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Seafood triangles

SERVES 4 TO 5
30g butter Melt the butter in a medium Line two baking trays with non-stick
30g plain flour saucepan set over a medium heat. baking paper.
250ml milk Add the flour and whisk together Unroll the pastry sheets and cut
salt and pepper to make a roux. Gradually whisk each one into four squares. Use the
200g white fish, cut into 2cm in the milk and bring to the boil, remaining pastry to make two more
dice then reduce to a simmer for 2 to 3
100g salmon minutes, stirring all the time, until squares. Spoon the filling onto one half A QUICK
100g prawns the sauce has thickened and the of each square, brush the edges with WINTER
3 to 4 sprigs of fresh dill, flour is cooked. Season with salt and beaten egg and fold over into a triangle, SALAD
chopped, plus extra to pressing gently with a fork to seal. To make an orange
garnish pepper, then fold in all the seafood Put on the lined baking trays, brush and fennel salad to
1 x 640g pack of Jus-Rol and the dill and allow to cool. with a little more beaten egg and cut serve with the seafood
shortcrust pastry sheets a small slit on top for steam to escape. triangles, trim two
1 egg, beaten Chill in the fridge for 20 minutes. large bulbs of fennel,
orange and fennel salad, to Preheat the oven to 190°C/gas mark 5. retaining the fronds
serve for garnish. Thinly
Bake in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes, slice the fennel and
until the pastry is golden brown and put in a bowl with four
the filling is bubbling. Allow to cool segmented oranges.
for 5 minutes before garnishing with Toss well and add a
a few fresh dill sprigs and serving with little cracked black
an orange and fennel salad for an easy pepper, then scatter
lunch or supper.
over the chopped
fennel fronds.

KITCHEN SCHOOL Baking blind

Baking blind is a term used Roll out the pastry and line your Bake in the preheated oven You can blind bake
1where the pastry is baked 2tin with it, pressing the pastry into 3for 15 minutes, until the 4the pastry and keep
before the lling to ensure the the corners and up and over the sides. pastry is set, then remove the it wrapped and chilled
base is fully cooked before Prick the base with a fork to prevent beans and paper and bake for until needed. Or why
adding the lling. The pastry it from pung up while baking. Line a further 5 minutes, until the not make a double
shell can be made hours ahead the pastry with baking parchment or base is fully cooked. Trim any batch of pastry and
or even a day before, then foil and ll with ceramic baking beans, overlapping pastry around the freeze half for another
kept covered and used when dried beans or dried pulses. This helps edges to give a tidy nish before time?
convenient. keep the sides from falling in. adding the lling of your choice.
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