The Buckingham Blog - Recipes

Low-Fat Veggie Kedgeree

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:29:00 -0400

I've had this recipe kicking around the kitchen for a few months now so I thought I'd slap it on here to keep it safe, that and the fact we all thought it was yummy :-)

Ingredients

Fry Light Spray
1 Onion - Peeled and finely chopped
2 Garlic Cloves - Peeled and finely chopped
1tsp finely grated ginger
2tsp cumin seeds
2tsp milk
Curry Powder
1tsp ground cinnamon
1/2tsp crushed cardamon seeds
1 clove
110g/4oz dried split lentils - rinsed and drained
200g/7oz brown basmati rice - rinsed and drained
1 carrot - peeled and cut into 1cm 1/2 dice
110/4oz fine green beans - cut into 1cm1/2in lengths.
Freshly ground black pepper
3tbsp finely chopped coriander leaves.
To serve: 4 eggs - boiled and halved
200g/7oz very low fat natural yoghurt, whisked
Chilli Powder or Paprika.

Method

Spray a large, heavy-based saucepan with Fry Light and place over a medium heat. Add the onion, garlic and ginger and stir-fry for three to four minutes.

Stir in the cumin seeds, curry powder, cinnamon, cardamom seeds and clove and stir-fry for one minute. Add the lentils, rice, carrot and beans and mix well. Pour in 700ml/24floz of water and bring to the boil.

Lower the heat, cover and cook gently for 30-40 minutes, or until all the liquid has been adsorbed and the mixture is slightly sticky (do not be tempted to uncover the saucepan during this time).

Remove the pan from the heat and stand, covered, for 10-12 minutes.

Fluff up the lentil mixture with a fork and season with pepper. Stir in the coriander and spoon into four sallow dishes.

Garnish with the eggs and serve immediately with the yoghurt, sprinkled with chilli powder or paprika.

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This is really filling and although I probably wouldn't eat it without the yoghurt it wasn't bad for a veggie recipe.

James.

Flash, Bang, Whoop - Fireworks

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:28:00 -0400

Look at this. It's me doing a blog on our daily going-ons for a change .

I've been on holiday this week so I don't have an excuse not to do it this time. Not that I try to avoid it but the rest of the family tell these things better than me anyway.

Right, enough waffle....

A busy little week so far. Yesterday started with Julie going to the doctor's to get Krystal checked over again. Her rash on her face still hasn't gone yet and apparently it should have by now. We've now got cream for it which seems to be doing the job so far.

Rather than waiting for them Kory and I went down the supermarket to buy some yummy ingredients for dinner. It's only the second time we've cooked it but we decided to make Mango & Chicken yummy!!

After lunch and the kids had their sleep we headed off down the beach. We thought we'd try and avoid the need to park in the city centre and then have to walk down the beach for this year's fireworks display. Instead we took Kory down to Rambos for an hour to let him have a play and build up an appetite for dinner.

When his belly did start to rumble we headed off to Jimmy Chung which is a local chinese "All you can eat" buffet. It's the first time we've been to the one down the beach and it was actually quite nice and the range of food was HUGE! We had loads and Kory, although saying he was full-up, managed to polish off 3 tubs of jelly. "1 Red, 1 Green and 1 Orange" as he kept reminding us all night!

Once we were all stuffed we headed back to the car to get all wrapped up for the fireworks display.

In case you don't know everyone in Aberdeen goes to a large field just at the side of the Amusements.

We didn't tell Kory but we had a surprise for him...Glow Sticks. Here's a wee picture of Julie and him with them. He was chuffed to bits!

The fireworks were slightly late in starting but once they did start they were actually quite good for Aberdeen. Usually they're rubbish! The rain stayed away long enough as well which was good.

Kory was a bit scaried of the noise but even with his head buried in my shoulder he still couldn't help but watch them. Krystal slept through the whole thing until the very end. Typically when we had to head home .

The kids were completely knackered by the time we did get back though and Kory actually did seem to enjoy himself. He's still going on about it today and pretending to be a firework hehe.

Anyway it's getting late and I've gone on long enough.

James

Mango & Chicken

Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:19:00 -0400

Here's a strangely-yummy recipe which one of the guys at work managed to get from the restaurant we went to for our Xmas party. It makes loads of sauce, probably enough for 3 or 4 chicken breasts, so do the top part for EACH chicken breast but only do one lot of sauce, or you'll be eating mango sauce forever! I've put below what the recipe says, but I only used 1 leek and it was more than enough, but I'll let you decide!

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1 chicken breast
1 streaky bacon rasher
2 slices fresh mango
4 x leaves fresh basil

- Stuff chicken with bacon , mango and basil

- Butter a piece of tinfoil season the chicken with pepper and roll in the tinfoil.

- Cook in 180 degree oven for 15 minutes (or until chicken cooked)

Sauce - 250 ml. good chicken stock
250 ml double cream
2 leeks chopped finely
1 fresh mango sliced
cook the leeks and the mango in stock and cream for 15 minutes (do not boil) then blitz in a processor.

It's a really strange combination of ingredients which actually works quite well. God knows who thought of this one though.

If you give it a shot let us know what you think.

James