Mars bar krispie treats

I was sure I had blogged this before but it seems I dreamt that, so now to rectify the situation because this recipe definitely needs shared and devoured!



Here be my lovely and simple and ever so tasty recipe for mars bar krispie treats

Mars Bar Krispie Treats

Makes 16 2" squares

Ingredients
75g unsalted butter
5 x 58g Mars bars
3 cups of rice krispies/generic puffed rice
150g milk chocolate
30g unsalted butter

Recipe
1. Melt together the Mars bars and 75g butter in a double boiler.
2. Mix in the "generic puffed rice" until well combined. Spread this into an 8" x 8" baking tin and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
3. Melt together the chocolate and 30g butter. Spread over the krispie mix and leave it back in the fridge for 30 minutes.
4. Remove from the fridge and cut into squares

Tate & Lyle Sugar - Banana Bread

Banana Bread

Ingredients
145g caster sugar
1 egg
100g mashed banana
140g flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground cinnamon
70g melted butter

Recipe
1. Preheat oven to 170˚C
2. Beat sugar and eggs together
3. Mix in the mashed banana
4. Mix in the dry ingredients, then stir in the butter.
5. Bake in the oven for 45 minutes.

Thanks to Tate & Lyle for the fairtrade sugar used in this recipe. There's lots of recipe ideas for each type of sugar on their website

Tabooleh

Back in March I was very fortunate and blessed to get to visit Beirut, Lebanon. You can see my vlogs from this trip in this and this blog post to see more of what I was getting up to there and some of the food we experienced.

Since coming home I have tried making some of the traditional Lebanese food for myself, one of these dishes being the well known tabooleh. This is a very finely chopped salad made up mostly of parsley, tomato and onion and dressed in olive oil and lemon juice. Very simple but amazing and flavourful.



The recipe below is adapted from Taste of Beirut's Tabooleh Salad

Tabooleh

Ingredients
2 bunches of flat leaf parsley
1/2 bunch of fresh mint
3 scallions or 1 small onion, finely chopped
2 large tomatoes
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
pinch of salt
pinch of pepper

Recipe
1. Wash and dry the parsley and mint. Remove the leaves from the stalks and finely chop the leaves.
2. Wash the scallions and finely chop.
3. Wash the tomatoes and finely dice.
4. Mix together the herbs, scallions and tomatoes in a bowl.
5. In a small bowl mix the lemon juice and olive oil together using a fork.
6. Mix the dressing into the salad and serve!