Gut health Chicken with forty cloves of garlic & bread for mopping
Chicken thighs braised with whole garlic heads until sweet, with juices demanding bread.
Fish pie with leek & celeriac mash
A lighter fish pie under a celeriac-potato mash with hidden leeks.
Ingredients
Servings 4
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Method
- Step 1
Boil celeriac and potato 20 minutes; mash with oil and season.
- Step 2
Soften leeks in butter; add flour, then milk gradually, to a sauce. Add mustard and parsley.
- Step 3
Fold in all the fish; tip into a dish.
- Step 4
Top with mash and cheddar; bake at 200C fan for 30 minutes until bubbling.
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Nutrition per serving
| Calories | 520 kcal |
|---|---|
| Protein | 40g |
| Carbohydrates | 34g |
| – of which sugars | 10g |
| Fibre | 8g |
| Fat | 24g |
| – of which saturates | 8g |
| – of which omega-3 | 1.2g |
| Calcium | 280mg |
| Iron | 2.4mg |
| Salt | 1.2g |
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