A great accompaniment for cold meats or fish - especially for Gravlax (click here for the recipe)! This sauce is the traditional accompaniment for it. Pungent with mustard, a nice sharp twang of vinegar, fresh with lemon zest and dill. Creamy and tasty. Keeps in the fridge for up to 3 weeks. Recipe
Ingredients (makes about 1.5 cups):
4 tablespoons dijon mustard
2 teaspoons runny honey
2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
2/3 cup olive oil
pinch salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 cup fresh dill, large stalks removed and chopped up
zest of one lemon
juice of 1/2 lemon
Method:
1. Whisk together the mustard, honey, vinegar, salt and sugar together.
2. Gradually add and whisk in the olive oil until all combined.
3. Stir in the dill and lemon zest & juice. Taste for seasoning- add more lemon juice, salt or dill as required. Serve.
 Whisk the mustard etc  In with the oil  And the dill  Bit of lemon
Serve with tempura, or with grilled chicken, meat or fish. Tasty and simple!
Recipe
Ingredients - makes one cup
60ml soy sauce
1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
1 teaspoon fish sauce
1 red chilli, chopped
1 inch ginger, julienned
squeeze of lime juice
1 tablespoon white sugar
Method:
1. Mix all the ingredients and stir to combine. Taste for seasoning. Leave to infuse and serve when ready!
A basic, but delicious tomato, basil and chilli sauce with oodles of garlic. Serve with pasta or as an accompaniment for various other dishes, e.g. the Las Bombas featured earlier on FoodGoblin - see here. Recipe
Ingredients (serves 4):
1 250ml can chopped tomatoes
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 white onion, diced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 handful fresh basil, chopped
1-2 fresh red chillis, minced
Method:
1. Saute over medium heat your onions until soft. Add the garlic and chilli and saute for a further 2 minutes. Add the tomatoes and tomato paste and simmer for 6 minutes. Remove from the heat and blend until smooth. Pass through a sieve, return to the heat and add the basil. Stir, remove from the heat, season with salt and pepper and save until you are ready to eat!
Simple and delicious!
I originally cooked this to match the Chilli Chocolate Fondant recipe off this site - click here to see! I like it with them because the spicy, fragrant cardamom compliments the heat of the chilli in the fondants. You can use this with other things though - with ice cream, with general cake - all sorts!! Recipe
Ingredients (serves about 4):
250ml double cream
120g white chocolate
1 cardamom pod, cracked
1 vanilla pod
1. Place the double cream in a pot and bring to a simmer.
2. Slice your vanilla pod in half and scrape the seeds out and into the sauce. Chuck the pod in too. Add the cardamom pod and seeds too.
3. Add the white chocolate and give it a stir until the chocolate melts.
4. Keep it on a low simmer until the sauce thickens up a bit and reaches a coating consistency. Remove the vanilla and cardamom pods and serve!!!
I make raita a lot. Mostly because I quite frequently - and big confession coming up here.....brace yourselves.........I have days where I eat only protein in an attempt to fend off the thick thighs that both my genes and my propensity to bake cakes encourage. This works for me - you must know by now that I love meat. A whole day of sausage or steak (okay, maybe the sausage is cheating a bit) suits me a-ok. And if it keeps the steady stream of male suitors well...steady, then it is a small and tasty sacrifice to make. Okay, so maybe there aren't so many male suitors...but a girl can hope. And continue to bribe affection with food.
ANYWAY. Raita is something that I use to liven up meat. Who says it just has to be just with curries? Tosh. Consequently, as I was saying, pardon the digression, was that I make raita a lot. And this, newly discovered this very weekend, is the tastiest raita I have ever had. Total revelation, thank you father. NO idea where he got it from. The Land of Bob. It's great though. Fresh, slightly sweet, very very fragrant and creamy. I ate it with a spoon out of the bowl at the weekend and I know my standards are slightly odd in general but...that's big.
Give it a try and let me know what you think! Serve with curries (obv.), with chicken, spiced lamb, pork, spiced meaty fish (like a curried monkfish!), spiced prawns - oh god, just everything.
Recipe
Ingredients (makes about 2 cups, serves 4):
500ml natural low fat yogurt
1 medium onion, diced
1tsp salt
2 tsp honey
2 tbsp fresh coriander, chopped, plus a bit extra for garnish
2 tbsp fresh mint , chopped
1 green chilli, seeded & finely chopped
lemon, juice only
2tbsp water
Method:
1. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl. Check for seasoning and add honey/salt extra to taste. Serve!
Who likes Lemon Curd? On toast maybe? Perhaps a nice scone, as a filling to a cake, maybe just chucked on top of ice cream? Anyway, I do. I also like pineapples. I once found a plastic pineapple in a nightclub in Leeds. It was so random and fabulous that I carried it around all night and brought it home, where it now sits on top of my bookshelf, forever immortalised.
This recipe is a delicious, tart alternative to Lemon Curd - use it in all the same ways as you would its lemon'y cousin. Jar it or cling film it up and it will keep in the fridge for about 2 weeks. Perhaps even give it as a gift - whatever you like :D
Recipe
Ingredients (makes about 2.5 cups):
1 pint of pineapple juice
6 egg yolks
170g white caster sugar
5 tablespoons of cornflour - don't add more or your curd will turn gloopy.
Method:
1. Put all of the ingredients in a saucepan and whisk together.
2. Place over medium heat and continuously whisk for about 5 minutes until it thickens.
3. Remove from the heat and leave to cool. Once cool it is ready to be used or refrigerated until later!
Now that was just a little bit easy wasn't it!
 sugar in a pan  all its other friends  stir stir stir!
I adapted this recipe from one I found in Julie Sahni's Indian cookery book, ‘Savouring India’. If you're looking for a good Indian cookery book, please buy this one - its absolutely excellent!
My parents tell me that if my job prospects ever die out that this recipe is the key to my fortune! I hope you enjoy it too and if you ever spy a chutney jar on your local supermarket shelf with my grinning face looming down from it at you, be a mate and stick it in your basket! Great with curry but equally as delicious in a sandwich or as a side with ham or salty cheese!
Ingredients: makes about 2 cups/500g
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tsp cumin seeds
2-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and julienned
2 medium medium ripe mangoes, peeled, pitted and cut into 1/2 inch pieces
2 fresh hot green chiles, thinly sliced
2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
90g sugar
1/4 tsp salt
Method:
1. In a small pan over medium-high heat, warm the oil. When hot add the cumin and fry, stirring until lightly coloured, around 30 seconds.
2. Add the ginger and stir for about 30 seconds. Add the mango, chiles, lemon juice, sugar and salt. Mix and reduce the heat to low.
3. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the mango is translucent, round 15 minutes. Serve hot, at room temperature or chilled. Can be kept for around 5 days.
Delicious with homemade spring rolls, skewers of prawn, chicken or , or as a marinade for meat or fish.Packs a spicy punch - half the chilli for a milder sauce. Recipe: (makes approx. 2 cups/1 small bowl):
250 g caster sugar
500 ml water
1 hot red chilli, finely chopped
1 green chilli, finely chopped
3 cloves garlic finely chopped
40g ginger/ 1 inch piece, finely chopped
2 stalks lemongrass, finely chopped
30 ml fish sauce
30 ml mirin (Japanese rice vinegar)
1 limes, juice only
2 spring onions, finely chopped
1 small handful coriander, chopped
Method:
1. Place the sugar and water into a saucepan and boil on medium heat until it forms a syrup, approx. 10 minutes. The consistency should be slightly thicker than water.
2. Add the chillis, garlic, lemongrass and ginger, and simmer for 10 minutes.
3. Remove from the heat and add the lime juice, mirin and fish sauce.
4. Leave to cool and add the chopped coriander and spring onions.
5. Serve!
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