healthy wholefood recipes
Two recipes in one: a warm, chunky caponata-style salad of eggplant, zucchini, tomato, red onion, olives and fresh herbs; and a chilli bean dish with caponata-style vegies. Take one or both and you’ve got a peasant’s feast in no time at all. Serve the salad as a side or the beans as a main. Warming autumnal fare.
Traditionally served in Persia to bring good luck for the new year, this is a simple soup of beans, grains, noodles and herbs. A fragrant broth spiced with tumeric, cumin, chilli, pepper and lime. Hearty but not heavy, comforting but healthy. A perfect meal not just for celebration, but recuperation from world-weariness. It satisfies the core. Based on 101 Cookbooks’ adaptation of Greg and Lucy Malouf’s recipe from Saraban: A chef’s journey through Persia.
A punchy little pumpkin curry with adzuki beans, set-off with coconut, lime and ginger. And a fair kick of chilli. Based on a Nigel Slater recipe, this dish has a great balance of sweet-sour-spicy. Serve with rice, lime wedges and coriander or Thai basil.
Perhaps I jinxed things with overzealous descriptions of a return to normalcy. Tonight, along with most people around Australia, I’m anxious as cyclone Yasi – tipped to be the worst storm ever to hit Australia – will hit the North Queensland coast. The second unprecedented severe weather event to hit my subtropical adopted state in [...]
A dry-roasted cauliflower curry with chickpeas, chilli spice and a clean zing of lime. Served with folded eggs + steamed rice.
A warm spring salad of white zucchini, chickpeas and fennel, browned in the pan and dressed with lemon, feta and mint. Serve with grilled meat and a glass of something chilled on a warm night. Or mix it up with brown rice and spinach for a workday lunch.
A warming, spicy and slightly understated coconut curried lentil soup with bursts of plump raisins, cinnamon and fresh coriander.
Real fast food: chickpeas in a pan with onion, garlic, lemon, brocolli and red cabbage. A twist of seasalt and pepper. Add a splash of miso soup on the side and dinner’s ready.
Sweet roasted roma tomatoes, onion, garlic and rosemary in a creamy lima bean stew. Deep, slow flavours to warm you up from the inside as the cooler weather starts to bite.
A light and fragrant rice and red bean salad packed with lemon zest, parsley and dill. Inspired by a beach picnic, this would be fabulous with grilled chicken or fish, barbecued vegies or felafels.
A hearty, full-bodied white bean soup to enjoy as the weather cools. Very hands-off and requiring only pantry staples – no blending and an hour in the pot. Serve with shaved peccorino and toasted pitta breads topped with anchovies and oregano.
We’ve been beset by a humungous heat-and-humidity wave. It broke yesterday with electrical storms and a big drizzly all-day dump of rain. After a lovely weekend away at the beach (Greenmount, Gold Coast) and associated meals out (read too much rich food), I craved something healthy, something warming, something soup-y. I used to make a [...]
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Hi, I'm Sam.
One Small Kitchen is a collection of simple, real food recipes. It's the stuff I cook from my small city kitchen. I try to live consciously and cook the same way. Using whole foods. Mostly plants. Learning from traditional wisdom. And trusting my intuition. Enjoy! x
