Happy St Georges Day everyone! To celebrate, have a go at this traditional Eton mess recipe at home!.

If you are looking for a traditional English desert, it doesn’t get any more classic than an Eton mess! This fantastic recipe from great British chefs will leave your mouth watering! The brilliant combination of crispy meringue with the sweetness of the strawberry is hard to say no to! This is a very simple desert, but it’s incredibly hard to beat for flavour!

Ingredients:

For the Meringue

• 175g of caster sugar
• 3 egg whites
• 1 vanilla pod, remove the seeds
• A pinch of salt

For the Eton Mess

• 500g of fresh strawberries, sliced
• 500ml of double cream
• 1 tbsp of icing sugar

Instructions:

Source: Great British Chefs 

Step 1-Take the white fish fillets you have chosen and cut them in to small pieces. Add the pepper, coriander, spring onions, chillies, garlic, fish sauce and lemon grass to a blender and blend until it is a paste. Then add the fish pieces to the paste and blend again. Mix until smooth before adding the coconut and milk.

Step 2-Place this mixture in to a mixing bowl before finely slicing the green beans and adding them to the mixture. Allow the mixture to chill for at least 2 hours, but preferably overnight to allow the mixture to marinate.

Step 3- Heat the other half of the oil in a frying pan, and add the seasoned chicken to the pan, sizzling the chicken for 5 minutes on each side. Leave the chicken to one side of the pan, and add the bacon until it is cooked.

Step 4-Take a deep based frying pan and half fill it with vegetable oil. Take care doing this as hot oil is extremely dangerous. Take a spoon and shape the paste in to small pieces. Once you have done this, lower each piece in to the hot vegetable oil. You should fry them until they are golden brown and crispy. Ensure you turn at least once during cooking to make sure they are evenly cooked. Remove from the oil and set aside on some kitchen roll to move any excess oil.

Step 5- To make the salad, start by slicing the cucumber in to 5mm slices. Dissolve the sugar in the wine vinegar and throw in the cucumber to soak up the flavour. After this add the chopped shallots, chopped coriander leaves and the chilli. Garnish with the roasted peanuts and fish sauce just before serving.

Step 6- That’s it, everything is done! Enjoy these flavoursome Thai Fishcakes! Happy Thai New Year!

Step 1-Preheat your oven to 200 degrees celcius/gas mark 6/400 degrees Fahrenheit and place a roasting tin in the bottom of the oven for the potatoes.

Step 2-In a mixing bowl, mix together the 3 crushed garlic cloves, chopped rosemary, lemon zest and olive oil. Season the leg of lamb to taste with the salt and black pepper and rub the marinade on to the lamb. Place in to the oven on the shelf above the roasting tin so the juices from the meat can drop in to the tin.

Step 3-Boil the potatoes, the allow them to simmer for 10 minutes or so. Add the remaining whole garlic cloves, the sprigs of rosemary and season with more sea salt, black pepper and olive oil. Add the potatoes to the roasting tin and place them under the lamb so the meat juices drop on to the potatoes.

Step 4-Cook the lamb for anything between 1 hour and 15 minutes to 1 hour and a half depending how you like it cooked. Once it is cooked to your satisfaction, remove from the oven and allow it to rest for 15 minutes.

Step 5-Now you can make the mint sauce, and it couldn’t be easier! Mix the chopped mint leaves, the sugar, salt, wine vinegar and hot water together until it is well combined. Pour in to a jug ready to serve with the roast lamb and potatoes.

Step 6-That’s it, you are ready to enjoy your delicious Easter Sunday roast leg of lamb!

Step 1-In a saucepan, heat the 150ml of milk, 50g of butter, orange zest, clove and the two cardamom pods until the butter is fully melted. Once this has happened, allow the mixture to infuse which will add fantastic flavour to the hot cross buns.

Step 2-To a mixing bowl, add the bread flour, yeast and 125g of dried fruit along with the spices (cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger). Once the milk has been completely infused by the cardamom and clove, remove both of these items and beat in the large egg. Once this is done, pour the mixture in to the bowl of dry ingredients.

Step 3-Knead the dough by hand or using a machine. You should continue to knead it until the dough turns quite elastic. If you find the dough is a bit dry, add more warm milk to help resolve this. Once you are happy with the dough, shape it in to a ball and place it in a buttered mixing bowl and cover with clingfilm. Allow it to rest overnight in the fridge.

Step 4-Preheat your oven to 220 degrees celcius/425 degrees Fahrenheit/gas mark 7, and take the dough out of the fridge to allow it to reach room temperature.

Step 5-Knead the dough again until it regains its elastic consistency. Split the dough in to roughly 16 balls, just keep halving the dough until you get the magic 16 pieces.

Step 6-Place the pieces of dough on to a baking tray or baking sheet that is lined with baking paper. Score the tops of each piece of dough with the shape of a cross, cover with kitchen towel and leave to prove again for 45 minutes, they should rise during this time.

Step 7-Brush the dough with the egg wash and mix the flour, sugar and water into a paste. Using a teaspoon, drizzle the paste mixture over the cross shape on each piece of dough. Bake for no more than 20 minutes in the oven.

Step 8-Once the hot cross buns are out of the oven, make the sugar glaze using the sugar and boiling water and brush each hot cross bun with it.

Step 9-That’s it all done, now you can sit back with a cup of tea and enjoy one of your delicious homemade hot cross buns!