• Contact TSL
  • The TSL Recipe Vault
  • TSL’s Greatest Hits!
  • Who am I?

This Sydney Life

~ Mostly Recipes & Musings on Health

This Sydney Life

Tag Archives: Easy Dinner-party Meal

Preoccupied With Parsley Oil…

06 Friday Mar 2015

Posted by Joanna in Food, Sides & Sauces

≈ 7 Comments

Tags

AIP, Autoimmune Protocol, Easy Dinner-party Meal, Garnish, green sauce, Meat, Oil, Paleo, Parsley, Parsley Oil

TSL Parsley Oil

(Image by LM for TSL)

If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember that Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks movie, ‘Sleepless in Seattle’. It was released in 1993. Yep – that’s 22 years ago! Which makes me officially old. At least, according to the teenager, it does.

Destiny is something we’ve invented because we can’t stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental. (Annie in ‘Sleepless in Seattle’)

Well, that particular movie has little to do with this recipe. Other than the fact that I was reminded of it when I was considering ‘Preoccupied with Parsley Oil’ as a title for this post!

This whole preoccupation with parsley oil came about thanks to one of the AIPers at our recent picnic. She made a comment about some of my recipes being ‘dinner party-worthy’. Which I was so chuffed about! I have always thought of myself as more a wholesome every-day kind of cook…

TSL Making Parsley Oil

The GREAT Parsley Oil Experiment
(Image by TSL)

To be honest, somehow the synapses just started firing in weird ways (does that happen to you?) and I started wondering about how I could make one of my world-famous-in-New-Zealand Root Vegetable Soup recipes into a slightly more dinner-party worthy meal without too much effort… We are fast approaching rugby season after all.

Of course, adding meatballs of any description to vegetable soup is a good way to make it more ‘hearty’. So that was a bit of a no-brainer.

But! – what if I garnished it with parsley oil? – wouldn’t that be kind of cool? And – how do you make parsley oil, anyway?

TSL Meatballs in Root Vegetable SOup

TSL ‘Anything Goes’ Meatballs in Root Vegetable Soup with Parsley Oil
(Image by LM for TSL)

That started me down a rabbit hole of experimenting with making parsley oil. And, you know what I discovered?

Making parsley oil is easy!

Et voilà! A dinner-party dish (at least for in front of the rugby!) was born.

Step 1: Take one recipe for awesome root vegetable soup – you could use this one or this one!

Step 2: Take one recipe for ‘Anything Goes’ Meatballs

Step 3: When ready to serve, garnish with parsley oil (recipe below!)

Parsley Oil

  • Time: you will need to start this the day before
  • Difficulty: easy
  • Print

TSL Parsley oil

Ingredients:

2 x large bunches of fresh, organic flat leaf parsley
3/4 x cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Method:

1. Bring a big pot of generously salted water to a rolling boil. Prepare an ice bath by emptying a tray of ice blocks into a large bowl of cold water.

2. Chop the stalks off your parsley. Don’t worry about being too precise. Throw the parsley into the boiling water for 15 seconds.

3. Drain into a colander and immediately plunge the parsley into the iced water bath (to stop the cooking process). When it is nice and cold, gently squeeze the parsley between a few sheets of paper towel to release as much of the moisture as possible.

4. Chop the parsley into approximate quarters. Pop two of the quarters into your high-speed blender. Add half the EVOO. Blend for two minutes. It will be the most amazing colour!

5. Using a spatula, scrape down the sides of the blender and then add another quarter of the parsley and half the remaining oil. Blend for two minutes. Repeat with the last of the parsley and oil.

6. Pour the parsley oil into a glass jar, screw on the lid and pop into the fridge.

7. The next day, secure a piece of cheesecloth firmly over a bowl. Pour the parsley oil onto the cheesecloth and allow it to work its magic for an hour.

8. Discard the cheesecloth. (Don’t be tempted to squeeze out the cloth – it will cloud your oil).

9. The oil will keep refrigerated for a few days. It freezes well.

E N J O Y !

TSL Bella the Poodle

Bella likes meatballs, too…
Ever hopeful
(Image by LM for TSL)

Recent Posts

  • The End of an Era and a New Beginning…
  • ‘He Won’t Know It’s Paleo’ – a Review
  • The Shame of Hidradenitis Suppurativa
  • Lip-Smackingly Good Lemon Ice Cream (AIP Friendly)
  • The Other Side of Family Time at Casa TSL…
  • Family Time at Casa TSL
  • Things Julia Child has Taught Me (That Have Nothing to do With the Art of French Cookery!)
  • Could You Have Pyrrole Disorder?
  • Easter Inspiration Recipe Round Up
  • The GREAT Sydney AIP Resource Page

Enter your email address to follow This Sydney Life. You'll receive notifications of new posts straight to your inbox...

Like TSL on Facebook! Go on… She’s finally got around to signing up!

Like TSL on Facebook! Go on… She’s finally got around to signing up!

Categories

  • Art
  • Australia
  • Book Review
  • Culture
  • Design
  • Dogs
  • export
  • Fashion
  • Food
  • Haberdashery
  • Health
  • New Zealand
  • Nutrition
  • Performance
  • Random Stuff
  • Retail
  • Sides & Sauces
  • Soup
  • Sweets
  • Sydney
  • The Main Event
  • Travel

Top Posts & Pages from TSL

  • Luke Mangan's SERIOUSLY GOOD Osso Bucco
  • Jamie Oliver-Inspired SUBLIME Four Hour Lamb...
  • Pete Evans and His SERIOUSLY GOOD Bliss Balls...
  • Squint - the Willy Wonka of Furniture!
  • Jamie Oliver and His BEST EVER Pukka Spiced Slow-cooked Lamb Shanks
  • A Simple Sorrel Pesto
  • An Introduction to the Autoimmune Protocol
  • What is This MTHFR That I Keep Hearing About?
  • Peter Lange Creates Trompe L’oeil Brick Sculpture
  • RIDICULOUSLY GOOD Herbed Slow-Cooked Lamb Shanks

Archives

  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012

Top Rated

Blog at WordPress.com.

Cancel

 
Loading Comments...
Comment
    ×
    Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
    To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy