Creature comforts!
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TV star Stacey Solomon has been busy in the kitchen during lockdown. Her tasty and healthy snack recipes, created in the form of colourful edible animals, are very popular with sons Zachary, 12, Leighton, eight, and one-year-old baby Rex. We’re sure they’ll make your child’s eyes light up – and fill a gap – too!
MASHED POTATO HEDGEHOG
Ingredients
Mash Direct Mashed Potato
Pack of your favourite sausages
For decoration
Olives
Cucumber
Method
- Cook your sausages as per pack instructions.
- While the sausages are cooking, prepare your decorations: chop 3 black olives in half and chop the cucumber into slices – half or third each slice to create grass spikes.
- Cook your Mashed Direct Mashed Potato as per pack instructions. Once cooked, place half the pack on each plate and shape with a spoon into the hedgehog body.
- Cut your cooked sausages into bitesize pieces and add these to the back for the hedgehog's spikes.
- Add your olives for the eyes and nose, and finish with chopped cucumber for the grass.
- Serve immediately.
S-MASHING POTATO LION
Ingredients
Mash Direct Potato Rosti
Mash Direct Carrot and Parsnip Fries
Red pepper
Black olives
Method
- Cook the potato rosti and carrot and parsnip fries as per on pack instructions.
- Slice the pepper into thin strips – these will be your lion’s whiskers!
- For the lion eyes and nose, cut black olives into slices.
- Assemble the dish. Place the potato rosti in the centre of the plate, then surround the rosti with the carrot and parsnip fries to act as your lion’s mane.
- Finally, place the black olives on the Potato Rosti for the eyes and nose and add the pepper slices for whiskers.
- Serve immediately.
CARROT & PARSNIP OWL
Ingredients
1 pack of Carrot and Parsnip
1 pack of Green Cabbage
1 pack of Broccoli with a Cheese Sauce
Black olives
1 carrot
2 sausages
1 cucumber
Method
- Cook the Carrot and Parsnip, Green Cabbage and Broccoli with a Cheese Sauce as per on pack instructions.
- Place the sausages on an oven tray and cook under the grill for 12-15 minutes.
- While the veg and meat are cooking, chop the cucumber into slices and then in half again – these will be used for the wings. Keep two slices whole for the owl eyes.
- Chop the black olive in half for the pupil of the eyes and cut the carrot to create the owl's beak and feet.
- Once the veg and meat have cooked, arrange the Carrot and Parsnip on a plate in the shape of the owl body.
- Place the cucumber on top of the Carrot and Parsnip to make the wings and the eyes. Then put the olives on top of the cucumber for the pupils. Add the carrot feet and beak.
- Place the cooked sausages by the carrot feet to resemble a branch.
- Finally - place the cooked Green Cabbage and Broccoli with a Cheese Sauce around the dish to look like a tree for your owl!
- Serve and enjoy!
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