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Butter-free chocolate cake

This is pretty much as guilt free as chocolate cake go: no butter and pretty low sugar. What I like with this butter-free chocolate cake is that it is also much easier to digest than a traditional chocolate cake.  Why? How?  Simply by replacing the butter by very (like very) thinly grated zucchini (a.k.a. courgette).  And if you are on a gluten-free diet, you could also replace the little flour in there by GF flour.

Before you start:

  1. You need a good quality cooking chocolate (in Australia, the 70% cocoa Nestle Plaistowe is suitable)
  2. The zucchini: 200 g of zucchini and no more (a bit less is fine). I have now done the cake a few times, trialing a few variations.  The last one used 180 g of zucchini and was fine! However, if you add more (which I also did), the cake loses some of its moisture from a denser texture.  Two hundred grammes zucchini is one average size piece of vegetable.  You need to peel it and remove the ends.  Then weight it. Grate it over a bowl and make sure to keep all the juice.  I was asked the question: can you use the blender. I tried, it works, just a bit much more washing-up than the grater for little saving, your choice.
  3. The flour: the flour weight is only 50 g.  If you go for a gluten-free option, you can either use cornflour but then you need to reduce it to 35 g as corn flour absorbs more moisture than wheat flour, or use one of the GL flour mix.

guilt free chocolate cake

Ingredients:
  • 4 eggs
  • 200 g dark cooking chocolate
  • 80 g caster sugar
  • 200 g thinly grated zucchini (see note above)
  • 50 g plain flour (see note above)
  • 100 mL milk (of your choice)
Method:
  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C.
  2. Butter and flour well a 20 cm round cake tin.
  3. Break the chocolate in pieces and melt with half of the milk.  You can either use the microwave on one minutes settings full power, repeat if not fully melted either with 30 second or another minutes (it depends on the power of your microwave). Once the chocolate is melted, stir until smooth and silky, add the remaining milk.
  4. In a clean bowl, separate the egg yolks from the whites.  Beat the yolks with the sugar until light and fluffy. Add the zucchini (juice included).  Add the chocolate to the mix.
  5. Finally, mix in the flour.
  6. Beat the egg white to snow and carefully fold into the chocolate mix.
  7. Pour into the prepared tin.  Place in the oven, reduce the heat to 160°C after 10 minutes.  The cake should cook in 20-30 mn depending on ovens.  Remove when the centre is no longer wobbly when gently pressed with a couple fingers. Allow to cool down in the tin for five minutes before transferring to the serving dish:  turn over a metal rack and then over the serving dish.

Tip: if you have a child helping you tell them to mix in the flour and cocoa starting from the centre, always touching the bottom of the bowl , let them enlarge the circle as the centre gets darker. This technique will avoid lumps. 

Tip: wondering what happens if you don’t reduce the oven? The cake will cook quicker and can lose a little moisture but not that much, it will still be quite moist. 

And if you are wondering about the taste brought by the zucchini, I will tell that if people don’t know about it, they are unlikely to guess. Once you know, you will possibly note a taste a little more “earthy”, but, to be honest, nothing preventing the cake disappearing in minutes and for zucchini-advert kids to take a second or third helping!

guilt free chocolate cake

Black and white checkers cookies

This black and white cookies recipe is taken from the Williams-Sonoma Baking Book.  It is a recipe my eight year old daughter decided to do on her own.  As the recipe provides measurement in both the imperial american systems and universal metric system, there was a little confusion for her upfront on the different values.  Once that was sorted out, she ended up doing the cookies pretty much on her own (I was downstairs working).  With or without help from adults, this recipe is a great one to teach children some basic aspects of baking: making a shortcrust, measuring, diving, measuring, using egg yolk as a “glue”.

Makes about 40 cookies. Below is the recipe taken from Williams and Somona. The tips are my addition.

This type of cookie is made by forming dough into a log or rectangular block and chilling it thoroughly. You can also use different types of dough together (vanilla and chocolate, peanut butter and chocolate) to make patterned cookies. Cookies are then sliced off the log or block and baked. When slicing the dough, give the log or block a quarter turn after every half dozen or so slices to keep the cookies perfectly square or round.

black and white

Ingredients:
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour (315 g)
  • 1/2 cup sugar (125 g)
  • Pinch of salt –  Tip: remove if using salted butter
  • 250 g cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
  • 1 whole egg plus 1 egg yolk
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3 tbs unsweetened Dutch cocoa powder

Tip: for the butter, you can use soft butter or half melted butter.  When you rest the dough the first time, either leve it longer or use the freezer. 

Method:

Tip: I am not using a food processor here as in the original recipe. I find that best learning is achieved by doing by hand and also the mixing is not really hard, so does not warrant the use of a food processor.

  1. In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar and salt. Then, add the butter, vanilla  and egg yolks until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs and eventually holds together. Divide the dough in half. Transfer one-half to a lightly floured work surface and knead in the cocoa until incorporated. If the dough is very soft, wrap in cell-wrap and place in the fridge for 15 minutes.
  2. Lightly dust the work surface and a rolling pin with flour. Roll out each dough half into a 8 by 21 centimetre about one centimetre thick.  Trim the edges to even out.

    Tip: instead of trimming the edges, you can use a dough scrapper to push and distribute the dough in a rectangle.     
  3. Place each rectangle on a large baking sheet and cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate until well chilled, about 30 minutes (Tip: or 10 minutes if using the freezer). Meanwhile, in a small bowl, beat the whole egg until blended. Set aside.
  4. Remove the dough from the refrigerator. Using a sharp knife, cut each rectangle into 4 strips about 2 cm wide (you should have 4 strips of each color). Arrange 2 chocolate strips and 2 plain strips in a checkerboard pattern, brushing the beaten egg between the strips and gently pressing them together. Repeat with the remaining dough. Wrap in plastic wrap and use a knife to square off the edges of each block. Refrigerate until well chilled, about 30 minutes or 10 minutes if using the freezer.
  5. Preheat an oven to 180°C. Lightly grease 2 baking sheets or line them with parchment paper. Remove the blocks from the refrigerator, unwrap and cut each crosswise into slices 6-8 mm thick. Place them 4 cm apart on the prepared baking sheets. Bake until the cookies feel firm when lightly pressed, about 15 minutes. Let the cookies sit on the baking sheets for 2 minutes, then use a spatula to transfer them to wire racks to cool completely.

 

Trialing homemade toasted muesli

There is such a large variation of breakfasts available, especially in Australia where the options between savoury and sweet breakfasts are many. Oats were not (and still are not) a popular choice of breakfast in France. Here is how I ended up recently trialing homemade toasted muesli.

A few years ago, I would not have considered a savoury breakfast before the clock showed at least 10 am. Now, I don’t mind a fresh piece of bread with avocado and ham early in the morning, yum!

I grew up on bread and butter, or rather bread and jam or bread and honey, as I was not a big fan of butter when growing up. Forget Nutella. Nutella didn’t make its way into my mother’s kitchen until many years later. We used to make a chocolate spreadable out of a can of condensed milk and a tablet of chocolate. If you ask me now, I would not put that recipe on this blog.  Back to now, most mornings I leave the house quite early – to avoid some traffic knots – and have breakfast a bit later.  I have been trying out a few brands of muesli and toasted muesli.  Of course, curiosity obliging, I gave a try doing toasted muesli.

muesli homemade

How to make your own toasted muesli?

The key is to define upfront the flavour(s) you want as dominant and the “medium” you are after.

Flavours:

Do you want nuts as the dominant flavour? Or is it dry fruits? Is it berries? Keep one dominant flavour and then build round it.

Each main flavour will dictate the rest of the ingredients.  For example, if you want dry fruits such as cranberries and apricots, you would not add more than two types of nuts as it will become a very “busy” muesli and will lack the simplicity of good simple things. With cranberries and apricots, you may consider adding shredded coconuts, maybe some almonds and possibly some chia seeds.

Medium:

Typically muesli uses rolled oats. Commercial mueslis are composed of between 60% (for the gluten free ones) to 80% (more often) of rolled oats and other cereals flours (by weight).  If you are gluten intolerant, you could choose to use buckwheat based cereals or a mix of corn flakes or puffed rice.

My first toasted muesli mix were quite heavy on nuts and seeds.  I would now aim at 60% oats.

Other ingredients:

Some recipes do not add anything else than the medium, nuts, seeds, fruits. I like to add a little oil and honey (not much) and a pinch of salt. It adds a lot to the flavour and to the colour!

So, how to go about it?

Well, this is pretty simple, get a big baking tray out.  Cut large nuts (almond, hazelnuts and up size-wise) to smaller chunks. Cut dry fruits similarly. Place all dry ingredients in the tray.  Warm up a little the honey and oil, pour over and with your hands “massage” it through. Then, all you have left to do is bake the muesli in the oven while keeping an eye on it and mixing from time to time.

The recipe? Check HERE.

Note: you can add the dry fruits after the baking if you don’t like them too hard.

A few  ideas of combinations

Combinations for toasted muesli are endless. Here are a few I tried or some which jump to my mind.

Go nuts muesli!   Oats (50%), hazelnuts, walnuts, chia seeds, coconut, macadamia nuts.  You can use almond there too, almonds and I don’t agree well, so I would only put very little or avoid them. That muesli was quite nutritious.

Fig and apricot muesli: oats (60%), hazelnuts, macadamia, dry apricots, dry figs, pepitas.

muesli homemade

Northern america muesli: oats (60%), dry cranberries, dry apricots, coconut, chia seeds, almonds.

Chocoholic muesli: oats (70%), hazelnuts, almond or walnut, cocoa powder, chopped dark chocolate (to add at the end).

 And the price bit?

On my last muesli, I calculated that to come to the same price as a box at the supermarket, I would need to have 40% oats and plenty nuts (hazelnuts and macadamia are quite expensive). And that was using supermarket based ingredients i.e. no bulk price considerations!

I also calculated that is you use 60%, your cost become half of the commercial cost. So definitely worth it!

muesli homemade
Five minutes peace !

Figs and nuts toasted muesli

If you want to control what goes into your toasted muesli (and also half the price of the supermarket box), you can make your own.  It does not require specific equipment: an oven and a small food processor, a chopping board and a knife.  You can even do without the food processor.

This recipe uses some dry fruits and nuts.  Feel free to adapt the ingredients, for example you may want more nuts of various kinds and no dry fruits, or you may substitute the apricots with shredded coconut.  I did not write down my first attempt to toasted muesli, it was a lot of nuts, chia seeds and coconut.  One guiding rule: use (based on weight) round 60% weight of rolled oats. Commercial toasted muesli are most often 80% rolled oats.

muesli homemade

Ingredients:
  • 750 g rolled oats
  • 150 g dry apricots
  • 150 g dry figs
  • 150 g pepitas
  • 150 g hazelnuts
  • 150 g raw macadamia
  • 1/4 cup olive oil (use any good vegetable oil of your choice)
  • 1/4 cup of liquid honey
  • 1/2 tsp salt
Method:
  1. With a large knife, cut the figs in strips and the apricots in small pieces up to 5 mm long
  2. Place the nuts (macadamia and hazelnuts) in a small food processor and blend to reach small to medium size. For example, you want each hazelnut cut at least in two and each macadamia at least in four.  I find that there will be some full nuts left and I will cut those with the knife on the chopping board.  There may be a few whole nuts left, that’s all right.
  3. In a large baking tray, place all dry ingredients, roughly mix.
  4. Put the honey and oil in a small bowl, heat up 15 seconds in the microwave and pour over the mix.  Using your hands, coat all the ingredients as much as you can.
  5. Then bake on 180-200°C. After 10 minutes, use a fork to move the muesli around. Repeat every 10 minutes until toasted.
  6. Once cooled down, transfer in a storage jar .

muesli homemade

Base recipe – Creme patissiere

Usage for creme patissiere:

Creme patissiere is a thick custard used for filling a number of pastries and desserts.  This recipe of creme patissiere can be used to fill in choux (profiteroles), eclairs or between two layers of sponge cake.  You can also use it for the portuguese custard tartlets, snail pastries, etc.

There are two options when you make creme patissiere, use cornflour or “normal” flour.  The amounts are not purely interchangeable, the quantities vary.  In the end, it is a matter of taste.  I like the cornflour one for choux pastry, I prefer the flour one for the portuguese custard tartlets.

Want to add flavours? Sure:

  • Coffee: add  cup of very strong coffee
  • Chocolate: add  50 g dark cooking chocolate (or 1/2 cup cocoa)
  • Vanilla, nutmeg and pistachio: add 1/2 tsp good vanilla extract, 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg and 1/3 cup chopped pistachios then toasted before adding (make sure they are small enough to fit through a piping tip if you are piping the creme patissiere.

This makes one quantity which is your starting point.

Recipe:

Ingredients:
  • 1/2 L of milk
  • 4 eggs yolk (keep the white in a box for another usage)
  • 60 g white sugar
  • 40 g corn flour or 60 g plain flour
  • flavour, by default some ground vanilla bean or a few drops vanilla extract
  • 15 g of butter
Method:
  1. In a saucepan, heat up the sugar, milk and vanilla (if using).  If using chocolate insert it at this stage.
  2. In a bowl whisk the egg yolks with the corn flour or flour adding half a ladle of the milk to dilute slightly.  If using coffee, use the coffee extract at this stage.
  3. When the milk is about to boil, pour over the egg mix while whisking.  Transfer back to the saucepan and return over a low heat continuously whisking until the cream thickens.
  4. Add the butter and mix through, the butter is not essential but gives a nice finish to the cream.
  5. Complete the flavours if required (nuts, spices)
  6. Transfer to a clean bowl or plastic box.  Cover the surface with cling wrap. Make sure it is the plastic wrap is in direct contact with the creme patissiere. This will avoid the formation of a thick skin. Allow to cool down before using.

Sunday night diner

Sunday night diner is the wrap up of the weekend and the last step before the start of the new week. It has this homy comfortable feeling. Yes, but…

We, or rather my daughters started a silk rope class on Sunday afternoon.  They love it! I find it great too. By the time we come home it is often after 6 pm , sometimes after 7 pm. So, not willing to cook much at this stage of the day, I devise a quick meal.  One that came back a few times recently is a bean and sausages bake.  Dessert tonight – yes, there is always dessert – was a flan patissier.

The bean and sausage bake

You can rarely do easier and it require strictly no cooking skills.  All you need are cans of beans, tomato sauce and sausages! Pretty simple! Still need the recipe? Click HERE.

sunday evening bake

A flan patissier for dessert

Flans patissiers need to be made in advance preferably as they taste better warm or cold.  I made mine this morning before heading across Scotland Island through bushland on gorgeous little tracks.  Flan patissier are a typical French dessert, it is like a (homemade) baked custard.  Quite nice.

The recipe is HERE.

flan

 

 

 

Beans and sausages bake

This dish recently made it on our menu in our household, often for a sunday night.  It is a great dish for many reasons:

  • It is a real no stress dinner, super mega easy to do;
  • Everyone likes it;
  • It makes use of pantry items (all these cans of bans my husband likes to buy when he does a grocery top up), in other words, all you need from the fridge is sausages!

Depending on the numbers to feed, I serve it with or without soft polenta.

Ingredients:
  • 2 cans of beans of your choice: red kidney, mixed beans, chick peas, white beans, ….although no breakfast ready baked beans please
  • 1 can of crushed tomatoes (or whole, you can cut them roughly)
  • If the beans are in brine, i.e. not in brine (our were mexican salsa recently), one jar of past sauce of your choice
  • 1 to 2 sausages per person (I also like to use lamb forequarter chops)
  • one onion
  • 2 small zucchini if available
  • rosemary or thyme from the garden

beans bake

Method:
  • Open the tins of beans, rinse under water except if in tomato sauce.beans bake
  • Place in a large roasting dish, the beans, the sliced onion, the can of tomatoes, the sliced zucchini and the jar of pasta sauce (if using).
  • Place the meat thoughout.
  • Season with salt and pepper
  • Bake on oven 200°C for 30 to 45 minutes (until the meat is cooked)
For the soft polenta

Boil one cup of milk with three cups of water and 1 tsp of salt. When it is boiling, add in rain, one cup of polenta  (corn semolina).  Stir with a whisk or wooden spoon, reduce the heat to half and cook for fie minutes.  If the mix dries out too much, add a little water. Set aside. Add 1/2 cup of grated cheese. Stir. Serve.

 

Flan Patissier

If you have been to France, you would have seen the Flan Patissier in bakeries or maybe had a serve in a bistro.  The flan patissier is a classic french dessert, it is alike a baked custard.  Some versions of the flan patissier include a shortcrust pastry.  My version does not have it. I grew up with that version, I prefer it as such.  The pastry makes unmoulding easier, otherwise I do not find it adds much to the dessert as a whole.

To make it quite thick – I find it looks amazing like that! – you will need either a narrow baking dish (17 cm diameter) or you need to double the recipe like I did for the photo session!

flan

 

Serves 5

Ingredients:
  •  2 eggs
  • 1/2 vanilla bean (you can also use some of the vanilla powder you find in gourmet spice shops)
  • 80 g white sugar
  • 700 mL of milk
  • 75 g of corn flour
  • 300 mL of cream
Method:
  1. Heat up the oven on 180°C, butter and flour the tin (use a spring form one if you have one).

    Note: if you are making the single proportions above, you can use a ceramic tart dish to bake it it and serve it directly as such (my Mum always did that!). 

  2. Scrap the vamilla beans and place in th milk. Heat up the sugar, milk and cream.
  3. In the meanwhile, whisk together the eggs and corn flour.  Once the milk is hot, pour the equivalent of a laddle in the egg mi and mix well, add the rest. Mix well before returning to the saucepan and, using a whisk, keep stiring. The custard will thicken. Once it becomes thicker remove from the heat an transfer to the prepared tin.  Flatten the top with a spatula.
  4. Bake for 45 minutes or until browned to dark on the top. It may look a little burnt, don’t worry this is normal.
  5. Remove from the oven and allow to cool before unmoulding.
  6. Serve warm or completely cooled down at room temperature. If unmoulding, first use a sharp knive to make sure the flan does not stick to the edges of the tin.

Tip: you can add soaked sultanas, a couple spoons of rhum or chocolate chips to make it a little different.

flan

Fish of the week: Barramundi

Fish of the week: barramundi!

We have been getting these beautiful barramundi fillets from the Sydney fish market.  They are really big and one is enough for a family of up to six people. When  I go to the fish market, I bring a big esky bag and choose fish to freeze and stock for a month.  The choice is not completely out of random but neither is it a planned thing.  It is the second time that I buy those large barramundi fillets, they are a treat really, but what a nice one!

Today, I am sharing a dinner menu and fish recipe from the last couple days.

The Menu (dinner)

Entree – Soft goat cheese and grana padano souffle

Main – Barramundi fillets on a bed of soft onions and brussels sprouts, served with green asparagus and hollandaise sauce and side salad

Dessert – Fruit (mandarin)

The souffles were beautiful, they rose so high! And of course collapsed afterwards!  The barramundi was delicious and with the Brussel sprouts and other greens a great combination.

Cooking  the barramundi

Did I have a recipe? No.  I don’t for those types of last minute dinner challenge.  This time I somehow managed to get a semi-passable photo of the dish before my plate become cold and the dish got eaten, so finally a recipe of a savoury dish!

barramundi fish fillet

Barramundi marries very well with lemon flavours and either on of the following: four spices, coriander ground, nutmeg.

Underneath the fish, I placed seven brussels sprouts cut very thinly, half of an onion cut very thinly, 2 garlic cloves cut thinly, 15 g of butter and a cup of water.  I salted the fish on both sides and when the butter was melted, placed the fish on top, added the juice of one lemon, a few small heads of parsley, a dusting of all spices mix and reduced the heat and covered to let cook slowly.

It took about 20 minutes to cook. In the meanwhile, I was frantically getting the asparagus steamed and the hollandaise sauce (also quite lemony) prepared.

For the full recipe, click HERE.

Grilled Barramundi fillets

A good fish is very good with minimum dressing.  barramundiA previous time, I simply seasoned it with salt, a dash of olive oil and coriander grounds on top and placed it under the grill.

Next time I will use something else than baking paper as a support…regardless it was also delicious.

Enjoy Barramundi!

Poires Belles Helene

A perfect light dessert with a little chocolate treat! A poire belle Helene is a poached pear, covered in dark chocolate sauce.  There is nothing very technical in it. This recipe includes a small crumble, if you have some biscuits, you can omit the crumble and serve with a biscuit.

poached pear

Serves 6 people

Ingredients:

For the poached pears

  • 1 beurre-bosc pear per person, not too ripe
  • Juice of 3 oranges
  • 2 cups of dry white wine
  • 1 roll of cinnamon
  • ½ vanilla bean seeds scrapped
  • 3 star anises
  • 2 cups white sugar
  • 1 lemon juice
  • 6 cloves
  • 5 grains all spice – whole (can omit if you don’t have any)
  • 1 to 2 cups of water

For the crumble

  • ½ cup of shelled pistachios
  • 1 cup of plain flour
  • ½ cup of brown sugar
  • ½ cup of soft (not melted) butter

For the chocolate sauce:

  • 100 g of 70% cooking chocolate in pellets or cut into small pieces
  • 2/3 up of the poaching sauce

poached pear

Method:
  1. Peel the pears being careful to keep the stem.  Once peeled, extrude with the the end of a pointy knife the bottom end to remove the seeds.
  2. In a saucepan, place all the poaching ingredients. Only put one cup of water at this stage.  Bring to a simmer. Once the sugar is dissolved, place the pears in the saucepan. Add just enough of the last cup of water to cover (there may be little parts sticking out, don’t worry).
  3. Simmer for about 30 minutes or until soft when inserting a skewer in a pear. For those pears slightly sticking out, roll them from time to time.
  4. Leave to cool in the saucepan away from the heat until needed.
  5. For the crumble, place all ingredients in a food processor and blend until combined. Spread on a baking sheet, and bake for about 10-15 minutes in an oven on 180°C.  Make sure to stir through every few minutes to ensure the crumble pieces do not stick to each other. When it comes close to 10 minutes, it tends to cook very quickly, so watch out to avoid burning it.
  6. When the crumble is ready, remove from the oven and allow to cool completely.
  7. For the chocolate sauce, pour 2/3 cup of the hot poaching juice on top of the chocolate, stir until melted.
  8. To serve: place a pear in the middle of a place, standing up. Use a ladles to pour the chocolate sauce right over the stem of the pear until fully covered. Place 2 tablespoons of the crumble on one side of the pear. Serve.

Note: the pears can be room temperature or warm.

 

poached pear

Three easy meals with leftover slow cooked meat

Three easy meals with leftover slow cooked meat! Yeah!

Ahead of a long day away from home, I sometimes use the convenience of the slow cooker to have dinner ready by the time we come home.  Just practical, nothing fancy.  Recently, I cooked a pork shoulder into pulled pork and we had quite a bit of leftovers.  It can be quite difficult to find ideas to serve the leftovers pork differently.  At other times, it may have been lamb or beef.  Today, I am sharing three easy meals with leftover cooked meat.

Mushroom & pulled pork risotto.

This is great with any type of pork seasoning you may have used as you can use the risotto stock and type of cheese you use to balance the taste. Here I used the large king brown mushrooms; these mushrooms never made it to the quiche I had in mind at the back of my head when I bought them!  Preparation and cooking time: 20-30 minutes or 30-40 if you take your time!

The Recipe is HERE.

leftover risotto pork mushrooms

The good old shepherds’ pie (hachis Parmentier, in French).

What a crowd pleaser for all ages.  Tasty meat with delicious mashed potatoes? You cannot go wrong.  Here you can add tomato sauce, garlic and additional spices if required to balance the flavours or add some vegetables to make it a bit lighter and increase the volume of the lower part of the dish is this is necessary. There are hundreds of ways to go about it.

Preparation and cooking time – 40-50 minutes with a lot of hand free time between steps!

Recipe HERE.

hachis parmentier

The pulled meat rolls or wraps

I love wraps filled with lamb, a bit of yogurt, some green leaves and fresh chilli! Preparation and cooking time is very low, you only need to reheat the meat throughout and prepare your green leaves, lets say 10-15 minutes maximum!

Recipe HERE.

slow cooker

I hope you enjoy these recipes. While I am finishing writing this post, I have a chocolate banana brownie baking for this week’s lunchboxes.

Warm lamb wraps

You can use the left over lamb to make these warm lamb wraps.  You can balance up the ingredients allowing for how the meat was cooked.

Ingredient:
  • 1 wrap per person
  • greek natural yoghurt
  • your leftover meat,  pulled apart
  • fresh coriander
  • Pepper, salt

optional: relish, mint leaves, chilli, tomato cut thinly or diced, red onion thinly sliced, lemon wedges

Method
  • Warm up the meat either in the microwave or in a pot on the stove. In any case, be careful not to dry it, you will need to warm it up in stages if using the microwave or keep a check on it if on the cooktop. You may have to add a few spoons of water if the meat is quite dry. Cold lamb is not tasty, so aim for warm to hot.
  • Open a wrap and place over a flat area, add the meat, a spoon of yogurt, a few strings of fresh coriander. Here you can choose to add some harissa, pickles, chilli or small pieces of tomatoes.
  • Roll/close the wrap. You can use tooth picks to help it remain closed.

wrap