Tag: vegetables
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Plant Based Beetroot Chocolate Muffins
Seasonal and completely satisfying, these chocolatey, gooey muffins are made with healthy ingredients and are SO easy to make. Suitable for most diets – including gluten free if you swap the spelt flour for gluten free flour – and entirely plant based. Beetroots are full of iron, potassium, fiber and vitamin C – they’re also…
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Roast Red Cabbage & Apple
Wonderfully Autumnal and easy to prepare, this is a dish for plonking in the middle of the dinner table on cold evenings for everyone to try. Best served along-side seasonal squash or your Sunday roast, the addition of balsamic vinegar brings a welcome tangy-ness and zing to what can sometimes be a few months of…
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Beetroot Brownie
Beetroot season is almost here, along with cosy Autumnal evenings and plenty of grounding root vegetable goodness. High in iron, beets are a powerful yet humble vegetable, until they’re sliced into and everything is dyed red…. An uncommon ingredient in brownies, the beetroot here acts as the glue that sticks everything together, and gives a…
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Cauliflower & Spelt Pizza
With a lot more nutrients and fibre and a whole lot less sugar, additives and saturated fats than a regular pizza, this recipe packs in a whole bunch of vitamins, and is far easier to digest than a traditional wheat-based pizza. Top with natural passata and healthy ingredients, and you’ll get way more than your…
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Seasonal Springtime Griddled Asparagus + Eggs
Abundant throughout May, asparagus is full of plant-based protein, fiber, folate, and vitamins A, K, C and E. It’s also pretty high in chromium, which can help transport glucose from the bloodstream into the body’s cells, thus helping boost energy levels – perfect as the sun starts shining and we may feel the urge…
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Simple, Seasonal Balsamic Roast Veg (October)
Eating seasonally and locally means we’re consuming foods when they’re highest in nutrients and haven’t had to be transported thousands of miles overseas. The closer we can make the gap between the origin of what we eat and the plate we eat it off, the more we save the earth’s resources – so you’re being…
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Purple Cauliflower Mash
There aren’t many foods which are naturally purple, and the words ‘purple’, ‘cauliflower’ and ‘mash’ may seem as though they should never be used in the same sentence…. This definitely works though, and is the perfect thing to serve when your plate needs a little more colour and creativity (not to mention much less of the “I just…
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Vegan Brain Food
Especially around the Christmas season, it seems as though there’s a hundred things to remember and to plan for. Because of all the business and temptations of sugary treats around, it can also mean our health takes a bit of a back seat. If you’re a vegan too, it can be difficult to know exactly…
