Recipe of the Day: Semi Liquid Chocolate Cake

Semi Liquid Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Cake

* Serves: 10
* Prep Time: 0hrs 15 mins
* Cooking Time: 0hrs 20 mins

Ingredients

* 200g Black chocolate
* 180g Butter
* 100g Flour
* 4 Eggs
* 200g Sugar

Method

Preheat your oven at 225°C.

Melt the butter in your microwave in a bowl.

In a big bowl mix the sugar, the eggs, and the butter together. The mixture must be creamy.

Break the chocolate into pieces and melt it in the microwave with 3 tea spoons of water.

Now pour the melted chocolate and the sifted flour into the mixture, stirring just until everything is well blended and you have a smooth consistency.

Pour this into the tin and bake for 20 minutes.

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MyDish Recipe of the Day: Banana Banoffee Pie

Banana Banoffee Pie

* Serves: 4
* Prep Time: 0hrs 25 mins
* Cooking Time: 2hrs 15 mins

Ingredients

* 2 x 400ml/ 14 fl oz cans sweetened condensed milk
* 6 tbsp Melted butter/ plus extra for greasing
* 150g/ 5 ½ oz Digestive buscuits/ crused into crumbs
* 1 tbsp lemon juice
* 1 tsp Vanilla essence
* 75g/ 2 ¾ oz chocolate grated
* 450ml/ 16 fl oz Thick double whipped cream
* 50g/ 1 ¾ oz Almonds toasted and ground
* 4 Ripe Bananas
* 50g/ 1¾ oz Shelled hazelnuts toasted and ground

Method

1. Place the cans of milk in a large saucepan and cover them with water. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 2 hours. Ensure that the water is topped up regulary to keep the cans covered. Carefully lift out the hot cans and leave to cool.

2. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees centegrade or gas mark 4. Grease a 23-cm/9-inch flan tin Put the butter into a bowl and add the biscuits and nuts. Mix together well, then press mixture evenly into the base and sides of the flan tin. Bake for 10-12 minutes, then remove from oven and leave to cool.

3. Peel and slice the bananas and put them into a bowl. Sprinkle over the lemon juice and vanilla essence and mix gently. Spread the banana mixture over the biscuit crust in the tin, then open the cans of condensed milk and spoon the contents over the bananas. Sprinkle over 50g/1 and a quarter oz of the chocolate, then top with a thick layer of whipped cream. Scatter over the remaining chocolate and serve.

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MyDish Recipe of the day: Gingerbread Mini Muffins

Gingerbread Muffins

* Serves: 16
* Prep Time: 0hrs 15 mins
* Cooking Time: 0hrs 15 mins

Ingredients

* 2.5 cups flour
* 2 tsp baking soda
* 1 cup brown sugar
* 1 tsp cinnamon powder
* 1 tsp ginger powder
* 1 pinch salt
* 0.25 tsp nutmeg
* 1 egg
* 0.5 cup molasses
* 1 cup buttermilk
* 0.5 cup melted butter

Method

1. Preheat oven to 220 degree C. Grease muffin tins.

2. 1st bowl: mix sugar, flour, soda, salt and spices.

3. 2nd bowl: mix the egg, molasses, milk, and butter.

4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir until just blended.

5. Add to muffin tins – 3/4 full

6. Bake for 15 minutes.

Tips

If you dont have buttermilk, just add 1 tbsp of white vinegar to a cup of regular milk and let sit out for about 10 minutes.

MyDish.co.uk Recipe: Sausage Casserole

Winter Warming Sausage Casserole

* Serves: 4-6
* Prep Time: 0hrs 25 mins
* Cooking Time: 1hrs 0 mins

Ingredients

* 500g Pork Sausages
* pinch salt/pepper
* 225g chopped canned tomatoes
* 9 Tbsp Dry stuffing mix
* 2 Tbsp Vegetable Oil
* 1 Egg (beaten)
* 750g Floury Potatoes
* 3 Celery Stalks Chopped
* 2 Large Onions (Sliced)
* 25g Butter
* 25g melted butter

Method

1. Melt marg in frying pan and add the onions and celery. Cook on moderate heat for 10-15 mins until softened but not coloured. With a slotted spoon remove and place in a layer in bottom of casserole dish with a lid
2. Put potatoes in a large saucepan and cover with cold water. Cover and bring to the boil, lower the heat and simmer for 5 mins
3. Meanwhile score along sides of each sausage and pull away the skins.
4. Heat oven to 190 C / 375 F / Gas 5.
5. Drain potatoes and leave to cool to handle
6. Roll sausages in beaten egg then in dry stuffing, ensuring they are coated thoroughly
7. Pour oil into remaining fat in frying pan, add sausage and fry for 10 minutes turning to ensure sausages are evenly cooked
8. While cooking the sausages cut potatoes into 5mm slices
9. Arrange browned sausages over the cooked
vegetable mix in the casserole dish. Break the tomatoes up in the can and pour over,
sprinkle with salt and pepper
10. Arrange the potatoes overlapping and cover.
11. cook for 1 hour
12. Heat grill, remove casserole lid and brush potatoes with the melted butter, brown for 2-3 mins – serve!

You can replace the canned tomatoes with cream of mushroom soup for a different flavour.

MyDish.co.uk Recipe of the Day: Coconut Ice

Coconut Ice

* Serves: 20
* Prep Time: 0hrs 5 mins
* Cooking Time: 0hrs 30 mins

Ingredients

* 400 g sugar
* 160 ml water
* 5 ml vanilla extract
* 130 g coconut
* 2-3 drops pink or red food coloring

Method

1.Line a 7 x 7 inch pan with greased baking paper.
2.In a medium, saucepan, heat sugar and water gently, without boiling, until sugar has dissolved.
3.Then, bring to a boil and cook until a little syrup dropped in a glass of cold water forms a soft ball.
4.Remove from heat and immediately stir in vanilla and coconut. Continue stirring until mixture begins to thicken, 5 to 10 minutes.
5.Pour half of the mixture into the prepared pan and level the surface with a knife or spatula. 6.Tint the other half of the mixture by stirring in the food coloring.
7.Pour the pink mixture on top of other layer, and level the surface. Press all down firmly with the back of a spoon and allow to harden.
8.When firm, turn out of the pan, remove the paper and cut into squares with a sharp knife.

Mydish.co.uk Recipe of the Day: King Prawns Malaii Curry

King Prawns Malaii Curry

Try this delicous award-winning curry from one of Brick Lanes leading Curry Houses.

* Serves: 4
* Prep Time: 0hrs 25 mins
* Cooking Time: 0hrs 15 mins

Ingredients

*  5 cm piece fresh Ginger roughly chopped
* 10 Garlic cloves roughly chopped
* 6 Onions roughly chopped
* 225ml Vegetable oil
* 900g Prawns peeled and deveined
* 1 tsp Ground turmeric
* 3 Bay leaves
* 2 tbsp Ground cumin
* 4 Green chilli
* 200ml Coconut milk
* 1 tbsp Sugar
* 5 Green cardamom pods crushed and husks
* 2 tbsp Clarified butter

Method

Blend the ginger and garlic together in a food processor to make a fine paste. Remove and set aside, then blend the onions to a fine paste with 100ml of the oil.

Season the prawns with 1/2 teaspoon each of the turmeric and salt. Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in a non-stick frying pan and sear the prawns briefly, then remove and set aside.

Heat the remaining oil in a heavy frying pan and add the onion paste with the cinnamon leaves.

Fry over a moderate heat for 10 minutes or until light brown, stirring occasionally.

Mix together the cumin, remaining turmeric, ginger-garlic paste and 150ml water, then add to the onions.

Reduce the heat and cook for another 5-8 minutes, stirring regularly. Stir in the remaining salt, the green chillies and prawns and continue cooking for 2-3 minutes.

Mix in the coconut milk and simmer for 2-3 minutes or until the prawns are just cooked, adding a little more water if necessary.

Correct the seasoning with salt and sugar, sprinkle over the cardamom seeds and stir in the clarified butter.

Serve with steamed rice.

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Mydish.co.uk Recipe of the Day: Apple Crumble

The Best Apple Crumble

* Serves: 6
* Prep Time: 0hrs 15 mins
* Cooking Time: 0hrs 30 mins

Ingredients

* 5oz brown sugar
* 3½ oz cold butter cut into peices
* a pinch salt
* 5oz plain flour
* 2oz rolled oats
* 3 large cooking apples peeled and cut thickly into slices

Method

* Firstly put on the oven at 200 degrees c/ gas 6.
* Put the apples into a saucepan with the 2ozs of the sugar and cook over a gentle heat for 5-6 mins or until just begining to soften.
* To make the crumble topping, mix together the flour and salt and rub in the butter until it looks like breadcrumbs.
* Stir in the oats and remaining sugar.
* Spoon fruit into a fairly deep dish and cover with crumble mixture.
* Bake for 30 mins until the top has nicely browned.
* Serve with a nice fat inducing portion of thick cream or custard, yum!

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MyDish.co.uk Recipe of the Day: Beef Wellington

Beef Wellington

This is a superb dinner party dish and actually it’s remarkably swift and easy to knock up.

* Serves: 8
* Prep Time: 0hrs 25 mins
* Cooking Time: 0hrs 40 mins

Ingredients

* a good sprinkle Mixed herbs
* 2 bits Garlic
* 4oz Brussels Pate
* 500g Mushrooms (mixed variety)
* 1lb (450g) Puff Pastry
* 2lb (900g) Fillet of beef
* 1 egg

Method

1. Fry the beef on each side to seal it then set aside on a plate
2. Chop and Fry mushrooms and season to taste
3. Roll out pastry into a gross shape and then spread the pate on top of the pastry. (leave a bit for the top side of the fillet)
4. Put mushrooms on top of the pate leaving a bit for the top side of the fillet and then place the beef in the centre.
5. Spread the pate and sprinle remaining chopped mushrooms on top side of the fillet
6. Fold up the pastry and stick together the side by wetting your fingers and squeezing.
7.Decorate with some cut pastry and brush with beaten egg
8. Cook for 40 minutes in a hot oven (190 C)