Celery, Potato and Almond Bake

For five people (quantities for ten are given below)

1½ -2 heads of celery (about 450g each)
1.25L boiling water
5-6 vegetable stock cubes
butter for the dish
875g new potatoes
3 medium-sized eggs
900ml milk
100g ground almonds
50g fresh white breadcrumbs*
200g Gruyère, or similar hard cheese, grated
1 tbsp mustard powder
2 tsp paprika
100g flaked almonds

Method

1. Slice the celery sticks across into small pieces.
2. Bring the water to the boil in a saucepan, add the celery, reduce the heat and simmer it gently with the crumbled stock cube(s) until the celery pieces are tender.
3. Meanwhile, heat the oven to 170C/325F/gas 3.
4. Drain and transfer the celery to a buttered baking dish with the new potatoes.
5. Whisk or beat together the eggs, milk, ground almonds, breadcrumbs, cheese, mustard powder and paprika. Pour this mixture over the celery and potatoes and sprinkle the flaked almonds on top.
6. Bake for about 1 hour or until the potatoes are tender.

* If you can’t find fresh white breadcrumbs to buy, you can make them. For this dish, take about 100g of white bread, remove the crusts and bake the bread in a 150C/300C/gas 2 oven for about 10 minutes or until the bread is dry. Whiz it in a food processor to crumbs. Use right away or store them in an airtight container.

Each serving provides:
Kcal: 683
Protein: 37.6g
Fat: 51.1g (of which saturated fat: 16g)
Carbohydrate: 50.6g (of which sugars: 14.8g)
Fibre: 8.1g

Nutrition Points:

a) This recipe contains a good level of protein.
b) This recipe is low in sugars.
c) This recipe is a source of calcium.

Serving Suggestion:

a) This dish would be good served with a fresh green salad.

For ten people

3 -4 heads of celery (about 450g each)
2.5L boiling water
10-12 vegetable stock cubes
butter for the dishes
1.75kg new potatoes
6 medium-sized eggs
1.8L milk
200g ground almonds
100g fresh white breadcrumbs* (see above)
400g Gruyère, or similar hard cheese, grated
2 tbsp mustard powder
1 tbsp + 1 tsp paprika
200g flaked almonds

* If you can’t find fresh white breadcrumbs to buy, you can make them. For this dish, take about 150g of white bread, remove the crusts and bake the bread in a 150C/300C/gas 2 oven for about 10 minutes or until the bread is dry. Whiz it in a food processor to crumbs. Use right away or store them in an airtight container.

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