Welcome to Friday! I’m making the most of today, the last week day with my boy before he goes back to school on Monday. I do love having him with me, but I also know he needs to get back to school now, 7 weeks is a long break!! So we’ve had a nice time together today, lots of Mum and Ben time 🙂 And now it’s Fiesta Friday time, hosted this week by the fab team of Effie and Steffi – pop over and join us for some fab food and fun.
During the week I had bits and pieces to use up in the fridge which lead to the creation of these mini muffins; they were inspired by various mixed vegetable fritters recipes that I found online, but I wanted to oven bake them, hence, with the eggs in the mix, they became more like muffins than crunchy fritters. In fact, I think they could therefore be baked in a mini muffin tin if you wanted to, probably easier than handling the mixture like I did, it’s very sloppy.
This made about 18 (very) mini muffins.
Ingredients
2 cups cooked wild rice (it can be any rice, this is just what I had)
1 medium carrot peeled and grated
1 medium courgette grated
1 cup frozen peas, washed through with boiling water to take the frost off
1 spring onion finely chopped
200g strong cheddar chopped into little cubes
4 eggs
2 tbsp plain flour
Salt to taste
Turkish chilli flakes optional
Preheat the oven to 200C (180C fan).
Mix all of the ingredients together well in a large bowl.
Line two trays with foil & spray with olive oil, or use a muffin tin and put a little spray into each dip.
Take small handfuls of the mixture and loosely form them into little mounds and place on the foil or spoon a heaped tablespoonful of the mixture into each dip of the muffin tin.
Bake them for 20 minutes, carefully turning them over halfway through to create a nice edge.
Tasty hot or cold – good for lunch boxes, or before or after exercise, or as part of a meal.
I ate some with my pea dip, a more defined version of the one I made last week.
1 cup frozen peas, cooked and cooled
250g quark
1 small bunch coriander, chopped
1 small bunch flat leaf parsley, chopped
2 small cloves garlic
2 tsp roasted ground cumin
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
Salt to taste
Method
In a food blender, chop the coriander and parsley with the garlic and and cumin.
Add the olive oil and the vinegar and salt to taste.
Add the peas and quark and blend briefly to keep some texture in the mix.
Have a great weekend xx
Looks to good and appetising ……and really amazing photography too elaine
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Thank you 🙂
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I am fond of your recipes! this one looks so colourful and tasty!
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Thank you so much 🙂 🙂
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These look delicious, and the dip sounds great as well. Yum!
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Thank you Caroline 🙂
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These look so delicious! Love the quark-pea dip idea. 🙂
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Thank you 🙂 the peas add such a lovely flavour x
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Sounds delicious! I’ve had wild rice on my mind for awhile now and finally bought some today!
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Cool!!! I hope you like it 🙂
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These look delicious and nice and easy to make!! Yummmmmm xxxx
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Yay!!!! You can throw anything in them really 🙂 x
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yumm sounds so flavorful and very appealing looking!!
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Thank you 🙂
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the colors are amazing and it looks delicious!
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Love the amount of veg you’ve crammed into these muffins.
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Thank you 🙂 you know, there can never be too much veg!
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Your muffins look really tasty, Elaine! 🙂 xx
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Thank you 🙂 x
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They look so delicious, Elaine – I could have a couple of them right now! Thanks for joining in this week, it’s always exciting to discover what you’ve come up with!
Ginger x
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Thank you so much, I hope you’re enjoying FF xx
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I am – but a couple of these wouldn’t go amiss 😉
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Coming over now!!!
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Would’ve been perfect – we were watching Jamie vs Sugar 😉
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I’ve seen all the hype about that, was it good?
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It was actually – my son watched it with his mouth open and he hasn’t stopped reading labels since.
I really admire Jamie for putting his reputation on the line for the school dinners and I just hope he gets the same exposure over his sugar campaign. He had invited a bunch of restaurant chain owners to convince them to sign up for a voluntary sugar tax and I don’t know what they had thought they’d been invited for, but they certainly hadn’t seen this coming. Their faces were priceless.
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Sounds good! I’ll have to watch it…with Ben!
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It’s not news to you or me but the bit about Mexico is scary! Btw how did the bread turn out? Edible?!
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It’s fabulous!!!! Check out Instagram, I put some photos on there x
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Isn’t it amazing to gather bits and bobs from the refrigerator and come up with these beauties? Just gorgeous Elaine, and I love the pea dip, although I’m not quite sure what quark is? Silly me!
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Thank you 🙂 quark is a low fat soft cheese x
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Beautiful little mini muffins!!! Such pretty colors!
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Thank you 🙂
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Love the pretty colors. I have never seen Turkish chili flakes. Are they hot or milder. I wonder if we can use the regular ones!!
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Yes, regular ones would be fine. The Turkish ones tend to be a lot smaller flakes and probably a bit milder.
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Thank you Elaine ☺
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Loaded with veggies and so colorful! 🙂 I somehow always miss ‘visiting’ your blog Elaine.. But I finally managed to visit! Look forward to going through your blog in detail over this weekend… Have a great weekend!
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Wonderful, thank you, Ranjana, I hope you like what you find 🙂
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I am sure I will! 🙂
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‘Green Pea Dip’ sounds like the best comfort food ever – I must try this!!
Emma 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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Colorful and so beautiful! 🙂
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Thank you xx
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These are healthy, colourful and teeny tiny cute and I would like some please, along with a huge bowl of the pea dip! Will have to try this soon. Thanks for sharing with FF#84
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Thank you so much, and I hope you are enjoying FF 🙂
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Wow Elaine these caught my eye on Instagram first – love how you throw together leftover and need to be used ingredients and whip them into something amazing!
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Thank you 🙂 it’s better than wasting it all isn’t it?
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Always!
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What an amazing & healthy snack these would be for my kids- and myself! So colorful & pretty too.
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Thank you 🙂 you could basically put whatever you like in them 🙂
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These looks so delicious Elaine! And something my munchkin would eat inspite of the veggies and wild rice 😀 Going to give it a try soon!
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Excellent! I hope they’re a success 🙂
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Abso gorgeous. Such lively inviting colours and textures. Yum!
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🙂 x
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These looks and sounds delicious Elaine…yummm
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Thank you 🙂
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The muffins sound and look so good!! I’m finishing the last of the Lebanese potatoes & chickpeas right now. I used fingerling potatoes instead and added Greek yogurt instead of mayo. Mine came out a little drier than yours and Jhuls’ but so good! 🙂
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Excellent! As long as you enjoyed it, that’s a success 🙂 🙂 x
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These sound delicious! and… your blog cover/banner picture is making me hungry! ❤
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Ha ha! Thank you 😉
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Yummy! These look delicious and so colorful!
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Thank you 🙂
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