This year, Bristol-based co-operative Essential Trading celebrates fifty years as a wholesaler. They’ve been manufacturing and distributing sustainable wholefoods, ecological household products and cruelty-free body care items since 1971. We’ve worked with Essential throughout both our co-ops histories, knowing that we are stronger together. So it’s a privilege to be able to wish them a […]
The coconut is ubiquitous in Kerala and south India, and black chickpeas also play an important part in Keralan cuisine. This dish combines these two wonderful ingredients into a delicious, hearty curry. Black chickpeas have a slightly sweeter and nuttier flavour than regular chickpeas and are well worth tracking down, but if you are unable […]
This dish is based on a traditional Tunisian dish called lablabi, a mildly flavoured but nourishing soup usually eaten at breakfast, and often on a bed of slightly stale bread and accompanied by eggs or tuna, but it works really well here as a stand-alone soup, especially with the final flourish of harissa oil. Normally […]
SERVES 4 We are proud of Suma’s working relationship and friendship with the award-winning vegetarian restaurant Prashad. Here they share a real taste of India that can be easily rustled up as a quick and healthy alternative to a takeaway. Cumin and mustard seeds bring a prominent earthiness to this dish, and the tomatoes create […]
Creamy-flavoured black-eyed beans soften to absorb the rich flavours of the sauce in this super quick and delicious Palestinian stew. Add in some chard for a rainbow burst of nutrition, colour and flavour. Ingredients Beans 1 leek 1 tbsp Suma coconut or olive oil 2 cloves garlic pinch of Suma chilli powder 2 x 400g […]
You won’t be sorry you traded in your usual veggie chilli ingredients for rich and flavoursome beetroot. Warming and hearty, it’s perfect with basmati rice and sliced avocado. Whizz up any leftovers to make a luscious crimson soup. Ingredients 250g Suma black turtle beans, soaked for at least two hours. 2 medium unpeeled beetroots, wash, […]