Recipes

Try these ideas with your olive oil:

Pasta: Drizzle over pasta just after it is cooked and drained
Couscous: Mix in with couscous just before serving
Salads: Toss salad leaves in Olive oil and then add lemon juice to taste and over raw vegetables
Cooked vegetables, drizzle over lightly cooked beans, spinach, broccoli etc.
Mash potatoes in olive oil instead of butter, if you wish add crushed garlic.
Meat or fish drizzle with a little extra virgin olive oil once cooked.
Bread or Dukkha: Dip them in oil.
Vanilla ice cream or Fruit salad drizzle over for something unusual to try but taste really great

Two recipes to try

Banana Bread with Cinnamon Crumble Topping

(this may be made without the topping or with about ½ the amount of topping) Preheat the oven to 190 degrees C

Bread recipe

2 very ripe bananas about 200gm

2 eggs

3 Tbsp vegetable oil

1 tspn vanilla

Mix the above in processor till smooth

200gm flour

100gm castor sugar

100gm brown sugar

3 tspn baking powder

Whisk the dry ingredients together then pulse gently to incorporate in the banana mixture.

Place in a loaf tin(11x21cm approx.) which is lined with baking paper and overhanging edges

Place the mixture in the tin. Top with the cinnamon mixture if using.

Bake for about 60-80 mins

Cinnamon crumble topping

1 Tbspn chilled butter

40gmBrown Sugar

25gm flour

1/2 tspn cinnamon

Rub in the butter into the flour mixture

Put over the batter prior to cooking.

Leave in the tin after cooking for 10mins before removing

Serve the same day or toasted up to 4 days later

Lemon and Garlic Sauce for Grilled Fish

60ml water 150ml OIlve Oil

Juice of 1 lemon 2 cloves garlic sliced

Handful Parsley chopped

1 tspn Oregano

Scald the water in a pan but don’t boil. Put the olive oil in a bowl and beat in the water lemon garlic, and herbs until amalgamated Cook then for 5 mins over bain marie stirring all the time