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Baked jacket kumara recipe
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Baked jacket kumara recipe

BAKED JACKET KUMARA
WITH BLACK BEAN SALSA

4 medium sized kumara or sweet potato
1 400g can of organic black beans 2 avocados, chopped
1 red onion, diced
8 cherry tomatoes, chopped
Juice and zest of 2 limes
Small handful of fresh coriander, chopped
Pre heat oven to 200 degrees celsius.
Wash the kumara and pat dry. Brush all over with olive oil, place on a baking tray, sprinkle with Himalayan salt and freshly ground black pepper. Bake in the oven till soft – approximately 40 mins.
While the kumara is baking make your salsa. Drain and rinse the can of black beans and place in a bowl. Add all the remaining ingredients except for the lime zest. Mix gently then season with salt and pepper.
When your kumara is cooked, remove from the oven and allow to cool for a few minutes. Slice through the centre lengthwise but don’t cut right through the bottom. Fill each kumara with spoonfuls of salsa, dress with tahini dressing, garnish with lemon zest and serve. Serves four.

TASTY TAHINI DRESSING

1⁄4 cup of tahini paste
1⁄4 cup of water
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1 tablespoon of Bestow Beauty Oil Juice of one lemon
1 teaspoon of Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon of honey
1 clove of garlic, crushed
Blend all the above ingredients with a stick blender. Store in a jar in the fridge for several days.
One cup of kumara (sweet potato) contains a whopping 38,433 IU
of the plant version of vitamin A. This is over seven times your daily recommended requirement. They are also rich in vitamin c, many of the b vitamins and lots of minerals. What an amazing skin food they are! And don’t forget all the fibre you will get from this dish with the addition of the black beans.

  • May 23, 2017
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Recipe of the month: Bestow chickpea curry

This is very tasty and healthy and definitely worth a try even if you are not a chickpea fan.

RECIPE
1 can chickpeas
30g butter
2 onions, diced
1 stick celery, diced
1 carrot, diced
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 teaspoons fresh ginger, grated
1⁄2 teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon garam masala
1 tin chopped tomatoes
1 teaspoon chilli paste or 1 dessertspoon of sweet
chilli sauce
1 tablespoon Bestow Beauty Oil
Fresh, chopped coriander

Heat butter in a large pan, add onions, celery, carrot, garlic and ginger. Sweat until the onions are soft. Add spices, drained chickpeas and tomatoes. Keep cooking until you have the consistency you require. The final mixture should be moist but not wet. To vary this recipe, you can add any steamed vegetables you wish (i.e. cauliflower, broccoli). Remove from the heat and stir in the Bestow Beauty Oil. Season, sprinkle with fresh coriander and serve.

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Bestow recipe: lemon chicken with pearl barley

INGREDIENTS
350g pearl barley
250g chicken stock
250ml water
1 clove garlic, crushed
Half an onion, finely diced
15ml rice bran oil
Juice and zest of quarter a lemon
50g sliced sundried tomatoes
2 skinless chicken breasts
A handful of chopped parsley
15ml Bestow Beauty Oil
Salt and pepper

DIRECTIONS
Sweat pearl barley, onions and garlic in cooking oil. Add chicken stock, water and zest. Bring to the boil, turn down to simmer, place chicken breasts on top of pearl barley and cover with a lid. Simmer chicken until cooked. Remove chicken and recover pot with lid and cook until the barley is soft and liquid reduced. When cooked, place barley in a bowl, cool, then add sundried tomatoes, chopped parsley, sliced chicken, Bestow Beauty Oil and lemon juice. Season and serve. Serve warm or cold.

  • June 10, 2013
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Series 1: Heirloom grains – mixed quinoa and sprout salad with haloumi recipe

This ancient Peruvian seed is said to be the ‘Queen of the Grains’. The Incas considered it to be sacred and called it ‘the mother grain’. It was believed to be a life-giving seed and legend says it was delivered from the heavens by a sacred bird.

*1 cup of white, red, black quinoa with amaranth, rinsed well
Handful of fresh, whole green beans
150g of haloumi, cut into strips
1 punnet cherry tomatoes, halved
3 spring onions, chopped
1/2 cup of fresh sprouts, I’ve used mungbean sprouts
Small bunch of fresh coriander, chopped
2 tablespoons of chopped parsley
Zest of two limes

DRESSING
50ml of olive oil
1 tablespoon of Bestow Beauty Oil
50ml of freshly squeezed lime juice (about two limes)
salt and pepper

Bring the quinoa mix to the boil in 3 cups of water, simmer till cooked approx 10-15 mins. Strain and fluff up with a fork. Allow to cool a little. Fry the sliced haloumi in a tablespoon of olive oil until golden brown, set aside. Blanch the beans in boiling water then rinse in cold water. Place all the ingredients into a large bowl and mix.

Place all the dressing ingredients into a small jar and shake to mix. Pour over the quinoa salad and serve.

*An organic quinoa is preferred such as the Ceres organics brand.

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Chicken and Mushroom Patties

The recipe below was our Bestow feature recipe for March 2013. Don’t forget if you purchase a bottle of Bestow Beauty Oil through one of our stockists in April, you will receive a FREE Bestow recipe folder for collecting them in.

Chicken and Mushroom Patties with Thai Dressing

1 chicken breast, roughly chopped
Half onion, roughly chopped
1 tbs mixed herbs (dried or fresh)
1/2 cup of lightly fried mushrooms
Crushed cornflakes to coat the patties
Salt, pepper
Rice Bran Oil

Thai Dressing

1 tablespoon of sweet chilli sauce
1 tablespoon of rice vinegar
1 tablespoon of fish sauce
2 teaspoons of Bestow Beauty Oil

Crush cornflakes in a food processor until they are a fine consistency – place in a separate bowl. Place onion in food processor and blend until it is mashed. Put chicken, herbs and mushrooms and blend until mixed. Transfer to another bowl and add salt and pepper. Make medium sized patties about 1.5 cm thick and place in crushed cornflake mix to coat. Place patties on a lightly oiled non- stick frypan and cook on a light heat until patties are cooked and golden brown or alternatively bake in a preheated oven at 200°C for 30 min. Serve with Sweet Chilli Dressing and green salad of your choice.

Serves 2.

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Bestow Prawn noodles

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Serves four
500gm soba noodles
500gm large all purpose shrimp
Spring onions, sliced
Fresh coriander
Dressing
80ml Japanese Soy sauce
1 lime…. Juice and zest
10ml Fish sauce
40gm palm sugar
20ml Bestow Beauty Oil

Cook noodles till soft, cool. Add dressing ingredients to saucepan except for the Bestow Beauty Oil, heat to dissolve palm sugar. Cool, add Bestow Beauty Oil and combine with noodles and sliced spring onions. Quickly panfry shrimp in very hot pan, add to noodles, toss together, season and serve. Garnish with fresh Coriander. Please note organic produce is preferable but not essential.

  • November 4, 2010
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Bestow mega omega salad

With salmon, cucumber and alioli
Serves four

500 grams skinned, boned and diced salmon
1 telegraph cucumber deseeded and diced
4 tomatoes deseeded and diced
1 large avocado diced
100 grams baby spinach
Salt and pepper
Splash of Bestow Beauty Oil
Splash of lemon juice
Fresh dill (optional)

Cook salmon in very hot non-stick pan. Cook to medium rare, season and toss with other ingredients. Plate and drizzle over aioli. Garnish with dill and serve.

Aioli
1 egg yolk
1/2 tsp whole grain mustard
1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar
1 tsp lemon juice
1 clove garlic crushed
Half a cup of Bestow Beauty Oil
Salt and pepper

Mix together all ingredients, except oil, using a wire whisk. When combined, gradually add oil in a thin stream, whisking constantly until light and creamy.
Please note that organic produce is preferable but not essential.

  • August 1, 2010