Bite Me!

Being something of a hoarder, food-wise, and with a tendency to get very over-excited in supermarkets that leads me to stock up as if for a siege, I decided last week to stop buying food altogether in an attempt to prevent my overloaded kitchen cupboard from pouring packets of rice and tins of pickles onto my head every time I tried opening it. The freezer was in a similar state of overload, so I found myself facing a rather unexciting dinner of frozen quorn fillets and couscous last week. To brighten it up, I made a chermoula-like sauce, which has a real kick to it! Real chermoula has coriander, as well as a couple of other ingredients in it, but this is just what I happened to have in the house:

Ingredients

one large bunch of curly parsley

one teaspoon of ground cumin

two teaspoons of paprika

four cloves of garlic

half a red chilli

a glug of olive oil

a squeeze of lemon juice

Method

Remove the tough stalks from the parsley. Put all the ingredients into a blender or food processor and blend into a paste.

That’s it! You should probably clean your teeth after eating, if you’re planning on going anywhere, though – green bits coupled with garlic breath are not a great look!