Our customers and colleagues have shared their favourite recipes!

a focaccia bread cut into two on a purple and blue background

Foccacia!

Support worker Ciro enjoys making this traditional focaccia with the young people he supports in Cardiff. It costs around £1 to make the focaccia and £3 for the margherita one which can feed 2-3 people.

Focaccia Pizza Recipe

Ingredients

  • 600 g all-purpose flour
  • 450 g warm water
  • 7g dry yeast
  • 12 g salt
  • 1 teaspoon sugar or honey

Method

  1. Put all the ingredients into a large bowl and mix until fully combined.
  2. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and leave the dough to rise for 2 hours.
  3. Once risen, oil a baking tray and transfer the dough into it.
  4. Lightly oil your hands and gently stretch the dough to fit the tray.
  5. Cover again and let it rise for another hour.
  6. Bake at 220°C for 15 minutes on the middle shelf of the oven.
  7. The focaccia is ready when it is golden on both the top and bottom.
  8. Remove from the oven and let it cool completely on a wire rack.
  9. Once cold, cut and fill with any ingredients you like.
    • For extra crunch, reheat it in the oven for a couple of minutes with the filling inside.

 

Margherita Version

  • Follow the same process, but before baking, spread your favourite tomato sauce on top.
  • Bake for 10 minutes on the top shelf.
  • Add the cheese, then return it to the oven for the remaining 5 minutes on the middle shelf.

Fruit cake!

Clarissa from Gabalfa has shared a recipe for a delicious and easy fruit cake!

Recommend to use a 2lb (1kg) loaf tin or two 1lb (500g) loaf tins.

Fruit cake ingredients:

• 300g mixed fruit
• 225ml hot tea
• Juice of an orange, plus zest
• 50g butter
• 100g light brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 225g self-raising flour
• 4 tablespoon demerara sugar

Method:

Place dried fruit into a bowl and pour on the hot tea, orange juice and zest. Cover with cling film and leave overnight.
Heat oven to gas no. 4 (180 degrees), grease and line 2 1lb (500g) loaf tins.
Beat together the butter and sugar, then beat in the egg followed by the flour. Stir through the fruit mixture, spoon into the tins and smooth them over. Add the demerara sugar on top.
Bake for 1 hour, leave to cool in the tin then take them out and enjoy!

A photo of slices of a fruit cake on a purple and blue background
Moner in a kitchen holding a pan with Tawa in it

Tawa

Moner from Riverside has shared his super quick and easy one-pan reciepe for Tawa, a traditional Sudanese meal.

Tawa ingredients:

• 3 tomatoes
• 3 onions
• 1 pepper
• 4 eggs
• mixed herbs
• ground cumin
• cooking oil

Method:

Roughly chop up the onions, tomatoes and pepper. Heat a frying pan on medium heat with some oil and once hot add the onions until they brown. Add in the tomatoes and pepper and cook until soft (5 mins). Sprinkle in the mixed herbs and cumin – make it as spicy or not spicy as you like! Crack 4 eggs into the pan and stir them in until the egg is cooked.
Eat it with bread or enjoy it as is!