Jack Monroe

Broad Bean Salad, 38p

Posted by Jack Monroe | Jul 4, 2019 | Beans & Lentils, Guardian Food, Healthy, Recipes, Vegetarian |

Broad beans can be bought frozen for around £1.50 for a 750g bag – much cheaper than their fresh counterparts, and no prising them from fiddly little pods either – although I do love thumbing the velvety lining of fresh pods to pop them out… Whether you choose fresh or frozen beans, this salad uses a lot of storecupboard basic ingredients, like lemon, garlic, herbs and cheese. It takes just minutes to knock together, and I think it tastes like summer’s coming… 140g broad beans, 23p (£1.25/750g frozen broad beans, Asda) 40g hard strong cheese, 43p (£1.60/150g, Smart Price...

Bootstrap Chilli, 25p

Posted by Jack Monroe | Jun 30, 2019 | Beans & Lentils, Dairy Free, Healthy, Lunch, Recipes, Vegan, Vegan Recipes, Vegetarian |

This chilli is adapted from a beef chilli recipe by Gordon Ramsay. I simply left out the beef and halved the wine to make it cheaper – plus, of course, Mr Ramsay doesn’t use a tin of cheap baked beans in his version! I’ve tweaked and fiddled with it so much over the years that now it’s not Gordon’s chilli, it’s mine. It first appeared in A Girl Called Jack, and has since been stripped back to this even simpler recipe, where it is handed out on recipe cards at Trussell Trust food banks – minus the red wine,...

Salad-Bag Pesto, 13p

Posted by Jack Monroe | Jun 23, 2019 | Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Healthy, Pasta, Recipes, Vegan, Vegan Recipes, Vegetarian |

Bagged salad is one of the most wasted foods in Britain, with over half of it ending up in landfill. I have had this recipe in mind since my first cookbook, A Girl Called Jack, and although it is something I make for myself on a regular basis, absorbed into my household as a common staple, it has never been committed to paper (nor screen) until now. Bags of salad can be expensive to buy full price, but can often be found in the reduced chiller at the supermarket, which is where I nabbed the first one I ever...

Peanut Butter & Banana Superpower Muffins, 10p

Posted by Jack Monroe | Jun 19, 2019 | Bread, Breakfast, Recipes, Snacks & Treats, Vegan, Vegan Recipes, Vegetarian |

What do you do when you have a pile of black bananas sitting in the fruit bowl? I don’t even know how this happens – I generally work from home, bananas are my go-to snack because I can reach them and don’t have to do anything except peel them and shove them in. Sometimes they get sliced and flung in the oven to make dried bananas for the kids, sometimes I whizz them with yoghurt, milk and oats for a breakfast smoothie, but today I fancied neither of those things. It’s freezing. And raining a bit. And I’m a...

Bean Goulash, 26p

Posted by Jack Monroe | Jun 13, 2019 | Beans & Lentils, Dairy Free, Healthy, Lunch, Recipes, Vegan, Vegan Recipes, Vegetarian |

This recipe first appeared in my cookbook, A Girl Called Jack. I originally adapted this from a beef goulash recipe in the Abel and Cole cookbook, but tweaked it and tampered with it in the way that all recipes are. Beans are cheaper than beef, financially and environmentally, and this dish is simply fine without it. I use cheap baked beans in place of haricot beans, as they are usually a third of the price of a tin of the plain ones! Eat warm on toast, with rice or stuffed in a pitta bread with lashings of crunchy lettuce...