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Crispy Potato Cakes A fresh and crispy potato change with your main meal!

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Serves 4

Cooking time: 10 Minutes

Preparation time: 10 Minutes

Ingredients

  • 4 large new potatoes (225g/8 oz each)
  • A bunch of chives, finely chopped
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 tbsp. butter
  • 3 tbsp. of olive or sunflower oil

To Cook

Peel and grate the potatoes into a bowl. (If you have a food processor use the grater attachment to prepare the potatoes. It’s quicker and saves on grating your knuckles!). Add the chives and mix well.

Heat the butter and olive oil in a large non-stick frying pan. Quickly shape round patties from the potato mixture (about 2 inches in diameter and ½ inch thick) and put onto the hot pan. Using a spatula, press down the cakes to keep them flat and even.

Fry for 4–5 minutes until crisp and golden. Then turn over and cook on the other side until golden. Remove and drain on kitchen paper. Keep warm in the oven until ready to serve.

Nutritional Analysis per Serving

Protein: 2.5  

Carbohydrates: 24.1  

Fat: 14.7 

Fibre: 1.95 

Energy: 233.7 

http://www.bordbia.ie/consumer/recipes/potatoes/pages/crispypotatocakes.aspx

 

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Glenisk Carrot, Beetroot & Apple Yoghurt Cup

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Ingredients

  • 4 tbsp Glenisk Organic Greek Style Yogurt
  • 1 tbsp Cooked Beetroot, coarsely grated
  • 1 tbsp Raw Carrot, grated
  • 1 tbsp Apple, grated
  • 1 tbsp Toasted Sunflower or Pumpkin Seeds
  • Zest + juice of 1/2 orange
  • 1/2 tsp Harisa Chilli Paste
  • 1 tsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • Season with salt and pepper

Method

  1. Add the yogurt to the bowl.
  2. Grate over the carrot, beetroot and apple.
  3. Squeeze over the orange juice and harissa paste.
  4. Sprinkle over the zest.
  5. Drizzle the olive oil on top.
  6. Add the seeds on top and season.

Nutritional Information (per serving)

  • Calories 279kcal
  • Fat 23g
  • Saturates 6.3g
  • Carbs 18g
  • Sugar 17g
  • Protein 4.2g
  • Salt0.29g
  • Fibre 3.0g

carrot, beetroot & apple yogurt cup

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Odlums decadent Salted Caramel Double Chocolate Brownies

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What you need:

Brownies

  • 65g/2oz                     Odlums All Purpose Cream Flour
  • 80g/3oz                    Cocoa Powder
  • 300g/10oz                Sugar
  • 2                                 Eggs
  • 240g/8oz                  Unsalted Butter (room temperature)
  • 2 tsps                         Vanilla Extract
  • 1 tsp                           Salt
  • 80g/3oz                    Chocolate Chips or roughly chopped chocolate

Salted Caramel Sauce

  • 200g/7oz                   Sugar
  • 120g/4oz                   Unsalted Butter
  • 125ml                         Double cream
  • 1 ½ tsps                      Sea Salt

How to:

  1. For the caramel, heat the sugar in a saucepan on a medium heat. Swirl the pan to evenly distribute the sugar. Lightly stir the sugar with a spatula or wooden spoon for about 5 minutes until it becomes a light golden-brown liquid.
  2. Once it starts to darken, remove from the heat and stir in the butter until melted completely.
  3. Pour in the heavy cream and sea salt. You can use 1to 1 ½ tsps of salt, depending on how salty you like it. Stir well until it is all combined. Put it back on the heat for about 30 to 45 seconds, stirring all the while.
  4. Remove from the heat and allow to cool for 15 minutes before using.
  5. While cooling, make your Brownie batter: Preheat the oven to 180’C. Line an 8 x8 baking dish with parchment paper and set aside.
  6. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until smooth. Stir in the sugar, eggs, vanilla and salt and mix to combine.
  7. Fold in the cocoa powder and flour and fold in the chocolate chips. Pour a little over half the brownie batter into the baking dish and spread evenly.
  8. Pour ¾ of the caramel sauce over the brownie batter, spread evenly.  Spoon the rest of the brownie batter over the top, covering as much of the caramel as possible.
  9. Bake for roughly 40 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean (its ok if there is caramel on it you just don’t want any chocolate brownie batter)
  10. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely before cutting into squares.
  11. Serve with left over caramel sauce and ice-cream or whipped cream.

Salted Caramel Double Chocolate Brownies

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Digging new season potatoes @rachelallencooks

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New season potatoes are being dug daily here at Ballymaloe Cookery School and delivered up to the Farm Shop by the hardworking gardeners. The pic of @rachelallencooks is from last year when everyone (literally) dug in during the lockdown and helped out anywhere they could.
Thank goodness things are begining to look a little more normal. Swing by the shop and grab a bag of Homegrown Organic Spuds at The Farm Shop. Bring them home and gently boil in salted water, slather with some delicious butter and a sprinkling of @maldonsalt. It couldn’t be more #SimplyDelicious
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Bowles’s Mauve for bees & butterflies @BordBia

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If you’d like to entice bees and butterflies into your garden this summer, look no further than planting a perennial wallflower like the Bowles’s Mauve. This reliable plant is easy to care for and flowers beautifully over a number of months each year.

Learn more by clicking the link in our bio.