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The Guardian
10 hours ago
- General
- The Guardian
Georgina Hayden's recipe for gigantes with 'nduja
If a Greek and an Italian had a love affair, this would be the outcome: creamy, tomatoey butter beans pepped up with fried 'nduja for a bit of spice. Served with lots of parsley and crusty bread, this is a meal in itself, but the beans would also work brilliantly as part of a meze. It's the summer tomato dream. Prep 10 min Cook 40 min Serves 4 3 tbsp olive oil2 onions, peeled and finely chopped3 carrots, peeled and sliced3 celery sticks, trimmed and slicedSea salt and black pepper 90g 'nduja2 tbsp tomato puree 2 400g tins butter beans (or a 700g jar), not drained ½ bunch flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped200g cherry tomatoes on the vineCrusty bread, to serve Put a large, shallow casserole or deep, large saucepan on a medium heat. Add the oil, onions, carrots and celery, season generously and fry, stirring often, for five minutes. Crumble in the 'nduja, turn up the heat and fry for another five minutes. Stir in the tomato puree followed by the butter beans and their liquid, then pour in 150ml cold water and stir in most of the chopped parsley. Nestle in the tomatoes still on their vines and leave to bubble away gently for about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, turn on the grill to high. When everything in the pan is tender, and the liquid has reduced slightly and turned rich, transfer the pan to the oven and grill for three to five minutes, until a lovely crust forms on top. Scatter over the remaining chopped parsley, and serve with chunks of crusty bread for mopping up all those juices.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
‘There's a corrosive, throat-burning sourness': The best and worst supermarket cottage cheese
Cottage cheese has had a glow-up. For years, it's been indelibly associated with the grim dinner destiny of the 1980s dieter, along with Special K 'can you pinch an inch?' advertisements and cabbage soup. But a new generation has nosed it out of the forgotten reaches of the chiller cabinet and spotted that it's a great source of protein, the holy grail of the modern diet. Over on TikTok it's the ingredient du jour, turning up in frittatas (not a bad idea) as well as chocolate mousse and ice cream. A food editor recently raved to me about a sweet potato, 'nduja and cottage cheese combination, while another swore by high-protein pancakes, made by blending cottage cheese into the batter. I've had a lot of cottage cheese left over after this week's test. Most was snapped up via the food sharing app Olio, but I reserved some for experimenting and I can tell you that it does purée down to a pleasing creamy texture with just a hint of graininess, like a soft ricotta, but around 20 per cent less expensive. It's important to note how salty and sour the cottage cheese is to start with – too much of either can ruin a dish so it's not a straight swap. I find cottage cheese with a mellow cheesy flavour more versatile. What matters to protein fiends though is the ratio of protein to calories, or how much protein bang you're getting for your calorie buck. While ricotta packs about five grams of protein per 100 calories, ordinary cottage cheese has around 10 grams per 100 calories and fat-free has almost 18 grams. With an eye for the trend, manufacturers have come up with high-protein versions of cottage cheese, with added milk proteins. These can up the protein level to 20 grams per 100 calories, but I can't recommend these concoctions: the ones I tried were weird tasting, slightly chemical. Go wild: eat a bit more of the regular stuff. All the cottage cheese was brought to room temperature before being decanted into plain glasses identified by a letter to anonymise the samples. They were tasted blind. Once initial scores had been allocated, the samples were all re-tasted alongside those with the same score to check they were of comparable quality. Best fat-free cottage cheese Best low-fat cottage cheese Best full-fat cottage cheese Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
