Fresh Berry Pie Bars

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Garlic Bread

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Ingredients

  • 1 baguette (anything from fresh to 2 days old)
  • 6 tablespoons of Dairygold
  • 3 cloves of garlic
  • 1 handful chopped parsley
  • 25g Parmesan cheese (optional)

Instructions

First, preheat your oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mk 4.

Scoop the Dairygold into a medium-sized mixing bowl. Add the chopped parsley.

Using a garlic press, squeeze the garlic cloves into the bowl.

If you fancy adding a “secret ingredient” (to be guarded ferociously, no matter how hard anyone begs), add 25g or so of grated Parmesan cheese to the mix.

Stir the ingredients together until they’re well combined and spreadable.

Next, take your bread. Cut slices into it about an inch apart. IMPORTANT: Don’t cut the whole way through!

Spread your garlic Dairygold mixture evenly between each cut in the bread. If you like, spread some on top too.

Wrap the bread in tinfoil and pop it into your preheated oven, cut side up.

Bake for 15 minutes. TIP: If you like your garlic bread extra crunchy, open the tinfoil for the last 5 minutes of baking.

– See more at: http://www.yourdairygold.ie/food-made-better/garlic-bread.aspx#sthash.Gj2yl8Ep.dpuf

 

Raspberry, Almond & White Chocolate Tart

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Ingredients

  • 100g (4oz) Avonmore butter, at room temperature
  • 100g (4oz) icing sugar
  • 25g (1oz) plain flour
  • 100g (4oz) ground almonds
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 vanilla pod, split and seeds scraped out
  • • large pinch ground cinnamon
  • • 300g Raspberries
  • • 2 oz White Chocolate Pieces
  • • 1 tbsp toasted flaked almonds

For the pastry:

  • 100g (4oz) butter, diced and chilled
  • 175g (6oz) plain flour, plus extra for dusting
  • pinch of salt
  • 50g (2oz) caster sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1/2 tbsp Water

To serve:

  • Raspberries
  • 250ml Avonmore Fresh Dessert Cream

Directions

  1. To make the pastry, place the butter, flour, salt and sugar in a kitchen mixer and blend briefly until mixture resembles coarse bread crumbs.
  2. Add the egg yolk and water and mix together again briefly until the soft dough has formed. Cover in clingfilm and chill for 1 hour.
  3. Preheat the oven to 190C (375F), Gas mark 5. To make the almond filling, using electric whisk, cream the butter and icing sugar together in a large bowl. Add the flour and almonds and gradually beat in the eggs, vanilla, and cinnamon. Beat for another 5 minutes until light and fluffy. Fold in the white chocolate pieces.
  4. Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface, line a 23cm (9in) fluted loose-bottomed flan tin with the pastry. Chill again for 15 minutes. Spread the almond filling in the pastry base and carefully arrange the raspberries on top, gently pressing them into the filling.
  5. Bake the tart for 25-30 minutes until the tart is cooked through and golden brown on top.
  6. Garnish with raspberries and serve with Avonmore Fresh Dessert Cream, which is already slightly sweetened & ready to pour

http://cookwithavonmore.ie/recipe/raspberry-almond-white-chocolate-tart/

 

Delicate Spinach Soup from Kerrygold

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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.

http://kerrygoldusa.com/recipes/delicate-spinach-recipe

Flahavan’s Cranberry and Oat Bran Muffins

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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:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Line a muffin tin with baking cases. Spoon the mixture into the lined muffin tin.
  4. 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