This is a great recipe to jazz up your vegetables. Let's admit it, plain, steamed green beans can get boring !

Ingredients (serves 6)

• 800 grams baby green beans, trimmed
• 100 grams ( 1 cup) walnuts, roasted and coarsely chopped
• ¼  Olive oil
• 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon sweet paprika
• ½ teaspoon ground coriander
• ¼ cup coarsely chopped flat leaf parsley
• ¼ cup coarsely chopped coriander
• ½ small red onion, finely chopped
• 60 grams feta, crumbled

Method:

Cook green beans in boiling salted water for 3-5 minutes or until render, drain, refresh in iced water, then drain again.

Combine walnuts with the remaining ingredients except feta and season to taste with sea salt and freshly ground pepper. Combine beans and walnut sauce/mixture in a bowl, then scatter with feta.

This is a great recipe ideal for kids as well as mum and dad. Adults pair the kebabs with a salad or steamed veggies if you're trying to lose weight.

If not you could add a jacket potato or a few oven baked potato or sweet potato wedges to the meal.





4 Chicken breasts, cubed
200g small green zucchini, cut into 1/2 cm chunks.
200g small button mushrooms
1 red, yellow or orange pepper, deseeded and cut into triangles

Marinade
3 Tbsp soy sauce
1-2 Tbsp. Honey
1/2 Tbsp. lemon juice or apple cider vinegar

To Decorate
8 spring onions
cherry tomatoes or radishes
16 whole cloves

1. Mix together the marinade ingredients in a shallow dish. Add the chicken and leave to marinate for at least 30 minutes. Soak 8 bamboo skewers in water while the chicken marinates. 
2. Thread the chicken on to the skewers, putting a zucchini chunk, a mushroom and a pepper triangle between each piece of chicken. Arrange on a baking tray and transfer to a preheated oven. Cook for about 15 minutes, basting with the marinade and turning them occasionally, until cooked through.
   
3. To decorate, make a face for each caterpillar using a cherry tomato or radish, studded with clove eyes. Attach it to the tip of the skewer, and thread on a spring onion tail.

Variation:  Replace the chicken with fish fillet to make fish kebabs or for a vegetarian version add eggplant chunks.