Recipes Archive

Fish recipes

Salmon fish cakes

20 minutes

Luxurious custard

10 minutes

Easy custard

10 minutes

Chicken recipes

Grilled chicken pancakes

10 minutes

Gammon recipes

Sweet-and-sticky roast gammon on the bone with mustard

1½ hours

Gammon recipes

Turkey-and-gammon roast with summer greens

1½ hours

Christmas recipes

Roast turkey with sweet figs

2 hours

Christmas dessert

Christmas panettone layer cake

Strawberry and rhubarb crème brûlée

10 minutes

Curry recipes

Butter chicken

25 minutes

Poached salmon with prawns

8 minutes, if you are poaching the salmon yourself

Chocolate recipes

Baked dark chocolate pudding

60 minutes

Baked dark chocolate pudding

Serves 6

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cooking Time 60 minutes

Ingredients

200 g dark chocolate
125 ml milk
180 g butter
175 g caster sugar
2 eggs, whisked
190 g cake flour
3 T cocoa
2 t baking powder

For the sauce

400 g dark chocolate
125 ml Cognac or brandy
125 ml double cream

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C and line an ovenproof baking dish with baking paper.

Melt the chocolate and milk and leave to cool. Beat the butter and sugar until creamy then add the whisked eggs. Sift together the flour, cocoa and baking powder.

Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and then fold through the chocolate and milk. Pour into the baking dish.

Bake for 35 minutes or until the centre bounces back after being pressed lightly. Test with a baking pin.

To make the sauce:

Melt the chocolate with the Cognac or brandy and cream, until melted. Serve warm on the side or poured over the pudding.

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Salmon fish cakes

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Grilled chicken pancakes

Sweet-and-sticky roast gammon on the bone with mustard

Turkey-and-gammon roast with summer greens

Roast turkey with sweet figs

Christmas panettone layer cake

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Butter chicken

Poached salmon with prawns

Baked dark chocolate pudding

Baked dark chocolate pudding

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