Dressings, Dips & Sauces
Beetroot and Macadamia Nut Spread
Affordable Wholefoods Recipe of the Week This recipe is seriously a winner. It combines the sweetness of saute’d red onion and beetroot with rich spices topped off with creamy macadamia nuts. Great to have as a side on any platter or part of a delicious nourish bowl. Ingredients: 1/4 cup olive oil 1 red onion (thinly sliced) 1 garlic clove…
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Dressings, Dips & Sauces, Vegan Sweet
Macadamia Nut Butter
This recipe comes to us from Kerrie Cox of True Body Connection – A delicious homemade raw macadamia nut butter recipe that can be used in place of butter or as a condiment of the side off salads, vegetables, or meat dishes. It also goes well on toast, crackers and sandwiches. Ingredients: 2 cups of raw macadamia nuts 1/4 cup…
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Dressings, Dips & Sauces, It's Trending, Vegan Savoury
Vegan Parmesan Cheese
Thanks to the lovely Meg Phillips, we now can enjoy a delicious tasting vegan parmesan cheese recipe….and with just 3 ingredients it is super simple to make as well. Ingredients: 1/4 cup nutritional (savoury) yeast flakes 1/4 cup raw cashews 1 teaspoon dried garlic powder (or more if you prefer stronger) Method: Add all the ingredients together in your blender…
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Dressings, Dips & Sauces, Vegan Savoury
Roasted Red Pepper Harissa
We are all big fans of chilli in store and love talking homemade harissa recipes. This Roasted Red Pepper Harissa recipe is a favourite of ours using red peppers from a jar (you can find these in most supermarkets or Italian grocers) though you can also roast your own if you prefer. The flavours of this sauce are absolutely divine…
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Dressings, Dips & Sauces, Vegan Savoury
Roasted Tomato & Basil Hummus
A delicious Mediterranean twist on an entertaining favourite. Also great to have in the fridge for a quick healthy snack with some fresh vegetable sticks. Enjoy! Ingredients: 1 cup of cherry tomatoes (drizzle of olive oil) 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 1/4 cups cooked chickpeas (or 1 tin rinsed well) 3/4 cup basil leaves (squashed down) 1 tablespoon tahini…
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Dressings, Dips & Sauces
Spicy Homemade Tomato Sauce
There are so many tomato sauce brands in the supermarket and as we discovered, it’s actually really simple to make your own. The benefits of course is that there are no preservatives or unknown additives. After being inspired by a Jamie Oliver recipe we made this. It’s absolutely delicious, you’ll love it…..and spicy too! Great for pizza topping, pasta or…
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Dressings, Dips & Sauces
Traditional Pine Nut Pesto
I’ve been making this pesto for years now and absolutely love it. It uses the traditional pine nut that gives it that distinct ‘Mediterranean’ flavour you just can’t beat. I sometimes mix it up a bit using cashew nuts or macadamias, but always keep coming back to this one. Simple, beautiful, delicious. Ingredients: 1 large bunch of basil leaves…
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Dressings, Dips & Sauces, Vegan Savoury
Lemon Parsley Pesto
Over the coming months Affordable Wholefoods will be teaming up with Pooi Keun, owner of L’Abruzzese Australia. Pooi will be sharing a selection of her favourite Italian pasta recipes and side dishes. Affordable Wholefoods stocks 4 quality pastas from L’Abruzzese which we will be show casing in the recipes to come. To begin, here is a simple pesto recipe from…
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Dressings, Dips & Sauces, Our Wholefoods Kitchen
Tahini Lemon Dressing
From the popular Moosewood Resturant Cookbook published in the late 1990’s comes this classic recipe for tahini lemon dressing. A few of us have used this recipe consistently over the years and felt it was a great one to share for when you are looking for more then just a simple salad dressing of oil or vinegar (or both). …
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Dressings, Dips & Sauces, Gluten Free Living
Basil & Macadamia Nut Pesto
Teaming up with Food Blogger Erin from @turbocharged_living. Erin shared with us her favourite basil pesto recipe to which will be a feature in an up and coming ‘Recipe of the Week’ – A delicious Mediterranean Style Zucchini Noodles w/ Avocado Pesto. Thanks Erin, was great to work with you. Ingredients: 1 clove garlic crushed 1/4 cup raw macadamia…
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