CHICKEN AND PASTA BAKE
12oz Pasta Shapes
1 Tblsp.
Olive Oil
1 large Onion, chopped
2 cloves Garlic, crushed
12 oz Diced
Chicken
14oz Passata
4 Tomatoes, chopped
3 Tblsps. Black Olives, quartered
1 Tsp. dried Oregano
2 Tblsps Basil, chopped
4 oz Blue Cheese, cubed
2
Eating Apples, peeled cored and sliced
½ pt Apple Juice
2
x 14 oz Pork Fillets
4 oz Black Pudding, mashed
2 Tblsps. Olive Oil
1
Onion, chopped
1 Clove Garlic, crushed
½ pt Chicken Stock
2 Tblsps
Crème
Fraiche
14 oz Plain
Flour
2 oz Self Raising Flour
10 oz Butter
5 oz Caster Sugar
1 Egg
4 oz Icing Sugar
2 oz Butter
Few drops Vanilla Extract
Water icing or melted chocolate
Cook the pasta in boiling, salted water. Heat the oil in a large pan and fry the onion and garlic till soft. Add the chicken and fry till just browned. Pour in the passata, tomatoes, olives, herbs and seasoning, Cook for 5 mins. Drain the cooked pasta and mix into the chicken mixture. Stir in half the cheese and pour into an ovenproof dish and put the remaining cheese on top. Melt under a grill till the cheese has melted.
Pour the apple and half the apple juice in a pan and heat till softened. Slice each fillet along one side and open out. Bash between cling film to flatten. Spread the black pudding over each place the softened apple on top, reserving the apple juice. Roll the fillets up and secure with cocktail sticks. Heat the oil in a pan and sear the meat on all sides then turn the heat down, cover the pan and cook the pork for 20 minutes. Remove the pork and keep warm. Add the onion and garlic to the pan, and brown. Add the remaing apple juice and stock, simmer and reduce by half. Sieve into a clean pan and whisk in the crème fraiche. Pour over the pork.
set oven to Gas Mk5/180C. Rub the butter into the flour. Beat the egg and sugar together to form a biscuit dough. Cut into an even number of pieces using a biscuit cutter and bake for 12 mins. Cool on a wire rack then beat together the butter, icing sugar and vanilla. Sandwich the biscuits together with the butter icing. Top with water icing or melted chocolate.
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