These Oat Scones are the perfect spring treat, and so simple to make too!
Try out our special recipe here:
http://www.flahavans.ie/recipes/oat-scones/412
Delicate Spinach Soup from Kerrygold
Prep:
45 Minutes
Ingredients:
- 1 lb. potatoes
- 1 bunch of spring onions
- 1 ¼ Tbsp. Kerrygold Salted Butter
- 14 oz. cream spinach
- 25 ¼ Fl. oz. vegetable stock
- 1 ¾ Fl. oz. whipping cream
- Fresh herbs (tarragon, parsley, dill, cress, chervil)
- Salt
- Pepper
- Nutmeg
- 3 ½ oz. Kerrygold Reserve Cheddar
Directions:
Peel, clean and roughly chop the potatoes into cubes. Clean and slice the spring onions. Chop the herbs finely. Melt the butter in a large saucepan and briefly sweat the potatoes and spring onions. Add herbs and continue to sweat everything briefly. Add cream spinach and vegetable stock. Simmer for 20 minutes, then purée the soup. Add cream and season with salt, pepper and nutmeg.
Grate the Reserve Cheddar, Pour the spinach soup into pre-heated bowls and sprinkle with the Reserve Cheddar.
Flahavan’s Cranberry and Oat Bran Muffins
Ingredients
- 225g (8oz) plain flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 150g (5oz) caster sugar
- 75g (3oz) Flahavan’s Oat Bran
- 100g (4oz) cranberries
- 25g (1oz) icing sugar
- sifted Zest of an orange
- 1 egg
- Beaten 300ml (½ pint)of Milk
- 50g (2oz) melted butter or sunflower oil
Method:
- Sift the flour into a bowl with the baking powder. Add the sugar and the oat bran and mix. Toss the cranberries into the icing sugar. Add to the bowl with orange zest and stir to mix.
- Place the egg, milk and melted butter or sunflower oil into another bowl and beat lightly. Stir into the dry ingredients. Just do this casually – there is no need to over mix.
- Line a muffin tin with baking cases. Spoon the mixture into the lined muffin tin.
- Bake in a pre-heated oven at 200°C /400°F / Gas Mark 6 for around 15 minutes – or until risen and golden.
Serve warm or cold. Quick Tip Oat Bran is also great as a coating for fish before frying.http://www.flahavans.ie/recipes/cranberry-and-oat-bran-muffins/40
Gingerbread Granola Yogurt Parfait
Ingredients
- 250g Glenisk Greek 0% Fat Vanilla Yogurt
- 140g Porridge Oats
- 55g sliced almonds
- 65g chopped walnuts
- 50g dark brown sugar
- 60g dark treacle
- 40ml of vegetable oil
- ½ tbsp. vanilla extract
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ¾ tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- 75g raisins
Method
- Preheat oven to 150ºC. Line 2 large baking sheets with foil.
- In a large bowl, mix oats, nuts and wheat germ. In another bowl, whisk brown sugar, black treacle, oil, vanilla, salt and spices. Stir the treacle mix into oat mix and make sure all is coated. Divide between 2 baking sheets, spreading evenly.
- Bake granola until browned, 50 to 60 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes. Halfway through baking time, switch baking sheets from top to bottom and front to back.
- Remove sheets from oven and let granola cool. Stir in rasins (if desired) once cool.
- To assemble parfait :layer granola into serving glasses glasses. All a layer of yogurt. Repeat layers once and serve.
- Granola can be stored up to 2 weeks in an airtight container and refrigerated.
Oaty Blueberry Muffins with Ginger and Pear Frosting
Serves 16**depending on the size of your muffin casesThis is a great recipe to impress when the girls are coming around for an afternoon chat. That said, my children love to bake these with me too. The blueberries give them the added extra goodness.Ingredients:
- 300g golden caster sugar
- 4 eggs
- 170ml sunflower oil
- 100ml milk
- 280g self-raising flour
- 100g Flahavan’s Progress Oatlets
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp salt
- 150g blueberries
- 1 large pear, peeled and finely diced
For the Topping
- 150g cream cheese
- 100g butter, softened
- 2 pieces stemmed ginger, very finely chopped
- 2 tsp ginger syrup
- 350g icing sugar
- 2 poached pears, thinly sliced for decorating
- Edible flowers to decorate (optional)
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 170°C/Fan 150°C/Gas 3.
- Place muffin cases in a muffin tray.
- Whisk the sugar, eggs, milk and oil together until thick and pale.
- Fold in the flour, oatlets, ginger and salt.
- Stir in the blueberries and diced pear.
- Spoon the mixture into the muffin cases.
- Bake for 25 – 30 minutes or until lightly golden.
- Place on a cooling rack.
- Cream the butter in a large bowl, then add some icing sugar, followed by the cream cheese and the rest of the icing sugar. Spoon in the ginger syrup.
- Pipe or spread over the cool muffins, decorate with chopped ginger and place slices of pear and a pretty edible flower on the top.
Tip:If using soft fruit like raspberries, just place fruit in freezer for about ½ hour and they will stay fairly whole when baked.http://www.flahavans.ie/recipes/oaty-blueberry-muffins-with-ginger-and-pear-frosting-/247
Organic Smoked Salmon on Potato Cakes with Natural Yoghurt
Makes 12
Ingredients
- 450g cooked, mashed potatoes
- 75g flour
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 2 tablesp. scallions, finely chopped
- Salt, pepper and nutmeg
- 50g butter, melted
- Smoked Salmon
- 125 ml natural yogurt
- 1 tablesp. dill, chopped
- Salt and black pepper
To Cook
Mix the potatoes, flour, eggs, scallions, salt, pepper, nutmeg and half the butter. Mix well together and shape into 12 small potato cakes. Heat the remaining butter in a non-stick pan and then cook the potato cakes until browned on each side. The cakes can be served immediately or kept overnight in the fridge.
15 minutes before serving reheat in a hot oven.
Serving Suggestions
Mix the yoghurt, dill and seasoning. Place a slice of smoked salmon on each potato cake and top with the yogurt mixture.
Odlums Chocolate Christmas Pudding
Ingredients:
For the Pudding:
125g/4oz Odlums Self Raising Flour
125g/4oz Butter (softened)
125g/4oz Caster Sugar
2 large Eggs (beaten)
1 tbsp Cocoa Powder
125g /4oz Plain Chocolate (melted)
50g Shamrock Pecan Nuts (chopped)
15ml/1tbsp Milk
For the sauce:
125g/4oz Plain Chocolate, broken into pieces
25g/1oz Butter
30ml/2 tbsp Golden Syrup
Method:
- Preheat oven to 150°C/300°F/Gas Mark 2. Butter and line the base of a 900ml / 1 ½ pint pudding bowl with a circle of greaseproof paper or butter wrapper.
- Place the butter and sugar in a large bowl and beat until pale and creamy. Gradually beat in the eggs a little at a time (add a spoonful of flour if the mixture begins to curdle).
- Sift together the flour and cocoa powder and fold into the mixture with the melted chocolate, chopped pecans and milk.
- Spoon the mixture into the bowl and cover with a round of greased and pleated greaseproof paper tied securely with fine string. Cover with pleated foil.
- Steam for 1 ½ hours (see directions below) until the pudding is risen and firm to the touch and a skewer inserted into the sponge comes out clean.
- For the chocolate sauce, place all the ingredients in a heat-proof bowl, set over a pan of simmering water and leave until melted. Remove from the heat and stir to make a smooth sauce.
- Turn the pudding out on to a plate, while warm. Pour over some of the chocolate sauce and serve the remaining sauce on the side. Enjoy!
Catherine’s gluten free lemon poppy seed loaf
INGREDIENTS
225g/8oz Odlums Gluten Free Tritamyl Self Raising Flour
125g/4oz Margarine
125g/4oz Caster Sugar
3 Eggs
2 Tablespoons Milk
1 Teaspoon Goodalls Vanilla Essence
2 Tablespoons Poppy Seeds
Grated Rind of Lemon
For Glaze
175g/6oz Icing Sugar
Juice of Lemon
Method
- Preheat oven to 170°C/325°F/Gas 3. Grease and base line a 900g/2lb Loaf tin.
- Cream margarine and sugar together in a bowl. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, and next beat in the milk with vanilla essence.
- Gently stir in the flour until completely combined and finally stir in the poppy seeds and lemon rind.
- Transfer to the prepared tin and bake for about 45 minutes until golden brown and a knife inserted into the cake comes out clean.
- While cake is baking prepare the glaze by heating the sugar and lemon juice over a low heat stirring occasionally until sugar has dissolved.
- When cake is baked allow it to stay in the tin to “set” for 10 minutes then pierce top of cake with a fork or toothpick and pour over the glaze.
- When completely cold store in an airtight container.
http://odlums.ie/catherines-weekly-recipe-gluten-free-lemon-poppy-seed-loaf/
Avonmore Tomato & Basil Soup
Quick, easy, warming – home warming and delicious
Ingredients
- 25g Avonmore butter
- 1 small onion, chopped
- ¼ clove garlic finely chopped
- ½ tbsp tomato puree
- Pinch of sugar
- 900g/2lb fresh vine ripened tomatoes cut in quarters
- ½ organic chicken stock cube, dissolved in 100ml hot water
- 85ml Avonmore cooking cream
- ½ tsp freshly chopped basil
- Sea salt & freshly ground black pepper
Directions
Melt the butter in a large heavy saucepan. Add the onion and garlic and stir for 4 minutes over a medium heat without adding colour.
Stir in the tomato puree & the tomato quarters. Add the sugar & stock, cover with a lid, increase the heat and bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer gently for 15 minutes.
Remove from the heat and puree the soup with a stick blender or alternatively in a food processor until it is completely smooth. Pass the soup through a sieve.
Return the pureed soup to the saucepan, stir in the Avonmore cooking cream and reheat. Season the soup to taste with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Ladle into warm serving bowls and sprinkle with the freshly chopped basil.
Irish Farmhouse Cheese and Oat Soda Bread
Serves 1 Loaf
Ingredients
- 275g plain flour, plus extra for kneading
- 1 teasp. salt
- 1 rounded teasp. bicarbonate of soda
- 250g stoneground wholemeal flour
- 25g porridge oats, plus extra for sprinkling
- 125g Farmhouse cheese, coarsely grated
- Approximately 500ml buttermilk
To Cook
Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 8, 230ºC (450ºF). Sift the plain flour, salt and bicarbonate of soda into a large mixing bowl and stir in the wholemeal flour, 25g of the oats and 75g of the grated cheese. Make a well in the centre, add 450ml of the buttermilk and mix together to make a soft but not too sticky dough. Add a little more buttermilk or milk if the mixture seems a little dry.
Turn the mixture out onto a lightly floured surface and knead very lightly and briefly into a round. Flip the dough over and gently flatten it into a disc about 4cm thick.
Lightly dust a baking sheet with flour and place the dough on it and sprinkle over the remaining cheese and a few more oats. Then using a large, sharp knife, cut a large cross into the top of the loaf, almost all the way through the dough.
Bake the loaf on the middle shelf of the oven for 15 minutes. Then lower the oven temperature to Gas Mark 6, 200ºC (400ºF).and bake for a further 20-25 minutes, until it sounds hollow when you tap the base. Leave to cool before serving.
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