Julie Goodwin 'Gather' • out now
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Delicious and easy recipes for your next gathering of family and friends • more details -
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Gather
Delicious and easy recipes for your next gathering of family and friends • more details
Roast Pumpkin Soup
Makes about 2 litres
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 35 minute
Pumpkin soup comes in many guises – with curries, spices, loads of different flavours and vegetable. And most of them I have to say, are delicious.
This soup celebrates the sweetness and flavor of the pumpkin itself. I add a couple of carrots to enhance the colour and give a further sweetness – it certainly doesn’t take over the pumpkin flavour • full recipe
Ingredients
20g butter
1 kg butternut pumpkin, peeled, deseeded and cut into 4cm cubes
2 carrots, peeled and cut into 4cm lengths
500ml chicken or vegetable stock
Salt and ground white pepper
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Lamb and Snow Pea Stir Fry
Serves 4
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
The trick with a stir fry is to cook the meat in small batches. If too much goes into the wok at once, the temperature will drop too much and the meat will stew rather than frying • full recipe
Ingredients
2 tablespoons peanut or vegetable oil
500g lamb backstrap, very finely sliced
3cm piece ginger, grated
2 garlic cloves, chopped
200g snow peas, tailed
½ bunch shallots, white and pale green parts only cut into 3cm pieces
¼ cup hoi sin sauce
1 tablespoon soy sauce
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Lebanese Treats
Cooking up a Lebanese feast with baba ghanouj (a beautiful smoky eggplant dip), labne (a thick creamy yoghurt dip) flatbread and marinated lamb skewers, fattoush and toum (white garlic sauce) • full article and recipes
