Side Dish Recipe

Use a Side Dish Recipe to change a good meal into a feast everyone at the table will remember, a richly different way of preparing and serving vegetables.

Our grandparents often lived in isolation with long distances, rough unsealed tracks and with no refrigeration.
They had to cook meals with what ingredients they had on hand, from the fresh meat and vegetables grown on their properties. Hence meals were plain and simple though full of flavour.

Through much experience, substitutions and variations our grandparents created many of these recipes which are now handed down through the generations.

Mashed Potato with lemon

A side dish recipe that makes a change from ordinary mashed potatoes.

800g potatoes,
1/3 cup warm milk,
60g butter,
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind,
2 teaspoons grated garlic,
Ľ cup parsley chopped

Boil potatoes until cooked. In the meantime, place softened butter, lemon rind, garlic, parsley in a bowl, and stir. Drain potatoes and mash. Add warm milk and butter mix and beat until creamy

Sweet Potato in lemon

This vegetable side dish recipe has a fresh taste of lemon

2 large sweet potatoes-cut into small cubes,
grated rind and jucie of two lemons,
2 tablespoons brown sugar,
60grams softened butter,
salt, ground black pepper

Cover sweet potato with cold salted water and bring to the boil. Lower heat and simmer until tender but not mushy. Preheat the oven to 200 C. Mix the grated lemon juice and brown sugar together and add 1/4 teaspoon salt. Place the sweet potato into a greased shallow ovenproof dish. Pour the lemon mixtre over the sweet potato and toss through. Grind the pepper over and dot with butter. Bake for approx 15 minutes, then remove from oven. Stir so as to bring the sweet potato that is at the bottom of the dish to the top. Bake for another 15 minutes or until golden. Serve hot

Jacket Potatoes with Lemon and Chive Dressing

1 garlic glove, crushed,
4 tablespoons lemon juice, zest of 1 lemon,
1 ˝ teaspoons wholegrain mustard,
4 tablespoons virgin olive oil,
2 tablespoons chopped chives

Place garlic in bowl; add lemon zest, lemon juice and mustard stir until smooth. Whisk in oil slowly until well blended. Add chives and season

Drizzle over boiled jacket potatoes and shallots diced

Green Beans with Garlic and Cheese

500g green beans,
4 tablespoons olive oil,
1/2 teaspoon pepper,
Juice from 1 small lemon,
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped,
2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese

Boil beans until just crisp. Remove the peel from the lemon in stips. Cut the lemon peel into very narrow strips about 4 cm long

When the beans are done, drain the beans and place the garlic and oil in the same pan you cooked the beans in and saute for 1 minute. Add the beans and toss to coat them with the oil and garlic. Add the strips of lemon peel, lemon juice and pepper and toss. Spoon the beans into a serving dish and sprinkle with the cheese. Serve immediatley

Baked Broccoli

Place two cups of broccoli in baking dish.
Mix together 4 eggs, 1 packet Maggi vegetable soup and 1 cup milk.
Pour mixture over broccoli and sprinkle with grated cheese and bake in an oven until cooked.

May you enjoy as you serve these tried and tested recipes to your friends over a “cuppa” or a glass of wine.