Kitchen love: Veggie omelette

This recipe is ideal for breakfast, lunch or supper. An omelette is a great, easy and delicious dish to prepare. It can have almost any filling imaginable, herewith our vegan omelette.


Makes 1, 10 minutes


Omelette

• 3 eggs, beaten
• 5ml maizena
• 50ml milk

Filling

• 125ml sliced button mushrooms
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 125ml mozarella cheese, grated
• 2 sliced sundries tomatoes
• salt & pepper to taste
• a dash of dried basil
• rosa tomatoes, sliced in half to garnish
• Italian parsley, to garnish (this is a favorite of mine!)

Preparation

1. Spray "Spray-n-Cook" on the surface of a medium pan.
2. Warm a plate to medium heat.
3. Beat the ingredients for the omelette until foamy and pour it into the pan.
4. Spread over the base of the pan and cover with a lid.
5. Cook for about 3 minutes until firm - checking often.
6. Sprinkle the filling ingredients on one half of the egg mixture and fold over.
7. Bake for another minute in order to melt cheese.
8. Slide onto plate and serve with homemade buttered toast.

More ideas for fillings:

• tuna mayo, finely chopped gherkins and parsley
• cooked mince, tomato paste and sliced red pepper
• cooked chicken pieces, sweet and sour sauce, pineapple and sliced peppadews
• salami, sweet corn, onion and mozarella
• asparagus, cheese sauce and spring onions

Kitchen love: Sweet & Sour saucy chicken pizza

Sweet and sour sauce

This sauce can be used as a dip for spring rolls, for stir-fries, Oriental dishes and now also pizza! It freezes really well and I always make sure I have at least one container in the freezer to use whenever.

120 ml white wine vinegar

120 ml sugar

200 ml water

10 ml oil

5 ml dried ginger

20 ml soya sauce

20 ml tomato sauce (All gold!)

30 ml corn flour

1. Heat all the ingredients except the corn flour in a saucepan.

2. Mix the corn flour with a little water and stir into the sauce.

3. Stir over medium heat until thickened and voila!

Now for the pizza

2x ready-made pizza bases (I prefer the thin ones from Woolworths)

Half the amount of sweet and sour sauce from the above recipe (1/4 per base)

250 ml chicken pieces, browned (more or less a standard chicken breast)

12 sundried tomatoes (Woolworths have lovely ones in an oil preserve)

125 ml pineapple pieces

500 ml mozzarella cheese, grated

5 ml dried basil

5 ml dried oreganum

1. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celcius.

2. Spread the sweet and sour sauce onto each pizza base.

3. Cut the sundried tomatoes into smaller pieces and arrange onto each base.

4. Next, arrange the chicken pieces and pineapple.

5. Top with grated cheese - add more if you prefer a really cheesy pizza.

6. To finish it off, sprinkle basil and oreganum over the cheese.

7. Bake for 8 minutes.

8. Repeat recipe.....and let me know what you think or taste for that matter!

Chooseday: Have you ever...

...seen such delightful biscuits in your whole life? These are so pretty that you dare note eat them! The cookies were first created for a Church bazaar in Botrivier (have no idea where this is) and were so popular that they are now sold and couriered all over South Africa.


These are excellent for weddings, tea parties or even just to have in your home for the odd occasion!

Source: The Pretty Blog

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Charlotte +27 (0) 82 494 5236 or Robyn , alternatively you can email them for more information.