Increase Your Pulse Rate
This recipe, from Cordon Vert Cookery School's Foundation 3 course in vegetarian cooking, feeds four. It can also be made with red kidney beans, blackeyed beans or pinto beans. Make the marinade by mixing all the marinade ingredients ... [... more]
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Heather Mairs spills the beans...
Broad beans are the oldest of all our beans, dating back to stone age times. Mystical beliefs were that broad beans, when offered in marriage ensured the birth of a baby son. And these kidney shaped beans were important enough to warrant the ... [... more]
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Turn old favourites into new with Friggs Stock Cubes
With an endless variety of flavours, Friggs Vegetable Stock Cubes can liven up rice, pasta, vegetables and beans; add a richness to sauces, gravies and soups; and can be stirred into casseroles and hotpots for a new and delicious ... [... more]
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Macrobiotic Menu:
Cover and simmer gently for 40-50 minutes or until the water is absorbed. Mix the kuzu with 1/4pt of cold water and pour into the miso mixture. Place in bowls and decorate with orange rind and pine kernels. Cut into slices and serve fried. Simmer ... [... more]
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Lunchbox Treats
Instead of paying high prices for ready-made houmous, make your own and add plenty of iron-rich parsley that your kids won't even notice, and crunchy cucumber. Tip - With sloppy mixtures go for crusty wholemeal buns, only slicing through one ... [... more]
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Storage & Cooking
Introduction -- Origins -- Nutrition -- Storage & Cooking -- Toxins in Pulses -- Sprouting -- Further Information Peas, beans and lentils are known as pulses. They are the seeds of plants belonging to the family Leguminosae, which gets its name ... [... more]
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Cordon Vert Recipes - Index
Many of these recipes are from past issues of The Vegetarian. Join The Vegetarian Society and get the latest issues sent direct. National Vegetarian Weeks [... more]
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Increase your pulse rate
Boil them fast in fresh water for ten minutes, then simmer until just tender, about 30-35 mins. Drain, reserving 3/4pint of the cooking water. Add the carrots, bay leaves and caraway seeds and stir over the heat for a few minutes. Add the swede, ... [... more]
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Kidney Bean Salad
Drain, rinse, then boil quickly for 10 minutes Add to the tahini very slowly to make a paste, [... more]
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Masoor Dhal
Add the lentils and 1 pint of fresh water. Simmer, covered, for 50 mins. Dhal always means lentils. The first name indicates the type of lentils used, so masoor dhal refers to red lentils. This recipe, from the Cordon Vert Cookery School former ... [... more]
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Tomato & Haricot Bean Soup
Bring to the boil and simmer for an hour or until beans are tender. [... more]
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Kaffir Lime Leaf, Black Eye and Aduki Bean Croquettes
I bought these delicious croquetes while shopping down one of the busy streets in Chiang Mai. I have adapted the recipe to create a more interesting balance of flavours. Rambutan, Pineapple and Tofu Curry Feast from the East intro page [... more]
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