Cous Cous with Chick Peas and Vegetables

Serves: 2-3
Preparation: 20 min
Cooking: 40 mins
Calories: __cal (__cal per serve as per recipe)

Ingredients
1/2 Onion
1 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp chilli, tumeric, cinnamon, ginger
Small Capsicum
1 Carrot
4-5 Mushrooms
1 tin chopped tomatoes
1 tin chick peas
chopped parsley
1 1/2 cup cous cous
1 cup water
1/2 cup stock
3 tsp margarine

Cook onion until brown. Add spices until fragrant then add capsicum, carrot, tomatoes and chick peas. Cook until vegetables are soft and add chopped parsley.

Bring stock and water to boil and add a pinch of salt. Take water off heat and add cous cous. Let sit for 2-3 minutes then put back on a low heat and stir through margarine with a fork to loosen the cous cous grains.

Note: To cook cous cous use these ratios: 1/2 cup water for 1/2 cup cous cous and 1 tsp margarine.

Nachos

Serves: 2-3
Preparation: 30 min
Cooking: 40 mins
Calories: __cal (__cal per serve as per recipe)

Ingredients
1 Onion
1 Carrot
1 Capsicum
6-7 Mushrooms
1 can Tomatos
1 can Red Kidney Beans (or 4 bean mix)
3/4 cup Frozen Corn
1/2 tsp Chilli Powder
1 tsp Oregano
1 tsp Paprika
1 tsp Cumin

Natural Corn Chips (lightly salted is best, not the cheesy ones)
Grated Cheese to serve

Brown onion in oil and add chilli powder. Add carrot, capsicum and mushrooms, cook until carrot begins to soften. Add tomatos, kidney beans and all the herbs/spices. Simmer for about 40 minutes, then add the corn. Serve when corn is hot.

Roast Vegetables and Rice

Serves: 2
Preparation: 15 min
Cooking: 60 min
Calories*: 750cal (325cal per serve)

Ingredients
Pumpkin
1 Carrot
1 Potato
6 Mushrooms
3 Cloves of Garlic
Salt, Pepper
Oregano

Rice
Tumeric
Cummin

Roughly chop pumpkin, carrot and potato and place on an oven tray lined with aluminium foil (for easy clean-up). You want enough to roughly cover the tray. Add a splash of oil, garlic cloves (quartered) and season with salt, pepper and oregano. Place in a moderate oven.

At the 30 minute mark, peel mushrooms and add a tiny amount of margarine to the gills then add these to the oven. You only need a tiny amount of margarine per mushroom!!

Put on your rice as normal adding tumeric and cummin - approximately 1/2 teaspoon of tumeric and 1/4 teaspoon of cumin, or to your taste.

Vegetables should be done after an hour or when inside is soft. Be careful as you remove them from the foil as some vegetables are more prone to sticking than others. Serve with a small amount of grated cheese.

Note: You can do lots of different vegetables. I love to do eggplant when we have it. Capsicum is also delicious roasted.

Thai Red Curry

Serves: 4
Preparation: 15 minutes
Cooking: 15 minutes
Calories*: 1200cal (300cal per serve)

Ingredients
Any vegetables that take your fancy. Here I've used:
1/4 Pumpkin
1/2 Broccoli
1 Carrot
6-7 Mushroom
1 Capsicum
2 table spoons "Thai Gourmet" Red Curry Paste
1 lite coconut milk

Add pumpkin and carrot to pressure cooker and begin cooking. Chop the rest of the vegetables and add to the pot. Add curry paste, coconut milk and 100ml of water, stir. Pressurise cooker to first line and cook for 7-10 minutes. Depressurise cooker and serve with rice.