Side Dishes

This buttery rice dish relies on the ripest tomatoes you can lay your hands on! If you want to make in winter months, use good Italian tinned tomatoes. Don’t skimp on the butter, tomatoes...

This is a really delicious and attractive way to serve vegetables, and looks really special on the plate with very little work.  The vegetables can be interchanged with others...

These are a great very simple recipe that can be cooked using a pizza stone, or cooked on a regular oven tray or even in a hot frying pan .

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Once you have made these great rice noodles, you will never buy them again. They are so easy and adaptable. You can make them as thick or as thin as you like and keep them whole or...

The Smeg Hand Blender and its food processor attachment mean making dips and hummus is so simple.  You can experiment with flavours and spices from this recipe and come up with...

The addition of steam to the cooking cavity when cooking these potatoes, speeds up the cooking time and helps  keep the potato moist while still becoming golden brown crispy on...

This easy to make dish is the ultimate comfort food. It makes a perfect accompaniment in place of potato or rice but could be used as a main dish with a salad on the side. You might...

These thin and crispy sesame crackers will look impressive on your next grazing platter and are so more economical than the store bought alternatives.

This recipe yields approxamately...

Simit are a popular Turkish circular bread encrusted with sesame seeds with a crunchy crust, ideally served with feta or hummus and tomatoes.

These crackers are gluten free, sugar free and vegan and delicious with dips and hummus. Other preferred types of seeds can be substituted. 

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This fool proof recipe is great for dipping, but also makes a wonderful slab-type sandwich for lunch.

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1. Set oven as above...

Potato dishes such as this gratin take a long time to cook to a tender result, but if you have a microwave combination oven, by adding just a small amount of microwave you can almost...

Lightly steaming the tomatoes really enhances their flavour. You can change teh seasoning to any you have on hand for a different flavour profile

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This salad is so easy and a really colourful addition to the table.  The fruit and vegetables included can easily be swapped out for what you have on hand.

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Vegetables such as Carrots, Beetroot and Parsnips really benefit from roasting with added steam.
They are deliciously caramelised but retain their moisture and dont end up hard...

It is surprising to many but filo pastry cooks to perfection when steam is added to the oven. The layers become lighter and the result crispier while the contents remain moist . These...

These are very easy to make and are a great slightly different addition to a grazing board  with a dipping sauce to accompany them or add them to some consommé with steamed julienned...

This is so delicious.
The steam helps break the eggplant down and it caramelises so much quicker than if you do this in a regular oven.
You can cook this in a dry oven using Top...

This is such a simple recipe, but its not easy to replicate without sous vide. With a Steam oven you can sous vide with ease, but instead of immersing the bag of food in water, you...

This recipe does require a steam oven, but you could easily cook this in a frying pan on a low heat if you don’t have one. I chose not to fill my omelette once folded but it would be...