We’re all on our own journey when it comes to minimising food waste at home and a great place to start is cooking with sustainability in mind.
By making a conscious effort to cook low-waste recipes you’ll reduce what gets thrown away, as well as saving money on groceries.
To help get you started, we’ve shared some of our favourite recipes to use up leftover ingredients and focus on reducing waste in the kitchen.
Mirepoix
Mirepoix is a French cooking staple, made from finely diced cooked vegetables. The combination of three vegetables - carrot, onion and celery, makes a tasty flavour base for soups, stocks and stews. It’s a clever way to make use of any leftover vegetables that you may have in the fridge or to make in batches.
The vegetables can either be finely chopped by hand or diced using the dicing attachment for your stand mixer, to create small and uniform pieces. Then simply sauté the vegetables in butter, until soft.
Kale kimchi
Our kale kimchi recipe is a twist on the Korean classic, made using cavolo nero instead of cabbage.
Flavoured with gochugaru flakes, kimchi’s spicy, sour and umami notes are a delicious accompaniment to rice and noodle dishes, or to serve with dumplings.
Why not add additional vegetables to your kimchi, such as courgette, radish, red pepper or green beans - whatever you have to hand. Fermenting vegetables is not only a handy way to preserve them, but also creates a tasty side dish or condiment that’s good for your gut health.
Sweet potato tacos
These sweet potato tacos are a healthy and delicious dinner option for all the family, made using a range of store cupboard and fresh ingredients.
The tortilla dough can be made using unused sweet or regular potatoes - a good way to avoid any food waste from another meal.
You can roast any other vegetables for the filling for extra flavour, such as cherry tomatoes, courgette etc. This recipe also includes a lot of store cupboard spices and ingredients that can be used time and time again with other dishes, too.
Vegetable soup
Homemade soup is one of the simplest ways to get vegetables into your diet and to use up excess vegetables.
This vegetable soup can be used as a base and then get creative with adding any other root vegetables, grains, herbs, spices etc to get your desired flavour.
Vegetables are really easy to prepare using your food processor’s slicing disc, and when cooked, you can put the soup into the blender to purée.
You can also make croutons with any excess bread or rolls by baking small pieces of bread in the oven with a drizzle of olive oil - it’ll add some crunch to your soup.
Cabbage gratin
Our cabbage gratin recipe is a mouth-watering alternative to potato gratin. Ideal for using up any extra cabbage or dairy products, this tasty side dish is just as indulgent as the original.
Using a food processor to make this gratin saves a lot of time and effort, helping you to chop the onion and cabbage, and grate the parmesan.
Topped with walnuts and parsley, it’s a versatile dish best served with meat and fish, or on the side of a delicious nut roast.
Rødbede brownies
Rødbeder kan ofte være tilovers fra salater eller juicer. Heldigvis er der så mange måder, du kan bruge denne farverige grøntsag i både madlavning og bagning.
Vores rødbede brownies har ikke kun en sød og jordagtig smag, men tæller som 1 af de 5 om dagen. Samtidig er det er også en fantastisk måde at snige ekstra grøntsager ind i børnenes kost.
Disse brownies er stadig lavet med klassisk mørk chokolade, men derimod sødes de med dadler og agavesirup. Desuden laves de med boghvedemel og mandelmel, så de også er glutenfri!
Kage med frugtkød
Vores frugtkødskage er det ultimative bagværk for at mindske madspild.
Den laves ved hjælp af Titanium Chef Patissier XL, hvor saften og frugtkødet bruges til at skabe en lækker og saftig kage. PureJuice-tilbehøret adskiller frugtkødet fra saften, hvilket giver dig mulighed for at lave forfriskende juicer, mens du laver kagen.
Du kan tilføje enhver frugt, du kan lide - denne opskrift bruger gulerødder, æbler, rødbeder og ingefær. Enhver resterende frugtkød kan derefter bruges i kageblandinger eller muffins.
Veganske marengs
Veganske marengs laves ved at bruge aquafaba (kikærtevand) i stedet for æg - det er en genial måde at bevare vandet, som ellers ville blive smidt væk.
Disse marengs er lavet på samme måde som traditionelle, aquafabaen piskes med creme af tatar til det danner stive toppe, og derefter tilsættes sukker, mens blandingen piskes, indtil den er hvid og blank.
Marengs er en meget alsidig dessert og kan serveres med frisk frugt og laktosefri flødeskum eller bruges til at lave pavlova eller som topping på en citrontærte.
Frugt smoothies
Frugtsmoothies er en af de nemmeste måder at bruge frisk frugt, der måske er begyndt at blive dårlig.
Alle bløde eller hårde frugter og grøntsager kan bruges til smoothies, juice eller sorbet - mulighederne er uendelige. Fra æbler, pærer, mango, bananer og bær til spinat eller grønkål.
Et godt tip er at fryse bananer og bruge dem i smoothies - det tilføjer ekstra cremethed til drikken.
Prøv vores mango- og passionsfrugtsmoothie for at kickstarte din dag eller som næring til efter din træning.
Følg flere af vores tips til, hvordan du reducerer madspild derhjemme, her.