A chicken & onion pie with delicious short pastry and a gorgeous filling, from a series on how to make a chicken last a family a whole week
Chicken & Onion Pie
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Lunches
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Chicken and Sun Dried Tomato Sandwich Paste
Chicken and sun dried tomato sandwich paste made with leftover roast chicken, or cooked especially. Simple, versatile and delicious.
Tomato and basil curd
Primarily, I wanted to make a sandwich filler / toast topper, but savoury curd can be used with savoury scones, on savoury biscuits, or even straight from the jar from a spoon, it’s very yummy! I’m using it here with a slice of hummus on toast as well.
Coronation chicken jacket potato
This Coronation chicken jacket potato recipe is part of a plan, starting the week with a whole poached chicken, to stretch a medium chicken to last a family of four all week. Twenty eight portions!
Red cabbage and Chicken Waldorf Salad
An easy and adaptable salad using the classic flavours of a Waldorf using meat from a whole poached chicken that could last a family all week
Peperonata
Peperonata is one of those things that we have pretty often. It is a pepper and onion stew that goes with many things, can be used as a main dish or as a side.
Punjabi Cabbage
This is vegan and gluten free recipe is a Punjabi recipe, packed full of vegetables, pulses and spices. Make it hot if you like things that way. Personally, I like a lot of spice and hardly any heat
Chicken liver parfait
Chicken liver parfait that’s smooth unctuous and rich. Vary it around the amount of ingredients you have, it’s very accommodating
Chicken with butternut squash and pesto tart
An easy and adaptable tart using puff pastry. Topped with pesto, butternut squash and chicken. Good cold the next day too as a packed lunch
Sweetcorn Soup
Ideal for lunches at home, or in a flask at work, this super easy sweetcorn soup recipe is nutritious, warming, filling and inexpensive.
Wild Garlic Pesto
Easy to make, wild garlic pesto is pungent, delicious and made from wild garlic foraged from the woods, or Allium triquetrum which is what I have growing in my garden.
Broccoli and Lentil Soup
Had some broccoli to use up today, so decided to make some Broccoli and Lentil soup for lunch and a 4p Cheapy Bread Roll with it