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Light salmon quiche
By laetitia
Preheat the oven. Roll out the pastry dough in a flan tin
- 1 puff pastry or short crust pastry
- 3 eggs
- mustard
- tomatoes
- 200 ml single cream, low fat
- 150g smoked salmon
Spiced prawns
By michabedford, chezgaycountrykitchen
Prepare all of the ingredients, shred, grate, crush and chop
- 8 large raw tiger prawns
- 2 slices of fresh ginger, shredded
- 1 clove of garlic, shredded
- 2 spring onions, green parts only, shredded
- 1 tbsp butter
- For the sauce:
- 1 clove of garlic, crushed
- 1 tbsp fresh ginger, grated
- 2 spring onions, white parts only, shredded
- 1 small green chilli, finely chopped
- 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
- 2 tsp sesame oil
- Packet of rocket for garnish
Lettuce Wraps
By lisa0612
Lay salad leaf flat on work top
- 4 Leaves iceberg lettuce
- 2 cooked turkey breasts, sliced
- 1/2 cucumber, cut into strips
- 4 spring onions, cut into long strips
- 250g humus
- Sprinkle of paprika
Goat cheese and prune pastry rolls
By Elen's cooking
Unroll the puff pastry
- 1 puff pastry
- 1 fresh goat cheese
- Some pitted prunes (+ or - according to taste)
Chicken Noodle Soup.
By CydneyHeaven
A heart warming soup
- 500g Chicken
- 2 Packs Noodles
- 3pints Water
- Yellow Pepper
- Green Pepper
- Red Pepper
- 4 Carrots
- 150g Potatoes
- Sweetcorn/Peas (Optional)
- Salt
- Pepper
- Cayane Pepper
- Jerk Seasoning
Potato and Leek Soup
By AdzDalton
Fry the sliced leeks and the potatoes, peeled and chopped into chunks, in the butter in a large saucepan
- 2 leeks
- 2 potatoes
- 1/2 l milk
- 1/2 l water
- salt, pepper
- 50g butter
- fresh chives
Roast cherry tomato and bacon skewers with balsamic dip
By Tomates de France
Reduce the balsamic vinegar to 2/3 in a saucepan over low heat
- 1 punnet of cherry tomatoes
- 12 slices of bacon
- 1 bunch fresh sage
- 15cl balsamic vinegar
- A knob of butter
- 2 tbsp olive oil
Quick & easy hot-and-sour chicken noodle soup
By katie123
Bring a small pan of water to the boil and cook the noodles following pack instructions
- 140g dried wholewheat noodles
- 1 tbsp groundnut oil
- 2 tbsp grated ginger
- 1 medium red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
- 4 skinless, boneless chicken thighs, chopped into small chunks
- 1 tbsp Shaohsing rice wine
- 700ml hot vegetable stock
- 4 chestnut mushrooms, sliced
- 1 tsp dark soy sauce
- 2 tbsp light soy sauce
- 2 tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp cornflour mixed with 2 tbsp cold water to make a paste
- 1 handful beansprouts
- 2 spring onions, sliced
Prawn salad with honey and lots of vitamins!
By Nathou
Prepare the fruit: - Cut the kiwi into slices - Cut one and a half orange into slices and then again in two, kee...
- a dozen large prawns, cooked
- 2 kiwis
- 2 oranges
- 1 grapefruit
- honey
- sesame seeds
- salt and pepper
- olive oil
- salad (young shoots)
Lentil soup
By Samcharles
1. In a pressure cooker, heat 1-2 tablespoon of oil
- Lentils
- 1-2 tbsp oil
- 1 onion (peeled, finely chopped)
- 1 garlic clove
- Carrot (chopped)
- Celery (optional)
- Water
- Salt
- Black pepper
- Chopped parsley
Sesame Chicken With Salad
By wendymcc
Family favourite
- CHICKEN PART
- 4 Large Chicken Fillets
- 1 Tbsp Sesame Oil
- 1 Tbsp Rice Vinegar
- 2 Tbsp Honey
- 2 Tbsp Soy Sauce
- 2 Tbsp Sesame Seeds
- SALAD PART
- 1 Small Carrot (grated)
- 4 inch Piece of Cucumber (sliced)
- 2 Spring Onions (chopped)
- 6 Cherry Tomatoes ( halved)
- 2 Mini Cos Lettuce Gems
- Handful of Fresh Coriander
Classic Prawn Cocktail
By Charlotte Allen
A classic only because its as old as my parents
- 1/4 iceburg lettuce, remove the inside and choˆpe up the outer leaves into thin strips
- 2 lemon wedges
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 16 cooked king prawns, peeled
- 140ml qualit mayonnaise
- 1 tbsp ketchup
- 1tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp horseradish sauce
- Pinch of cayenne pepper
- Tobasco sauce to taste
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