Yummy Gluten Free Recipe - Rather Tasty Burgers

This recipe is:

• Gluten free
• Dairy free
• Egg free
• Yeast free

There are more burger recipes than there are grains of sand on Oban beach, so this is my version of a gluten free recipe loved by young and old - beef burgers.

Rather Tasty Beef Burgers

4 teaspoons chickpea (gram) flour
450g minced beef
1 tablespoon whole coriander seeds plus 3/4 teaspoon whole cumin seeds, crushed in a mortar and pestle
1 finely chopped onion
optional - finely chopped fresh bird's eye chillies

Put a heavy bottomed frying pan on a medium heat. Mix all ingredients in a bowl, using your (clean!) hands to get everything well combined.

Shape the mixture into about 6 flat patties, about 4 mm thick. Put a small amount of fat into the frying pan and cook the patties for about 2 minutes each side.

Serve the patties/burgers with salad and savoury rice, plus a glass of orange juice to help get the iron out of the beef and into your body.

Super Gluten Free Soup - Tomato and Pesto Soup

This recipe is:

• Gluten free
• Dairy free
• Egg free
• Yeast free

I noticed the local supermarket had a special offer on some fancy expensive fresh soup, and was reminded of a lovely gluten free soup I used to make. So off I scooted home to make some Tomato and Pesto soup from scratch, for about 25% of the cost and 125% of the taste.

Gluten Free Soup - Tomato and Pesto Soup

1 tbsp olive oil
1 chopped onion
1 garlic clove, peeled and crushed
1 x 400g chopped tomatoes
1 tbsp tomato puree
1 tbsp pesto (and you can get dairy free varieties too)
900ml veg stock
50g long grain rice
Seasoning

Heat the oil in a large pan, and lightly fry the onion and garlic for a couple of minutes. Add the tomatoes, tomato puree and stock and bring to the boil. Simmer for 15 minutes, then stir in the rice and cook for a further 10 minutes, or until the rice is cooked. Season and serve with gluten free bread and possibly some freshly grated parmesan.

Gluten free soup is a lovely lunch idea, and keeps well to the next day if you don't eat it all or make a double portion. This soup freezes well (before you add the rice) but realistically it's so easy that you don't really gain anything by freezing it.

Pity the husband aka the gluten free food freak is still off tomatoes. Ah well, he didn't exactly miss out as he had last nights salmon and coconut rice noodles for lunch.