Our three minute speaker on Tuesday 16 June was Rotarian Frank Flowers.
Frank spoke to members about two recipes that he has recently made. Frank has kindly provided the recipes as follows:
Chocolate, Walnut and Sultana Brownies
Ingredients:
Block of dark cooking chocolate or bag of dark chocolate melts
100g butter, 3 eggs, 1 cup brown sugar, 100g crushed walnuts
100g sultanas, 2 tablespoons plain flour
Cooking:
- Break up the chocolate and cut the butter in to cubes. Mix. In bowl, heat for 1 to 2 minutes in microwave, mix the chocolate and butter until smooth.
- In another bowl, add eggs and sugar and whisk together
- Gradually add the melted chocolate to the eggs and sugar and mix.
- Mix in the walnuts, sultanas and flour
- Place in a small (I use 18 cm x 28 cm) baking tray, lined with baking paper and bake in a pre-heated oven at 180 deg C for about 25 minutes. Poke with a fork to ensure that they are ready. Allow to cool before cutting in to squares.
Cottage Pie (serves 4)
Ingredients:
500g premium minced beef, one medium sized onion, 1 pack of steam fresh frozen vegetables, 400g of sweet potato, 400 ml beef stock, 3 tablespoons of fruit chutney, 1 tablespoon of plain flour, milk and butter for the potato mash.
Cooking:
- Peel the sweet potato, dice, place in pot, cover with water, bring to boil and allow to simmer for 20 to 25 minutes.
- Place minced beef in pan and cook with medium heat until all meat is browned, usually about 5 minutes. Take meat from pan with a slotted spoon or lifter and stand aside in bowl
- Onions should be cut up and placed in pan. Cook using the fat left from the meat for 2 to 3 minutes until the onions start to colour. Whilst the onions are cooking, heat the steam fresh vegetables in the microwave for 2 min 30 sec. Add the vegetables to the onions. Stir the mixture.
- Add the beef stock to the vegetables, stirring whilst the stock is simmering. Return the minced beef to the pan and add the fruit chutney and flour. Cook for a further 4 minutes, stirring.
- Take the sweet potato from the pot, drain and then mash the sweet potato with milk and butter
- Place the mix from the pan into a casserole dish and cover with the mashed sweet potato.
- Place in a pre-heated oven at 200 deg C for 15 minutes. Then serve.
