Spanish meatballs

Ingredients

• 500g extra-lean beef mince
• Small handful of finely chopped fresh coriander
• 1 tsp ground cumin
• 1 tsp ground coriander
• 1 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• Low calorie cooking spray
• Small handful of finely chopped fresh parsley

Method

1. Put the mince, coriander, spices and garlic in a bowl. Season and mix with your fingers until well combined. Cover and chill in the fridge for 1 hour.
2. Divide the mince mixture into 20 portions and shape each one into a bite-sized ball.
3. Spray a non-stick frying pan with low calorie cooking spray and place over a medium heat. Stir-fry the meatballs for 6-8 minutes until browned and cooked through (you may need to do this in two batches), then drain on kitchen paper. Put the meatballs in a large serving dish and scatter with the parsley.
4. These meatballs are great eaten straight away or you can cool them and keep them in the fridge for up to 2 days. They’re delicious cold or thoroughly reheated.

chocolate cake

Ingrediants:

200g of sugar
200g of butter
200g of self  raising flour
coco powder
3 eggs

I cream the eggs, butter and sugar together. Once creamed i add the flour and coco powder (it depends how chocolatey  you want it to how much you add). mix together and then transfer to a cake tin.

cook at about 200 degrees untill cooked.

shortbread

Ingredients

• 125g/4oz butter
• 55g/2oz caster sugar, plus extra to finish
• 180g/6oz plain flour

Method

1. Heat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5.
2. Beat the butter and the sugar together until smooth.
3. Stir in the flour to get a smooth paste. Turn on to a work surface and gently roll out until the paste is 1cm/½in thick.
4. Cut into rounds or fingers and place onto a baking tray. Sprinkle with caster sugar and chill in the fridge for 20 minutes.
5. Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes, or until pale golden-brown. Set aside to cool on a wire rack.

I got 38 biscuits out of the dough as i cut them quite small.

Tomato and lentil soup

This is really easy to make.

Ingrediants:

tin of tomatoes
lentils
onion
stock
pepper
fresh tomatoes
garlic
basil

I roasted about five tomatoes, with the pepper, onion and garlic. once cooked I put through a sieve then added the stock, tin of tomatoes and lentils.

I boiled to lentils were cooked and then added the basil.