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Recipe below👇🏼 Chicken & Puff Pastry Pie 🥧 I know you’ll be asking for the Chocolate Pudding Recipe, but I don’t have room for it in this caption along with the Pie. But don’t worry, this recipe will be in my cookbook, The From Scratch Kitchen. 1 large chicken 4 large carrots, diced 4 sticks celery, diced 1 brown onion, diced 3 heaped tsp Dijon mustard 1 heaped tbsp dried herbs (like tarragon, sage, & oregano) 1 heaped tbsp plain flour 800 ml chicken stock (or water) 100 ml cream 1 large handful chopped parsley 350 g puff pastry Slice the breasts off your chicken, chop into chunks & set aside. Bring a large pan of water to the boil — enough to just cover the chicken. The less water, the richer your stock will be. Submerge the chicken (minus the breasts) & simmer for 1-2 hours or until the meat falls off the bone. Set the chicken aside & reserve the stock for later. Heat a large ovenproof frying pan or skillet & fry the breasts until browned. Remove, then add the vegetables & cook for 10 mins until soft. Meanwhile, strip the meat off the chicken & set aside. Stir through the dried herbs & mustard, then sprinkle over the flour & stir until it coats the veg (the flour helps thicken the sauce). Allow to cook for 1 min, then add two thirds of the 800 ml stock & stir well until your vegetables are coated in a glossy sauce. Add the chicken breast & rest of the meat, along with the cream & parsley. Season well, then add as much of the stock as you need until you have a nice consistency. The filling should be coated in a sauce but not swimming in liquid. You may need more or less than the 800 ml you set aside — just add as much as you need. For the pie top, you can either add a sheet of pastry, or cut it into strips to make a lattice top. Make sure your pastry is cold & work quickly as the hot filling underneath will make the pastry quite delicate. Brush with egg, then bake at 200ºC (180ºC fan-forced) for 20-30 mins or until the pastry is golden brown. Remove & allow to cool for 10 mins before serving. (The recipe for Rough Puff Pastry will be in my book, too! Not enough room in here) 🎵 - All I Need, Northwestern (via Uppbeat) . #cookingfromscratch #fromscratchcooking

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Homemade Feta and Elderflower Cordial recipes ⬇️ I couldn’t fit the ice cream recipe! I’ll put it in my recipe highlights soon, so follow along if you want to see it. Feta 🐄 4L unhomogonised cows, sheep or goats milk 100ml active kefir 1/4 tsp liquid rennet (or 1 tsp of thistle rennet) Flaky sea salt Place the milk in a pan, warm it to 32°C then remove from the heat and add in the kefir. Stir and leave for 1 hour at room temp. Add the rennet, stir and leave for 1 hour if using conventional rennet, or 3-4 hours if using thistle rennet. When the curds form, cut into the pan with a knife, and pour into a colander over a bowl to catch the whey. Stir gently with your hand to release more whey from the curds, and then add a generous pinch of salt to the curds and stir with your hands. Leave for 10 minutes to drain. Place the curds into a cheese mould and press down firmly. Leave for 3-6 hours in a cool place to firm up. While this happens, make the brine by adding 40g of salt to 1 litre of leftover whey. Combine and chill in the fridge. (You can save the rest of your whey in the fridge and use it in baking such as bread!) Turn the curds out of the moulds onto a wire rack (they should now be solid), salt the surface generously and leave for 12 - 24 hours in a cool place covered with a muslin cloth or tea towel. Next, place the whole curds into a container and submerge in the brine whey. Place in the fridge for anywhere from 2 days to two weeks to age (depending on how strong you like it). After ageing in the brine, remove the feta, cut into cubes and place in a jar with rosemary, peppercorns, chilli and olive oil to marinate. Elderflower cordial 🌸 3 litres water 1.5kg caster sugar 30-60 elderflower heads in bloom 3 lemons, sliced Add the sugar and water to a saucepan over medium heat and bring to a simmer until the sugar dissolves, then remove from the heat and add in the elderflower heads and lemon slices. Stir gently and make sure the flowers are submerged in the liquid. Cover with a lid and leave for 24 hours at room temp. After 24 hours strain through a muslin cloth and transfer to sterilised bottles and keep in the fridge. . . . #cookingfromscratch #fromscratchcooking #homecooking #wholesomefood #feta #homemadeicecream

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Homemade Peanut Butter & Sourdough Starter Recipes 🥜🍞 Peanut Butter 500g plain peanuts (or more, depending on how much peanut butter you want to make) Sea salt Lay out your peanuts on a roasting tray and bake in the oven until they’re golden. Allow to cool, then add them to a food processor and blend on high. The peanuts will form a crumb, then after a few minutes will turn into a paste. Blend until it’s as smooth as you’d like. If you like it chunky, add in a few extra peanuts and pulse until you get the right consistency. Season with salt to taste, then add to jars. Sourdough Starter 🍞 50g flour 50g water The key to a good sourdough starter is to let it be a little dryer than most recipes would suggest. I follow the common and classic starter recipe of 50g of flour to 50g water, which is a good ratio, however I’ve made a few of my personal adjustments to it. Day 1 - add 50g of flour and 50g of water to a jar (not too small, plenty of room to stir with a wooden spoon). Give it a stir and cover with a tea towel or cloth and set aside for roughly 24 hours. Repeat this process for 7 days, adding 50g of flour and 50g of water each time. My tip here is to not let the starter get too wet. Sometimes different flours have different absorption rates so 50g water can be too much. The consistency of the mixture wants to be like thick cake batter, it will fall off the spoon slowly. If it’s running off the spoon, then reduce the amount of water. You may need 50g of flour to 40g or 30g of water after day 3. Day 7 - After a week your sourdough should be bubbly and smelling like yoghurt (don’t worry too much if it’s not very bubbly). You can now keep feeding it daily until you’re ready to make a loaf. If you're not ready and your jar is getting full, just take some out and either discard it or use it in another recipe like pancakes. Next week, I’ll show you how to take your sourdough starter and turn into a gorgeous loaf of bread- so stay tuned for that! . . . #cookingfromscratch #wholesomefood #fromscratchcooking #homecooking #bakingfromscratch #lunchideas #cornishpasty

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Homemade Houmous + Pickled Onion recipes👇🏼 This is what cooking for the masses looks like in a from scratch kitchen 😅 If you’re cooking for friends and you’re wanting to make everything from scratch- my biggest piece of advice is to keep it simple!! Don’t whip out a recipe you’ve never tried before- lean on the things you know how to make, make them to a good standard, and your guests will be chuffed. Bob’s Quick Houmous 🧄 2x 400g tins chickpeas (or alternatively if you’re using dried chickpeas, 800g once they’ve been soaked and cooked) 150g tahini 2 tsp ground cumin 100ml extra virgin olive oil Juice of 4 lemons 1 tsp flaky sea salt 1 garlic clove or 30mL garlic infused olive oil Add all of your ingredients to a food processor and blend. As it comes together, it’ll start to become quite dry, so standby whilst it’s blending, gradually adding water until it’s just soft enough to blend. Keep on blending until it’s completely smooth, then add to jars or containers and keep in the fridge. Pickled Red Onions 🧅 8 red onions 500mL white vinegar 500mL water 60g white sugar 2 Tbsp salt Slice your onions as thinly as possible- I like to use a mandolin or the slicing attachment on my food processor for this. Add your onions to a large glass jar or a few smaller jars, and try and pack as many onions into each jar as you can, pushing them down until they’re compact. Next, add your vinegar, water, sugar and salt to a saucepan, and bring to a simmer, until all of the sugar is dissolved. Allow to cool for a few minutes, then pour your hot vinegar mixture over the onions, filling each jar to the top. After a few hours, the onions should be pink and ready to eat, but they’ll keep in the fridge for weeks! #cookingfromscratch #fromscratchcooking #wholesomefood #dinnerrecipes #dinnerparty #dinnerpartyideas #homecooking

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