GetInMyGob: Easter Sunday- Chocolate Guinness Cake & Healthy Fish Stew

Monday, 9 April 2012

Easter Sunday- Chocolate Guinness Cake & Healthy Fish Stew

Chocolate Guinness Cake...the start of it.

Chocolate Guinness Cake-

250ml Guinness

250g Unsalted Butter

75g Cocoa

1 x 140ml Sour Cream

2 x Eggs

1tbsp Vanilla extract

275g Plain Flour

2 1/2tsp of Bicarbonate of Soda

1) Heat the Guinness and the butter in a pan on a medium heat

2) Once the butters melted into the Guinness add the rest of the ingredients and whisk on the heat.

3) Add the ingredients to the tin and cook on 180 for 1hrs- ovens vary but make sure the the centre of the cake isn't still totally wobbly before taking out- as it will collapse and be too gooey.

The onions, sun dried tomatoes and fennel sliced and cooking away

This was easily enough for 12 People.

2 x White Onions- Finely chopped loops

2 x Fennel Bulbs- Finely Chopped into loops

2 x Dried Red Chillis

Hand full of sun dried tomatoes

Rock Salt

Loads of Black Pepper

Fry Up in Rape Seed Oil until translucent

Add a big glug of White Wine bring to boil

Add x 3 Cans of Tin Tomatoes

Add 1.5 x Pint of Fish Stock (3 cubes)

Cook for 25mins

Add x 2 Big bundles of fresh green beans- You want to cook them in the simmering stock for no more than 10mins so they're still crunchy.

Add the fish- Mussels White Fish Wrasp (very affordable and sustainable)

And only cook for max 4/5mins or until fish turns white and no longer transparent.

Using the veg/rocket ribbons of courgette helps steam and cook the fish

Ted busy in the kitchen

A classic white...

Use the potato peeler on the courgette, makes it look fancy.

Bread for substance

Once you've cleaned the mussels -scrapped off all the rough bits with a knife the keep in cold water, give them a tap with a knife and they'll more than likely close up again as they're still alive.

Add the mussels 3/4 mins before serving the fish stew, add them first then the other fish and then cover with extra veg, courgette ribbons, rocket etc.. then a lid or just use the other veg in replacement of the lid.

Love adding fresh tomatoes, spring onions and anything else fresh just before serving- also squeeze x 2 fresh limes before serving (don't cook with it in otherwise it will go sour)