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Sweet Pea & Prawn with Pasta Shells

Jools Sweet Pea & Prawn with Pasta Shells Serves 4 takes 15 minutes / easy peasy to do Ingredients: 320 g dried pasta shells 4 cloves of garlic 1 fresh red chilli olive oil 200 g frozen sustainably sourced peeled cooked prawns 200 g frozen peas 1 heaped tablespoon...

Thai Chicken & Sweet Potato Soup

(recipe from BBC Good Food)              Serves 2 as a main or 4 as a starter Prep: 5 mins Cook: 30 mins Ingredients: 1 tsp olive or rapeseed oil 2 garlic cloves , chopped 1 red chilli , deseeded and chopped 2cm chunk root ginger , chopped 1 stalk lemongrass , bashed...

Sweet Potato & Chicken Curry

Sweet Potato & Chicken Curry (Recipe from Good Food magazine) Serves 4 Prep 10 mins Cook 20 mins Ingredients: 500g sweet potatoes , peeled and cut into bite-size pieces 1 tbsp olive oil 4 skinless chicken thigh fillets, each cut into large chunks 1 large red onion...

Beetroot Power Salad

(Recipe from lovebeetroot.co.uk) What you’ll need: For the dressing: 50g natural organic yogurt or soya yogurt 4g (1 teaspoon) fresh dill – finely chopped 10g (1 teaspoon) horseradish 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice For the salad: 2 Omega-3 eggs hard...

Healthy Full English Breakfast

Serves 2 Prep 5 mins / Cook 20 mins / Source of calcium, folic acid, vitamin C and omega-3s, counts as 4 of 5-a-day Ingredients: 4 rashers good-quality lean unsmoked back bacon 4 brown-cap portabello mushrooms 12-16 cherry tomatoes on the vine, room temperature 6 tsp...