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2008, Issue 2

Educating, Connecting and Supporting families in Monash

Recipes!

Delightful Banana Bread

INGREDIENTS:
2 bananas
2 tablespoons golden syryp
¾ cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup self-raising flour
pinch of salt

• Heat oven to 180°C (160°C fan forced).
• Grease and line the base of a loaf pan.
• In a medium bowl, mash bananas then add golden syryp.
• Add sugar and stir in.
• Add egg, sifted flour and salt and lightly mix until combined.
• Pour into loaf pan and cook for 30 minutes or until a skewer is inserted into the middle comes out clean
• Allow to cool in tin for 10 minutes, then turn onto wire rack to cool.
• Enjoy it warm straight from the oven or lightly grill it and then enjoy with butter melting on top.

Tip: you can also make variations to this by throwing in a handful of chopped dates just before pouring into tin to bake or adding choc chips to make a choc banana bread.

Easy Chicken Pies

IINGREDIENTS:
600g chicken thigh fillets, cut into 2cm pieces
¼ cup (35g) flour
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
300g mushrooms, chopped
4 green onions (shallots), thinly sliced
½ cup (60g) frozen peas
¼ cup (30g) grated tasty cheese
2 sheets frozen puff pastry, thawed, cut into four 15cm circles
1 egg, lightly beaten
salad, to serve (optional)

• Toss chicken pieces in flour, shaking off excess. Heat oil in a large frying pan on medium.
• Cook chicken in batches, until golden. Remove from pan.
• Add mushrooms and cook for 5 minutes, until mushrooms soften and liquid evaporates.
• Preheat oven to 220°C. Combine chicken, mushrooms, green onion, peas and cheese in a bowl. Season to taste.
• Divide chicken mixture between four 11cm pie dishes or individual ramekins.
• Brush edge of pie dishes with water.
• Cover with pastry and press around edge of each ramekin to seal.
• Brush tops with egg. Bake pies for 20 minutes.

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Updated: 17 July 2008

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