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Puff pastry, cream, chocolate
This is ridiculously easy, yet comes out looking pretty elegant. The only vaguely tricky bit is splitting the pastry into two – and that...
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Radiator yoghurt
We use yoghurt all the time at River Cottage - in fruity fools and ice cream, in breads and cakes, and swirled into soups, stews and...
Prep 8hrs
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Radishes with butter and salt
This is a simple, time-honoured way of serving radishes, and it is hard to beat. Hugh's one caveat, as with all radish recipes, is that...
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Raspberry + strawberry Eton mess
This delicious pudding is now a British classic. It's really just a fool sweetened with broken meringue instead of sugar - but that extra...
Prep 10mins Cook 2hrs
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Rhubarb and orange yoghurt fool
A classic fool combines a fruit compote or purée, custard and cream to delicious effect. This is a sort of deconstructed version, with...
Prep 20mins Cook 10mins
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Rhubarb, Champagne, cream
This lovely pud takes jelly and cream to a whole new level. Made with rhubarb and Champagne, it is full of bubbles and fizzes on the...
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Rhubarb, ginger, cream
This is a wonderfully indulgent pudding a classic fool, really, spiked with ginger. You can make it with early forced rhubarb or the...
Prep 10mins Cook 10mins
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Rice, milk, sugar
Rice pudding is one of Hugh's all-time favourites and a brilliant example of the three-key-ingredients principle. The vanilla isn’t...
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Rough Puff Pastry
Great for tarts, pies, cheese straws, sausage rolls and so much more!
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Smoked pollack with poached egg
Quick and easy to cook, and absolutely delicious to eat. Make sure you use very fresh eggs. As well as tasting better, they form smooth...
Prep 2mins Cook 10mins
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Spinach and onion puff tart
This is lovely on its own as a light meal, but it's also good alongside pulses, such as simply cooked red lentils or even baked...
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Spinach, egg and potato curry
Coconut milk adds an appealing edge of sweetness to this curry, mellowing the spiciness. In place of the spinach, you can use tender leaves...
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Tom's Cheese Straws
If you have a spare block of rough puff pastry and need an idea of what to do with it, cheese straws are great crowd pleasing savoury...
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West Country stroganoff
This is so called because it was first cooked using Somerset cider, Devon cream and Dorset mushrooms. However, it would of course be best...
Prep 10mins Cook 20mins
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Apple, stout and cheese soda bread
Take soda bread for a spin with this fruity, feisty recipe. This apple, stout and cheese soda bread makes a delicious dunker for soup, but...
Prep 15mins Cook 40mins
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Baby peas, ricotta and spring onion salad
A stunning, fresh and pretty salad to serve as a starter or light lunch in the summer, when young peas can be popped straight from the pod...
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Beetroot pizza
We like this smoky-sweet pizza with a slick of tomato sauce on the base. A good bought tomato sauce or even a tablespoon or two of good...
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Beetroot, goat's cheese and redcurrant salad
Beetroot is one of our favourite roots and is particularly good, post-roasting, in various salad combos with salty cheese.
Prep 10mins
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Deep-fried courgette flowers stuffed with ricotta and herbs
This has got to rank as one of the most exquisite and delicious vegetable treats ever – it’s certainly among our all-time favourites. You...
Prep 20mins Cook 2mins
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Grilled beetroot with labneh and dill
Cooking whole beetroot over a hot fire crisps and darkens the skins while sweetening and softening the flesh. I find it works best with new...
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Kale speltotto with goat’s cheese
This is very similar to a risotto, but based on nutty grains of pearled spelt, rather than rice. This lovely wintery dish has appeared on...
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Labneh
Labneh is a fresh Middle Eastern cheese made by hanging whole milk yogurt in muslin until it is as thick as cream cheese, but with a tangy...
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Leek and Dorset Blue Vinny tart
This recipe of Gill's has become a River Cottage classic, and a particular favourite during the colder months. If you have time, make...
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Roast Jerusalem artichoke, hazelnut and goat's cheese salad
The earthy flavour of roasted artichokes is delicious with toasted hazelnuts. Jerusalem artichokes have a tendency to collapse into...
Prep 15mins Cook 35mins
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Spanish tortilla
When Mark worked in London, he was lured several times a day by the amazing aromas from a Spanish deli a hundred yards down the road. As...
Prep 15mins Cook 40mins
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Squash and fennel lasagne
There are endless versions of veg lasagne and many of them are disappointing. We think this unusual recipe is really special, proper...
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Tomato bruschetta with blue cheese and confit chilli
Sweet, salty, sharp and punchy - this recipe has it all. You'll need very ripe tomatoes, preferably on the large size: Brandywine, Black...
Prep 10mins Cook 35mins
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Warm salad of mushrooms and roasted squash
This substantial salad is something of a River Cottage classic, and a great way to bring together two of autumn’s finest ingredients...
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