Ras el Hanout chicken strips ⬇️
- Chicken fillet cut into long strips or mini chicken fillets
- Ras el Hanout
- Heat some oil in a pan, add the chicken, dust generously with Ras el Hanout, turn over after a couple of minutes and dust the other side, one last turn and chicken should be done , cut through to centre to check white all the way through
Spiced Chickpea Mash ⬇️
- The LIST
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 4 garlic cloves crushed or chopped
- 1 tbsp crushed chillies or ‘easy’ chillies*
- 1 tbsp cumin
- 2 tins drained chickpeas crumbled – use food processor
- Large handful chopped fresh coriander
- The METHOD
- Heat the oil in a saucepan, add the garlic and chillies, cook for a minute
- Add the cumin, mix through
- Add the crumbled chickpeas and the coriander
- Mix well, heat through & serve
- TO SERVE
- Serve with lime wedges, Greek yoghurt & crusty bread
- *easy chillies refers to jar of crushed chillies that are long-life, simple to use and stored in the fridge
⬆️ Recipe ends here
Well, the above are old favourites and I have shared these before. Ras el Hanout is a magnificently warming spice blend that will warm up your food and is perfect for enhancing summer dishes. I like to serve this with a side of mashed avocado splashed with lime though in Ireland getting hold of perfectly ripe avocados can be tricky and involves mostly luck!
At last the degrees have decided to start climbing and we have been gifted with some warmth and when the sun breaks through and clouds dissipate there is NOWHERE more beautiful than Ireland as it never gets too hot. We have brightness until 10pm which is magnificent and these stretched days will stay with us until 21st June. Each day awakens shortly after 5am and the darkness of winter becomes a faded memory.
Lawns are being cut and humming mowers and strimmers are a familiar background sound though it’s lovely to see that many gardeners are taking heed of the threatened bee population and leaving strips of dancing wildflowers, daisys, buttercups and dandelions to flourish.
So Instead of mowers I wish you a summer filled with nature’s sounds, chirping birds, buzzing bees, gentle breezes through the trees and meadows.
Slán for now, x Sheila.
