Helen’s Organic Pick and Mix Dinner

Name: Helen’s Organic Pick and Mix Dinner
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves: As many as you want! just use your common sense for quantities, depending on numbers and appetites.
Ingredients: Some form of carbs (such as lentils, pasta, diced potato, brown rice) or tinned pulses; Olive oil, onions, garlic, assorted organic vegetables (whatever you have to hand); Chillies, ginger or other spices that take your fancy; A dash of rice wine vinegar, lemon juice or similar; Greens such as spinach, chard, spring cabbage; Possibly something yummy like pesto, harissa, tomato purée or pasta sauce; Crumbled feta cheese; Fresh herbs, roughly chopped or torn; Your choice of organic meat or other protein, such as sliced pork tenderloin, beef strips, cottage cheese, fried egg (optional)

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
40 min

Appears in

For the Love of the Land

By Jenny Jefferies

Published 2020

About

At home, we live out of our wonderfully random organic veg box, so this is the way I cook, with whatever is around depending on the season. It’s fast, healthy and easy food that you can experiment with and adapt to your liking for vegetarians, vegans or carnivores.

Ingredients

Some form of carbs (such as lentils, pasta, diced potato, brown rice) or tinned pulses
Olive oil, onions, garlic, assorted organic vegetables (whatever you have

Main course

Method

Put tonight’s carb choice (such as lentils, pasta, diced potato, brown basmati rice) into a saucepan of boiling water, with salt or stock if you like. Stir occasionally to prevent sticking and drain when cooked. Alternatively, use a tin of cooked pulses, like black eyed or kidney beans, if you want to save even more time and washing up.

Meanwhile, gently fry chopped onions and garlic in