Hello Foodies, and welcome back to another Meatless Monday here on Love, Amybecca!

Today's recipe is Cold Noodle & Baked Halloumi Salad. 

I came up with this due to having a few leftovers from our meal of noodles previously, a few salad bits left over from a picnic, and some Halloumi sitting in the fridge just begging to be eaten. So I decided to throw it all together and see what happened.

Ingredients: 

200g Soba Noodles

Yellow Pepper

Green Pepper

200g Halloumi

Quorn Ham

Tomatoes

Cucumber

Method:

I started with the noodles, which had congealed nicely as noodles and pasta do, so I boiled a kettle of hot water and poured it over the noodles. This separated them easily, so I left them to cool in the water while I continued with the rest of the dish. 

I sliced the Halloumi, placed in an ovenproof dish and baked in the oven until it started to go golden.

I sliced the left over pepper, sliced up some Quorn Ham and added the tomatoes and cucumber to the noodles and mixed it up.

Then I chopped the baked Halloumi into squares and added it to the noodles.

I added a small slice of Halloumi on top for decoration.

The beauty of a dish like this is how easy it is to make, and you can add anything you already have, and it is very filling and most of all delicious.

Please leave me a comment if you tried this, or if you tried something similar with different ingredients, I would love to hear what different variations have been made!

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Happy Meatless Monday!

Today's recipe is a mix of a few things we decided to try. It was so simple to make, and made a really tasty and filling dinner.

When we decided to try our hand at making the noodles, I started browsing for Vegetarian Satay Noodle recipes online, but none of them really had what I wanted (I had a lovely Chicken Satay meal the other week when we went out for dinner and I think in some way I wanted to try and recreate that meal - it really was divine). So I started looking for Chicken Satay noodle recipes and thought if I could find one I really liked, I could substitute out the chicken and work from there. 

I found a great recipe which I could adapt but the recipe called for a packet of Satay sauce, and we like to know what is in our food, so I started hunting again until I found a nice easy Satay recipe to try. 

Today's Meatless Monday will be in two parts, I will start with the recipe for the noodle dish, and then go on to making the sauce.

Vegetable Noodles:

Ingredients:

• 450g Soba Noodles
• 2 Shallots
• Toasted Nut Oil
• 180g of Green Beans, topped and halved
• 400g Quorn Fillets, sliced
• 1 Carrot, peeled & thinly sliced
• Baby corn

Method: 

• Heat the Toasted Nut oil in the wok and lightly fry the the Quorn fillets. Place in a bowl and set aside.
• Add Shallots, Green Beans, Carrot and Baby corn to the pan and heat.
• Add already cooked Quorn fillets.
• Heat on the hob, stirring frequently to ensure nothing sticks to the bottom of the pan.
• Boil water in a saucepan. 
• Add Soba Noodles to boiling water and cook until tender.

Satay Sauce:

Ingredients:

3-4 tbsp of crunchy Peanut Butter

3 tbsp of Sweet Chilli Sauce

2 tbsp of Soy Sauce

100ml of Water

Method: 

• First put the 3 tbsp of Sweet Chilli Sauce into a bowl.
• Add 2tbsp of Soy Sauce.
• Next add 3 tbsp of Peanut Butter.
• Stir the mixture together.
• Slowly add the water, stirring it into the sauce.
• Taste the sauce, if needed add another 1 tbsp of crunchy Peanut Butter.

• Add Satay Sauce into pan with the Quorn and Vegetables and warm through for a few minutes.
• Drain the noodles and serve into bowls.
• Place the mixture on top of the noodles.
• Serve immediately.

Quorn Vegetable Noodles Inspired by: Chicken Satay Noodles

Satay Sauce Inspired by: Thai Satay Stir Fry

Have you tried this recipe? I would love to hear your comments if you do, or let me know what you think about the recipe, even if you haven't tried it yet.

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