Light Bites Archives - Page 6 of 11

Golden and crispy with a touch of sea salt, our simple croutons recipe is perfect served with a warming bowl of soup or a fresh green salad, ideal to add a bit of crunch and substance to a light meal. These are simply baked in the oven for ten minutes after being tossed in Mellow Yellow Rapeseed Oil and sea salt, but you could change the seasoning to suit your meal easily. We like using sourdough bread for our croutons as it creates a deliciously crunchy crouton with a delicious flavour, but you can use any bread you have and it is best if the bread is slightly stale to make cutting easier.

This recipe uses Mellow Yellow Rapeseed Oil which is low in saturated fat and high in Omega 3, making this recipe ideal for a healthy and balanced diet. Simply click here to find your nearest stockist.

Inspired by the classic Pea & Ham Soup, we have created this delicious Smoky Vegan Pea Soup using our Mellow Yellow Oak Smoked Rapeseed Oil. Adding a wonderfully deep smoky flavour, using our oak smoked rapeseed oil is perfect in this recipe and works so well with the fresh flavour of the peas. By stirring in a little extra smoked oil at the end of the recipe, it really does add an incredible depth of flavour to the soup.

This recipe uses Mellow Yellow Oak Smoked Rapeseed Oil which is slowly smoked for 48 hours over oak wood chips. With a robust depth of flavour, our finest quality smoked oil has warming oak notes to create a rich and complex oil. Simply click here to find your nearest stockist.

Made with our Chilli Oil, this Tomato and Red Pepper Soup has a lovely chilli warmth to it which is perfectly complemented by the sweet tomato and red pepper. By roasting the vegetables first, your soup will have a wonderfully deep and rich flavour, plus it means it’s incredibly hands-off! Roast your vegetables in Chilli Oil for a gentle heat, allowing you to really enjoy the deliciously warming flavour of the soup.

This recipe uses Mellow Yellow Chilli Oil, with just the right amount of chilli flakes infused into our cold pressed rapeseed oil, this chilli oil is just the thing to pep up pizzas and pasta, spice up a salad or salsa or give gusto to meat and fish. Simply click here to find your nearest stockist.

These delicious Smoky BBQ Beans have a fantastic flavour thanks to our Oak Smoked Rapeseed Oil. With three different types of beans, this recipe is super filling and is a brilliant source of vitamins, minerals, fibre and protein. By drizzling in extra Oak Smoked Rapeseed Oil after cooking, an incredibly deep and rich smokiness is added to this dish, giving it a brilliant BBQ flavour. Serve these Smoky BBQ Beans with fresh sourdough, on toast with a fried egg on top or alongside sausages and mash potato.

We’re always careful to keep food waste as minimal as possible, and this recipe for Potato Peel Crisps is a great way to use the entire potato. Potato peelings are often thrown straight into the compost, but they’re absolutely packed with vitamins & nutrients, which we all need to get plenty of. So, don’t waste your peelings, instead turn them into delicious crisps! A super simple recipe, make sure you’ve washed your potatoes before you peel them and try to keep your peelings as uniform as possible. Straight after peeling, get these made and straight in the oven and enjoy!

A delicious twist on our classic Roast Potatoes, these Garlic and Rosemary Roast Potatoes are an absolute flavour-sensation. Perfect for when you want to try something a little different with your Sunday roast, this simple recipe requires very little extra effort but packs a lot of extra flavour! If you want to be really prepared, you can parboil and fluff the potatoes, coat in oil and garlic & rosemary, season and leave to cool on a baking tray. Once cool, put the baking tray in the freezer until the potatoes are solid, then transfer to freezer bags. When you want them, carefully add the frozen potatoes straight into your hot oil and cook from frozen!

A fantastic, cheesy twist on our classic roast potatoes, give this recipe a try and you’ll be amazed at the delicious flavour and crispy coating of these Parmesan Roast Potatoes. The parmesan in this recipe gives the potatoes a light and crispy coating and the addition of rosemary and parsley adds a lovely herby flavour. Perfect for something different with your roast dinner, as a tasty side dish for a mid-week meal or as nibbles at a cocktail party.

This recipe uses our Mellow Yellow Cold Pressed Rapeseed Oil which has a high smoke point of 230°C, making it ideal for high temperature cooking and helps gets a super crispy coating on these Parmesan Roast Potatoes. The oil is also low in saturated fat and high in Omega 3. Simply click here to find your nearest stockist.

Create this delicious leftover roast bubble and squeak using roast potatoes, parsnips, carrots and Brussels sprouts. The perfect way to use up the roast dinner leftovers, this simple and tasty recipe is full of colour and flavour and can be tweaked to use any of the vegetables and potatoes you cooked the day before. We’ve added a spoonful of mayonnaise to bind everything together which adds a wonderful rich flavour to the Bubble and Squeak. This is fantastic served with a couple of slices of leftover meat from your roast dinner or even with a fried egg on top! If you fancy making the mayonnaise from scratch, find our recipe here.

This Mediterranean Lentil Salad recipe is courtesy of Eat Unique, make sure to visit her website for plenty of delicious recipes and inspiration!

Lentils are high in dietary fibre and a good source of protein, they also contain essential vitamins & minerals which make them ideal for a plant based diet. This salad is full of colourful fresh vegetables which fit perfectly with the Mediterranean style diet. The bonus of making this delicious salad is that it can be made the day ahead if required and is great to serve at a BBQ.

Our Mellow Yellow Classic Vinaigrette has been used in this recipe. Made with our cold pressed rapeseed oil and no additives or preservatives, this delicious dressing is full of flavour, find stockists here.

This Fig & Goat’s Cheese Salad with Pine Nuts and Balsamic is truly a thing of beauty. Creamy goat’s cheese and flavoursome figs are drizzled with our Mellow Yellow Balsamic Dressing and a sprinkling of toasted pine nuts, all sat atop a bed of delicate watercress. The flavours in this salad just go together so well and the colours create something almost too pretty to eat. Our Balsamic Vinegar Dressing uses a British apple balsamic vinegar to add a wonderfully fruity flavour to this dish, really elevating the fig and goat’s cheese to create a salad you’ll want to make over and over again!