Sausage pizza wreath

Pizza like no other, just watch it disappear every time you serve to children or adults 🍕🍴🍅 

You will need:

serve 4-5

1 pack of pizza dough from shop ( never tried though ) 

or

make your own dough using:

300g flour, I used white wheat mixed with wholemeal spelt

5g quick yeast

1 tsp salt

200 - 300 ml luke warm water

1 Tbsp olive oil

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2 or 3 vegetarian sausages torn into pieces, I used Linda Mccartney's red onion and rosemary

1 small mozzarella ball, 125 g 

50 - 100g any yellow cheese, grated

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tomato sauce for dipping 

Make a dough from the ingredients above, cover it with tea towel and let it prove for 45 minutes.

Roll the dough into a round shape.

Using a sharp make a few cuts in the middle.

Assemble the cheese and sausages and fold.

Bake for 12 minutes on 220 C .

Cut the pizza ring before serving. 

I served it with green salad and baked beans, it was enough for five of us.

Flax seeds breads - kifla

For some reason I always want to have some sort of homemade bread rolls. These are so nutritious, easy to make and very tasty. I love to make a double batch so I can freeze some as well ....

Ingredients:

20g flax seeds

300 ml water

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300g white flour

200g whole wheat flour

1 pack of quick action yeast or 7g

100 ml milk or water

1 tsp salt

2 Tbsp olive oil

Place the seeds and the water into a small cooking pan, bring it to a boil and cook it for 5 min.

Cool the emulsion right down and add it to the flour and the rest of the ingredients.

Form a dough.

Knead the dough for 5 - 10 minutes.

Place the dough into a glass or plastic bowl, cover with clean tea towel and leave it to rest for 1 1/2 hour.

Punch down the dough and divide into 12.

Roll each portion using a rolling pin to get a flat bread.

Roll it in one direction and cut the edges using a knife.

Now you can decide whether you want them straight or curved or both :) like mine.

Arrange the breads on a baking tray, brush them with water and immediately sprinkle some seeds of your choice. I used caraway as well as freshly ground maldon salt.

Cover with the tea towel again and leave to prove in a warm place for 30 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 200 C .

Bake the breads for 15 - 20 minutes.

Three ways with yellow split peas

Hello my lovely readers!!! I have missed the whole September in a terms of blogging but I haven't stopped dreaming about food, cooking, baking and creating new recipes. As usual, I use simple ingredients, seasonal produce, nutritious and always budget friendly. This time the main character is yellow split peas : rich in protein, flavour and very attractive golden colour. Comfort food - made easy!!   

Cauliflower & split peas curry

Ingredients:

serve 4

1 onion, chopped

3 Tbsp green curry paste

2 cups of cooked split peas or 1 cup of uncooked ( soak in water overnight )

half cauliflower, dry grilled in a grill pan 

1 cup of passata 

1 tin of coconut milk

salt and pepper

one mug of rice of your choice 

Heat a grill pan and place the cauliflower florets. Grill them until they get dark colours around the edges. Set a side.

In a large cooking pot heat up some oil, add the onions and cook for 3 minutes.

Add the curry paste and stir for 2 - 3 minutes.

Add the cooked split peas, cauliflower, passata, coconut milk and one cup of vegetable stock or water. Add some salt and pepper.

Stir it all up and cook for 15 minutes. 

Serve with cooked fluffy basmati rice.

Done !!!

Split peas dip

Ingredients:

one cup of cooked split peas

1/2 cup water from the cooked peas

1 heaped Tbsp tahini 

1 clove minced garlic

juice of half a lemon

salt

pepper

Place all the ingredients into a big jar and blend it, using a stick blender.

You can also place the ingredients into a food processor but the first method saves you washing up :)

Add some olive oil before serving .....

This soup is made of all sorts of vegetables such as: leek, carrots, potato, parsnip and celery.

To make the soup more tick I add one cup or more of cooked yellow split peas before I liquidise it .

Yum !!