Heh clever title....

Ok this time I had a lot more fun making these dishes as last round I tried a bit more than I would usually do. This time I made some simple dishes, with plenty of flavour. Didn't take as many pictures because I was lazy sorry!
Ingredients were: Chickpeas, chorizo, peppers, curry powder, chilli powder, flour, eggs, mango chutney, tomatoes, garlic, onions, olive oil, cocoa, muscovado sugar, orange juice, yoghurt, bicarb soda and seasoning. Came to about.....£7.50 with a lot of extra stuff to cook with later.

The starter was a Chickpea, Pepper and Chorizo Salad.

It's the simplest and probably my favourite of the all the dishes I made, really delicious and full of colour.
All it really was fry the chorizo off until it's fat starts to leak from it, then toss the chickpeas in and they become a really lovely red colour.  Near the end put the already cooked peppers in and stir. To serve add a bit of yoghurt(Can't be seen in the photo due to colour of the plate aha) as it'll cut the fattyness of the chorizo really well.


The main was a Chickpea and pepper curry served with a chickpea flat bread

It's basically a simple recipe, Base of onions and garlic until softened then add curry powder spices and chilli powder, add chopped tomatoes with some water and boil for a while. Once done that add chickpeas, then peppers and near the end add a bit of mango chutney to balance the hotness of the chilli.
What I'm surprised about is I actually bothered to make a flat bread with it too!  It's a basic bread recipe but instead of it all being flour it was 50/50 flour to chickpeas which some were left whole to add texture. It's mixed then kneaded to create the dough. The other major difference of it compared to a normal bread is the lack of yeast, hence the name flatbread. It was all pretty delicious! Served with a bit of extra mango chutney.


Finally for dessert was a Chickpea Chocolate Cake

The great thing about this as It contains no flour, it can be eaten by someone who has a wheat allergy. It's also incredibly moist compared to a cake with flour in it.
It's a batter made from blended chickpeas with a little juice so the blender doesn't get stuck then eggs blened with. After, muscovado sugar, cocoa, bicarb soda is added to create the batter, then poured into a dish to bake. It comes out quite a bit risen, but soon drops to a normal height. The cake is very heavy, but surprisingly light to eat!


This was a lot of fun to do and I really advise people to try to make the warm salad, because I found it to be really simple, but really damn tasty! Also thanks GW for for getting me off my ass to try to cook something that requires more effort than pasta or a sandwich aha.

Hello I am here to show my GW iron chef entry.
Although it didn't turn out exactly as planned i'm pretty satisfied at how it tasted, and content on choosing some pretty different recipes to cook.  They look a bit shit but that's how it turns out!  Spent about £7 which is pretty good as I had a lot of ingredients spare to use later!

Sorry forgot to take a picture of the ingredients, but they were...1kg of carrots, ginger, onion, flat leaf parsley, lemon, honey, virgin oil, mascarpone, double cream, eggs, butter, flour, icing sugar, water and seasoning.  Had some at home which I didn't need to buy.

Okay so what i made was a carrot and honey soup with a parsley pesto, carrot soufflé and a carrot cheese cake/tart.

To start with, I made the soup.  I put a finely chopped onion into a pan with a bit of oil with a teaspoon of finely grated ginger and left it to soften for about 10 minutes.  Added the carrots, a tiny drizzle of honey, and a squeeze of lemon, added the water and left to boil.
Basically after 40 minutes or so all I had to do was liquidize, season it and it was pretty much done!  On the top was a really simple parsley pesto (thick parsley oil) and a dash of cream.  It cut the sweetness of the carrots pretty well.


Next I started the soufflé, which to be honest I've never tried making one before so it was a gamble of how it went! I cooked carrots in a pan until tender, once out mashed and seasoned them to a pretty fine texture. Afterwards, separated 3 eggs and added the yolks, melted butter, and some flour into the mixture.  The egg whites were whisked to make it about 3 times its original volume, and the carrot mixture was added and folded into the whites to keep the air in.(did a pretty shit job at this as can be seen in the finished thing.) Put in the oven for about 40 mins and hoped for the best!

As can be seen it turned out looking a bit balls.  It was about a cm taller but it kind of collapsed when it came out the oven, but it tasted pretty great and was really light.

Finally started on the cheesecake. I had absolutely no idea how it was going to turn out, and I haven't really heard of a carrot cheesecake before so I wanted to see how it was.
So mixed the mascarpone and cream together with some julliened carrots which were cooked in a sugar syrup. Added some honey and a bit of icing sugar to add a bit more sweetness, and 2 egg yolks to make it even more rich.   The base was simply some biscuits crushed mixed with some butter to make a firm base to pour the mixture onto.  Placed the cheesecake in the oven and cooked it until it was somewhat firm to touch. Put some carrot on top to see how it tasted and looked pretty shit!, but I took a picture of it anyway.

Aha turned out looking more like a tart than a cheesecake though and the carrots looked hellish on it.
It had an interesting taste.  It was sweet but not too sweet, and not too rich which is weird for the amount of cream and cheese in it.

So all in all it was pretty fun!  It tasted pretty good which is the main factor as I was the one eating it.  Might of looked better but that's always something I can work on for the next cook off!