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Apple tarte tatin

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We have just come up with a detailed guides to prepare your delicious Apple tarte tatin, from choosing the right ingredients to serving the meal with your love ones.

Ingredients

For the pastry

  • 320g/11oz plain flour
  • 225g/8oz ice-cold butter
  • 110g/4oz icing sugar
  • 3 free-range egg yolks

For the filling

  • 6 Cox or 4 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and cut into 8-12 wedges
  • ¼ lemon
  • 110g/4oz caster sugar
  • 110g/4oz butter

To serve

  • double cream or vanilla ice cream

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 250C/500F/Gas 9.

  2. First, make the pastry. In a food processor, mix the flour, butter and icing sugar just until they resemble breadcrumbs. Add the egg yolks and, using the pulse button, mix until it comes together in a dough.

  3. Remove the dough from the mixer bowl and divide into two pieces. Wrap in clingfilm and put in the freezer to chill for at least an hour.

  4. For the filling, place the apple wedges in a bowl, squeeze the lemon juice over them and toss them gently.

  5. Sprinkle 85g/3oz of the sugar in a heavy-bottomed pan and place on the hob over a medium heat, turning the pan frequently and making sure the sugar doesn’t burn. Allow the sugar to caramelise a little and become a pale golden brown, then remove from the heat and arrange the drained apple pieces in one layer over the bottom of the pan.

  6. Place the pan in the oven and bake until the apples have softened a bit and started to release some liquid – about 10 minutes.

  7. Remove from the oven and sprinkle over the remaining sugar and dot the butter on top. Remove the pastry from the freezer and, using the coarse side of a cheese grater, grate the pastry with long steady strokes over the apples until it forms an even layer at least 2.5cm/1 inch thick. Do not press down. Return to the oven, turn the heat down to 220C/425F/Gas 7 and bake until the pastry is golden brown – about 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and leave to rest for a minute or two.

  8. Take a heatproof serving dish that is generously larger than the pan on all sides and place over the pan. Protecting your hands with a dry folded tea-towel, and holding the dish and pan firmly together, quickly and carefully flip the pan and the dish so that the pan is on top. Tap the pan sharply a few times all round with a wooden spoon, then lift off. The tart should be left on the serving dish with the apple on top.

  9. Serve warm with double cream, crème fraîche or vanilla ice cream.

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Duck pancakes with hoisin sauce

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Ingredients

  • 4 duck breasts, about 175g/6oz each, skin removed
  • ½ tsp Chinese five-spice powder
  • 2 tbsp sesame oil
  • 100ml/3½fl oz hoisin sauce
  • freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 bunch spring onions, cut into matchsticks, to serve
  • ½ cucumber, halved, seeds removed and cut into matchsticks, to serve
  • 8–10 ready-made Chinese-style pancakes (or mini flour tortillas), warmed, to serve

Method

  1. Cut the duck into thin strips and toss in the five-spice powder. Season with pepper. Heat the sesame oil in a frying pan or wok and add the duck. Stir-fry for 3–4 minutes until cooked through, then add the hoisin sauce. Continue to cook for about 1 minute, until the duck is thickly coated with the sauce.

  2. Transfer the duck to a warmed dish, arrange the spring onions and cucumber in a bowl, unwrap the warmed pancakes and allow everyone to dig in and help themselves. The pancakes should be topped with some duck, spring onions and cucumber, then rolled up to resemble the Chinese classic.

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Baked Salmon in a Black Bean Sauce

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This Chinese-inspired baked salmon is gourmet-delicious, yet extremely easy to make. You’ll love how the rich-tasting black bean sauce enhances the exquisite flavor of the salmon. This baked fish recipe also works with other types of fish, such as cod, sole, snapper, or halibut—all healthy and safe seafood choices (either fresh or frozen). This easy baked fish is superb for everyday meals, but also wonderful enough to serve to a taste-discerning crowd. ENJOY!

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This baked salmon is aromatic and delicious. Salmon steaks or fillets are baked for 20 minutes in an easy-to-make Thai red curry sauce that complements the rich taste of the salmon. But unlike a lot of salmon sauce recipes, this one is lactose-free, calling for coconut milk instead of cream. If you’re game, cook or serve this salmon ​in a banana leaf boat (as pictured here) – “how to” link included with recipe. ENJOY!

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This baked salmon with a honey-soy-ginger sauce comes out beautifully, plus is easy to make. The marinade is a simple mixture of Asian sauces and fresh spices that comes out tasting similar to Teriyaki, but is essentially Chinese-Thai in origin. This is one of my personal go-to recipes when I want delicious-tasting salmon without too much fuss and bother. Great with rice, but also lovely with new potatoes—just spoon over some of the extra sauce from the baking dish and they’re yummy!

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New Grilled Salmon in a Lemongrass-Coconut Sauce

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Simple stuffing balls

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Use herby sausages to make your stuffing and you can cut down on added ingredients and use the same sausages for your pigs in blankets.

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
  • ½ medium onion, finely chopped
  • 4 herby pork sausages, separated
  • 1 small lemon, finely grated zest and juice
  • 50g/1¾oz fresh white breadcrumbs
  • 2 tbsp roughly chopped fresh thyme leaves
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method

  1. Heat the oil in a small non-stick frying pan and gently fry the onion for 3–4 minutes, or until softened and lightly browned, stirring regularly. Tip into a large bowl and leave to cool.

  2. Squeeze the sausagemeat out of the skins and into the bowl with the cooked and cooled onion. Add the lemon zest, breadcrumbs, thyme and plenty of salt and pepper. Mix well with clean hands and form into 12 small balls. Place on a generously oiled baking tray (with the pigs in blankets, if making) and leave to chill in the fridge until ready to cook.

  3. Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6. Bake for about 20 minutes, or until the stuffing balls are lightly browned and cooked through, turning after 10 minutes. Serve.

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