This recipe is the first in a series created in collaboration with Borough Broth and Dr. Wills using some of our products now available from Holland & Barrett.
Switch rice for barley! We use pearled naked barley in place of rice in this pudding inspired by the Lebanese spiced rice puddings traditionally flavoured with cardamom, vanilla, cinnamon, orange and orange blossom water.
Loaded with fresh veg’ alongside the wonderfully nourishing broth mix of dried peas, favas, lentils and oats; this dish manages to feel simultaneously light and hearty, quite a feat. It’s a great way of emptying the veg’ basket or visiting your local greengrocer and buying one of almost everything.
Here’s a recipe from the early days of The Little Cooking Pot and one of Aitana's favourites. The squash makes the cake deliciously moist, whilst the fragrant ras el hanout spice mix, chunks of ginger and crunch from the Brazil nuts make every bite exciting.
Eden Owen-Jones' light, silky and creamy whipped tofu dip is topped with split fava beans crisped in the oven to add a lovely crunch. Serve with deliciously bitter red endive leaves or spoon it over grilled radicchio.
Sarah and Aitana use our pearled naked barley rather than traditional arborio rice for this orzotto alternative to more familiar risotto. Barley’s nutty flavour complements the earthy mushrooms well. This recipe can be varied with other whole grains like naked oats or black barley.
Savoury pancakes like these make a decadent dinner though the pancakes are incredibly simple to make with just three ingredients - chickpea flour, water and salt. Any pulse flour would work well in this recipe.
You can make 'tofu' with any pulse, not just the traditional soybeans. Eden's recipe for homemade flamingo pea tofu is a perfect balance of sweet, smoke and umami flavours, paired with earthy celeriac and cavolo nero.
This is a very loose use of the name kedgeree - essentially we’re talking grain, smoked fish and curry flavours. The emmer wheat gives this great texture and a more substantial, filling quality than rice.
Here we have another recipe for James Taylor's school meals. James works in two London primary schools, improving their school meals to provide nutritious, delicious and environmentally sustainable meals for their children. We started working with James in 2023 to help him get pulses on the menu in his school. James describes the challenges of introducing young people to pulses when they are unfamiliar with them in their diets. However, James has shared with us a few of his recipes for success.
Sarah and Aitana make a loaf of this rye each week in their kitchen. It’s wonderfully simple but utterly delicious, with sweet and savoury meals alike. They like it best toasted, spread thickly with homemade jam and salted butter or with scrambled eggs but it goes with just about anything.
Farinata is a simple but delicious street food from north-western Italy. Made by soaking chickpea flour and then baking or frying on high heat to make a unleavened savoury 'pancake'. The charming (but presumably apocryphal) story of its origin was that a group of Roman soldiers cooked farinata a shield.
