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Stuffed Mushroom Burger Recipe – Summer in a Bun…

We had an amazing time at our Summer Party this Saturday – great food, great company and incredible music from the very talented ‘Dog With No Name’. We got through a fair bit of Pimms too! As always, a huge thank you to everyone who came! For those that missed it, here is the recipe for our stuffed mushrooms, which we served in burger buns with a bit of roast sweet potato and pepper for flavour contrast.

Ingredients:

– 4 Large flat mushrooms

– 250g Cream cheese

– couple of slices of bread

– 100g strong cheddar, grated

– pinch of dried sage or chives

– salt and pepper to taste

Method:

  • Remove and save the mushroom stalks, scoop out the dark gills with a spoon.
  • Put both of these into a food processor with the bread and herbs and pulse for a few seconds, until crumbed. Mix this with the grated cheese.
  • Generously fill the scooped out mushrooms with cream cheese, top with the breadcrumb mixture, pressing into shape as you go.
  • Bake in the oven at about 170C for 20 minutes, until mushroom is soft and top is crispy. Serve with salad; in a bun or pitta bread; or (my favourite) with some crispy roast parsnips.

If you really want to recreate our evening, you’ll have to check out some of the fab music from Dog With No Name!

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Susan’s Lentil Dahl Recipe

So we had to cancel last week’s meal (booo…) due to illness, but to try and make up for it, we thought we’d give you our recipe so you can try it at home. To me, this meal is Indian comfort food at its best – a real winter warmer, or just as fabulous cold the next day. I recommend eating whilst in your pyjamas!

If Indian food is your thing, take a look at Manjulas Kitchen, for some fabulous recipes (and great watching!).

 Susan’s Lentil Dahl

1 onion finely chopped

1 carrot cut into thin slices

2 large potatoes cut into small cubes

couple of large handfuls of red lentils

½ block of creamed coconut (not milk and not a carton)

1 tsp black or brown mustard seed

1 tsp ground coriander

1 tsp ground cumin

1 tsp turmeric

½ tsp black pepper

1 tsp ground cardamom

1 inch piece of fresh ginger – peeled and finely grated

1 clove garlic crushed (totally optional, I don’t use this at all, but if you like garlic knock yourself out!)

ghee or oil – about two tablespoons

handful of fresh coriander leaves – chopped

 

Heat the oil or ghee in a large saucepan, when hot drop in the mustard seeds and leave until they start to pop, add the onion and cook until it starts to brown. Add the coriander, cumin, turmeric, pepper, cardamom, fresh ginger and the garlic if using. Cook the spices for a moment or two before adding in the carrots, potatoes and lentils and cook for a few seconds. Add enough water to completely cover everything and bring to the boil. Reduce heat to a simmer and cook until everything is soft, adding boiling water if it needs it. When it is cooked there should still be a good amount of liquid in the pot, now add the block of coconut and stir until it’s is completely dissolved, cook on for a minute or two until it thickens. Remove from heat and stir in the most of the fresh coriander, reserving a little for garnishing. Serve with yoghurt, mango chutney and a chapatti.

We recommend serving with onion (or cauliflower if you’re feeling adventurous) bhajis – check out our easy bhaji mix here.

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Mock Duck in Spicy Plum Sauce Recipe

To start with, I just want to thank everyone who came to our Chinese New Year meal. It was a fantastic evening, where we all ate far too much… It’s a long way to come for some of you though, so to make sure no one is left out we thought we’d share our fabulous recipe!

For those that haven’t heard of it before, Mock Duck is the meatiest vegetarian meat alternative around. Made from wheat gluten, this has a taste and texture almost identical to real duck – and it makes fantastic duck pancakes. You can pick a tin up from your local health food shop or chinese supermarket, or even make your own. We combined it with our very own Spicy Plum Sauce, as an alternative to the traditional hoisin sauce. We also served it with oven baked noodles, just to make sure we got our dose of veg!

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Mock duck in spicy plum sauce

Ingredients:

1 tin mock duck

1 bottle St Kitts Herbery Spicy Plum Sauce

 

Method:

Drain the mock duck and rinse under cold water. Cut into thin strips, place in an ovenproof dish and cover with the Spicy Plum Sauce. Cover with foil and cook in oven at 180C for about 20 minutes, until hot and sauce is sticky.

 

Oven baked noodles

Ingredients:

1 pack fresh noodles

1 carrot – cut into very thin strips

1 small can water chestnuts drained

1 small can bamboo shoots drained

2 or 3 mushrooms sliced

handful of mange tout cut into thin strips

1 pak choi finely sliced

small bag of beansprouts

4 tablespoons of mirin

4 tablespoons of rice vinegar

tamari soy sauce to taste

good dash of dark sesame oil

 

Method:

Put all veg in a baking tray with the noodles, splash lightly with the sesame oil and toss until it is all coated. Sprinkle the mirin and rice vinegar over the top, cover with foil and bake in the oven on 180C for about 20 minutes until hot. Toss the noodles mix with the soy sauce and serve with the mock duck.

If you fancy the pancakes too then see the recipe here.