Tag: snacks

Quesadilla’s

This is a fantastic and easy lunch time snack! Quesadillas are a mexican street food and you can adapt them to your own taste. You could make them spicy, serve with salsa, guacamole or sour cream, or just enjoy them as they are. Substitute cheese for lactose free and these snack can be vegan as well!

Ingredients:


This is to make 1 quesadilla.
x2 Soft tortilla wraps
50g grated cheddar cheese – about a handful
1 spring onion chopped
2-3 cherry tomatoes quartered
1 baby corn sliced
1-2 mushrooms sliced
1⁄4 pepper sliced
You can add any veg you like really. If you’d like to make it spicy, add chilli or chipotle paste, you could switch the cheese for feta, add some cooked sweet potato, chorizo, chicken or even left over chilli con . These are a great versatile snack to use what’s in your fridge!

Method:

  1. Using a heavy bottomed frying pan on a medium heat, add one of your wraps. You don’t need oil!
  2. Add half of your cheese.
  3. Add your fillings.
  4. Add the rest of your cheese on top.
  5. Add the second wrap and gently press down.
  6. Allow the tortilla to toast to a deep golden brown then flip and
    allow the other side to toast as well.
  7. Serve by quartering your quesadilla and enjoy!

Homemade Hummus

Hummus is a delicious dip from the Middle East, traditionally it is eaten as part of a “meze” or selection of dishes to make a whole meal. You could eat this with carrot sticks as a great snack, with bread sticks or even in a wrap with olives, tomatoes and rocket.

This recipe is also vegan, gluten and lactose free!

We’ve also included some idea’s for how you can flavour your hummus.

*** You will need a food processor, smoothie maker [nutribullet] or stick blender with tub and blade attachment to make this recipe.

Ingredients:

1 can of chickpeas

4tbsp tahini OR 3tbsp smooth peanut butter

Juice 1 lemon

1 large glove of garlic

2tbsp olive oil

1/tsp salt

65ml lukewarm water

Method:

  1. Juice your lemon and peal the garlic.
  2. Add of of your ingredient into the machine you are using.
  3. Blend together until smooth. If your hummus is a little think, add 1tbsp of water and a time.
  4. Enjoy!

You add lots of lovely flavours to hummus. We tried dill with extra lemon, sweet chilli sauce and olives.

Rats Tails!

Yes, you read that right! Rats tails. This is a delicious snack for bonfire night, to accompany, in our house at least, jacket potatoes and chilli!

If you don’t like spicy food you can substitute the chillies for sweet baby peppers.

Ingredients: 

Large green chillies

Cream cheese

Streaky smoked bacon

Method:

  1. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees celsius or gas mark 5.
  2. Half your chillies or peppers and clean out the seeds and pith.
  3. Fill with cream cheese.
  4. Wrap filled chillies or peppers with bacon.
  5. Bake in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes and enjoy!