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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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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