Clearly food is a cause of much of our waste, so I am scouring the internet and books I have for waste free meals. I have the book Deliciously Ella and in it are some great recipes. I originally bought it when we cut out sugar from our diet.
In this book there is a recipe for Quinoa Tabbouleh
Ingredients
Quinoa
Fresh Coriander
Tomatoes
Pine nuts
2 tablespoons of Tahini
4 tablespoons of olive oil
Juice of 2 lemons
Salt and Pepper
Recipe
Ingredients
Quinoa
Fresh Coriander
Tomatoes
Pine nuts
2 tablespoons of Tahini
4 tablespoons of olive oil
Juice of 2 lemons
Salt and Pepper
Recipe
Cook the quinoa as instructed (then allow to cool)
Chop the coriander and tomatoes
Toast the pine nuts in a frying pan
Mix the rest of the ingredients together to make a sauce
Mix together
It was very east to make and all but my son loved it. He reached for the jar of peanut butter and ate a loaf of bread complaining a lot!!!! ho hum that's 11 year olds for you!
But was it waste free?
Well there are 9 ingredients, actually I added an avocado so that makes 10!
The Quinoa and Pine nuts I bought my own jars into a local scoop shop so no waste there.
The coriander I got loose in the greengrocer, but it came with an elastic band which I have kept for reusing.
The tomatoes, lemons and the avocado I got loose from the greengrocer, straight into my cloth bag.
The Tahini is in a glass jar which I will be able to reuse.
The Olive oil was the baddie, we had a large plastic bottle of olive oil left over from our time 'camping' whilst the builders were renovating our house. It finished with this recipe and I will replace it with a glass bottle!
We have a wooden pepper grinder which we fill with pepper corns from the scoop shop. And we have salt in a glass grinder which we can refill.
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