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MacNean Organic Oats with Irish Mist and Honey @nevenmaguire
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Porridge is one of our most popular breakfasts in the restaurant, and this recipe goes down a treat. On cold winter mornings, it gets you off to a good start and takes no more than 10 minutes to prepare.
Ingredients
- 100 g (4oz) porridge oats (organic if possible)
- 300 ml (1/2 pint) whole-fat milk (plus extra if necessary)
- 4 dsp clear honey
- 4 dsp irish mist
- 150 ml (1/4 pint) cream (optional)
Method
- Simmer the porridge oats and milk together in a saucepan for 8-10 minutes, until the mixture is slightly thickened, stirring all the time. It is important that the porridge has a nice soft dropping consistency so add a little more milk if you think that it needs it.
- To serve, spoon the porridge into warmed bowls. Drizzle each one with some honey and Irish mist and finally, serve with cream if you wish.
Neven Maguire’s Brown Scones are full of roughage and great for breakfast
Brown scones are full of roughage and great for breakfast. And here is a good tip: you can make this mixture, shape the scones and freeze them. You can then cook the scones straight from the freezer to the oven – just give them an extra 5 minutes and make sure the scones are golden brown and well-risen.
Ingredients
- Rapeseed or sunflower oil, for greasing
- 225g (8oz) self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting
- 225g (8oz) coarse wholemeal flour
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 50g (2oz) wheat bran
- 25g (1oz) butter, diced and at room temperature
- 1 tsp light muscovado sugar
- 300ml (½ pint) buttermilk, plus a little extra if necessary
Method
- Preheat the oven to 220°C (425°F/gas mark 7). Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper and grease the paper with a little oil.
- Sift the flours, baking soda and salt into a bowl. Tip in the bran left in the sieve and stir it in with the wheat bran. Rub in the butter with your fingertips until it is evenly dispersed. Stir in the sugar.
- Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and add the buttermilk and golden syrup. Using a large spoon, mix gently and quickly until you have achieved a smooth, not-too-sticky dough. Add a little more buttermilk if necessary, until the dough binds together without being sloppy.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to a 2.5cm (1in) thickness and cut into rounds with a 6cm (2½in) plain cutter. Arrange on the lined baking sheets and bake for 10-15 minutes, until golden brown and well-risen.
- Serve with butter or lightly whipped cream and strawberry jam.
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Sharon Hearne Smith’s Porridge Bread is SO easy to make! @RTEToday
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Sharon Hearne Smith’s Sesame Seed Porridge Bread from Today with Maura and Dáithí.
Ingredients
This is an unusual bread recipe, based on porridge oats and yoghurt instead of flour and water. It is quick, easy and virtually foolproof to make.
Use any selection of seeds you prefer instead of sesame seeds, or omit them altogether for a plain bread. Alternatively, add other flavours like nuts and dried fruits or sundried tomatoes and basil or a swirl of pesto would be delicious too. This bread stays quite moist and fresh for a few days stored in an airtight container.
Makes: 1 loaf (about 12 slices)
- Sunflower oil for greasing
- 500g tub natural yoghurt
- 100ml milk
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp sesame seeds + extra for sprinkling
- 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 x 500ml yoghurt tubs of porridge oats (or 400g)
- butter for serving, optional
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200C (fan 180C), 400F, Gas Mark 6. Grease a 1Lb loaf tin (approximately 3 x 5 x 7 inch) with parchment paper and grease again.
- Scoop the yoghurt into a large bowl. Add the milk, oil, sesame seeds and bicarbonate of soda and mix until well blended.
- Fill a clean and dry yoghurt tub with oats and tip them in. Repeat with a second tub of oats. Alternatively, weigh out 400g of oats on a scales.
- Mix everything together until well blended.
- Spoon into the prepared tin, spreading the top level. Scatter a small handful of sesame seeds on top.
- Bake for 45 minutes or until golden brown and a skewer comes out clean when pierced in the middle.
- Remove from the tin and return the loaf to oven, directly on the shelf, for another 5 minutes to dry out the crust.
- Remove and leave to cool on a wire rack. Cut into slices and serve spread with a little butter if liked.
Rachel Allen’s Irish Gingerbread @RTEfood
There’s no better accompaniment for a hot pot of tea than this gingerbread from Rachel Allen.
Ingredients
- 60 g (2½oz) butter
- 75 g (3oz) treacle
- 50 g (2oz) golden syrup
- 140 g (4¾oz) plain flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 0.5 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
- 100 g (3½oz) caster sugar
- pinch of salt
- 1 egg
- 125 ml (4½fl oz) milk
- for the syrup
- 75 g (3oz) caster sugar
- 2 tsp finely grated root ginger, or finely chopped crystallised ginger
Method
- Preheat the oven to 170°C (325°F), Gas mark 3. Line the base and sides of a 900g (2lb) loaf tin with baking parchment.
- Melt the butter, treacle and golden syrup in a small saucepan on a low heat, then set aside.
- Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder into a bowl and stir in the spices, sugar and salt. In another bowl, whisk the egg, then add the milk and the melted butter mixture and pour into the dry ingredients. Mix until smooth – it will have a wet sloppy consistency.
- Pour into the prepared loaf tin and bake in the oven for 50–55 minutes until risen and firm to the touch and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. (Wait for at least 45 minutes before opening the oven to check whether the gingerbread has cooked, otherwise it can collapse in the centre.)
- While the gingerbread is cooking, make the syrup. Place the sugar and ginger in a small saucepan with 75ml (3fl oz) water, bring to the boil over a medium heat and boil, uncovered, for 5 minutes or until slightly thickened and syrupy.
- Once the gingerbread is cooked, take it out of the oven and, leaving it in the tin, pierce it all over the top with a fine skewer, then pour the syrup over and leave to cool completely.
- When the gingerbread is cold, take it out of the tin and serve.
Shane’s strawberry and pistachio galette: Today @RTEfood
Sweet strawberries and salty pistachios are a match made in heaven.
Award-winning Irish pastry chef Shane Smith.
Sweet strawberries and salty pistachios are a match made in heaven.
Ingredients
Serves: 6
Prep: 15 mins
Bake: 35 mins
Dough:
- 80g wholemeal flour
- 170g plain flour
- 80g caster sugar
- 150g Irish butter, room temp
- 1 large egg yolk
- pinch salt
- 3 tablespoons water
- 600g Irish Strawberries
- 1 tbsp cornflour
- 1 tbsp water
- ½ tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tbsp chopped pistachios
To serve
- 200g Greek yoghurt
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 tsp lemon zest
Method
- For the pastry, in a bowl using your fingertips, rub together both flours, sugar, butter, and salt until a breadcrumb consistency is reached.
- To this add the yolk and water and mix until a dough is reached.
- Turn this onto a floured table and gently work, wrap, and chill for 30 mins hour.
- Once the pastry is rested, roll into a circle and using the rolling pin, transfer this onto a lined baking tray.
- Into a bowl, mix the cornflour, water and maple syrup and mix this with the prepared strawberries.
- Spoon this mixture into the centre of the pastry, leaving a 2-inch rim around the edge.
- Carefully fold the edges inward on top of the fruit leaving some of the centre fruit exposed.
- Egg wash the pastry and sprinkle with chopped pistachios.
- Place in a preheated oven at 180C and bake for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown.
- Remove and allow to rest before serving.
- To serve mix the yoghurt, honey and lemon zest and serve on the side.
Hearty and zingy, this Thai rice soup is perfect for in-between weather. @RTEfood
Donal Skehan’s Thai rice soup
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Ingredients
Serves: 4
Time: 35 minutes
- 1.5ltrs good chicken stock
- 2 inch piece of fresh ginger
- 2 lemongrass stalks
- 1 lime, juice and peeled zest
- 2 – 4 Thai Birds Eye chillies – depending on your spice tolerance!
- 50ml fish sauce, plus extra to season
- 3 cloves garlic
- pinch ground turmeric
- 6 chicken thighs, cut into bite sized pieces
- 500g cooked white rice
- pinch white pepper
- 2 tbsp light soy sauce
- 1 red onion
- Sesame oil, to serve
- Handful of coriander leaves
- Handful of mint
Method
- First, get the chicken stock into a pan. Slice half of the ginger, chilli and lemongrass and add to the pot. Peel the zest off a lime then bring to a boil, and season with the 25ml of the fish sauce. Turn down to a simmer whilst you prepare the rest of the dish.
- Finely chop the remaining ginger, chilli and lemongrass and place into a bowl. Grate in the garlic and add the remaining fish sauce. Chop the chicken thighs into inch pieces and add to the bowl along with a pinch of turmeric and mix everything together.
- Get a wok over a high heat and add the oil followed by the chicken pieces. Cook, stirring, until the chicken is golden brown and cooked through.
- Scoop the aromatics from the broth and discard then add the rice to the broth and warm through for at least 5 minutes.
- To finish, slice the red onion finely and season the broth with some white pepper, soy sauce, sesame oil, lime juice and some extra fish sauce if needed.
- Add the rice and broth to your bowls then top with the chicken, followed by the sliced onions. Garnish with extra sliced red chillies, if you can handle them!, and lots of coriander and mint.
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Neven Maguire’s Brown Scones are full of roughage and great for breakfast
Brown scones are full of roughage and great for breakfast. And here is a good tip: you can make this mixture, shape the scones and freeze them. You can then cook the scones straight from the freezer to the oven – just give them an extra 5 minutes and make sure the scones are golden brown and well-risen.
Ingredients
- Rapeseed or sunflower oil, for greasing
- 225g (8oz) self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting
- 225g (8oz) coarse wholemeal flour
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 50g (2oz) wheat bran
- 25g (1oz) butter, diced and at room temperature
- 1 tsp light muscovado sugar
- 300ml (½ pint) buttermilk, plus a little extra if necessary
Method
- Preheat the oven to 220°C (425°F/gas mark 7). Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper and grease the paper with a little oil.
- Sift the flours, baking soda and salt into a bowl. Tip in the bran left in the sieve and stir it in with the wheat bran. Rub in the butter with your fingertips until it is evenly dispersed. Stir in the sugar.
- Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and add the buttermilk and golden syrup. Using a large spoon, mix gently and quickly until you have achieved a smooth, not-too-sticky dough. Add a little more buttermilk if necessary, until the dough binds together without being sloppy.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to a 2.5cm (1in) thickness and cut into rounds with a 6cm (2½in) plain cutter. Arrange on the lined baking sheets and bake for 10-15 minutes, until golden brown and well-risen.
- Serve with butter or lightly whipped cream and strawberry jam.
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Darina Allen and Rory O’Connell’s Christmas Mincemeat recipe passed down in Myrtle Allen’s family for generations #Ballymaloe
Here are three delicious options, the first is the classic Mincemeat recipe passed down in Myrtle Allen’s family for several generations. Of course, it contains suet so it’s moist and juicy and best eaten hot. The second, Emer Fitzgerald’s Mincemeat is vegetarian, it doesn’t include suet or butter and is also gluten free. The third, Brandy Mincemeat, does not include suet either, but does have butter.
Ingredients
- 2 cooking apples, e.g. Bramley Seedling
- 2 organic lemons
- 450g (1lb) beef suet (see P.00)
- pinch of salt
- 110g (4oz) candied citrus peel (preferably homemade)
- 2 tablespoons Seville orange marmalade
- 225g (8oz) currants
- 450g (1lb) sultanas
- 900g (2lbs) Barbados sugar (moist, soft, dark-brown)
- 62ml (2 1/2fl oz) Irish whiskey
Method
Makes 3.2 kilos approx. Makes 8-9 pots.
- Core and bake the whole apples in a moderate oven, 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4, for 30 minutes approx. Allow to cool. When they are soft, remove the skin and pips and mash the flesh into pulp.
- Grate the rind from the lemons on the finest part of a stainless steel grater and squeeze out the juice and stir into the pulp. Add the other ingredients one by one, and as they are added, mix everything thoroughly.
- Put into sterilized jars, cover and leave to mature for 2 weeks before using. This mincemeat will keep for a year in a cool, airy place.
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