Herb crusted Salmon with healthy oven baked chips, crushed minted peas and chive mayonnaise
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Herb crusted Salmon with healthy oven baked chips, crushed minted peas and chive mayonnaise.
Growing your own herbs is a great experience, and one that does not take up a lot of space, time or money, so there really are no excuses. They can be grown outside in a small corner of your garden or balcony, or grow some on your windowsill.
Here I have devised a recipe using some herbs that I have grown on my windowsill in a small window box, and have created a lovely herb crust using some breadcrumbs. This is a really easy dish to create and is quite healthy, and very tasty.
Serves 2 people.
Herb Crusted Salmon Ingredients:
4 slices of Allinsons Wholemeal batch loaf that has been left out all day to go stale.
A handful of parsley, stalks as well
A couple of basil leaves, not many as this will over power the salmon
2 small Salmon fillets, skinned and boned
Healthy Oven Baked Chips Ingredients:
2 Medium baking potatoes cut into thick chips with the skins left on
A small amount of Rapeseed oil
A pinch of salt
Minted Pea Ingredients:
200g frozen peas
A bunch of fresh mint
Enough boiling water to cover the peas
A small knob of butter
Chive Mayonnaise Ingredients:
Shop brought mayonnaise (as much as you think you will need)
A handful of finely chopped chives
A pinch of salt
A drizzle of rapeseed oil
Method:
Firstly preheat your oven to 200 deg c
Now get yourself a blender/processor and put your stale bread and herbs in there and blitz until you have reached a fine breadcrumb texture.
Place your salmon on a baking tray, that has a sheet of baking paper on, and then sprinkle on the herby breadcrumbs; you don’t want too much on there. Now pop your chips in another baking tin and drizzle with a little rapeseed oil, and tops the chips in the oil so that they are all coated, and then sprinkle on a little bit of salt. Now put the chips (only), into the oven and set your timer for 10 minutes.
Now put your peas in a saucepan with a good bunch of fresh mint, and cover with boiling water. Bring to the boil and then turn down to a simmer until cooked. Once cooked drain and return to the pan with a knob of butter and stir until the butter has melted, and then with a fork or the back of a spoon crush the peas against the side of the pan.
Buy now 10 minutes should have passed and you can now put your salmon in the oven, now would be a good time to check your chips and turn them over. The fish should take about 20 minutes to cook depending on the thickness, but you can test by poking in a sharp knife into the thickest part of the fish, and then putting the point of the knife to your bottom lip (don’t hold it there or you could burn yourself), once cooked remove from the oven.
And now for the really easy chive mayonnaise, just put some mayo into a bowl and add some finely chopped chives, a pinch of salt, and a drizzle of rapeseed oil just to thin out the mayo. Mix together and keep tasting so that you can add more seasoning if required.
Ok so now we come to the assembly of the dish, well after 25-30 minutes everything should be cooked perfectly, your salmon should be nice and moist with a nice crunch, and your chips should be nice and crunchy but soft and fluffy inside.
I hope that you enjoy my recipe, and for more great recipes please visit www.andyskitchen.co.uk
- Dr Thomas Allinson, founder of Allinson Bread, was a radical thinker in terms of healthy eating, prescribing two salads a week at least. This got him struck off the registry for being a Doctor as his beliefs were so untoward during the Victorian era.
- Allinson Bread has encouraged his healthy eating ideals by offering people a change to grow their own healthy produce, giving away Kitchen Herb Garden Kits in return for tokens found on packs of Allinson Bread.
- Simply collect and send off six tokens from packs within the Allinson Bread range (plus a £2 contribution to cover postage and packaging) in order to obtain your complimentary Herb Garden kit. Alternatively you collect and send three tokens from packs along with a cheque for £5 (which includes postage and packaging). Tokens are available on packs until the end of July.
This week has been National Sandwich Week, but what is your favourite sandwich?
One of mine is this lovely steak sarnie with Tracklements Caremelised Red Onion Relish.
Ingredients:
1 x Sirloin steak,
Tracklements Caramelised Red Onion Relish
Salad leaves
Rustic baguette.
Method:
- Grill the steak for three minutes on each side for medium rare. Cook for longer if you prefer.
- Slice the baguette and lightly toast the outsides.
- Add salad leaves, the steak and a good amount of Caramelised Red Onion Relish. Delicious!
If you enjoy a great classic cheese sarnie then you must try the Tracklements Country Garden Chutney, this has a lovely taste and texture and is the perfect partner to cheese.
My all time favourite though is leftover roast beef with Tracklements Farmhouse Pickle on nice thick brown bread, with proper butter, now that is a classic.
Why not visit the Tracklements website where you can buy all the lovely products at www.tracklements.co.uk
Last weekend saw celebrity chef, Aldo Zilli at this year’s Foodies Festival for Discover the Origin at Hampton Court Palace Green – Saturday 5th May.
The campaign, which promotes five European foods and wines of provenance, featured Aldo on its stand as well as conducting a chef’s master class in how to enjoy the products.
About PDO:
PDO is the Protected Designation of Origin. It officially guarantees the origin and quality of products with a history and tradition behind them. The scheme was created by the EU to protect the heritage of food and drink; ensuring imitation and often inferior products can’t be reproduced under the same name.
www.discovertheorigin.co.uk / @DiscoverOrigin on Twitter / search ‘Discover the Origin’ on Facebook
Background to Discover the Origin
‘Discover the Origin’ is an established European Union campaign designed to raise awareness around five Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) products:
- Burgundy Wines
- Parma Ham
- Douro Wines
- Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese
- Port
The European Union’s PDO scheme is designed to protect the heritage, character and reputation of precious food and drink; ensuring that imitation and often inferior products can’t be reproduced under the same product names, as the PDO status proves authenticity, guarantees origin and production methods.
Britain continues to relish in the ‘foodie’ revolution that has been taking hold of the nation over the past few years. Consumers are being driven by a plethora of food and cookery television programmes, social media and blogging sites to consider the importance of the provenance of their food and drink. How it has been produced? How it has been traded? And finally how it reaches the British high street and supermarket where it has been purchased from?
In response to this, the European Union and the professional industry bodies behind this campaign, are working together to raise the awareness of each specific PDO product’s origin and production process.
Highlighting the qualities of excellence, tradition, natural resources and fair production these products all share by bringing interactive tasting sessions to Food & Drink festivals and exhibitions around the British Isles.
‘Discover the Origin’ taps into the British and Irish thirst for knowledge by promoting food and drink with real provenance, demonstrating that these wonderful regional delights are a true culinary experience with flavours that cut across the traditional remits of specific country cuisines and can be used to enhance a menu or simple meal, no matter the time of day.
Discover the Origin will also be at
8 – 10 June – Taste of Edinburgh
13 – 15 July – Foodies Festival, Bristol
25 – 27 August – Foodies Festival, Oxford
21 – 23 September – York Festival of Food & Drink
We were recently sent a selection of lovely chocolate products from Gourmet Gadgetry who are based in Dartford, Kent, and what great products they were.
Gourmet Gadgetry started life in the chocolate fountain industry and have rapidly developed the business to now include all types of fun kitchen gadgets, which includes products from Magimix, Cuisinart, Sensio and Dualit to name but a few. The chocolate fountain part of the business is still thriving but we were more interested in the Baking & Dessert section.
We were sent some lovely chocolate pencils that make fantastic decorations that can be used in all manner of desserts, from just using them as decoration or crushing them up into ice creams. We were also sent some great chocolate decorations that have been crafted in gorgeous dark Belgian chocolate, and these really help to lift a dessert up to another level.
But the stand out ingredient for us was the Callebaut Milk Chocolate Mousse, which is a real chocolate mousse mix that creates a light, fluffy, creamy texture that melts in the mouth! It's so easy to create by simply adding milk, whisking and leaving to chill in the fridge.
- Contains 70% pure milk chocolate
This Callebaut milk chocolate mousse is simply incomparable; the first kind that actually tastes homemade!
It really is lovely, and goes a very long way so please try it, I promise you that once you have tried it you will buy more.
At Andys Kitchen we have created a couple of lovely desserts using these products, and these will be posted up on our blog over the next few weeks, so please keep a look out for them as they really are lovely.
Please visit the Gourmet Gadgetry website at www.gourmetgadgetry.com and folow on Twitter @gourmetgadgetry and be sure to check out there Facebook Page as well.
Ticket & Travel
Here at Andys Kitchen we are very pleased and excited to announce a fantastic partnership with Ticket & Travel.
But what are Ticket & Travel all about I hear you ask, well……….
Ticket & Travel work with organisers to create ticket and travel packages so that you can get to, get in and get home from your favourite events; easier, smarter and safer.
By combining entry tickets with coach travel from most major towns and cities, they have created an easier and smarter way for you to travel – getting you to the events easier, getting into the event quicker and getting you home safer.
This is a really good opportunity to visit some of the UK’s top events that you may not have visited before because of travel restrictions, but what are the benefits of using Ticket & Travel?
- Saving You Money: Ticket & Travel provides a complete, inclusive and simple package. Where there are no hidden costs; no on-the-day ‘extras’, no transfers, no toll fees, no parking, no fuel and no parking to worry about. Plus by combining your ticket and travel into one package by us, you can benefit from great savings as well as exclusive deals which are available only to Ticket & Travel customers.
- Easing The Environment: Be part of a bigger picture and help remove 12-50 cars on the road by reducing your personal carbon footprint and sharing your journey with other like-minded people going to and from the same event. Reducing the number of cars on the road helps to streamline traffic at the venue, making the whole journey more pleasurable by reducing the traffic. By having our own dedicated access into the venue and parking near to the entrance we reduce time searching for parking and can get you into the event quicker.
- Helping You Stay Safe: Travelling as a group makes Ticket & Travel the safest option for individuals to travel and to help you avoid travelling alone late at night and unlike public transport – where you never really know who is on the same train, bus or underground carriage as you – travelling with us means you can become familiar with others who share the same interest helping to make the whole experience and entire day much more comfortable and safer.
Having a great day can leave you tired – which makes driving incredibly dangerous, particularly late at night. By providing skilled and experienced drivers we keep you safer by helping you avoid driving late at night.
If you plan to drink, do it responsibly. Ticket & Travel provides the safest option for those who plan to enjoy a drink with experienced drivers taking care of all your travel – we are your ‘designated driver’. We provide a safe and responsible way to travel.
- Making Things Easy: We help you enjoy the event by making your whole experience easier – from the easy online booking system which accepts major debit and credit cards 24/7, through to the direct entry into the event.
We make your entire journey simple and stress-free. No changing of trains, no transfers on the underground and no hopping onto a bus for any part your travel. You get from where you are, to the destination and safely home again. We use local and considerate pickup points which are easy to get to whether by car, train, bus or on foot.
Plus when travelling by train, bus or even the underground you can never be sure to even get a seat – let alone a seat with your friends or family. By booking a Ticket & Travel package you secure your own seat on the vehicle the moment your booking is confirmed.
We make events accessible. Whether a lack of a car, driving licence or being too young means you can’t drive – or the idea of travelling long distances, worrying about fuel costs and not being able to have a drink means you won’t drive. Can’t drive or won’t drive; ticket-and-travel.com gets you there.
- Keeping You Comfortable: Your comfort is important to us. Which is why we use luxury executive coaches which are typically equipped with air-conditioning, on-board entertainment, toilets and quite often refreshments too and access to the generous luggage space for your shopping – so rather than being squashed for space in a car or on the train; our designated storage area means both you and your items can both travel comfortably.
You can even shop-and-drop, so rather than carry your heavy bags with you all day; you can use your vehicle as storage ready to pick up on your return home.
- Helping You Enjoy Yourself: We plan and schedule all our packages to help you make the most of your experience and to add as much value as possible to your experience.
After all, providing travel for like-minded people who share your interest in the event, means you instantly have a great foundation for ‘breaking the ice’ and meeting new people.
A small value which we will be adding makes this not just a ticket and a travel package; but the Ticket & Travel package.
So with events coming up like the BBC Good Food Show Summer, BBC Gardeners World Live, Clothes Show Live and many many more, what are you waiting for, visit the Ticket & Travel website and book your Travel & Ticket package now.
So please visit the Ticket & Travel website at www.ticketandtravel.com follow on Twitter @ticketandtravel and make sure to check out and like there Facebook page you can also contact Ticket & Travel on +44 (0)1273 25 24 88 or email info@ticketandtravel.com
Thai Vegetable Stir Fry with Coriander Rice
Serves 4
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 10 minutes
Ingredients:
2 x 250g packs Tilda Lime & Coriander rice
1 tbsp oil
250g mushrooms, halved
100g soya beans
175g baby corn, halved
1 red pepper, sliced into long strips
2 tbsp Thai Taste Thai green curry paste (60g)
2 pak choi, sliced (235g)
160ml can coconut cream
2 tsp Thai fish sauce
2 tsp toasted sesame seeds (opt)
Method:
Heat the oil in a large frying pan and fry the mushrooms, soya beans, corn and pepper for 3-4 minutes. Add the curry paste and fry for 2-3 minutes. Stir in the pak choi and fry for 2 minutes. Add the coconut cream and fish sauce, simmer for 1-2 minutes.
Meanwhile, cook the rice according to the pack and garnish with the sesame seeds if using. Serve with the vegetable stir fry.
Cooks tip
For a meat option, replace the mushrooms, soya beans and baby corn with 500g minced turkey.
Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/TildaRice and follow us on Twitter @Tildabasmati
About Tilda
Tilda Pure Basmati is the UK’s number one Basmati brand by volume and value. With over 40 years of experience in buying, importing and selling the highest quality Pure Basmati Rice, it’s a name that you can trust.
Tilda has a wide range of products ranging from Pure Basmati Dry Rice through to Tilda Steamed Basmati, available in a wide variety of flavours. Basmati remains at the heart of Tilda and the company is committed to preserving the authenticity of the grain. It refuses to blend with inferior grains, carefully removes broken grains, DNA tests every batch, consistently ages the rice for at least 9 months and works hand-in-hand with the farming community to ensure the quality of the final product.
Tilda remains a family business, employing over 200 people in the UK, and is proud of its reputation for uncompromising quality and commitment to sustaining the legendary status of Basmati.
A Revolutionary Breakfast from Stewed
A seriously satisfying cooked breakfast at just 325 calories, that is gluten-free, 2 of your 5-aday and heat-and-eat ready in three minutes? A “hearty fry-up” without the fry, without the washing up and without the heart-y failure? Count me in, comrade.
Even by the ground-breaking standards of stewed! this is a revolutionary idea. A first on the market. A trail blazing, one-pot, hot savoury breakfast. Genius. Why didn’t you think of it?
Beans, Bacon and Bangers is the newest member of the stewed! family and will be available through ocado.com from April 2012 (RRP: £3.79). As with all stewed! variants, it is an inspired, original recipe by Leiths-trained chef-founder Alan Rosenthal. With cowboy supper-under-the-stars top notes and a Great British breakfast base, it combines real baked haricot beans with smoky bacon lardons, chunks of gluten-free, British pork sausage and hunks of mushroom; all steeped in molasses and shot through with spices. For when only a cooked breakfast will do … which, let’s face it, covers most occasions.
Tuck in at the desk for those mornings when the alarm didn’t go off, freeze in for a lazy standby supper with mash, heat effortlessly over the gas stove for a glamping brunch; or stick a couple of pots in your rucksack as the perfect festival fodder to counter the Mojito tent fallout.
Put it in your diary …
• Late April / early May - after a series of delays by First Great Western railways, the first stewed! kiosk finally opens for business in Reading train station, serving hot, one-pot meals from breakfast through to dinner, with an accompanying mix and match menu of inspired accompaniments, from porridge with fruit compote to a Beef in Ale with dumplings. The second is planned to follow, hot on the heels, in a South London location.
• May 11th – Alan Rosenthal will be running one of his sell-out one-pot cooking courses at Leiths cookery school, in which he will be demonstrating a Catalan Fish Stew with Caponata, Chicken Fracciatores, Paella and Chicken and a Sweet Potato Tagine:
www.leiths.com/enthusiasts-courses/one-pot-cooking/
• May 18th to 20th – underlining their commitment to remaining a gluten-free brand (and, bar the Chickpea, Sweet potato and Feta recipe, dairy-free), stewed! will be exhibiting at Stand 102 of The Allergy and Free From Show at Olympia, London. Come and meet us, try the new recipes and stock up on (freezable) one-pots. Alan Rosenthal can also be found in the Sainsbury’s cooking zone, on Saturday 19th May at 10.30 until 11.15am; when he will be demonstrating two original recipes, Beetroot with Cumin, Lemon and Feta and British Beef in Ale with gluten free dumplings. Pick up free show tickets, courtesy of stewed!, at:
www.allergyshow.co.uk/london/e-ticket-registration/?referrer=alanrosenthal
• stewed! was founded by 35-year-old entrepreneur and Leiths trained, passionate foodie, Alan Rosenthal. Aside from a background in buying and marketing for national retailers, Alan has worked for Spanish food specialists Brindisa, at various London restaurants, including The Providores and is a professional Iberico ham carver. He came up with the idea for stewed! On the Circle Line in 2007. In 2008, he left his job and set to work in his kitchen – from where all stewed! recipes still originate. Just one year later, via Alexandra Park farmers’ market in North London, he was outsourcing production.
• stewed! products are available in selected Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Whistlestop, Booths and Wholefoods stores and on ocado.com (RRP: £3.79 / 325g pot). The stewed! Family comprises Thai Chicken with noodles, Italian Chicken Napoletana, Mexican Three Bean Chilli, Veggie Boston Beans, Hungarian Goulash, British Beef in Ale; Chorizo, Chickpea and Pork, Sweet potato, Chickpea and Feta and Beans, Bangers and Bacon.
• stewed! is available in 1.5kg catering packs for all sectors of the food service, distributed nationally through SFD (www.sfddistribution.co.uk), and in 325g single-serve retail pots, distributed through Simple Simon (www.simplesimon.co.uk) in the UK and by Fife Creamery in Scotland (www.fifecreamery.co.uk).
• A healthy, conveniently microwaveable one-pot meal, particularly perfect for lunch-on-the-go, stewed! is low in calories (all less than 328 calories per 325g pot); preservative, additive and gluten-free; and, apart from the Chickpea, Sweet potato and Feta line, all are also dairyfree and only use British meat. They also provide up to 3 of your 5-a-day, so there really is no reason not to.
• The Ebury Press commissioned stewed! cookbook by Alan Rosenthal, 80 Irresistible Stews and One-Pot Wonders (hardback RRP: £15.99), is now on its third print run and is available from Waterstones, WH Smith, Asda and Amazon at http://tinyurl.com/coue5pz;
Thai Crab & Crayfish Rice Timbales
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Thai Crab & Crayfish Rice Timbales
Serves 4
Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 2 minutes
Ingredients:
250g pack Tilda Coconut, Chilli & Lemongrass rice
100g fresh white crabmeat
180g crayfish tails in brine, drained
1 tbsp chopped chives
1 lime
2 tbsp half fat crème fraiche (50g)
Grease 4 x 175g ramekins or dariole moulds.
Method:
Cook rice according to the pack, cool slightly. Stir in the crabmeat, crayfish, chives, lime zest and juice from half the lime. Chill until needed.
Press into the moulds then up-turn onto plates and serve with salad and lime wedges.
About Tilda
Tilda Pure Basmati is the UK’s number one Basmati brand by volume and value. With over 40 years of experience in buying, importing and selling the highest quality Pure Basmati Rice, it’s a name that you can trust.
Tilda has a wide range of products ranging from Pure Basmati Dry Rice through to Tilda Steamed Basmati, available in a wide variety of flavours. Basmati remains at the heart of Tilda and the company is committed to preserving the authenticity of the grain. It refuses to blend with inferior grains, carefully removes broken grains, DNA tests every batch, consistently ages the rice for at least 9 months and works hand-in-hand with the farming community to ensure the quality of the final product.
Tilda remains a family business, employing over 200 people in the UK, and is proud of its reputation for uncompromising quality and commitment to sustaining the legendary status of Basmati.
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