Recipe - Gâteau À L’orange Et Au Gingembre (Flourless Orange and Ginger Cake Recipe)

Ingredients

• 3 small oranges or 2 large oranges, about 600g total
• 6 large eggs
• 200 g (1 cups) sugar
• 250 grams (2 1/3 cups) almond meal
• A thumb-sized knob of fresh ginger
• 1/4 cup candied ginger
• 1 teaspoon baking soda

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease a 24-cm (10-inch) cake pan.
2. Wash the oranges well. Put them in a medium saucepan, and cover with water. Put the saucepan over medium heat, cover, and simmer for two hours, adding a little hot water if the level gets too low. Drain, and let cool. Cut in quarters and puree in a food processor.
3. Peel and chop the fresh ginger. Dice the candied ginger finely. In a large mixing bowl, beat the eggs with a fork. Whisk in the orange puree, sugar, almonds, baking soda, and fresh ginger, until well blended. Fold in the bits of candied ginger.
4. Pour the batter into the cake pan, and bake for 45 minutes, until golden brown and a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool for a few minutes on a rack, before turning out to dry.
5. Some recipes say to finish the cake by combining sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest and pouring this mixture across top of the cake but I didn’t. I just used icing sugar.

This cake is best served after if has completely cooled therefor it is a great cake to make a day ahead.

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Recipe - Vegetable Soup

Ingredients

• 1 onion, diced
• 4 large cloves garlic, grated
• 1 thumb sized piece ginger, grated
• 1 fresh chili, chopped (to taste)
• 1/4 celery diced (including leaves)
• 1 small sweet potato, diced
• 2 carrots, diced
• 400g white beans
• 1 broccoli head, chopped
• 200g baby spinach
• 6 sprigs thyme
• 1/2 bunch parsely
• 1.5L good quality chicken stock
• 3/4 cup red lentils
• Note: if you have any other vegetables you'd like to use, this recipe can hold another 1 or 2 handfuls of ingredients

Method

• Add each of the above at 2 minute intervals then cook the soup until all vegetables are cooked through and the lentils are soft.
• That's it! Easy!