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HEALTH&HABITAT

Oct/Nov 2011 www.esb.ie/em

HEALTHY EATING

One-Pot Wonders

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Fishy Pie

serves 4-6

400ml milk
200g smoked whitefish fillets (eg cod/haddock/coley), skin on 300g whitefish fillets, skin on, bones removed
50g butter
250g leeks, washed and thinly sliced
1 tbsp flour
4 eggs, boiled, peeled and quartered
A small bunch of flat-leaf parsley leaves, roughly chopped
800g potatoes, peeled and quartered
50g butter
Salt and black pepper

1 preheat the oven to 200°C/gas mark 7.

2 Fill a large saucepan with water, add the potatoes and put on a high heat. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer until cooked through. Drain and add 100ml of milk, the butter and mash.

3 While the potatoes are boiling, put a large deep frying pan on a low heat, pour the milk in and add the fish, skin side up, into it. Cook for five minutes, until the skin on the fish peels away easily.

4 Lift out the fish, remove the skin and strain the milk into a bowl.

5 Melt half the butter in a pan and add the leeks. Cook until soft.

6 Stir in the flour and cook for a minute longer. Add the poached milk back in gradually, stirring, until the sauce thickens. season with salt and pepper.

7 Add the parsley, eggs and the fish, gently stirring so as not to break them up.

8 Spoon the fish mixture into a deep baking dish, and top with the mashed potato.

9 Put in the oven and cook for 30 minutes, until golden brown on top.

Beef Goulash

serves 4

1 tbsp olive oil
500g stir-fry beef or round beef, cut in strips
1 red pepper, deseeded and cut lengthways
1 medium onion, sliced
2 garlic cloves, crushed
6 button mushrooms, halved
3 tsp paprika
4 potatoes, peeled and quartered 300ml beef stock
1 × 400g tin of tomatoes

To serve:

100g sour cream
A handful of flat leaf parsley leaves

1 Heat half the oil in a large non-stick saucepan over a high heat. Add the beef and cook for three minutes. Place the beef onto a plate with kitchen towel.

2 Add the remaining oil to the saucepan and add the red pepper, onion, garlic and mushrooms. Cook until the vegetables begin to colour.

3 Add the paprika and stir well. Then add the potatoes, stock and tin of tomatoes. Stir well, cover and simmer on a low heat for 20 minutes.

4 Return the beef to the pan and cook for a further few minutes, until the beef has warmed through.

5 Serve in a bowl with a dollop of sour cream and sprinkle parsley.

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Cook with the kids for Halloween

Mummy cupcakes

Makes 9

125g plain flour
25g cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
150g caster sugar
50g butter, at room temperature
1 egg
100ml milk

For the icing:

30g unsalted butter, at room temperature
300g icing sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp milk
Salt

To decorate:

Red food colouring, poppy seeds

1 preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4. Line a muffin tray with nine paper cases.

2 sift the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder into a bowl. Add the sugar and butter and beat the mixture together until well combined.

3 Whisk in the egg and milk until the mixture is thick and smooth.

4 Divide the mixture between the paper cases and bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes, or until springy to the touch and a skewer inserted into the middle of one of the cakes comes out clean. set aside to cool on a wire rack.

5 For the icing, beat the butter in a bowl with an electric mixer until smooth.

6 Add the sugar, vanilla extract and a pinch of salt and whisk the mixture until combined and smooth.

7 Add the milk and whisk for a few minutes until fluffy.

8 pour the icing into a piping bag with a thin tip.

9 Keep a small bit of icing in the bowl and add the red food colouring for the eyes.

10 pipe three long bands in three overlapping sections on the top and two sides of the cupcakes; you should end up with a space in the middle.

11 Add two little bits of red icing for the eyes and add a poppy seed for the ‘pupils’.

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