Recipes

Quick fried rice

Ingredients

2 tsp oil

1 egg , beaten

2 rashers bacon , chopped

175g mushrooms , sliced

200g frozen peas

1 garlic clove , crushed small knob of fresh root ginger , grated

2 tsp soy sauce , plus extra to serve 1 tsp sugar

250g cooked basmati rice

Method Heat the oil in a frying pan, then tip in the egg. Leave to set for 30 seconds to one minute, swirling every now and again, then tip it out and finely slice. Add bacon and mushrooms to pan, then fry until golden, about three minutes.

Add peas, garlic and ginger, then cook for one minute.Mix the soy sauce and sugar together. Turn up the heat, add the cooked rice to the pan, heat through, then splash in the sweet soy sauce. Stir through the egg and serve straight away, with more soy sauce if you like

Lemon self- saucing pudding

Ingredients

50g butter

200g caster sugar

1 lemon , zested

100ml lemon juice

(include the zest from the zested lemon)

3 eggs , separated

50g plain flour , sifted

250ml milk

icing sugar for dusting

Method

Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160/gas gas 4. Whiz the butter, sugar and lemon zest until they are pale and creamy in a food processor.

Add the lemon juice, egg yolks, flour and milk one by one until you have a smooth batter. Whisk the egg whites until firm but not stiff, and fold the two mixtures together.

Pour into a buttered ovenproof souffl‚ or baking dish and put it in a baking tray half filled with hot water. Bake for 45-50 minutes until the top is lightly browned and set and there is a sort of gooey lemon curd below. Remove the dish from the tray, dust with icing sugar and serve hot, with or without cream.