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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

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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
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Organic Smoked Salmon on Potato Cakes with Natural Yoghurt

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  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.

http://www.bordbia.ie/consumer/recipes/

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Flahavans bloat beating breakfast

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Bloat beating breakfast!

Here’s a delicious Overnight Oats recipe that is not only delicious but also full of ingredients that can help give you a flatter, less-bloated tummy.

Ingredients

1/2 cup oats
1 teaspoon chia seeds
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk
1/4 cup yogurt (I used Silk Soy Vanilla)
1/4 banana
1/4 cup pineapple, chopped (fresh or frozen)
1/4 cup blueberries (fresh or frozen)
1 tablespoon chopped almonds

Directions

  1. Add the ingredients in the order listed to a small mason jar.
  2. Place in the fridge overnight.
  3. In the morning, mix it all together and enjoy cold or warmed up in the microwave.

Image Source: Calorie Count

http://www.popsugar.com/fitness/Flat-Belly-Overnight-Oats-38687684