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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Hello & Welcome to another episode of Meatless Monday! Today's blog post are Tofu and Vegetable patties.

Ingredients:

• 1 Carrot, Grated
• Bunch of Spring Onions, Sliced
• 1 Garlic Clove, Crushed
• 3cm Piece of Ginger, Grated
• 400g Block of firm Tofu, drained and crumbled.
• 2 Eggs, lightly beaten

How to make them:

• Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and mix.
• Place in muffin trays, and cook in the oven, at 200 degrees until the patties begin to brown.
• Serve with salad.

This is a variation of this Good Food recipe: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1369648/tofu-and-vegetable-patties

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Hello everyone, and welcome to another Meatless Monday post!

Today's one is a little similar to a previous recipe I posted, but I thought I would do an update vegetarian version for todays Meatless Monday. 

Ingredients:

1/2 a bag of Quorn frozen mince

Jug of made up onion gravy

2 Carrots

2 Tablespoons of Frozen Peas

4 Sweet Potatoes

1. Place the frozen Quorn mince into the saucepan.

2. Add the gravy and let the Quorn mince cook in the sauce for around 15 minutes - stirring constantly.

3. Peel and slice 2 carrots and add to mixture.

4. Add 3 spoonfuls of frozen peas to the mixture and cook.

5. Add mixture to oven proof dish and allow to cool a little.

6. Peel and cut 4 sweet potatoes and boil until soft.

7. Drain Potatoes and mash.

8. Smother the Sweet Potato on top of the mince mixture, and cook in the oven for 20 minutes, or until the mixture is pipping hot.

(You can add cheese on top of the mixture for the last 5 minutes of cooking - we usually add Lactose Free cheese).

Serve with Vegetables or salad.

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Happy Monday Bloggers!

Today's Meatless Monday post is another Pan Fried Gnocchi recipe, but this time, from scratch!

The entire meal consisted of Pan Fried Gnocchi, Sweet Tomato Sauce, Pan fried Halloumi cheese (made from Goats Milk & Ewes Milk for me), Pan Fried Peppers and Salad.

I am going to take you through each bit step by step!

The Gnocchi!

1. Peel & cut up potatoes.
2. Boil until soft.
3. Mash.
4. Add flour until you have a soft dough consistency.
5. Roll into long, sausage like pieces.

6. Cut into pieces.

7. Roll into balls.
8. Heat a pan with a little oil, add Gnocchi balls to the pan and fry until golden.

The Sweet Tomato Sauce!

1. Pan fry some diced onion.
2. Add tinned chickpeas (drained) and continue to fry.

3. Add a tin of plum tomatoes and a quarter of the tin of water.

4. Simmer.

5. Add honey to taste & to sweeten the sauce.


And the Rest!

1. Slice and pan fry the Halloumi.
2. Put it in oven to keep warm.

3. Pop peppers in pan and fry until skin blisters.
4. Keep warm in oven.

5. Prepare a salad of Rocket, Spinach & Watercress, add in some plum tomatoes.

6. Serve & Enjoy!

Have you tried out this recipe? Do let me know in the comments below, I would love to hear from you!

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Over the Christmas break, me and the Mr made some vegetarian Calzone for my parents, and they (and us) loved it!

It was easy enough to make and the taste was out of this world. Even if you aren't Vegetarian I honestly think you will love these versions of Calzone.

Ingredients:

For dough...

200g '00' Italian Flour

6g of dried yeast

140ml warm water

15ml extra virgin olive oil

For filings...

Tomato Puree

Peppers

Tomatoes

Lactose Free Cheese

Halloumi 

Vegetarian Pepperoni

Spinach

Mushrooms

Recipe:

1. Add dough ingredients to bread maker. Put on dough setting and leave for recommended time (1.5 hours for our bread maker).

2. When dough is ready, roll into four circle shapes. Dough needs to be rolled fairly thinly.

3. Add tomato puree across the entire dough.

4. Add ingredients required to half of the dough. (like the picture below)

5. Fold over the top of the dough (the side without the ingredients on) and press down the edges to seal the Calzone.

Option 1 Filings:

Tomato Puree

Tomatoes

Peppers

Vegetarian Pepperoni

Grated Lactose Free Cheese

Option 2 Filings:

Tomato

Pepper

Sliced Mushrooms

Spinach

Halloumi (Bake the Halloumi in a pre-heated oven for around 20 minutes prior to baking it into the Calzone)

Enjoy!

Let me know if you have any recipes for Calzone, we'd love to try them out!

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Today's meatless Monday dish is one of my favourites - Pan Fried Gnocchi!

Ingredients:

Enough Gnocchi for amount you are making it for (see guidance on packet)

1 Clove of Garlic

Spinach

Sun dried Tomatoes

Feta Cheese

Recipe:

1. Boil Gnocchi as directed on packet. Drain and set aside.

2. Heat some oil in a frying pan

3. Finely chop the garlic and add to frying pan, and fry until golden

4. Add sun dried tomatoes and gently fry

5. Add Gnocchi to pan and fry until golden

6. Add the spinach and heat

7. Remove from heat and add cubed feta cheese

8. Mix everything together

9. Serve

This is one of my favourite meals, but Gnocchi is super filing so remember, you won't need as much as you think you will. Especially because Gnocchi needs to be eaten when hot, letting it go cold turns it into a congealed mess and its not so good!

Definitely one to be served very hot!

Enjoy! xoxox

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Another meatless Monday has rolled around, and today I am coming back at you with Bagels, Lactose Free Cheese & Vegetarian Bacon. Yum!

Ingredients:

Onion Bagels

Lactose Free Cheese

Quorn Vegetarian Bacon

Recipe:

Cut the bagels in half and place on baking tray.

2. Cut Lactose free cheese into slices and place on bagels

3. Cut Vegetarian bacon in to slices and place on bagels

4. Pop all in the oven on gas mark 6 for 10 minutes

5. Enjoy!

Happy meatless Monday xoxox

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So welcome to a new feature on Love, Amybecca...x its called Meatless Mondays and every Monday I will post a meatless/vegetarian/vegan recipe to for you to try!

I made this casserole last night, me and my boyfriend have been making variations of this quite a lot through the cold months. Its a great hearty meal, that requires very little preparation and is lovely and warming on a cold winters night. 

Here's our take on it, but remember, you can add whatever you like and switch out ingredients to suit. 

Ingredients:

1 x Leek

Red Cabbage

2 x Potatoes

2 x Sweet Potatoes

1 Onion

5 x Meat Free Lincolnshire Sausages

Pearl Barley

Green Lentils

4 pints of Vegatable stock (we used Kallo Vegatable stock - Dairy Free, Egg Free, Gluten Free, Lactose Free, Organic, Added Sugar, Vegan, Vegetarian, Wheat Free) (Makes it a fantastic choice to Vegetarians, Vegans and anyone with food allergies).

Method:

1. Take one Leek & chop.

2. Take 2 potatoes, peel and chop into small cubes or slice.

3. Take 2 Sweet Potatoes. Peel and slice or cube. 

4. Take one onion. Peel and dice or slice.

 

 5. Take some red cabbage. Slice.

6. Take some meat free sausages, allow to defrost and slice into small slices (to enable a quicker cooking time).

7. Add 4 pints of Vegetable stock (or enough to cover vegetables)

8. Add Lentils

9. Add Pearl Barley

10. Put in over on 180 degrees (Gas Mark 6) and cook for 1-2 hours.

This recipe serves 4-6 people. 

Let me know if you make this, with any variations, and how it turned out for you :)

Happy Meatless Monday!

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