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FOOD
Lunch
• Use light olive oil to make your own
homemade mayonnaise.
• Make your own salad dressings with extra virgin olive
oil. Some ideas include the classic vinaigrette, citrus
vinaigrette, or garlic yoghurt dressing.
• Make easy homemade pesto to quickly dress pasta
dishes, to stir into soups, or as a topping for crackers.
It's also great in sandwiches to deepen the flavours, or
even stirred into cooked vegetables or salads. Delicious
recipes include: classic pesto, sun dried tomato pesto
and for something a little different, Sicilian pesto.
• Add a refreshing orange and fennel salad, with olive oil,
to your fish dish.
Snacks
• Include raw virgin olive oil in a home-made hummus
dip, to consume with raw vegetables or pitta bread.
• Stir some olive oil to ricotta cheese and season with salt
and pepper for a quick and delicious bread topping.
• Make a whipped feta and honey dip with olive oil and
serve with toasted pitta bread.
• Add a circle of raw olive oil to your soup before serving.
A circle of olive oil contains approximately 8 mls of
olive oil.
• Drizzle some olive oil on top of rice or couscous dishes.
• Use olive oil to make a tuna or chicken sandwich filling
instead of mayonnaise.
Dinner
• Try finishing off your steak with a drizzle of raw olive
oil, salt and a squeeze of fresh lemon juice. Delizioso!
• Add moisture and flavour to meats which can
sometimes be a little dry (such as turkey or chicken
breast) by drizzling some raw extra virgin olive oil on
before serving.
• Drizzle onto steamed or roasted vegetables and season
with salt and pepper to taste.
• Drizzle raw olive oil on boiled or roasted potatoes, or
toss with raw olive oil, minced garlic, parsley and sea
salt for a quick side dish
• Substitute olive oil for butter in cooked spinach, with a
dash of fresh lemon juice and salt
• Swirl into creamy risottos before serving.
• Replace butter with raw extra virgin olive oil on
your baked potato for a light and healthy family
favourite meal
• Add a circle of olive oil and a squeeze of fresh lemon
juice on your baked or dry fried fish
Homemade pesto
• Use raw extra virgin olive oil in a raw grated carrot
salad. The carrots contain indigestible fibres which
act like bristles through the intestinal tract. This
salad is great to consume daily as a snack if you
are experiencing digestive issues such as bloating
or constipation.
Desserts
• Drizzle some raw extra virgin olive oil on top of vanilla
ice cream. The peppery olive oil taste brings out the
sweetness of the vanilla ¬- they are a match made in
heaven. It works well with strawberry ice cream too
• Loosen mascarpone cheese with some light olive oil to
use in dessert recipes.
• Use olive oil to season fruit salads, it brings out the
taste of the fruit.
Whipped feta cheese dip