Thursday, May 8, 2008

Broccoli soup and Leek pie


Made a very nice broccoli soup after a Gordon Ramsay recipe I saw on YouTube. No stock needed: just boil the florets in salted water for 4 minutes, then put the broccoli in a mixer with maybe half the water, and vitamise it. Gordon Ramsay served it with goat's cheese, but I used Persian fetta cheese instead. Really yum!

The pie used normal puff pastry, and the filling was made of leek, spinach, fetta cheese, mushroom and pine nuts! Cook the leek down until soft, add a tablespoon of flour, cook it, and add some milk. Add the spinach until it starts to wilt, then add sauteed mushroom and dry-fried pine nuts. Cool, then add fetta cheese and an egg. Put the mixture between puff pastry sheets and bake for 20 minutes at 200C. Very tasty!

(The pie I had today was actually left-over from earlier in the week, but still just as yum!)
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