Food And Nutrition
Dairy-Free Tuna Casserole Recipe
Ingredients
- 8 ounces dried porcini mushrooms
- 1/2 cup boiling water
- 8 ounces whole-wheat linguine, or fettuccine
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 medium white onion, coarsely chopped
- 2 stalks celery, coarsely chopped
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 1/2 cups soymilk
- 1/2 cup non-dairy light mayonnaise, or soy mayonnaise
- 1/2 cup vegetable broth
- 1 teaspoon salt, more to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 (10-ounce) bag frozen peas, thawed
- 1 (10-ounce) bag frozen broccoli floret, thawed
- 24 ounces canned tuna
Methods
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Gather the ingredients.
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Preheat the oven to 400 F. Lightly oil a 9 x 13-inch casserole and set aside.
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Place the dried mushrooms in a small bowl and pour the boiling water over top. Let the mushrooms soak for 30 minutes, and then strain the liquid into another bowl and discard the mushrooms. Set aside.
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Meanwhile, bring several cups of salted water to a boil and cook the pasta until al dente. Drain pasta in a colander and set aside.
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In a large, heavy-bottomed skillet over medium heat, heat the oil, adding the onions and celery once hot. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the onions are fragrant and translucent, about 6 minutes. Stir in the flour, whisking constantly until there are no lumps and the flour just begins to smell toasty about 1 to 2 minutes. Whisk in the reserved mushroom liquid, whisking until well combined. Add the soymilk, 1/2 cup at a time, followed by the soy mayonnaise and vegetable broth. Cook, stirring constantly until mixture is smooth and slightly thickened.
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Add the peas, broccoli, tuna and cooked pasta to the sauce, tossing well to combine. Transfer the mixture to the prepared casserole dish and bake until bubbly and golden brown, about 30 minutes. Serve hot.
Tips
- Dried porcini mushrooms lend deep, earthy tones to this sauce, but feel free to use whatever dried mushrooms you prefer.
- Other frozen vegetables can be used in this recipe, including corn, green beans, lima beans, or any mixture thereof.

Food And Nutrition
Coronation chicken tartlets
These little tartlets are perfect for summer get togethers, and they can be made well in advance and stored in the fridge.
For this recipe you will need 2 x 12-hole fairy cake or bun tins and an 8cm/3¼in round cutter.
Ingredients
For the pastry
- 250g/9oz plain flour, plus extra for dusting
- 125g/4½oz unsalted butter, chilled and diced
- ¼ tsp ground turmeric
- good pinch Kashmiri chilli powder
- 3 tbsp iced water
- 1 tsp white wine vinegar
- 1 free-range egg yolk
For the filling
- 3 chicken breasts, cooked and sliced or shredded into 1cm/½in pieces
- 6 ready-to-eat apricots, finely chopped
- 3 tbsp flaked almonds, toasted
- 4 heaped tbsp mayonnaise
- 2 tbsp Greek-style yoghurt
- 2 tbsp mango chutney, plus extra to serve
- 1 tbsp medium-hot curry paste
- 1 mild green chilli, seeds removed and finely chopped
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- coriander leaves, to garnish
Method
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To make the pastry, tip the flour into a bowl. Add the butter, turmeric and chilli powder and season well with salt and pepper. Using a palette or butter knife, cut the butter into the flour until the pieces are half their original size. Use your fingertips to continue rubbing in until there are only small pieces of butter visible.
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Make a well in the middle of the ingredients, add the iced water, vinegar and egg yolk and mix to combine using the palette knife. Use your hands to bring the pastry together into a ball. Flatten into a disc, cover and chill for 2 hours until firm.
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Meanwhile, to make the filling, place the chicken in a bowl. Add the apricots and half the flaked almonds. Add the mayonnaise, yoghurt, mango chutney and curry paste. Season with salt and pepper and mix to coat the chicken in the sauce. Cover and chill for 2 hours to allow the flavours to infuse.
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Lightly dust the work surface with flour and roll out the pastry to a thickness of no more than 2mm. Use an 8cm/3¼in round cutter to stamp out as many discs as you can from the pastry. Gather the scraps together, re-roll and stamp out more discs – you should get 18 discs. Press the pastry into the bun tins, prick the bases and chill for 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6.
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Line each pastry case with a square of kitchen foil, fill with baking rice (or uncooked rice) and bake the tartlets for about 10 minutes until crisp and the edges are turning golden. Remove the foil and rice and bake for a further minute, or until the pastry is cooked through. Leave to cool.
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Spoon the chicken mixture into the tartlet cases and top with a little extra mango chutney and the chilli. Garnish with the remaining almonds and coriander leaves and serve.
Food And Nutrition
Easy roasted pork shoulder Receipt
A Boston butt is the slightly wedged shaped portion of the pork shoulder above the standard picnic cut which includes the blade bone and the “lean butt” (which is boneless), both extensions of the tenderloin cut and can be used in place of the tenderloin. Generally the pork shoulder is considered a primal cut with the picnic and butt sections being sub-primal cuts however, some sources do refer to the butt as a primary cut.
Ingredients
- 2kg pork shoulder joint
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1½ tsp fine sea salt
- 1 large onion, sliced
Method
- STEP 1
Heat the oven to 240C/220C fan/gas 9. Remove any packaging from the pork, retaining the string, and pat dry with kitchen paper – you want the skin to be as dry as possible. Score deep cuts into the skin in a diamond pattern using a sharp knife (you want to cut into the fat). If the skin is already scored, make sure each cut is dry and can be easily opened. Rub the oil into the skin, rubbing it well into each cut, then sprinkle the salt over in an even layer, rubbing this into the cuts, too.
- STEP 2
Scatter the onion slices over the base of a large roasting tin and sit the pork joint on top. Roast for 20-30 mins, or until the skin starts to blister and bubble. Put the kettle on to boil.
- STEP 3
Pour half a kettle of boiling water around the joint to cover the base of the tin, ensuring it doesn’t drip onto the skin. Reduce the oven temperature to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Roast for another 2 hrs 30 mins, or until the meat under the skin is very tender when pressed. There’s a lot of fat in pork shoulder, so cooking at a low temperature this way ensures the meat doesn’t dry out – if needed, it can cook for up to 3 hrs.
- STEP 4
Turn the oven back up to 220C/220C fan/gas 7 and continue to roast the pork for 20-25 mins until the skin is very crisp and has started to harden – it should feel brittle when tapped with a knife. If needed, cook for 10 mins more to achieve this. Remove the pork from the oven and rest for 20 mins in the tin, loosely covering with foil. Remove the crackling in large pieces, then break into smaller chunks. Carve the meat and serve alongside the crackling and your favourite sides.
Food And Nutrition
Italian roast chicken with peppers and olives
Ingredients
- 1 x 1.5kg/3lb 5oz chicken (preferably organic)
- 1 unwaxed lemon, cut in half
- 4 sprigs rosemary
- 3 leeks, washed and trimmed
- 2 red peppers
- 1 orange pepper
- 1 yellow pepper
- 100g/3½oz pitted dry-packed black olives
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- Sea salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper, to serve
Method
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Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6. Untruss the chicken, sit it in a roasting tin and put the lemon halves and two of the rosemary sprigs into the chicken’s cavity.
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Wash and trim the leeks, cut each into three logs, then slice lengthways and add to the tin. Now remove the core and seeds of the peppers and slice them into strips, following their natural curves and ridges, and add these to the tin.
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Tumble in the olives, and now pour the olive oil, mostly over the vegetables but a little over the chicken, too. Add the remaining rosemary sprigs to the vegetables, along with some sea salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper, to taste. Using a couple of spoons or spatulas, gently toss the vegetables about to help coat them with the oil and make sure everything’s well mixed up.
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Sprinkle some sea salt flakes over the chicken and put it in the oven for about 1-1¼ hours, by which time the chicken should be cooked through, and its juices running clear when you cut into the flesh with a small sharp knife at the thickest part of the thigh joint. The vegetables should be tender by now, too, and some of the leeks will be a scorched light-brown in parts.
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Remove the chicken to a carving board and, while it rests (for about 10 minutes) pop the pan of veg back in the oven, switching the oven off as you do so.
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Cut the chicken up chunkily, transferring the pieces to a large warmed platter. Now take the pan back out of the oven and, with a slotted spoon or spatula, remove the vegetables to the large platter and when all is arranged to your aesthetic delight, pour over it all the bronze, highly-flavoured juices that have collected in the pan.
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