Our Favourite Bonfire Night Recipes
We love Bonfire Night! It’s a wonderful excuse to get together with family and friends, enjoy watching a bonfire burn, and see the night sky lit up with colourful fireworks – and of course, feast on some wonderful treats!
This great British tradition, which commemorates the events of 5th November 1605, when Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot were arrested while trying to blow up the House of Lords, is a wonderful time to serve filling, healthy food to loved ones, and we’ve collected some of our favourite and most suitable recipes for you to try. Why not give one or two of these a go….
These protein-rich balls are full of flavour and spice! Perfect cosy bowl food, the ideal accompaniement for chilly evenings watching bonfires!
This dish is a super easy recipe for serving to a crowd. Serve in a bed of brown rice with fluffy naans!
Our vegan lasagne is the perfect bonfire night supper. You can prep it in advance, meaning you’ve got more time to spend with your loved ones enjoying your evening!
This is legit one of our favourite recipes. Slow cooked, flavourful chilli. Packed with filling pulses and all the flavours. Simply add all the ingredients to your slow cooker and leave it to do its thing! Serve on rice or with tortilla chips or over cheesy fries for a hearty supper that will keep you warm whilst you watch those fireworks!
It’s one of the holy grails of healthy cooking for kids to be able to produce something that looks and tastes like an unhealthy fast food ‘treat’ but is actually made from comparatively healthy ingredients. Instead of the usual grim mechanically-removed, bleached, minced chicken, these delicious nuggets are formed from protein-packed tofu and chickpea flour, and flavoured with onion, garlic and all kinds of lovely spices for a wonderul savoury flavour. Finally, they’re coated in a mixture of flour and bashed-up cornflakes for an amazing crispy finish. No knives and forks required, so they’re simply ace to bring out and pass around in front of the bonfire. Great for adults too!
The hit of umami savouriness as you take your first bite of one of these super-filling, healthy burgers is an absolute joy. One of these substantial big boys will really hit the spot as you watch fireworks explode in the frosty night air. They’re absolutely packed with protein from the oats, seeds and kidney beans, and the amazing mix of herbs and spices makes them total taste bombs! With one of these in one hand and a sparkler in the other, you’ll be full of beans this firework night!
Vegan Pasta e Fagioli (Creamy Bean Pasta)
A giant pot of pasta is a delicious easy dish to whip up for a crowd. It’s warming, its comforting and its delicious. The secret to this recipe is Cannellini beans. Blending pulses can add a really creamy texture to sauces, and we love how the beans in this recipe contribute to this thick, tasty sauce! Serve with hunks of homemade focaccia.
Our super simple speedy pizza is the perfect weeknight supper recipe. It’s really less of a recipe, more of a list of assembly instructions. Much healthier than takeaway pizza, but missing none of the glorious flavour!
The toppings suggested here are more of a guide. So add, take away, mix up all your favourite toppings to make your perfect pizza. We’ve used Biona’s wonderful Wheat Pizza bases. We also stock the Spelt bases, as well as gluten-free options by Schar. All our pizza bases are great store cupboard ingredients to have on hand!
Our warming creamy artichoke dip is the perfect recipe to serve at parties. It’s best served hot and spread over crackers, or with tortilla chips or crusty bread. Our version of this popular recipe is vegan. We made it creamy by using sunflower seeds and cashew nuts!
Vegan Stew with Herby Gluten-Free Dumplings
Our delicious vegetable stew with herby, fluffy dumplings. This one pot dinner is a really easy to make, and super versatile. We love using root vegetables to create a flavourful base. Fluffy dumplings are the crowning glory. You can size this recipe up if you are cooking for a crowd, or cook enough and enjoy leftovers throughout the week.
These delicious, melt-in-your-mouth orange chocolate truffles are creamy but vegan, and sweet but cane sugar-free! They are the perfect size for serving at parties. Don’t forget to stock up on your Sussex Wholefoods Cacao Powder for this recipe. Our antioxidant rich cacao powder makes these truffle bites super rich and chocolatey.
Vegan Chocolate Fudge with Salty Pretzels
Who doesn’t love a bit of fudge? These sensational, sweet, sticky, dense bites not only make your taste buds shout ‘yes!’ but they’re also vegan, gluten-free and full of antioxidant-crammed cacao powder. Instead of dairy butter, these contain wonderfully aromatic raw organic cacao butter, and the sweet, unctuous condensed milk is sourced from coconuts – no cows involved! With each square topped with a delicious, salty gluten-free pretzel, the flavour of these treats is absolutely immense, and they’re bound to be gone in a firework flash!
Vegan Thick Italian Hot Chocolate
This creamy, sweet and rich hot chocolate is just divine! We’ve replicated the thick, luscious hot chocolate that originates in Italy. Is it soup? Is it a drink? Is it dessert? Who cares, it’s delicious! And it’s the perfect sweet treat to enjoy on a chilly bonfire’s night.
No-one can ever believe this gorgeous tear’n’share indulgence is vegan whenever we produce it fresh from the oven, but it’s true – no animal products whatsoever! We’ve used light brown flour to boost the fibre content and give a more nutty taste, and we’ve given it a tantalising toffee taste by using unrefined organic coconut sugar. The real genius comes with the addition of 100% pumpkin puree which boosts the amount of fibre even further while cutting down the need to use fat. It makes for a sensationally moist, moreish dessert which never lasts for more than a few minutes! This recipe can be customised to suit your tastes, perhaps by adding raisins, currants or sultanas – or how about a handful of heart-healthy, nutty chopped pecans?
It’s cold out there – so why not warm up with this outstandingly healthy, tasty, spicy hot bonfire beverage? Harness the awesome health benefits of turmeric and enjoy the deep, toffee-like richness of unrefined coconut sugar in this delicious vegan, caffeine-free latte. Rounded off with the lip-smacking, warming flavours of cinnamon and cardamom, this drink is sure to please the revellers and deliver an awesome whack of healthful antioxidants at the same time.
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