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Dairy Council

Young Cook Finalist Recipes

Spinach, Rocket and Cheese Roulade

Servings
Serves 4
Chef
Niamh McCrossan
School
Aquinas Diocesan Grammar School, Belfast
Teacher
Mrs Martina Evans Key Stage 4

Ingredients

100g rocket

100g Parmesan cheese, grated

150ml Northern Ireland crème fraîche

15g Northern Ireland butter Pinch nutmeg

75g pine nuts

5 eggs, separated

300g baby spinach

10 sundried tomatoes in oil, shredded

Servings
Serves 4
Chef
Niamh McCrossan
School
Aquinas Diocesan Grammar School, Belfast
Teacher
Mrs Martina Evans Key Stage 4

Method

Pre–heat the oven to 190ºC/fan 170ºC/gas 5.

Melt butter in a pan and quickly heat the spinach.

Once the spinach is heated blend, squeeze out excess water and add the parmesan and egg yolks.

Whisk up the egg whites and fold into the mixture.

Line a Swiss roll tin with greaseproof paper, add the spinach mix into the tin and put in the oven. Bake for 12–15 minutes.

Meanwhile, beat the crème fraîche and add pine nuts and sun–dried tomatoes. Season.

Take the roulade out of the oven. Spread with the crème fraîche mixture and rocket. Roll up.