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
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