Miso is a paste made from soybeans, sea salt, and koji (a mold starter … sounds lovely I know!) often mixed with rice, barley or other grains. The mixture is allowed to ferment for 3 months to 3 years, which produces an enzyme rich ’super’ food.
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Beef tomatoes are great for this recipe because of their size however any large organic tomato will do. You can play around with the fillings changing the cheese and herbs and veggies to suit you tastes and what you have available at home.
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Organico Café are very excited to be now offering dishes made with Martin and Yvonne Flynn’s local organic beef!
We have teamed up with Martin and Yvonne Flynn of Maughanasilly Farm in Kealkil who will supply us with a high quality range of Organic meats and we are working on a new and exciting menu.
Where most restaurants offer one vegetarian option, we are now offering one non-vegetarian option each day – so encourage your non vegetarian friends to try us out!
Daily nuts may help boost health!
We often reccommend that our customers eat good quality (preferably organic) nuts on a daily basis to help stabilise blood sugar – nuts are a protien rich food source which is digested much more slowly than, say, toast. Hence they make good night time snacks for people who wake in the night, and good day time snacks for everybody.
Recently I recieved an email which confirmed all of this – thanks to Catherine from A.Vogel for the information!
”Adding nuts to a healthy diet may help release people from a dangerous combination of health problems. Up to 25% of people in the UK and Ireland are thought to have “metabolic syndrome”, which includes obesity and high blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar.
‘A Mediterranean diet of vegetables, fruit and fish plus daily nuts boosted health in more than one in eight at-risk volunteers, a Spanish study found. 13.7% of those eating their daily bag of nuts as well as the Mediterranean diet had improved. Even though none of the participants’ weight had dropped significantly over the year, waist circumferences had diminished in the nut-eating group, and cholesterol and blood pressure levels had dropped. The research was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine journal”.
Nuts also contain great sources of minerals – for example almonds for calcium and Brazils for selenium.For anyone who doeswn’t know the mediterranean Diet is a diet rich in fruit, veg, grains, olive oil, fish, and small amounts of meat and dairy. And red wine of course!!!!
Impress your guests with vegetarian delights from Organico Cafe’s kitchen!
Organico Cafe in Bantry is the perfect place to order your party food to make having guests enjoyable and hassle-free. We can offer most of our menu on a catering basis including our ever popular savoury tarts with fillings ranging from Cashel Blue Cheese and Brazils to fetta, roasted seasonal vegetables and black olives. We can also provide curries, chillies, bakes, salads, cakes and deserts such as Chocolate Tart (made with Jaime Oliver’s receipe – yum!)
Some possible ideas are listed below:
Salads
If you contact us a few days before a small dinner party and at least a week before a large event, we will try to cater for your needs using the freshest local or organic ingredients.
Main meals cost from €5 – €9 per person depending on whether you wish us to prepare the accompanyments. Salads are approximately €2.50 per portion. These prices are for food collected from Organico Bantry.
This warming organic Chilli is always best the next day, so make plenty and keep or freeze it. This recipe when served with organic brown rice will serve 4. We prefer Biona organic beans and tomotos for these recipes. Worth the extra cents.
Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan over a medium heat. Add the onion, carrot garlic, ginger, cumin and paprika and fry for a few minutes, stirring all the time. Tip in the red pepper and courgette and cook for 2 minutes. Add the tomato paste and fry for a further 2 minutes. Empty the can of chopped tomatoes and their juice into the pan and simmer until cooked down and thickened and the vegetables are soft. Wash kidney beans and add along with the chopped coriander and cook for a further 5 mins. Serson with salt and pepper.
Serve piping hot, with organic brown basmati rice, and a selection of the toppings mentioned above. If you are having people to dinner you can put all the topping out on the table and let your guests chose their favourites. Another option that we offer in Organico cafe is to serve the chilli in a wrap – in that case heat the wraps (tortilla wraps made without chemicals are available in most good health food shops) and put them on the tabls covered with a tea towl to keep them warm. Put everything else in serving dishes and let your guests mix and match! Make sure lots of napkins are to hand!
This soup is a favourite with adults and children alike, and is a quick and easy receipe for a winter’s lunch. As with all our receipes we reccommend the use of organic vegetables and pulses for their superior nutritional qualities and taste.
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In Organico Bantry more and more people are discovering our spelt breads, cakes and scones. the most recent addition to our range is a variety of savoury scones made with spelt flour. These are delicious with soup or with salad, and can be made in miniture for a party.
We follow a normal scone receipe but leave out the sugar. Instead we use a little salt, and add either chopped black olives and thyme, red onion and cheddar or corriander seeds, or onion and a little green chilli. It’s hard to give amounts because in some cases it depends on the saltiness (with olives say) or the strength of the chilli flavour you want to achieve, but in general you want to err on the side of caution as often these savoury scones are made to be eaten along side another dish and you don’t want their flavour to be too dominant.
Other favourites include fetta and sweet chilli and black pepper and tomato. Watch out for more receipes over the next months!
Ireland is one of those countries where vegetarians can often be left with one option on the menu, most often a pasta dish. Luckily for those living in the West Cork area we in Organico Cafe are trying to change all that! Our menu aims to cater for vegetarians who like organic food and also for non-vegetarians who are interested in health and in a lighter, more positive diet.
On our website you can see some of our receipes, and reports of some of the differents events we have held in our Cafe. We also have a health food shop so one of the things we focus on is experimenting with all the ingredients we sell. All our fruit and veg is supplied by the shop so it is all certified organic, as are all the pulses and grains we use in our cooking.
We are always looking for customer feedback and receipe suggestions so please feel free to let us know what you like and what you think!
We always reccommend organic ingredients, but in this case they are more important than ever for taste reasons. Organic carrots are a superior product by far than conventionally grown carrots – sometimes in our shop we have ‘dirty’ carrots which are covered in sand and which in the winter keep their flavour very well.
Ingredients
6 large Carrots, peeled (the only time I peel organic carrots is for salad as they discolour if just scrubbed)
50g dessicated coconut
Juice and zest of 1 orange
Handfull of sultanas
Good pinch of sea salt
Add the juice and zest to the coconut and sultanas and allow to soak for 30 mins.
Grate the Carrots and put into a large bowl, add the coconut, sultanas and juice and combine. Add the sea salt to taste.
Leave to chill for at least an hour in the refrigerator and serve.