This hearty dish is packed with flavour and can be eaten cold the next day.
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 60 minutes
Serves:4Ingredients:
600g new potatoes, scrubbed & halved or quartered if large
200g spinach, tough stalks removed
A little butter for greasing
1 tbsp cornflour
150ml milk
3 eggs
250ml double cream
¼ tsp freshly grated nutmeg
100g gruyère cheese, grated
Instructions:
1. In a pan of boiling salted water, cook the potatoes for 12-15 mins, until just tender. Drain and keep to one side.
2. While the potatoes are bubbling away, cook the spinach in a separate pan of boiling water for 2 mins. Drain and plunge into a bowl of cold water to refresh. Drain again. Use your hands to squeeze out as much liquid as possible. Roughly chop the leaves.
3. Preheat the oven to 200°C. With a little bit of butter on a piece of kitchen paper, lightly grease a 2 litre capacity gratin or baking dish.
4. Blend the cornflour with 2 tbsp milk in a bowl. Break in the eggs and whisk together. Whisk in the rest of the milk and cream. Add the nutmeg and cheese and season.
5. Mix the potatoes, spinach and egg mixture in the baking dish. Bake for 25-30 mins, or until golden and puffy.
No parent deliberately feeds their children food they think is bad for them, but we're all busy and sometimes it's hard to serve up meals that are completely free of junk. But from April 28, a campaign will be launched to challenge us to do everything we can to cook with fresh, natural ingredients – and to challenge the food industry to remove the hidden nasties that lurk in our kids food.
The 'No Junk Challlenge' organised by Organix, which produces organic toddler and baby food, is calling on the government and food industry to address the artificial additives and to remove the high quantities of added salt, fat and sugar content in foods targeted at children. Sounds good!
If you want to get involved, from 28 April to 4 May, you can pledge to feed your family using real ingredients and to try to avoid foods with artificial colourings and flavourings, or foods high in added salt, fat and sugar. The campaign is supported by Holly Bell (finalist in series two of the 2011 Great British Bake Off and blogger 'Recipes from a Normal Mum') and the Crumbs Sisters (creators of the popular 'Crumbs' Blog). River Cottage and Leon will also be contributing recipes during the week of the challenge.
Parents will be able to take part in fun activities to explore what is in children's food, help expose some of the junk, and share their own healthy and delicious recipes to cook simple meals with natural ingredients.
If you'd like to get involved and sign the pledge go to Organix.com/nojunk or join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #NoJunk.