They have lots of dodgy habits - soap dodgers!

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Spiced chick peas with potato

You’ll need:

1 tablespoon cooking oil
1 x small onion
A clove or two of garlic
1 x large can chick peas (or soak and cook your own)
1 x large or 2 x medium potatoes (slightly more in volume than the chick peas)
1 x large can of tomatoes or a large handful of frozen spinach
Spices – hot chilli powder, cumin, turmeric and ginger (or whatever you like).

Soften the onion with the garlic in the oil in a frying pan or casserole.

Cut small pieces of the potato(es) and cook until soft (this take some time on a low heat - allow about 20 minutes), stirring occasionally.

Chuck in the chick peas.

Then add the tomatoes or the spinach. If using spinach, you may need to add a small amount of water.

Add spices to taste.

Cook for about another half hour, stirring occasionally.

Serve with naan bread or pitta (or rice if you must).

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I need to start a Meat Free Mains thread.

I have lots of great recipes and they are all good for meat eaters too as accompaniments :-)

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Yes please do.

I've a lovely veggie tagine..... must do that again soon, although it's a bit of a fag to be honest/

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I've been eating this stuff for years!!!


hahaha

thanks for the recipe.

Chick peas are good but there's these other chick peas which are smaller in size and black, they are wonderful!
I don't know what you call them in English but these things are great source of protein.

I'll see if I can get a picture :)

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So how about posting a recipe or two?

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Good point the way you have written that out is exactly how I would make it

except but I might put in ghee in place of the oil, more garlic, more ginger.

I want to bring something to your attention have you ever tried these:

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Awright Pete,

I've tried tofu a few times and its pretty good when its marinated and put in other things - think stirfry, soaked with lots of soy sauce.

I tend to use quorn products myself - I've just more-or-less adapted a great recipe f
to make a morrocan quorn beef stew (and no, I don't work for them!)

Would you like it?

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yes please.

last few weeks my diet has been pants or at best mediocre!

what soy sauce do you use?

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What soy sauce I use? One fae the shop across the road! LOL.

OK, here is the Greek quorn beef stew...enjoy. This is supposed to be a low-calorie, low-carb and high protein dish, cooked with 400g lamb. So therefore very good for bodybuilding!! However, I swapped it round for quorn beef and it worked a treat. I cooked this last night for 2 confirmed carnivores and they fucking loved it.

1 packet frozen Quorn Beef (only comes in one size), defrosted
3 tsp ground cumin
2 tbsp olive oil
1 large red onion, finely chopped
1 garlic clove finely chopped
1 aubergine, cubed
400g chopped tomatoes (i.e. a tin)
1 red chilli, chopped
2 tbsp choppped black olives (i.e. a tin)
2 handfuls of fresh mint (it says here. If you're like me who doesn't exactly live in a cosmopolitan utopia, just use a goddam packet)
salt and ground black pepper

1) mix the beef and the cumin together but do not cook just yet. heat the oil in a heavy based saucepan and stir in the onion and garlic. Cook for 5 mins over a medium heat

2) Add the aubergine to the pan and toss it around to coat in the oil. Reduce the heat and cook for 5 mins until softended. Increase the heat and add the beef pieces and cook thoroughly (about another 5 mins).

3) Season and add the tomatoes. Add a wine-glassful of water, reduce heat, cover pan, and simmer for 25 minutes.

4) chop mint and stir most of it into the stew. Sprinkle with remaining mint and serve with plain greek yoghurt.

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