Funky Beans on Toast

Yet another easy peasy dish to rustle up. A delicious lunch which is made in just a few minutes plus a great source of fibre and minerals to boot!

Ingredients

Half a tin of butter beans (you can use haricot or chickpeas if you wish)

Half a ripe avocado

1 clove of garlic

The juices of half a fresh lime

A quarter of a red onion

Half a red chilli

A small bunch of coriander 

2 teaspoons of extra virgin olive oil

Salt and fresh ground black pepper

Your choice of toasted bread- I went for rye bread

This is basically the same as the chilli infused poached egg but I have added beans to the recipe for a twist. 

This will literally take three minutes to make so first things first... pop the kettle on for a cuppa and put your bread in the toaster. 

Are you ready...

Chop your garlic finely. Mash your avocado in a bowl and add the garlic, lime juice, a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper. Stir. Next add your drain tin of beans. Stir. Check taste to see if you need a little more seasoning or lime or oil.

Chop the red onion and coriander. Slice finely the chilli.

Place the smashed avocado mix on your toast and sprinkle with the chilli, coriander and red onion. You can add a sprinkle of paprika or cayenne pepper if you wish.

Serve with a cuppa.

Smokin' Turkey Burgers


I have never been a massive meat lover- ever since I was born. I know that is not a great way to advertise my burgers but one thing I do enjoy is my own homemade burgers. 


These are simple to make and easy to adapt in order to suit your taste. You can change the meat to whatever you fancy, even chop and change the herbs or spices to create a totally different tasting burger. 


These are ridiculously delicious and have over half the fat content of your average beef burger- plus turkey cost half the price!


Ingredients

450g turkey mince


1 free range medium egg


1 small red onion


2 cloves of garlic


Half a teaspoon of chilli flakes (you can add more if you wish)


Half a teaspoon of smoked paprika


A tablespoon of chopped coriander (if you don't like coriander you can use parsley)


A handful of breadcrumbs


Salt and freshly ground black pepper
 

A glug of oil- either olive or cold pressed rapeseed

Chop your garlic, red onion and coriander. Heat the oil (on a medium heat) in a frying pan and once to temperature add your red onion- add a tablespoon of water to stop the onion from browning. Turn off the heat and allow to cool.

Add your minced turkey to a bowl, crack the egg, add the garlic, chilli flakes, paprika, the cooked onion and season with salt and pepper. Mix with your hands (as this is the best way to do it) and once everything is incorporated add the breadcrumbs and mix. Make sure you mix everything well, you will feel the mixture coming together. If it still feels too wet add more breadcrumbs a little at a time until you reach a point where it comes together and feels like a pate.

Split the giant burger into half, then half again so you have 4 portions. Roll each portion in your hands to make a ball then flattered on a plate. Once you have 4 burgers wrap in cling film and leave in the fridge to set for at least half an hour (if you have a BBQ you can always make the night before or in the morning, perfect!) 

Then either cook on a bbq... or if like me last night (January is the wrong time to BBQ in the UK!) grill until cooked and then finish off on either a hot plate or griddle pan (make sure they HOT before placing the burgers on) to get that BBQ'd look and flavour.

Serve with a salad, your kick ass fresh tomato and red pepper salsa and of course beetroot. Or in a bun with whatever else you want to pile on top.

Tasty stuff eh!

Kick Ass Fresh Tomato and Red Pepper Salsa

This is enough to make a small bowl of salsa

Ingredients

A handful of ripe baby plum tomatoes (or cherry tomatoes)

A quarter of a red pepper

A quarter of red onion

1 clove of garlic

a small bunch of fresh coriander

half a lime

a glug of extra virgin olive oil

a good splash of tabasco 

salt and freshly ground black pepper

First chop the baby plum tomatoes into quarters, chop the pepper into small squares and add to a bowl.  Next, finely chop the garlic and red onion (I was super lazy and super hungry so I used my little hand blender) and add to the bowl. Season everything with the juice of the lime, extra virgin olive oil, tabasco (go as crazy as you like, I must have added around 15 splashes!) salt and pepper. Chop the coriander and add to the rest of the ingredients and stir.

There you go- you have yourself a great fresh salsa which is great with burgers (recipe coming up) tacos, fish... anything you wish.