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Gratin au Christophine
By Laurapackham
Prepare the christophines in peeling them and scopping out the flesh
- 1 kg of christophines
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 bunch of new onions
- Fresh cream
- Grated cheese
Cowboy stew
By shazzababbs
Mixed beans in a tomato sauce, keep it vegetarian or add various meats
- 2 Cans of any beans of your choice i.e kidney beans, butter beans, black eyed beans. i use 2 tins of supermarket mixed beans, preferably in sauce.
- 2 cartons of any passata. (or 2 tins chopped tomatoes)
- 1 can of baked beans
- 1/2 can sweetcorn
- 1 red onion
- peppers (again whatever colour you choose)
- fresh chillies (optional)
- season to your taste if you like it hot add chilli powder, paprika or cayenne or all of it!!
- That's it for the veggie version, if you choose to go fully cowboy then you can add whole or chopped sausages, chorizo , bacon, mince, chicken or any meat of your choice this dish is as simple and cheap or as rich and extravagant as you choose but a little goes a long way.
Stuffed sea bream
By RIAUD Romy
Buy your sea bream already gutted and prepared by the fishmonger, ready to cook
Beef Burgers
By meadows
Place all ingredients in a bowl, with one hand mix together well until everything blends together
- 225 grammes Minced Beef
- Bread crumbs (fresh, optional)
- 1 small diced onion
- 1 egg
- Plenty of seasoning, any herbs and seasonings to taste, e.g. curry, chilli, herbs.
Steamed chicken
By czj
Clean the whole chicken
- whole chicken
- ginger
- garlic
- sesame oil
- shao xing wine
BACON, cheese and onion pasties
By EMMA FINERTY
Fry the onion and bacon
- 900g ready made shortcrust pastry
- 2 onions
- cheese
- drop of milk
- bacon
Tyler's Perfect Sauasges
By TylerStone1
Add butter and salt into a pan and leave to sizzle until liquidised
- Teaspoon of butter
- 2 pinches of salt
- 4 Richmond Skinless sausages
Sweet and Sour Pork Chops
By Sbdiva
Turn oven on to 400F/200C/Gas Mark 6
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 1 small green pepper, finely chopped
- 1oz butter
- 1 small can (7 3/4oz) pineapple
- 2tbsp Demerara sugar
- 2tsp Worcester sauce
- 2tsp tomato ketchup
- 1tbsp sweet chutney
- 2tbsp malt vinegar
- 1tbsp cornflour
- 1/2tsp salt
- 4 spare rib pork chops
- 8oz long grain rice, cooked
Morocco inspired prawn cups
By Jennchar1820
Cut the very bottom off of the little gem lettuce head and allow it to fall in to individual lettuce leaves
- 1 x little gem lettuce
- 12 x pre cooked prawns
- 2 x tablespoon of mayonnaise
- 1/2 tablespoon on tomato ketchup
- 1 x teaspoon of Harissa paste
- Few dashes of Worcester sauce and lemon juice
Bacon and Seafood Paella
By ginbin
Family Recipe
- Small onion, chopped
- Red pepper, chopped
- 2 tomatoes, chopped and deseeded
- Saffron threads
- 4 medallions unsmoked back bacon
- 100g risotto / arborio rice
- 1 pint hot vegetable stock
- 200g mixed, cooked seafood
Risotto with courgettes
By Mimilafee sur son blog Mimilafée avec amour
1 / Peel and chop the onion and garlic
- - 300 g Arborio rice
- - 2 courgettes
- - 1 onion
- - 1 clove of garlic
- - 70 cl stock (cubes with soya)
- - 2 tablespoons of crème fraîche
- - 20 g parmesan
- - 2 tablespoons olive oil
- - Salt and pepper
Fish - Prawn Pilaf
By Keith Bradbury, FROM ALFREDO'S WITH LOVE...
This is a great and terrifically easy dish, and it can be played about with all sorts of combinations
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 1 red pepper sliced thinly
- 1 garlic clove crushed
- 225 gm long grain white rice
- 700 ml fish,chicken or veg stock
- 1 bay leaf
- salt and pepper
- 400 gm peeled cooked prawns
- To garnish – a handful of whole cooked prawns
- lemon wedges
- Greek black olives
- Serve with Pecorino cheese to grate over
- Cubes of Greek feta cheese
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