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Valentine's Day meals in 35 minutes
Let's face it eating out on Valentine's Day is expensive. That's why this year staying in is the new going out.
Impress your partner with our simple, stress-free meal planner that you can cook in thirty-five minutes and have a romantic, candlelit dinner in your own dining room.
Keeping it simple is the key thus saving plenty of time for romancing. Genius.
Five-minute starter:
Halloumi and herb salad
Ingredients:
1 block of halloumi cheese, packet of mixed salad, olive oil.
Method:
Slice then grill the cheese until brown on both sides. Pile a handful of salad on each plate and drizzle with olive oil. Arrange the cheese slices on top. Season with salt and pepper. Done.
25 minute main course:
Ribeye Steaks with red wine shallots and chunky chips
Chunky chips:
Ingredients:
2 x large potatoes.
Method:
Wash potatoes. Slice into chunky fingers. Place in a baking tray, drizzle with olive oil and salt. Put in the oven at 200C/400F/Gas 6 for 25 minutes.
Red Wine Shallots
Ingredients:
50g butter, 500g shallots, 1 tsp sugar, 2 sprigs thyme, 250ml red wine.
Method:
Peel the shallots, trim tops and root ends. Heat the butter in a heavy saucepan and add the shallots. Cook until lightly golden on all sides, add the sugar, a little salt, pepper and thyme. Add the wine; reduce again until 2 tablespoons are left. The shallots should be tender by now. Remove from heat and add another 1/2 tbsp. of butter. Check seasoning before serving.
Rib-eye steak:
Ingredients:
2x250g British ribeye steaks, dash of rapeseed oil and a knob of butter.
Method:
To cook the steaks, heat a frying pan or a griddlepan over a medium heat then add a good dash of rapeseed oil and a knob of butter. When the butter is foaming add the steaks to the pan and cook on one side for 2-3 minutes for rare or a little longer for medium then turn and cook on the other side for the same time remove from the pan and rest for 2 minutes.
5 minute pudding:
Raspberry and strawberry Eton mess
Ingredients:
3 meringue nests, 250g raspberries, 250g, strawberries, 350ml double cream lightly whipped.
Method:
Break the meringues into a bowl and fold in the whipped cream. Halve the raspberries and strawberries and fold into the mixture so it is rippled together rather than blended. Pile high into glasses. Serve.
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