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Christmas cocktail
Dish type: Drink
Currant and prosecco cocktail
Ingredients:
1 ½ tsp (6g)
Truvia® calorie-free sweetener spoonable, plus more for garnish
2 Tbsp unsweetened black currant juice
½...
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Pavlova With Chestnut Mousse, Candied Orange and Chestnuts
Dish type: Dessert
Serves: 6-10
Preparation Time: 2 hours 30 mins
Cooking Time: 35-45 mins
Ingredients:
4 large egg whites
175g caster sugar
75g icing sugar
The orange zest and chestnuts...
3
Winter spired brik pastry pie
Dish type: Main meal
Serves: 4
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Ingredients
200g Yorkshire Fettle cheese
2 bags of washed spinach
20g butter
¼teaspoon cinnamon
½...
4
Parsnip and sweet potato soup
Dish Type: Starter
Serves: 4-6
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes approx
Ingredients
5 sweet potatoes
peeled and chopped 8 parsnips
2 onions peeled and chopped
1 large leek...
5
Christmas Pudding Chutney
Preparation and cooking time: 15 minutes
Ingredients
100g Fox’s Christmas Pudding, crumbled
1 tsp olive oil
1 red onion, sliced
1 stick of celery, sliced
1 clove of garlic, crushed
½ tsp...
6
Pink Lady Apple and Mincemeat Tarts
Dish type: Dessert
Preparation and cooking time: 40 minutes plus chilling
Serves 12
Ingredients
1 x 375 g pack ready rolled sweet shortcrust pastry
200g mincemeat
1 Pink Lady Apple, cored and finely...
7
Roast Loin of Lamb baked in Bread
Dish type: Main course
Preparation and cooking time: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Serves: 8
Ingredients
Bread Dough
1.5kg organic plain flour
750ml cold water
A good pinch of organic sea salt
Lamb
2 x 400g portions...
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Deliciously festive puddings for Christmas
The festive season is upon us, and whether for a dinner party or a cosy night in, there's nothing better at this time of year than a spot of indulgent baking.
When the cold sets in and the...
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Pear & Ginger Bread & Butter Pudding
Dish type: Dessert
Serves 4-6
Preparation and cooking time: 40 minutes
Ingredients
2 ripe dessert pears (200g each), peeled, cored and cut into thick slices
400g of unsliced white farmhouse bread, roughly...
10
Seitan and corn saute with cilantro and lime
Isa Chandra from Post Punk Kitchen shares her recipe. Her latest book, "Isa Does It", is available now.
Dish type: Main meal
Serves: 4
Cooking and preparation time: 25 minutes
Ingredients:...
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Paneer Arancinis with raita
Dhruv Baker from MasterChef shares his recipe.
Ingredients
1 pouch Tilda British Curry Rice
1 tbsp oil
1 shallot, finely chopped
½ red chilli, finely chopped
A thumb of ginger
1 clove garlic...
12
Grilled halloumi burger with falafel
Dish Type: Main Meal
Cooking and preparation time: 30 minutes
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
2 x 400g tins chickpeas,
Drained 2 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon ground coriander
2 garlic cloves
Small...
13
Beany banger bake
Ingredients (Serves 4)
1 tbsp vegetable oil
300g/11oz chorizo-style pork chipolata sausages, each made into 2 small ones by pinching in the middle, twisting and then cutting
1 onion, peeled...
14
Sausage and cider hot pot
Ingredients (Serves 4)
½ butternut squash, peeled, deseeded and thinly sliced
2 large waxy potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced
1 large turnip, peeled and thinly sliced
1 tbsp...
15
Lentil and onion soup
Ingredients (serves 4)
4 tbsp olive oil
6 onions (about 900g/2lb in total), peeled and finely sliced
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
150g/5oz Puy lentils
3 tsp finely chopped...
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Caramel rice pudding
Ingredients (Serves 4)
55g sugar
30g arborio rice
420ml whole milk
205ml evaporated milk (not condensed)
pinch of sea salt
To serve
prunes soaked in a mixture of earl grey...
17
Ingredient of the week: Jerusalem artichoke
This knobbly fellow’s only relation to the more common artichoke is in name – the two are distinct and unrelated.
There are a fair few stories about why the Jerusalem artichoke is named...
18
Rumba sausage bake
Ingredients (Serves 4)
450g/1lb spicy sausages, for example pork and chilli
1 large Spanish onion, peeled and cut into 4 thick slices
1 large beefsteak tomato, cut in half
1 red pepper,...
19
Wholegrain goodness
While the days get colder and we’re firmly into hat and scarf weather, warming comfort foods are a must.
If you need a kick-start in the morning, something to keep you going through a long afternoon...
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Fabulous 80-page winter entertaining special free with this week's HELLO!
As the festive season approaches and the nights draw in, HELLO! magazine has just the thing to banish the blues - a fabulous 80-page, recipe-packed guide to winter entertaining. And it's absolutely free...