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Hazelnut Butter

Hazelnut Butter recipe

Contrary to popular belief Will Keith Kellogg did not invent Peanut Butter. It was actually a Canadian chap called Marcellus Gilmore Edson. But he didn’t have an early autumn glut of Hazelnuts. We do!

So we thought we’d have a pop at Hazelnut Butter…..

Ingredients:-

Hazelnuts
Oil
Salt

Method:-

(1) Shell the Hazelnuts. If you don’t nave a nut cracker you could aways use a kitchen cloth and rolling pin on a hards surface. Our neibours will again think we’re up to some dreadful DIY gig, or worse!
(2) Heat the oven to 180c and roast the nuts for 15 minutes.
(3) Allow them to cool to room temperature.
(4) In a food processor add a teaspoon of Salt, depending on the amount of nuts you have. It wants to be quite salty without being overpowering.
(5) Blend the roasted nuts until you get a bread crumb consistency.
(6) In a bowl add oil a little at a time until everything will fold together in a firm dough. Check for salt and add a little extra to suite your taste if required.
(7) Spoon into a jar and store in the fridge.

I’m not expecting our trial batch to last long. But there’s a high risk that I’ll be making a much bigger batch when I’m next not supervised!

 

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Chorizo & King Prawn Pizza recipe

We had half a stick of Chorizo in the fridge, a tub of cubed Yellow Sticker Cheese at 20p and a bit of time on our hands. So we made another version of Pizza in a giant Gluten free Yorkshire pudding.

It’s a favourite ‘go-to’ recipe here for clearing bits and bobs from the fridge. Basically if you have a Tomato base sauce and some Cheese you can throw all sorts of wonders between them. It’s never failed us yet!

For the base:-

Ingredients:-

100g Cornflour
150ml Milk
3 eggs
Salt & fresh ground Black Pepper

Method:-

(1) Pre-heat the oven to 220c, add oil or lard to a large tray and place in the oven.
(2) Whisk all the ingredients for the batter several time to get as much air into it as possible.
(3) When the oil / lard is smoking quickly pour your batter mix in and return to the oven.
(4) Reduce the heat to 180c.
(6) Cook for 30 to 35 minutes until the Yorkshire Pudding has risen and is lightly browned. Don’t over cook at you will be returning to the the oven to melt the Cheese.
(7) Add the Tomato Base sauce and then your filling ingredients.
(8) Add grated Cheese to the top and return to the oven until the Cheese has malted and is starting to brown slightly.

These things are huge. But the remaining half made great snacks for the following day. OK to be fair this actually fed both of us for two days!

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