Leftover Recipes

Miranda’s Korean style rice dish
 Dish
1/4 Cucumber 
Sesame seeds
Seseme seed oil 
1 tbsp rice wine vinegar or cider vinegar
1/2 tsp of honey
2 Garlic clove
Leftover veggies - broccoli, spinach, courgette, bean sprouts, carrot, 
Rice for 1
1 Egg
cooked Protein - Chicken, salmon, tofu work best
 Sauce ingredients (approximate measurements, adjust to desired consistency and taste!)  
1 tbsp gochujang (if you don't have this then you could use miso paste, anchovy paste or
sriracha)
1 tsp toasted sesame seed oil
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp water
1 tsp seseme seeds
1 tbsp vinegar (apple or rice)
1 garlic glove 
Pickle the cucumber by slicing it into rounds as thin as you can. Cover with vinegar and mix
in minced garlic, honey vinegar and seseme seeds.
Fry your veggies lightly one by one with a bit of minced garlic. Set aside with a splash of
seseme seed oil and sesema seeds mixed in
Cook your rice according to the packet.
Make your sauce by mixing all the sauce ingredients together in a jug or bowl. 
Fry your egg
Assemble your dish by getting a large bowl and laying your rice across the bottom. Add your
veggies in sections around the outside and put your cooked Protein in the middle. Pop your
fried egg on top, then cover with as much sauce as you like, and sprinkle with seseme seeds
and some seaweed if you have it. 
Best consumed with chopsticks after a rough mix.

Briony’s Fantastic fridge mezze
1. Open the freezer
2. Take out two pieces of bread that you have stored there on an
occasion when you were more organised
3. Put them in the toaster
4. Open the fridge
5. Take out any misc food left overs (half a tin of baked beans?
Some carrots? Some left over pasta sauce? Or curry?)
6. Cook any sad veg with onions, garlic and eggs
7. Grate any happier veg and cover with sesame oil
8. Heat up any leftovers
9. Serve this fantastic fridge mezze on your toast and add spices
and cheese of your (fridge) choice!

Sam’s SWAMPY THING
Take everything you have that’s green and leftover
Random half salad bag? YES 
A sad parsley plant? Uhm, obvs! 
What remains of a once glorious courgette? GET IN MA BELLY
Is that a lonely cabbage leaf? DIBS!
Add cooked onions, garlic, and stock to this verdant gathering,
then blitz and season. This goblin sludge can be folded through
cooked pasta.

Nathan's Veggie Lasagna

What about an old veggie gratin or old veggie lasagna?
Make a great tomato sauce with tinned tomatoes, garlic, herbs.
Add your old spinach, sad looking carrots (maybe you sauteed
the carrots), and use that as your sauce. Layer sauce, lasagna
pasta, sauce, etc. In the oven with cheese on top!
Also, roasting in the oven a tray of old carrots, with puy lentils
(from a can), feta, and herbs is great.

Nathan's Spaghetti

Ha ! Sometimes I cook too much spaghetti and I have some sad
leftover spaghetti in the fridge that need to come back to life. I
bring them back to their former glory (debatable) by frying in
olive oil garlic and hot pepper flakes in a pan, add a few cherry
tomatoes, and then my cooked spaghetti. They get life from the
cherry tomato juice, and a vibe from the oil, hot pepper, garlic.
Sometimes I add tomato concentrate to the sauce, maybe
anchovies, to make it a bit thicker.

Banana Muffins

200g Plain Flour
½ tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
3 large over ripe bananas (mash) the softer the better
150g Caster Sugar
1 Egg
75g Melted Butter
Oven 180 degrees C
12 Muffin Cases

1. Sift all dry ingredients together and set aside.
2. Combine wet ingredients then fold into dry ingredients until
smooth.
3. Divide between cases.
4. Bake 25 – 30 minutes

Top Tip
Add raisins, chocolate chips or peanut butter for yummy breakfast
muffins

 

Thai Chicken Soup
Great way to use up chicken carcass after Sunday roast.
Serves 4
140 g noodles or left over pasta
100 g bean sprouts
1 chilli chopped finely (red)
1 tbsp soy sauce
2 handfuls green leaves (spinach, cabbage, packchoi – could be
leftovers)
2 tbsp honey
Juice of 1 lime
4 spring onions finely sliced including green
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For the broth
1 roast chicken carcass
Thumb sized piece ginger, bashed and sliced
1 clove garlic crushed
2 spring onions, sliced
5 peppercorns

Place chicken carcass and other broth ingredients into a saucepan
and cover with water. Bring to the boil and simmer for 1 hour.

Strain broth into a clean pan and pick over carcass for any meat. Add
to broth.
Add noodles and cook for 3 minutes, if already cooked noodles or
pasta add with the rest of ingredients. Add squeezed lime halves
too. Simmer for 3 minutes.
Serve in hot bowls.

Bread Pudding

8 oz bread, brown or white, without crusts
10 fl oz milk
2 oz (50g) butter melted
3 oz (75g) soft brown sugar
2 level tsp ground mixed spice
1 egg beaten
6 oz (175g) mixed dried fruit, currants, raisins, sultanas, candied peel
Grated rind of ½ orange
Freshly grated nutmeg
Oven mark 4, 180 degrees C
1.2 – 1.5 ltr buttered baking dish
1. Break up bread and leave to soak in the milk for 30 mins.
2. Add melted butter, sugar, mixed spice and beaten egg.
3. Using a fork beat well until there are no lumps, then stir in
mixed fruit and orange rind.
4. Spread mixture into dish and sprinkle nutmeg over the top.
5. Bake for about 1 ¼ hours.
6. Serve hot with custard or cold.

Turkey Fricassee
Favourite post-Christmas meal

Chop up last of the meat off the bones and add the stuffing,
cranberry sauce, sausage meat, bacon, bread sauce and gravy.
Make a white sauce and stir it into the mixture possibly adding stock
made from the bones.
Ours always has frozen peas added after it has cooked gently in the
oven for up to an hour.

Ham Crouquettes

12 oz (350g) ham
1 large onion
2 slices wholemeal bread, soaked in a little milk, then squeezed out
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 tbs chopped parsley
2 tsp Dijon mustard
1 egg, beaten
Plain flour
Salt and fresh ground pepper
Olive oil for frying

1. Mince the ham and the onion separately.
2. In a large mixing bowl combine the ham and onion.
3. Break up soaked bread and stir into bowl with garlic, parsley
and mustard. Season.
4. Add beaten egg.
5. Mould mixture into 8 large, or 12 smaller, croquettes or rolls,
pressing firmly to bind together.
6. Sprinkle flour on pastry board and roll croquettes so lightly
dusted.
7. Shallow fry in olive oil.
8. Enjoy with fried eggs if you wish.

Courgette Cocoa Muffins

10 oz (250g) plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
½ tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
3 tbs unsweetened cocoa powder
1 egg
6 oz sugar (white or brown)
2 tsp vanilla essence
2 fl oz milk or water
12 oz (340g) grated courgette
3 fl ozs veg oil or melted butter
3 oz raisons (optional)

1. Prepare 12 muffin trays
2. Sift flour, baking powder, bicarb of soda, salt, cinnamon and
cocoa powder.
3. Beat egg. Add sugar, milk/water, vanilla, courgette and
oil/melted butter.
4. Combine all ingredients
5. Bake 20 minutes at 190 – 200 degrees C