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Spinach Balls (I know, it’s not an insult!)

Spinach Balls recipe, eat well on universal credit

I’ve never understood why in the age of Shrink-flation, when the package sizes of everything are quietly reducing, that we still have to buy Spinach in industrial quantities. I bought a pack of Spinach for the Shakshuka with Spinach and Lamb Meatballs, we made the other night. But as usual we ended up with half of the pack in the fridge. So…….

Ingredients:-

250g of Spinach, wilted in salted water
2 Cloves of Garlic, minced
Cornflour and Gram Flour, enough to make a stiff batter
½ Tsp of Turmeric
Salt & Pepper to season the batter

Method:-

(1) When your Spinach has wilted squeeze as much waters as you can from it.
(2) Mix the Garlic in and set aside.
(3) Mix the Batter ingredients but don’t add water.
(4) Form the Spinach into balls and roll in the dry Batter mix.
(5) Heat a fryer it 160C.
(6) Add water to the batter until you have a very stiff batter.
(7) Coat the Spinach balls in Batter and fry individually until the Batter is golden brown.

These made a surprisingly good side and we don’t have half a bag of Spinach learning philosophy in the bottom of the fridge, which has to be a bonus!  


 

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Ingredients:-

6 Plain Pork Sausages, removed from their skins
½ a tube of Tomato Puree
6 Rashers of Bacon
Gluten free puff pastry
1 Egg, beaten

Method:-

(1) Mix the Tomato Puree and the Sausage meat in a bowl.
(2) Form back into Sausage shape by hand.
(3) Wrap a rasher of Bacon around each one.
(4) Preheat the oven to 180c
(5) Wrap in Pasty and brush with Egg.
(6) Pop them in the oven and cook until the Pastry is golden brown ( Do not leave them in too long like I did!)

Broccoli Bhaji

Ingredients:-

1 Head of Broccoli, roughly cut
100g Gram flour
½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp Chilli powder
½ tsp Turmeric
½ tsp of Garlic Salt
Oil to fry

Method:-

(1) Mix the dry ingredients with enough water to make a think batter.
(2) Coat the cut Broccoli pieces.
(3) Fry in batches until they are golden brown.
(4) Dried on kitchen paper before serving.

We served ours with a few hand cut chips, home made coleslaw and a but of Basil for colour. But it was still quite brown looking to be fair!

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