Jammy Biscuits
2017-03-08 01:56:02
Crisp & Jammy
Prep Time
15 min
Cook Time
15 min
Ingredients
- 225 g butter
- 150 g caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 350 g plain flour
- 110 g ground almonds
- Orange curd
- Icing sugar
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy
- Add vanilla and eggs
- Gradually add flour and ground almonds to form a stiff dough
- Roll out biscuits and cut into circles
- Stamp out small circle from the middle of half of the biscuits
- Place biscuits on baking tray
- Bake gas 4 (180C, fan 160C) for approx 15 mins
- When cool spread whole biscuits with orange curd, dust ring biscuits with icing sugar and place on top of whole biscuits
Notes
- You can buy or make orange curd (see recipe) Equally good with lemon curd.
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Orange Curd
2017-03-08 01:59:10
Sweet, buttery and delicious
Prep Time
15 min
Cook Time
10 min
Ingredients
- 2 oranges
- 1 lemon
- 3 large eggs
- 2 egg yolks
- 175 g granulated sugar
- 100 g butter
Instructions
- Zest and juice lemon and oranges
- Whisk with eggs and yolks
- Stir in sugar and butter
- Put in pan over gently simmering water
- Stir frequently until thickened
- Sieve to remove zest and any lumps
- While hot spoon into jars
- Leave to cool
Notes
- Keeps well for 2 or 3 weeks in the fridge. Good with pancakes or Jammy Biscuits (see recipe)
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Steamed Chinese Dumplings
2015-02-14 08:21:53
Soft dumpling with tasty pork filling
Prep Time
1 hr
Cook Time
15 min
Dumpling
- 250 g plain flour
- 45 g sugar
- 25 g yeast
- 300 ml water
- 1 tsp salt
- 1.5 tblsp olive oil
- 250 g SR flour
Filling
- 400 g minced pork
- 1 large onion
- 200 g mushrooms
- 2 tblsp soya sauce
- 2 tblsp sake (Japanese rice wine)
- 2 tsp sugar
- 2 c.m cube fresh ginger
- 2 tsp cornflour dissolved in a little cold water
Filling
- Chop ginger and onions finely
- Chop mushrooms into small pieces
- Fry minced pork with onions, ginger and mushrooms in sesame oil
- When pork is cooked add soya sauce, sake and sugar
- Stir in cornflour mix to thicken
Dumplings
- Blend yeast with sugar and water.
- Add water and stir to form a thick batter.
- Leave in a warm place for approx 20 mins until bubbling
- Mix in SR flour, salt and oil
- Knead to a soft dough
- Divide dough into small balls approx 5 cm diameter
- Flatten the balls and put approx 2 tsp of meat mix into the centre then pull edges together to form round dumplings
- Place each dumpling on a small square of foil and leave to rise for 20 mins
- When risen place in steamer for about 15 mins until puffed up!
Notes
- Serve warm and dip in soya sauce
- Try using minced chicken instead of pork and adding some garlic
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Spring Rolls
2017-03-08 02:20:18
We love the crunch!
Prep Time
20 min
Cook Time
5 min
Ingredients
- 4 large Carrots
- 1 Leeks
- 2 Red pepper
- 100 g bean sprouts
- 100 g mange-tout
- Ginger
- Garlic
- 4 tblsp soya sauce
- 4 tsp brown sugar
- Sesame oil
- 1 tblsp cornflour for thickening
- 1 tblsp cornflour for glue
- Spring Roll Skins
Instructions
- Prepare vegetables chopping into small pieces
- Chop ginger finely
- Crush garlic
- Fry vegetables in sesame oil
- When vegetables are tender add soya sauce and brown sugar
- Mix cornflour with a little water and stir into vegetable mix to thicken
- Leave mix to cool
- Mix remaining cornflour with a little water to make a paste
- With your finger put a little cornflour paste on the edges of the spring roll skins to act as a glue
- Put 2 tsp of vegetable mix in a line on the spring roll skins and roll, tucking in the edges
- Fry in oil until brown and crisp
Notes
- You can buy frozen spring roll skins from chinese/oriental supermarkets. The spring rolls work best using 2 spring roll skins on top of each other.
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Sweet Chilli Sauce
2017-03-08 02:28:36
Sweet & Spicy
Prep Time
15 min
Cook Time
10 min
Ingredients
- 100 ml rice wine vinegar
- 100 ml water
- 100 g sugar
- 1 red pepper
- 2 red chillies (or chili flakes)
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 tblsp fish sauce
- 1 tbsp cornflour to thicken
Instructions
- Chop chilli and red pepper finely
- Crush garlic
- Put all ingredients into pan and bring to the boil
- Stir to dissolve the sugar
- Simmer until liquid thickens and forms a light syrup
- Blend in food processor or liquidiser
- Return to pan and thicken with cornflour dissolved in water if a thicker consistency is needed
Notes
- Great for dipping spring rolls
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Egg & Prawn Fried Rice
2017-03-08 02:33:55
Good for practicing chop stick skills!
Prep Time
30 min
Cook Time
10 min
Ingredients
- 200 g basmati rice
- 100 g frozen peas
- 100 g cooked prawns
- 4 eggs
- 2 tsp fish sauce
- 1 tblsp soya sauce
- 2 tblsp salted peanuts
- fresh parsley
Instructions
- Cook basmati rice and allow to cool
- Scramble eggs in dry frying pan (no oil)
- Crush peanuts
- Chop parsley
- Defrost peas in hot water
- Fry cooled rice in pan with a little olive oil, add peas, cooked eggs, prawns, soya sauce, fish sauce, chopped peanuts and parsley
- Ready to eat when hot
Notes
- Just as good without prawns
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Chinese Sweet & Sour Sauce
2017-03-08 02:43:09
If you like pineapple you will love this
Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
10 min
Ingredients
- 4 tblsp soya sauce
- 1 tblsp rice vinegar
- 1 tblsp cornflour
- 1 tin pineapple chunks
- fresh ginger
- 1 ½ tblsp tomato puree
- 6 tblsp water
- 1 tblsp brown sugar
Instructions
- Chop ginger finely or grate
- Put in pan with soya sauce, rice vinegar, pineapple, water, sugar and tomato puree
- Simmer gently for about 10 mins until flavours are blended
- Thicken with corn flour dissolved in water
Notes
- Serve with mixed stir fry vegetables and/or chicken or beef
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Pancakes
2017-03-08 02:47:03
We never get tired of pancakes
Prep Time
5 min
Cook Time
5 min
Ingredients
- 227g plain flour
- 2 eggs
- 400 ml milk
- 100 ml water
- ¼ tsp salt
Instructions
- Beat flour, eggs, milk, salt and water to a smooth batter
- Leave to stand for 30 minutes
- Heat frying pan with small lump of butter allowing to brown but not burn
- Pour a small amount of mixture into hot frying pan
- Swirl mixture around the pan until spread
- When edges start to curl, toss the pancake and cook on the other side
Notes
- Our favourite toppings are lemon with sugar and chocolate spread!
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