Easiest Lactose-Free and Gluten-Free Seafood Chowder

By www.anyonita-nibbles.co.uk 

Looking for a hearty winter warmer? This easy lactose-free and gluten-free seafood chowder is just what you need on a snowy evening!

Yield: 4 servings
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 25 minutes
Diet: Gluten-Free

I love a good chowder so much that this is my second seafood chowder recipe, and like that one, this one is so easy to make. It's absolutely perfect for those snowy winter evenings. You can use any mix of fish that you can find, but I like the packs of fish pie mix that usually have smoked haddock, salmon and cod. I also like to add bacon to my chowder along with fresh peas.

Ingredients:

For the seafood chowder
- 1/2 onion, diced
- 4 rashers streaky bacon, chopped
- 500ml fish stock
- 250ml lactose-free whole milk
- 4 tbsp lactose-free cream
- 340g fish pie mix
- 100g cooked prawns

- 1 cup petits pois
- 1 large potato, cut into 1/8s
- salt and pepper to taste
- parsley to taste
- tarragon to taste
- 1 tbsp gluten-free plain flour
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Instructions:

1. Put the oil in a skillet and add the onions and bacon, cook until the bacon is done, about 5 minutes. 
2. Stir in the flour and allow to thicken, about 2 minutes. 
3. Add fish stock and let simmer. 
4. Add potatoes, cover and simmer 10 minutes. 
5. Add fish and simmer 5 minutes. 
6. Add cream, prawns and peas and simmer 2 minutes. 
7. Sprinkle over parsley and tarragon and serve with good gluten-free crusty roll or gluten-free cheesey scone.

 

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If you liked this recipe, you may want to check out all of my gluten-free seafood recipes. Try these, too: 

Gluten-Free Cucumber Prawn Mayo Sandwiches

Gluten-Free One Pot Salmon and Lemon Pilaf

Best Ever Gluten-Free Coconut Shrimp

   

3 Simple Gluten-Free Veganuary Dishes to Try

Try something different this January by incorporating more vegan meals into your meal plan!

This time of year, many of us tally up all the ways we'd like to improve ourselves over the course of the next 12 months. We set aside lofty aspirations of self-improvement touching on everything from eating better to getting fit. Whether you are of the inclination to make resolutions or not, science consistently tells us that reducing the amount of animal products and meat we consume (especially red meats) is one of the best things we can do for our bodies. 

In light of this, and in an effort to spread more about the benefits of veganism, January has been dubbed Veganuary--a time for encouraging others to break with the traditions of meat at every meal and to embrace, even if for a limited time, a plant-based diet.  Here are 3 simple and delicious dishes you can try to introduce yourself to the vegan diet. As always, all three of these recipes are gluten-free, too!

This hearty, slow cooked stew is gluten free and full of flavour and whips up effortlessly!

Yield: 6 to 8
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 4 to 8 hours

Gluten-Free Slow Cooker Chicken Cacciatore

As soon as the weather turns chilly, the slow cooker resumes its autumn and winter home atop my kitchen counter. Last week, we had this decadent chicken cacciatore stew bubbling away for 8 hours one day and it was absolutely delicious! Like any good slow cooker recipe, it's filled with everything you need to keep you full!

Now ordinarily chicken cacciatore has olives in it, but this one doesn't because I don't like olives, but if you like them, add them in! And while we're on the subject, if there are things you don't like, feel free to leave them out or swap them--the choice is yours. You've gotta eat it; you should be in control of what goes in it.

Warm yourself with a hearty bowl of authentic American-style gluten free chilli cooked in the slow cooker for 9 hours for a flavourful autumn meal!
 

Yield: 6 to 8
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 9 hours

Gluten-Free 9 Hour American Chilli

It seems the weather has suddenly turned frigid here in Manchester! I've swapped ballerina pumps for suede ankle boots and can't dare leave the house without a wrap or a throw. The leaves are changing on the trees and my Instagram feed (come join me on Instagram & get your fill of gluten-free food porn) is overrun with snaps of pumpkin spice lattes. And even though fall doesn't officially kick off until Friday, I've begun to indulge in it just a little bit early this year.

Autumn was made for hearty meals that cook themselves, leaving you plenty of time to watch the leaves change and curl up with a hot drink. And nothing says autumn in the American south quite like a bowl of hearty chilli, bursting with beans and packed with meat--this is a protein hit that you'll want to indulge in time and time again. Your family will absolutely love this easy gluten free American chilli recipe. Serve it up southwest style with crunchy tortilla chips for dipping and then use the leftovers to fill fluffy baked potatoes the day after; you'll get two meals from the effort of one!

22 Time-Saving Gluten Free Back to School Dinners

School starts next month; get back into the swing of things with these 22 time-saving gluten free dinner options!

Right hand in the air, I've been counting down the days until school starts and it's very soon! The start of the school year is always an emotional and very busy time. There's the fact that your child is getting older that slaps you in the face and all the emotions that come with it. Plus, the preparation, the endless buying of supplies and uniforms, orchestrating drop off and collection, slotting in homework time and generally getting back into your routine all take so much effort.

Usually, it's a few weeks before we feel settled into the routine again, so having easy options for dinners that won't have me chained to the stove make the transition even better. Luckily, the gluten free blogging community has about a bajillion quick and delicious gluten free dinner options!

To make it even easier for you, I've rounded up 22 gluten free back to school dinners--quick meals that are easy to prepare, nutritionally sound and pretty freaking delicious! Slot these into your meal plan and you'll have one less thing to worry about that first month back-to-school!

Crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside, these perfectly spiced gluten-free and vegan red potato wedges are the perfect addition to any meal!

 

Yield: 2-4 servings
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 30 minutes

Gluten-Free Vegan Red Potato Spiced Wedges

Potatoes have always been my favourite food;they're my green eggs and ham: I'll eat them anywhere; I'll eat them here or there. And I'll eat them any way they come: steamed, boiled, fried, baked. I'll eat them in cubes or wedges or thin strings or chunky chips or crinkly fries or pillows of gnocchi or piles of mash. I do not care; just give me the potatoes.

Gluten-Free 20-Minute Beef Massaman Curry

This gently spiced gluten-free and dairy free curry is filled with succulent, fall-apart beef, hearty potatoes and roasted peanuts and comes together in 20 minutes!

 

Yield: 5-6 servings
Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes

20 Minute Gluten-Free Beef Massaman Curry

A beef massaman curry is basically when pot roast meets curry. It's got many of the delicious elements of a classic Sunday pot roast dinner like wonderfully marbled beef that melts in your mouth and hearty whole potatoes and it has the essentials of a good curry like a thick gravy or sauce and an interesting flavour profile.

This classic gluten free shepherd's pie is bursting with seasonal vegetables, succulent steak mince and topped with luscious velvet twice-baked mashed potatoes!

 

Yield: 4 to 6 servings
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 90 minutes

Gluten Free Cottage Pie with Twice Baked Mash

A cottage pie is similar to a shepherd's pie but the main difference is in the type of mince used. Where a shepherd's pie uses lamb mince, a cottage pie uses beef mince or ground beef. This dish is classic comfort food and can be enjoyed year round, but is especially great this time of year when the produce is at its sweetest and ripest. To make it even more indulgent, I topped it with a downright decadent double baked mashed potato, giving it the creamiest, most velvety finish imaginable!

When I'm cooking for the blog, keeping the food hot long enough for me to take photos can be a real challenge. So I avoid having to nuke cooked food in the microwave and rest my dishes on stone tiles--they're perfect conductors of heat, and keep the dishes nice and warm! Stone tiles, like the Retro Marengo collection I used in these photos, also make perfect trays for serving hot food from. My tiles come from Sabbini, where they have a huge collection of the some of the most gorgeous stone tiles, I've ever seen!

Win $50 Cash Today

You guys, today is my blogiversary! Anyonita Nibbles first started 7 years ago today!! Back then it was called Poems and Plates and it was a little bit different from what it is today, but I cannot believe I've actually stuck with this blog for so long! That's longer than my oldest child has been alive, y'all. That's nearly 1/4 of my life. Okay, okay, I'll stop.

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I'm so thankful to have teamed up with my blogging tribe to offer you this giveaway! Here's a little bit more about us and our blogs:

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Give that leftover Sunday roast a new lease on life with this easy meal and waste not!

 

Yield: 6 quesadillas
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes

Gluten Free Leftover Sunday Roast Dinner Quesadillas

I love a roast dinner and I don't care if it's pork, chicken or beef. Sunday roast dinners are popular here in the UK and we've been having one every week, so I've been on a mission to find yummy ways to put the leftovers to use. Cook once; eat twice and all that. This recipe was inspired by that desire to re-purpose our leftovers and uses my juicy roast chicken recipe and my vegan crispy roast potatoes recipe, too.

Best Ever Gluten Free Vegan Crispy Roast Potatoes

Crispy and golden perfect roast potatoes without a trace of gluten or animal product in sight!

 

Yield: 6 servings
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 1 hour

Best Ever Gluten Free and Vegan Crispy Roast Potatoes

Crispy on the outside and fluffy inside, these roast potatoes are everything you've ever wanted a spud to be! With no smelly goose-fat in sight and all plant-based ingredients, you'll flip for these lightened up roasties! While I'm a true meat connoisseur, I have been making an effort to live a more plant-based life by eliminating unnecessary animal products from my diet.

Maybe they're not one of your 5-A-Day, but potatoes are pretty powerful (and dead comforting) on their own--check out all the different ways you can use them. Must we really smother them in animal fat to enjoy them? Move over, Delia; this is how an Old Millennial makes roast potatoes!

Finger-licking sweet and succulent barbecue chicken baked in the oven; perfect for rainy summer days!

 

Yield: 3 servings
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 30 minutes

Gluten Free Barbecue Chicken Thighs in the Oven

Y'all, it's hotting up outside! Okay, not in this exact moment, but in general, we're careening towards warmer days! As soon as it gets warm enough to hang the washing on the line, I immediately start thinking of barbecues--nothing beats the taste of food cooked over an open flame. But living in Manchester, those days of optimum barbecue weather are few and far between. All hail the power of barbecue in the oven!

Staying true to my southern American roots, I served this barbecue chicken with the most incredible mashed potatoes and creamed corn.

This classic Irish recipe produces the creamiest mashed potatoes, kicked up a notch with green onions, cheese and bacon!

 

Yield: 6 servings
Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 25 minutes

Gluten Free Irish Potato Champ with Cheese and Bacon

Americans have mastered the loaded potato, the English make a jacket potato that can comfort the soul on a dreary day and the Italians gave us the beautiful gnocchi, but the Northern Irish have trumped all these dishes with their no frills Champ. Champ is mashed potatoes the way they were always meant to be made: with milk, butter and scallions or spring onions, as they're called in the UK. On its own, it's good enough, but I've upped the ante and introduced salty cubes of thick bacon and swapped the milk for super indulgent double cream. This isn't the recipe for you if you're looking to lose a few, but if you're looking for comfort food that'll put a smile on your face, read on!

Champ is one of those new classics, appearing on every brasserie and gastropub menu south of the Giant's Causeway. It's an instant crowd pleaser, dead easy to make and beats the hell out of dusty powdered mash any day of the week. Be ready to dig in ... and to fight for seconds!

Bring a taste of the Menorcan sunshine to your dinner table with this delicious Spanish chicken!

Yield: 4 to 6 servings
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 1 hour

Gluten Free Spanish Chicken One Pot

This is the time of year, I always grow restless of the relentless gray days and long for vast blue skies pierced by a shining sun. Before we became parents, we'd often skip out of town in February and head south to mainland Spain or one of its charming islands, like Menorca. Menorca, with its fantastic produce and meaty chorizo was the inspiration behind this recipe, too.

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post for Monarch. I have been compensated for this post, however all opinions remain my own and I was in no way influenced by the company. You can review my disclosure policy in full, here.

That's one of the greatest things about living in the UK--the short, affordable flights to Spain to chase the sun! This year, though, with our son in school, we had to make due with bringing the taste of Espana to our dinner table. I was approached by Monarch to create a recipe that celebrates Menorca and immediately thought of two classic Spanish combinations: sweet juicy orange and spicy chorizo!

Gluten Free Smoked Haddock and Bacon Chowder - Burns Night

Celebrate the Scottish bard with this comforting gluten free smoked haddock chowder!

Yield: 4 to 6 servings
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes

Gluten Free Smoked Haddock & Bacon Chowder

Burns Night is a holiday in Scotland celebrating the life and work of the poet Robert Burns. As a poetry graduate, Burns Night is a fun holiday to think about verse, and since moving to the UK, it's been a very low-key holiday in our home. This year, I wanted to up the ante and enjoy a hearty Scottish-inspired dish to commemorate Burns Night on 25 January. You'll love how quick and comforting this meal is to prepare; plus, it's chock full of good-for-you haddock!

Made overnight, this easy chia pudding is sweet and tart with a touch of honey and ripe blackberries!

Yield: 1 bowl
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 8 hours

Gluten Free Blackberry Vanilla Chia Pudding

Breakfast foods are my favourite, but even though I'm a morning person, I don't always feel like getting up and preparing something first thing in the morning. So after I discovered chia seeds, a friend of mine shared with me this revolutionary breakfast of chia pudding. The best thing about it? You just make it up the night before, leave it in the fridge and you can grab it on your way to work. Easy.

Gluten Free Sausage & Spinach Soup for #SHHealthySmiles

A delicious gluten-free soup with ingredients that will give you a healthy smile!

Yield: 6-8
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 25 minutes

Gluten Free Sausage & Spinach Soup

This soup is a deliciously, easy option for a quick late autumn/early winter dinner. I especially love this recipe because it features ingredients (courtesy of Simplyhealth) that promote healthy smiles. Just take a look at the inforgraphic at the bottom of this post for more ideas about how to cook your way to a healthy smile.

Royal Princess Tour & Lunch with Princess Cruises

Celebrate 50 years of luxury on the seas with Royal Princess Cruises--follow along on my tour & lunch!

It's like an entire city, effortlessly gliding across the face of the water. Behind its facade of hundreds of balconies, in the heart of the ship lies more restaurants than you could count on one hand, pools, spas, bars, shops, theatres and more.

We were invited to take a tour of Princess Cruises's Royal Princess ship and sample a luxurious three-course menu. Over the course of our five hours onboard, the word luxury would escape from my lips time and time again. Before then, a virgin to the open seas and someone who had never set foot in a cruise ship, I was blown away by the sheer vastness of it, the luxury and the glamour.

Riverford's Spring Chicken: A Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Recipe

A succulent and tender gluten free chicken dish with fresh vegetables in a delicate broth!

Yield: 2 servings
Prep time: 25 minutest
Cook time: 45 minutes

Spring Chicken

Let me introduce you to Riverford. Riverford is a food delivery service, providing organic, farm fresh food straight to your door. Along with the food, you'll get really yummy recipes and a handy glossary of veg, a guide to Riverford and a pamphlet of recipes for upcoming boxes.

I've tried food delivery services before, but none have impressed me as much as Riverford has. It's the quality of the ingredients and how much thought they've put into their boxes. Everything arrives neatly packed, the recipes are appetising, easy to follow and great for storing and keeping. My box featured the ingredients and recipes for three of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's dishes and they were equally delicious!

All the flavours of a Mexican breakfast with homemade hash browns--all gluten free!

Yield: up to 12 frittatas
 Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes

Gluten Free Mexican Bacon Frittatas and Homemade Hashbrowns

Frittatas have become one of my favourite, easy breakfasts! They're just so quick and versatile, they're hard to deny. After I made these halloumi frittatas, I became a little bit addicted to them and started craving them each weekend. Today's recipe is in honour of the upcoming Cinco de Mayo and celebrates Mexican culture with the use of coriander and delicious Mexican cheeses.

I know Cinco de Mayo isn't really a thing outside of America, but it remains one of my favourite 'holidays'. I don't know if it's because it's close to my birthday or if it's because I've got a slight obsession with Mexican food--whatever it is, I celebrate it each year!

The frittatas are easy to make and the recipe doesn't differ that much from my spinach and halloumi frittatas recipe, so you should be pretty safe with that. The hashbrowns, though, threaten to steal the frattatas's thunder and become the star of the show! These aren't your usual heavily formed, deep fried hashbrowns fast food chains around the globe serve up. These are your classic greasy spoon hashbrowns made infamous from decades of American films, usually served up by some down-on-her-luck waitress named Starr or Sandy in a Midwestern truckstop or at the counter of a grungy NYC diner.

But the best thing about them, is they're homemade. And delicious. And done properly. Trust me, your family is going to flip when you serve these!

Ingredients:

For the frittatas
1 tablespoon smoked paprika
1 onion, diced
2 tablespoons coriander leaf
6 eggs
100 grams shredded Mexican cheese
150 grams smoked bacon
salt
pepper
olive oil


For the hashbrowns
15 or 6 large potatoes
olive oil
1salt

Easy Homemade Hashbrowns

Instructions:

For the frittatas:

1. Preheat the oven to 200c/400f.
2. Soften the onions in a large saucepan in a bit of oil.
3. Add the bacon and fry until beginning to brown. 
4. Sprinkle in the smoked paprika and coriander and cook until fragrant. Remove from the heat.
5. Scramble the eggs in a jug and pour into a muffin tray that has been lightly greased.
6. Scatter the bacon and onion mix over top, followed by the cheese. Fill each muffin cup a little less than halfway to prevent spilling over when the eggs expand during cooking.
7. Bake in the oven for about 9 minutes or until desired doneness is reached.

For the hasbrowns:

1. Wash, peel and grate the potatoes.
2. Place the grated potatoes in a muslin cloth or in a few sheets of paper towel.
3. Squeeze until all of the natural potato juices are drained.
4. Dump the potatoes into a microwave safe bowl and microwave for 30 seconds.
5. Pour some olive oil into a frying pan and fry the potatoes in portions, flipping once, when the bottom has firmed up and is golden. It should take up to three minutes per hashbrown, depending on the size.
6. Season well with salt and serve with the frittatas.