This soup is so easy to make, and once blended, tastes really creamy as if you’ve added a ton of dairy cream! That’s because the hero of this soup are the hemp seeds. Hemp seeds go beautifully creamy once cooked like this and then blended.
Sarah and Anitana, authors of A La Mesa, have created these irresistible cookies for us using a range of our ingredients. Hemps seeds are the star of the show here, blended to create a nutty, rich seed butter perfect for baking or spreading on toast! However, if you don’t fancy making the hemp seed butter, feel free to use tahini instead.
Boost your breakfast's diversity with this granola, packed with flaked grains, seeds and Brazil Nuts, and flavoured with sweet and fragrant vanilla and cardamom.
These have the most heavenly carrot cake-like flavour and texture, making them wildly indulgent as well as deliciously nourishing. The best part is that you don’t need to cook them. Their sweetness comes from dates, which are full of fibre, and honey, which you can omit to further reduce sugars, if needed.
Apple shreds make an excellent addition to a salad or Buddha bowl, their vibrant colour and sweet taste balancing well with savoury elements. Julie, of Apple Natural, made this a beautiful bowl for our visit on a very hot summer's day. We combined elements from our gardens with Julie's apple shreds and locally sourced vegetables.
A wonderful ‘no cook’ vegan tart from the talented Bath Al Rikabi, using hemp flour and puffed quinoa. Hemp flour is 50% fibre and over 23% protein, with a beautiful nutty flavour ideal for baking.
This wonderfully warming and aromatic breakfast recipe is from A La Mesa by Aitana and Sarah of The Little Cooking Pot in Hackney. The book is packed with delicious, seasonal, vegetarian recipes that revolve around local produce and sustainable ways of eating.
This pesto really shows off our delicious and tender shelled hemp seed, evocative of pine nuts and hemp seed. With our fermented fava bean umami paste taking the place of the usual Parmesan cheese, this happens to be vegan.
The Cook & Him have created these indulgent but protein–packed bites to mark our launch of the first British chia, grown by Peter and Andrew Fairs at Great Tey in Essex. The tiny oil-rich seeds of Salvia hispanica were a staple food in Aztec cultures, alongside beans and corn, and are rich in protein, fibre and Omega-3 fatty acids. These protein bites are vegan and naturally gluten-free.
Packed with nutritious seeds, flaked quinoa and yellow pea flour, this vegan gluten-free loaf is healthy, virtuous and delicious! It makes for a superb afternoon tea or a sustaining but light lunch, perhaps with a bowl of Squash and Fava Bean Soup.
