Friday, January 15, 2021

Chicken & coriander pesto meatballs in tomato sauce




After a year when I seem to have been eating nothing but pies and other carbs, now I am trying to get over all that comfort food. When I was food shopping today, masked up at Piedimonte’s, minced chicken caught my eye. Mmm chicken meatballs. The other ingredients were what happened to catch my eye in the pantry and refrigerator when I was wondering what to cook this evening.

I used a ready made and purchased coriander pesto (yum) and a ready made tomato sauce (Five Brothers Tomato and basil sauce) but you could be more creative and make your own!



Ingredients

500 gr minced chicken
2tbs coriander pesto
2 cloves garlic
2 tsp minced ginger root
2 spring onions
Olive oil
500 gr ready made tomato sauce



Mode

Place minced chicken in mixing bowl
Crush garlic and add
Add ginger and coriander pesto
Chop spring onions and add
Stir until thoroughly mixed
Using a tablespoon  spoon form in into meatballs
Finalize shape with hand and place on plate
Meanwhile place the tomato sauce in a pan on heat 
Fill bottle with water, shake to clear jar
Add to pan and stir
Bring to boil and reduce to simmer
Heat olive oil in frying pan
Add meatballs in batches and cook to seal 
Add to tomato sauce as sealed
Cover and simmer for about 30 minutes
Eat alone if avoiding carbs or otherwise serve with rice, pasta or noodles. 
Enjoy!!

Sunday, January 3, 2021

Tasmanian salmon with coriander pesto and lentils



After a 2020 Covid year of cooking pies and feeling rather plump, I felt January 2021 was the time to try cooking something with a little less in the way of carbs. This salmon dish is cooked in the oven under foil, regrettably without a whiff of puff pastry, but delicious for all that. Enjoy!




Ingredients 

200 gr Tasmanian salmon
400 gr canned lentils
2 spring onions
1/4 red capsicum
1 tbs coriander pesto
2 cloves garlic
2 tsp crushed ginger root

Mode

Preheat the oven to 180c
Chop spring onion and capsicum
Crush garlic and ginger
Open lentils and drain
Place as base in oven dish
Add salmon
Coat with coriander pesto
Top with spring onion, capsicum, garlic and ginger
Cover with foil
Bake in 180c oven for 45 minutes