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Flahavan’s Oats, Almond and Apple Traybake


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Let’s Bake! This delicious Oats, Almond and Apple Traybake couldn’t be easier! Bake up a storm in the kitchen this weekend and enjoy tasty, moreish snacks all week long (if they last that long!) #FlahavansOats
Serves Approx. 12 squares|Takes 1 hour
Ingredients:
For the Crumble:
200g (8oz) Flahavan’s Progress Oatlets
175g (7oz) ground almonds
75g (3oz) brown sugar
1 tsp baking powder
75g (3oz) melted butter
75g (3oz) golden syrup
For the Filling:
5 apples
1 tsp cinnamon (optional)
Method:
Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F/ Gas mark 4).
In a large bowl combine the oats, almonds, sugar and baking powder.
Pour in the melted butter and golden syrup and mix well.
Peel and grate the apples and sprinkle with cinnamon.
Line a 9” (24cm) square baking tin with parchment paper and firmly press out approx. 2/3 of the crumble mixture into the tin.
Spread the apple mixture over the crumble base and sprinkle the remaining crumble over the apple and press lightly.
Bake for approximately 30-40 minutes.
Allow to cool and cut into slices.
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Tandoori Chicken with Pillau Rice and Lemon and Coriander Yoghurt #foodaware

 

 

 
 

Ingredients

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    • 8 chicken thighs or 4 chicken breasts, skin removed
    • Salt and freshly ground black pepper

    Marinade

    • Juice of 1 lemon
    • 4 tablesp. Greek-style yogurt
    • 4 tablesp. tandoori spice mix

Method

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Place the marinade ingredients in a bowl and mix well together.  Cut slits in the chicken and season with salt and pepper.  Rub the marinade over the chicken making sure it is well-coated.  Leave to marinade for as long as you can – the longer the better.

Preheat the oven to gas Mark 6, 200°C (400°F) .

Arrange the chicken in a single layer on a baking tray and bake for 25 minutes or until the chicken is cooked.

To prepare the rice: Heat the oil in a large sauce pan and add the onion. Cook over a medium-high heat until the onions are browned.  Be careful not to let them burn.

Add the cinnamon, cloves and turmeric. Cook for 2-3 minutes.

Then add the rice and cover with the stock or water. Put a lid on the sauce and bring to the boil. Stir once, then reduce to a simmer for approximately 10 minutes. At this stage the water will have evaporated and the rice with be fluffy.

Serve the chicken with the rice, lemon and coriander yoghurt, some lemon wedges and a green salad.

https://www.bordbia.ie/recipes/chicken-recipes/tandoori-chicken-with-pillau-rice-and-lemon-and-coriander-yoghurt/

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Nigella’s Spaghetti Carbonara

by Nigella. Featured in HOW TO EAT

Photo by Jonathan Lovekin

Introduction

This is my favourite – along with all my other favourites. I love the buttery, eggy creaminess of the sauce, saltily-spiked with hot-cubed bacon: it’s comforting, but not in a sofa-bound kind of way. It feels like proper dinner, only it takes hardly any time to cook. This is my most regular dinner for two: I keep, at all times, the wherewithal to make it in the house.

For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.

Ingredients

Serves: 1-2 Metric Cups

  • 200 grams spaghetti
  • 2 teaspoons olive oil
  • 100 grams guanciale or pancetta in one piece
  • 4 x 15ml tablespoons dry white vermouth or wine
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 whole egg
  • 4 tablespoons freshly grated parmesan cheese
  • a grind of black pepper
  • a grating of fresh nutmeg
  • approx. 20 grams unsalted butter

Method

  1. Put water on for the pasta and when it’s boiling add a decent amount of salt and then, when it’s boiling again, the spaghetti. Italians say the water pasta cooks in should be as salty as the Mediterranean.
  2. Cut the rind off the pancetta (or guanciale if you’ve been able to get it) and put the rind in the pan with the oil on medium to high while you dice the rest of the pancetta. Then add it and fry for about 5 minutes, maybe more, until it is beginning to crisp. Remove the rind (I like to eat it, but you may not feel the same way.) Throw in the vermouth and let it bubble away for about 3 minutes until you have about 2 teaspoons or so of syrupy wine-infused bacon fat. Remove from the heat.
  3. For the egg mixture, simply beat the yolk, the whole egg, the cheese, the pepper and the nutmeg (the pancetta and the cheese should provide enough salt) together with a fork. When the pasta’s ready, quickly put the bacon pan back on the heat, adding the butter as you do so. Remove a cupful of pasta-cooking water and then drain the spaghetti and tip it into the pancetta pan. Mix it well together, then turn off the heat (take the pan away from the hob if your stove’s electric).
  4. Pour the egg mixture over the bacony pasta and quickly and thoroughly turn the pasta so that it’s all covered in the sauce. Whatever you do, don’t turn the heat back on or you’ll have scrambled eggs; in time, the hot pasta along with the residual heat of the pan will set the eggs to form a thickly creamy sauce that binds and clings lightly to each strand of pasta. Add a tablespoon or so, going gently, of the pasta cooking water as you toss it all together. This will help make the sauce creamier.

This makes two platefuls: it’s up to you whether you conclude this is enough for one or two of you.

https://www.nigella.com/recipes/spaghetti-carbonara

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UN International Year of Fruit and Vegetables 2021, @BordBia

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To celebrate the UN International Year of Fruit and Vegetables 2021, Bord Bia is encouraging people to simply ‘add one more’ locally grown fruit or vegetable to their favourite meals this summer ☀️

Whether its adding beetroot to your morning smoothie or leftover carrots to some delicious mashed potoato, the Irish growing season is at its peak and in season fruit and vegetables are at their freshest!

What in season fruit or veg can you add to your meals today? 🥦🥕🍓

#bestinseason #seasonalfood #irishfood #IYFV20211w
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Gillian Hegarty’s Home-made Pasta by Rachel Allen

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Makes approx. ¾lb (350g) fresh pasta, feeds approximately 3-4.

You will need:

300g (10oz) ’00’ flour

25g (1oz) semolina flour and extra for dusting

A good pinch of salt

1 whole egg and 3 large egg yolks

1 dessertspoon extra-virgin olive oil

1 teaspoon cold water

Sift the ’00’ flour, 25g (1oz) of the semolina flour and the pinch of salt into a bowl. Make a well in the centre of the flour, break in one whole egg and two egg yolks into the centre, together with the extra-virgin olive oil and the cold water and mix everything together.

When the dough is at a crumbly stage (before you form it into a ball) check to see if there is enough moisture in it. If there is not, add the remaining egg yolk and maybe even an extra egg white. It is difficult to be exact with the quantity of liquid, as it depends on the size of the eggs and the brand of flour.

Knead the dough for 8-10 minutes or until it is really smooth and silky, see my Tip, above left. Wrap it well in cling film and let it rest for 30 minutes before rolling. Divide the dough into three pieces – keep two covered in cling film while you roll the other piece into a length that is 1-2mm (about 1/8in) thick. As a guide, you shouldn’t be able to read the lettering on a matchbox through the pasta. If the pasta is rolled too thinly it will be too sloppy and won’t be strong enough to hold the sauce.

Using a knife or pizza wheel, cut into ¼in (5mm) strips for noodles or tagliatelle. Pappardelle are the widest of the noodles, they should be cut to a width of 15mm (about »in) with a crimped-edge cutter. Toss the cut pasta in the extra semolina flour and then place them on a tray that is also sprinkled generously with semolina flour. Repeat with the remaining pasta dough.

The pasta is best if the strips are allowed to dry out for at least an hour in the fridge or cool place.

It can be kept for up to three days in the fridge.

http://www.rachelallen.com/post/gillian-hegartys-home-made-pasta