Ashia’s Butter Chicken

This is a beautiful recipe for a traditional but family-friendly butter chicken. Quick and easy to make and we all know homemade butter chicken is best.

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Arancini balls

several balls of food on a bowl, five balls on the table with one broken, with a knife.

Busy week and sometimes less is more for an easy dinner. Arancini balls or Arancini di Riso are one of the most delicious small dishes ever. Italian food at its best.

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Pork larb

It’s so easy. Served at room temperature, eaten with your hands. Pork – the perfect protein – flavoured with exotic Jasmine rice and wrapped in crisp and fresh cos lettuce. Healthy and light, but a surprisingly satisfying family meal.

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Mediterranean Lamb Medley

Mediterranean Lamb Medley This wonderful Mediterranean lamb recipe is chock full of colour and veges. A perfect autumn meal. Ingredients: 1 tablespoon Olivado Extra Virgin Olive Oil 250g NZ lamb fillet, lean, trimmed of any fat and thinly sliced 4 shallots, halved 1/2 bag Wilcox Piccolos Bite Sized Medley Potatoes ½ tsp each ground cumin, paprika and…

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Warm Harvest Rice

A gorgeously colourful and warming rice dish just perfect for Autumn nights. Ingredients: 250g baby kumara (we love Kaipara Kumara Sweeties) Olivado Extra Virgin Olive Oil 200g haloumi cheese, sliced 4 slices of streaky bacon (we love Heller’s) 1/4 cup cranberries 2 sprigs fresh thyme 1/4 cup almonds, chopped 500g SunRice Superbrown Rice, cooked 2…

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Madeleine cakes

The madeleine or petite madeleine is a traditional small cake from the Lorraine region in North Eastern France. Madeleines are very small sponge cakes with a shell-like shape. The flavour is similar, but lighter than sponge cake. Traditional recipes include very finely ground nuts, usually almonds. This recipe has fragrant rich virgin Almond Oil replacing…

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Marinated Baked Capsicums

This colourful capsicum dish makes a wonderful addition to your dinner table. Prepare in advance and keep in the fridge. Ingredients: 1 red and 1 yellow capsicum 3 tablespoons Olivado Extra Virgin Avocado Oil 2 teaspoons wholegrain mustard 1 teaspoon honey 1 teaspoon soy sauce   Method” Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees Celcius. De-seed and…

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Mi Goreng

Mi Goreng

A good recipe always starts with a good oil, and this wonderful Singaporean dish, from Brett McGregor’s Taste of a Traveller collection, is made with Olivado Extra Virgin avocado oil, a delicious high-heat gold medal award winning oil.

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Sweet and Sour Chilli Prawns

Sweet and Sour Chilli Prawns

Celebrate summer with this beautiful prawn dish. For the Chinese, a meal of prawns symbolises happiness. Chinese sweet and sour is so wrong, yet so right! These wonderful sweet and sour prawns prove it.

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