Sunday, July 18, 2010

GF WF Chicken and spinach curry



Ingredients:

125g basmati rice
1 Tbls vegetable oil
4 skinless chicken breasts
600g tub fresh GF chicken mulligatawny soup (Tesco Finest*)
100g fresh baby spinach
1 tsp of GF Curry Paste (optional if you like a good stong curry flavour)
Method:

Cook the rice according to packet instructions, then drain.

Meanwhile, heat the oil in a deep frying pan over a high heat.
Add the chicken and cook for 2-3 minutes each side to brown all over.
Pour in the soup and bring back to the boil.

Reduce the heat slightly and partially cover the pan with a lid.
Simmer for 15 minutes – turning the chicken halfway – or until the chicken is cooked through.

Stir the spinach into the sauce, until just wilted.
Season, then spoon some rice into bowls, put the chicken on top, then spoon over the sauce.

Serve with GF naan bread, if you like.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

GF WF Lemon polenta cake with mascarpone and lemon curd

A rich, lemony cake recipe with a polenta base that's a perfect entertaining dessert.
Serve at a special occasion or a summer dinner party.




Ingredients


330g butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
130g fine GF polenta, plus extra for dusting
300g caster/superfine sugar
4 large  eggs
300g ground almonds/meal
1½ tsp GF baking powder
4 tsp GF plain flour
Grated zest of 4 large lemons and juice of 2

For the syrup

100g caster/superfine sugar
Juice of 1 large lemon
2 Tbls limoncello liqueur (from major supermarkets)

For the icing

250g mascarpone
150ml double cream
2 Tbls icing/confectioners sugar
4-5 Tbls lemon curd
Handful toasted flaked almonds, to decorate

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C/fan140°C/gas 3.
Butter a 23cm springform cake tin, line the base with baking paper, butter again and dust all over with a little polenta.
In a bowl, beat the softened butter and caster sugar together until light and fluffy, then gradually whisk in the eggs, one at a time.
Fold in the GF polenta, almonds, baking powder and GF plain flour.
Add the lemon zest and juice, and mix well.
Spoon into the cake tin and smooth over using a palette knife.

Bake for 1¼ hours until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean
(cover the cake loosely with foil if it starts to colour too much).

Meanwhile, make the syrup by heating the sugar, lemon juice and limoncello in a small pan.

When the cake is ready, remove from the oven and pierce the top all over with a skewer.
Spoon the warm syrup over the warm cake and leave to cool in the tin for 15 minutes.
Carefully remove the cake from the tin and cool on a wire rack.

Make the icing.
Beat together the mascarpone, cream and icing sugar in a bowl until smooth.
Place the cake on a serving plate and spread with the icing.
Drizzle with the lemon curd, swirling it into the icing with the end of a skewer.
Decorate with the toasted almonds.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

GF WF Thai Chicken and Basil Stir Fry



Ingredients (serves 2):

2 chicken breasts sliced into thin strips
1/2 packet of frozen green beans
1/2 red pepper, cut into slices
2 cloves garlic chopped finely
1 handful of fresh basil
1 tsp five spice powder 1 large onion sliced
2 Tbls GF oyster sauce
1 Tbls GF soy sauce
1 chilli (optional)
handful of roasted cashew nuts

Method:

Heat a little oil in a large wok
add the sliced chicken and stir fry until it turns white and is nearly cooked
(about 3 -5 minutes) then add the garlic, five spice, onion, and green beans.

Stir-fry together until the beans are soft and cooked through
add the red pepper and chilli
lastly add the GF oyster sauce and GF soy sauce.

Once it has all been mixed together chuck in the fresh basil and cashew nuts and you’re ready.

Serve on a bed of steamed rice.

Friday, January 29, 2010

GF WF Roasted vegetable macaroni





Ingredients:

2 large courgettes, diced
1 large aubergine, diced
1 sweet potato, peeled and diced
1 large onion, roughly chopped
1 Tbls olive oil
400g small GF macaroni or other small GF pasta shapes
500g jar Dolmio original sauce for bolognese
1 ltr hot GF vegetable stock

Method:

Preheat the oven to gas mark 7 or 220°C.
Toss together the diced vegetables and olive oil and tip into a large baking dish.
Roast for 15 mins until softened and golden.

Lower the oven to gas mark 6 or 200°C.
Stir the GF pasta, sauce and GF stock into the dish.
Cover with foil and bake for 20 mins or so, until the GF pasta is tender.

Serve at the table directly from the baking dish.

Saturday, June 6, 2009

GLUTEN AND DAIRY FREE WAFFLES



Ingredients:

2 cups rice flour

2 tablespoons of aluminum free baking powder

1/3 cup vegetable oil or extra virgin olive oil

2 eggs or egg substitute

3/4 cup rice, soy or almond milk

3 tablespoons honey (optional)

1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional)


Directions:

Combine dry ingredients in one bowl

Mix together

Add wet ingredients and mix well

Fluffy waffles depend on the consistency of the batter

Add more flour for thicker batter to make a fluffier waffle

Use waffle iron to make the waffles, it should take about 2 minutes

Top with my apple compote

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Potato Waffle with Caramelized Apple Cake



House Speciality
Hotel-Restaurant Georges W
"2, rue de la gare&qu
Le Noirmont


Cooking Recipe Ingredients:

Waffle:

3.5 oz. puree'd potato
0.7 oz. butter
0.88 oz. flour
1 egg
1.4 tbsp. milk
1 oz. sugar
1 lemon peel

Apple cake:

4 apples
3.5 oz. caramel
1 oz. sugar
0.7 oz. butter
1 lemon juice
Small rectangular forms, 3.2 x 1.2 in

Ice-cream:

1.1 cups milk
4 yolks
2.1 oz. sugar
0.42 cups crème fraîche (thick sour cream)
1.4 tbsp. Damassine (or plum)

Cooking recipe preparation instructions:

Waffle:
Prepare a potato puree (potatoes cooked with skin).
Melt some butter. Mix all the ingredients to obtain semi-liquid dough.
Pour it in the waffle iron until you obtain a nice, colored waffle.
Store aside.

Apple cake:

Peel and prepared the apples.
Cut them into thin slices.
Stew the apples in butter with sugar and lemon juice until the liquid is evaporated.

Pour some caramel at the bottom of the forms.
Then, cover with the apple slices. (About 1.2 in height.)
Let it cook for 12 minutes at 392 degrees.

Remove it from the form and put it on a serving dish to let it drain before you serve it.

Ice-cream:

Cook the milk.
Beat the yolk and sugar until they blanch.
Pour the milk over the eggs and put the whole in a saucepan.
Reheat on a small flame (around 190 degrees F).
Stir continuously.

End the cooking by adding the crème fraiche.
Let it cool down and put it in the ice-cream-freezer with the alcohol.

Presentation:

Place the apple cake in the middle of the dish.
Add the ice-cream and warm waffle.
Decorate with a dried apple slice and pour some caramel over it.
Decorate with some mint and drops of reduced apple juice.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Mushroom Risotto


Italian Food: How To Make Mushroom Risotto



Ingredients:

750 ml GF chicken stock , or GF vegetable stock
2 tbsp olive oil
45 g butter
200 g mixed fresh mushrooms, roughly chopped
half onion, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, chopped
1 tbsp thyme, chopped
250 g short grain rice, like Arborio or Carnaroli Italian rice
4 tbsp Madeira wine (optional)
3 tbsp sherry (optional)
2 tbsp crème fraiche , (optional)
2 tbsp parsley, chopped
25 g parmesan , shaved
salt and pepper

Needed:

2 saucepans
1 wooden spoon
1 ladle

Method:

Place a pan under a medium –high heat and add the GF stock.
Bring to the boil and once boiling remove from the heat and place on the back burner to keep warm.

Place the second pan on the same hot ring and add the olive oil and butter.
Mix them well together, then add the mushrooms and stirring, allow them to brown.
Once browned add the onion, stir them in and let them sweat for a couple of minutes. Then add the garlic, stir in and add the thyme, then season with salt and pepper.
Add the rice and using your wooden spoon mix it in very well. Pour in the (Optional)Madeira wine and the sherry.
Stir them in and cook for a few minutes allowing them to soak in and evaporate.

Once the wine has evaporated add 2 ladles of the stock and stir it in.
It is very important that before adding anymore stock the previous stock has been absorbed.
Keeping it moist but not too wet, add another 2 ladles and stir in.

TIP:

The wilder the mushroom the better the flavour! For example porcini, chanterelle or black trumpets are the most flavoursome and will give the risotto a richer, deeper flavour.
You can also use the dried versions and add the water that they soak in to give the risotto a more fulsome flavour.

Repeat the ladling process until all the liquid has been used.
The cooking process should take around 15-20 minutes.
When all the liquid has absorbed, remove from the heat, after making sure that the rice is thoroughly cooked but still has a tiny bite to it.

Into the cooked risotto fold in the (Optional) crème fraiche.
As it has some acidity it cuts through the richness of the risotto and gives it a sharper flavour.
After mixing in well add the chopped parsley

To serve, spoon a generous helping into the centre of a large serving plate.
Then place some shaved parmesan on top.