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Rachel Allen’s pan-fried fish with herb butter, asparagus, new potatoes: @RTEToday
Celebrity Chef
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
- Dry the fish fillets on kitchen paper.
- Season on both sides with sea salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper.
- 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.
- OR you can dust the fillets with seasoned flour then spread some soft butter over one side.
- Place buttered side in the pan first. Turn when golden on one side, then cook again until golden on the other side.
- Place a couple of slices of herb butter over each fillet and serve immediately with asparagus and boiled new potatoes.
Sarah Butler’s puff pastry apple turnovers: @RTEToday
Ingredients
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 25 minutes
Makes: 6
- 4 Granny Smith apples – peeled, cored and cubed
- 30g tablespoons butter
- 200g brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon cornflour
- 1 tablespoon water
- 2 sheets of puff pastry
- 100g icing sugar
- juice of ½ lemon
Method
- Preheat oven to 220C, 200C fan, gas 7
- Melt the butter in a frying pan on a medium heat.
- Add the apples, cinnamon and sugar.
- Cook for 4-5 minutes until the apples soften and the sugar melts to a sticky liquid.
- Mix the cornflour and water together and add to the pan, this will thicken up the sauce.
- Cut the pastry into squares and spoon a little mixture into half.
- Fold over from corner to corner into a triangle shape, and press edges together to seal.
- Put the turnovers onto a baking sheet and bake for 25 minutes until they are puffed and lightly browned.
- Once cooled, you can decorate; mix the icing powder with the lemon juice until you have a toothpaste consistency and drizzle over each turnover.
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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.
Rachel Allen’s pan-fried fish with herb butter, asparagus, new potatoes: @RTEToday
Celebrity Chef
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
- Dry the fish fillets on kitchen paper.
- Season on both sides with sea salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper.
- 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.
- OR you can dust the fillets with seasoned flour then spread some soft butter over one side.
- Place buttered side in the pan first. Turn when golden on one side, then cook again until golden on the other side.
- Place a couple of slices of herb butter over each fillet and serve immediately with asparagus and boiled new potatoes.
This delicate apple pudding is flavoured with wintery notes of cinnamon and ginger. @RTEToday @BallyknockenHC
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This delicate apple pudding is flavoured with wintery notes of cinnamon and ginger.
This delicate apple pudding is flavoured with wintery notes of cinnamon and ginger. @RTEToday @BallyknockenHC
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This delicate apple pudding is flavoured with wintery notes of cinnamon and ginger.
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
- Cook apple until soft in a pan, add blackberries when apples are nearly cooked.
- Mix together. Add juice and zest lemon. Let cool.
Pastry
- Rub together the flour and butter until crumble like.
- Mix in icing sugar, salt, and egg.
- Don’t over mix, rest in the fridge for 1 hour.
- Oil or butter your dish
- Line a tray. Or muffin tray with pastry
- Fill with apple and blackberry mix.
- Top the pie with more pastry
- Egg wash the top of the pastry, and cook in the oven 180degrees for 28 mins, until pastry is golden.
- Let cool and serve with fresh cream Or custard.
Rachel Allen’s pan-fried fish with herb butter, asparagus, new potatoes: @RTEToday
Celebrity Chef
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
- Dry the fish fillets on kitchen paper.
- Season on both sides with sea salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper.
- 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.
- OR you can dust the fillets with seasoned flour then spread some soft butter over one side.
- Place buttered side in the pan first. Turn when golden on one side, then cook again until golden on the other side.
- Place a couple of slices of herb butter over each fillet and serve immediately with asparagus and boiled new potatoes.
