Very excited to finally join the cookery book club! I've been following since it started, but I never managed to find time to try two new recipes in a month before!
This weekend I made two recipes from Ottolenghi. Quite hard to choose two that I hadn't already tried, particularly as we're veggie, with a 4yr old so nothing too spicy.
The first was granola bars. I confess, I fiddled as I didn't have exactly the right ingredients - swapping the apricots and sour cherries for raisins and dried cranberries. I reduced the sugar to 65g, as the cranberries were sweetened. It was still very sweet. It was very, very crumbly too - but not sure if that is because I didn't pack it down enough. That said, it is still tasty and the crumbly bits work well as a topping for yogurt for DS's afters.
Originally, I (well DS and I) were going to make the pistachio shortbread, but when he was counting out the cardamon pods I realised that, much as I love the spice, I wasn't sure I was looking forward to it in a sweet biscuit. So we swapped it for the granola bars recipe instead.
I also made the sweet broccolini with tofu, sesame and coriander from Ottolenghi. I cannot work out the proportions - it says 250g tofu and 450g sprouting broccoli and from the pictures, it does seem to be almost completely broccoli, with just a tiny bit of tofu. Which seems odd to me! Is it a vegetable side dish, or a vegetarian main? Needless to say, I prefer to have more tofu, so I ended up not using about half the broccoli (I also used straggly normal broccoli as I can't get the sprouting kind here. I also used normal soy sauce, not kecap manis). It was tasty, but not so very different to what I'd normally do. (I was also going to make the Brussel Sprouts and Tofu recipe in Plenty - but that had only 150g tofu to 500g brussel sprouts - reminds me of the Friends episode with 'mocklate'!)