Mags’ apple and blackberry pie: Today @RTEfood

Ingredients

  • 6 pink lady apple
  • 500g frozen blackberries
  • 100g caster sugar
  • Juice and zest one lemon

Pastry

  • 400g plain flour
  • 250g butter
  • 200g icing sugar
  • Teaspoon salt
  • 3 egg yolk
  • Water splash

Method

  1. Cook apple until soft in a pan, add blackberries when apples are nearly cooked.
  2. Mix together. Add juice and zest lemon. Let cool.

Pastry

  1. Rub together the flour and butter until crumble like.
  2. Mix in icing sugar, salt, and egg.
  3. Don’t over mix, rest in the fridge for 1 hour.
  4. Oil or butter your dish
  5. Line a tray. Or muffin tray with pastry
  6. Fill with apple and blackberry mix.
  7. Top the pie with more pastry
  8. Egg wash the top of the pastry, and cook in the oven 180degrees for 28 mins, until pastry is golden.
  9. Let cool and serve with fresh cream Or custard.

Rachel Allen’s pan-fried fish with herb butter, asparagus, new potatoes: @RTEToday


By Rachel Allen

Celebrity Chef

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Rachel Allen’s pan-fried fish with herb butter, asparagus, new potatoes.

Ingredients

Serves: 4-6

For the herb butter:

  • 50g soft butter
  • 1 tablespoon chopped herbs such as dill, fennel, chives, parsley
  • A squeeze of lemon juice
  • Salt and pepper

For the pan-fried fish:

  • 4 fillets of flat fish, such as John Dory, plaice, sole, brill or turbot, or part of a round fish fillet, like salmon, cod, grey mullet, etc. (allow 175g for a main course and 75g for a starter)
  • Approximately 4 tablespoons flour
  • Extra virgin olive oil or soft butter
  • A pinch of sea salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper

Method

  1. Dry the fish fillets on kitchen paper.
  2. Season on both sides with sea salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper.
  3. Heat a cast iron or non-stick frying pan on a high heat until smoking. Add a dash of olive oil and put in the fish fillets.
  4. OR you can dust the fillets with seasoned flour then spread some soft butter over one side.
  5. Place buttered side in the pan first. Turn when golden on one side, then cook again until golden on the other side.
  6. Place a couple of slices of herb butter over each fillet and serve immediately with asparagus and boiled new potatoes.