add 500ml boiling water to the pan, then add the lasagne and cook, stirring often so the lasagne sheets doesn’t stick to each other, for 16 minutes, stirring frequently to prevent the lasagne sheets from sticking together.
- Ladle into bowls, spoon over some of the salsa and serve the rest alongside.
Spinach and dulse soup
How to make a healthy spinach soup even greener? Add seaweed, of course. Any dried seaweed works here: dulse, wakame or torn-up nori sheets
Ingredients:
- 110ml olive oil
- 1 lemon – zest finely grated, to get tsp, and juiced, to get tbsp
- 4cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
- 1 loaf sourdough (500g), crusts removed and torn into bite-sized pieces (300 g)
- Flaked sea salt
- 100ml olive oil
- 2-3 onions, peeled and thinly sliced (300 g net weight)
- 10g piece fresh ginger, peeled and julienned
- 5cloves garlic, peeled and thinly sliced
- 1 hot dried chilli, roughly chopped
- 2tbsp tomato paste
- 1tsp ground turmeric
- 1tbsp cumin seeds
- 1 litre hot water
- Salt and pepper
- 50g coriander leaves, roughly chopped
- 15g dill, roughly chopped
- 400g baby spinach
- 15g dried dulse (or any other dried seaweed – wakame, torn nori sheets etc)
- 2 lemons – 1 juiced, to get tbsp, the other cut into wedges, to serve
Instructions:
- Heat the oven to 240C (220C fan)/475F/gas 9.
- First, make the croutons. In a large bowl, mix the olive oil, lemon zest, lemon juice and garlic, then toss the pieces of sourdough through the mix to coat. Spread out the bread on a large oven tray lined with greaseproof paper, and bake for about 12 minutes, until golden brown – some of the edges may be darker than others, which is fine. Remove from the oven, sprinkle with flaked salt and set aside.
- Now for the soup. Put the oil, onions, ginger and garlic in a large saucepan for which you have a lid, and set it over a medium-high heat. Fry, stirring frequently, for 10 minutes, until the onions have softened. Add the chilli, tomato paste, turmeric and cumin, and fry for three minutes more, scraping the bottom of the pan to stop the tomato paste from sticking and burning.
- Add the water, two and a half teaspoons of salt and a good grind of pepper, cover and leave to simmer for 10 minutes. Add the coriander, dill, spinach and dulse, cook, stirring, for three minutes more, until all the greens have wilted, then take off the heat and stir in the lemon juice. Serve hot with the croutons and lemon wedges.
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