Baked Cheesy Smoked Haddock And Lemon Icebox Pudding: Henry Harris’ Alternative Easter Lunch

Sometimes each you want is simply a hot, bubbling crockery and a spoon, and for maine today’s cheesy haddock is that crockery – a 15-minute supper to beryllium enjoyed successful beforehand of nan telly pinch a crockery aliases a ample vessel of basking buttered peas. Add a lemony, biscuity iced dessert, and you person a light, very easy and enjoyable supper that’s almost nan cleanable adjacent to a agelong Easter weekend.

Baked smoked haddock and parmesan

Choose your smoked haddock carefully: you want large, heavy fillets of undyed fish. Stating nan obvious, here, but a bully fishmonger will person this; a supermarket never. The creme fraiche must beryllium a French, people soured cream, too, becausethe cheaper English versions coagulate erstwhile power is applied, resulting successful an unpleasant, watery gunk. If you want to springiness this a small other jazz, portion 2 leeks into rounds, navigator them successful food for astir 20 minutes until wholly soft and each nan liquid has evaporated, and adhd immoderate sliced cooked waxy potatoes to power done for nan past fewer minutes. Spread this substance crossed nan guidelines of nan 2 dishes earlier adding nan food and building up arsenic below.

Prep 10 min
Cook 15 min
Serves 2

2 180g sustainably originated skinless smoked haddock fillets
150-200g creme fraiche
Black pepper
Tabasco sauce, to taste
Parmesan, for grating
Comté aliases gruyère, for grating
Buttered peas, aliases greenish salad, to serve

Heat nan grill to high. Put each haddock fillet successful an individual heatproof dish, spoon complete nan creme fraiche and dispersed it retired loosely but evenly to screen nan fish. Season generously pinch achromatic capsicum and a dash of Tabasco, past grate complete a bully magnitude of parmesan – there’s nary constituent successful trying to springiness a precise amount, truthful conscionable springiness it a good, generous grating to taste. Next, grate complete a ray covering of comté, past put some dishes successful nan oven connected a support that’s astir two-thirds of nan measurement down from nan grill. Close nan doorway and time off to navigator for 8 to 10 minutes, until nan pick is bubbling and nan cheeses person started to colour successful places.

Check that nan food is cooked done – if it isn’t, conscionable navigator for a small longer. Put 2 napkins connected 2 plates and cautiously assistance nan dishes from nan oven and connected to nan plates. Take to nan array (or sofa) and service pinch buttered peas aliases a greenish salad.

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Lemon icebox pudding

Henry Harris’ citrus icebox pudding.

My Mum often serves this astatine luncheon aliases meal parties, because you tin make it days successful advance, and truthful region a level of accent aliases much complications connected nan time itself. She usually serves it pinch a raspberry coulis spiked pinch a dash of brandy aliases eau-de-vie, and who americium I to disagree?

Prep 10 min
Cook 40 min
Freeze 3 hr+
Serves 6-8

Neutral oil, for greasing
150g gingernut biscuits
50g unsalted butter, melted
2 ample eggs, separated
70g caster sugar
120ml citrus juice
285ml double cream
Finely grated zest of 2 lemons

Grease a 900g (2lb) loaf tin, past statement it pinch a double furniture of clingfilm, ensuring location is plentifulness of overhang.

Put nan biscuits successful a integrative bag, past usage a rolling pin to bash them to crumbs. Transfer to a vessel and operation successful nan melted butter. Press half nan biscuit substance evenly into nan guidelines of nan lined loaf tin, and prevention nan remainder for later.

Put nan ovum yolks successful a warmed vessel (fill it pinch boiling water, time off it to guidelines for a infinitesimal aliases two, past extremity retired and barren nan bowl). Add nan sugar, whisk until pale, ray and airy, past hit nan citrus juice into nan sabayon.

In a 2nd acold bowl, whisk nan pick and citrus zest to soft peaks, past fold nan pick into nan sabayon.

In a 3rd bowl, whisk nan ovum whites until they’re decently stiff, fold a spoonful of nan ovum whites into nan sabayon mixture, to loosen it a little, past fold successful nan rest.

Pour nan ovum and pick substance into nan loaf tin, past put nan tin uncovered successful nan freezer and time off for an hr to group a little. Remove, screen nan apical evenly pinch nan reserved biscuit mixture, past fold complete nan excess clingfilm to enclose. Wrap nan full tin successful a stout double furniture of foil, past return to nan freezer until frozen.

When you are serving nan main course, transportation nan tin from nan freezer to nan fridge, truthful it has clip to temper and soften (Mum says if you are readying a agelong food people aft nan main course, hold until you person cleared nan mains earlier doing this). To serve, move retired nan pudding connected to a committee and portion it pinch a weapon that you person tally nether nan basking tap.

• These recipes are edited extracts from The Racine Effect: Classic French Recipes from a Lifetime successful nan Kitchen, by Henry Harris, published by Quadrille astatine £40. To bid a transcript for £36, spell to guardianbookshop.com