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Selection of a Casserole Recipes

             Prawn pasta casserole

500gr prawns cleaned
Pasta of your choice (boiled)b
1 tsp chilli garlic paste
1 tsp lemon pepper
1 tsp chilli powder
1 tsp salt
3 tblsp lemon juice
3 tblsp tomato puree
2 tblsp mayonnaise
2 tblsp butter
125 ml fresh cream
Red and green pepper (cubed)
Method
Marinate prawns in above ingredients besides butter, fresh cream and peppers.
Heat pan add butter and fry prawns on high heat, add the cubed peppers, marinate should reduce but not dry out, lastly add cream and pasta, throw into a casserole dish, top with grated cheese, before serving pop into oven until cheese melts.

Chips and polony casserole

1/2 kg polony and viennas (cubed)
2 tblsp crushed garlic
1 tblspfine red chillies
1 tblsp tandoori spice or chicken spice
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1 tblsp lemon juice
Add oil to a pan and cook polony and viennas quickly till nicely fried, once fried add sauces of your choice, fry about 3 potatoes, and spice with salt, vinegar and red chillies. Add this to polony, put in a Pyrex dish, top with grated cheese, garnish with sliced tomatoes and peppers, bake in a preheated oven till cheese melts

Green pepper pasta casserole

Boil pasta, drain and set aside.
In a pot add butter, 1 tsp crushed garlic, chillies, mushrooms (sliced) and 1 green pepper (grated) stir fry this mixture and then add a tin of cream style sweet corn. Allow to cook for about 5 mins, add 1 fresh cream and salt to taste. Mix in the pasta and set in a casserole dish. Top with grated cheese and a 30gr packet of crushed crisp sprinkled over. Bake till cheese melts

Pateria casserole

Place steamed paterias in a casserole dish
spread with red chutney of your choice
Mix 1 tin cream style sweet corn with 125 ml fresh cream, pour over and bake when almost done, remove from oven, add grated cheese.
Pop into oven for about 5 min so that cheese melts.
Before serving top with crushed samoosa pur which has been fried. Serve and enjoy.

Farzanah Pateria casserole
Spray n cook pyrex dish n drizzle little oil.
Line dish with pateria and bake for 10 to 15 min.
Take out of oven and spread samoosa chutney over pateria. Then cream style sweetcorn and freshcream.
Cheese optional.
Fry samoosa pur and put on top before serving.
Enjoy!!

Chicken Lasagna   

Chicken Filling:
6 chicken fillet small cubed
1 cubed green pepper (optional)
1 onion sliced
Ground green chillies as per taste
2 tomatoes grated
1tsp salt
1/4 tsp crushed black pepper
1tspn Chicken n bbq spice                              1/4 tsp tumeric (Borrie)
1/4 tsp chilli powder
2 Tbs butter
2 Tbs oil
1 level tsp garlic

Braise onions in oil. Add spices and chicken.cook and add tomato and green pepper and remaining ingredients. Continue cooking until the chicken is done.

For lasagna sheets:
In a pot of salted boiling water, cook 2 or 3  sheets of lasagna at time  and stir continuously so the sheets don't stick to each other. Remove when soft. This takes about 3min. Continue cooking the sheets until u have enough to line a pyrex dish and top it 2x with the sheets. The amount will be determined by the size of your  purex dish 

White sauce:
Add 3 tbls butter to a pot n melt on low.
Add 3 tbls flour. mix well. Add 1lt of milk gradually and keep stirring. Add ground pepper and salt to taste.

Layer as follows:
White sauce
Lasagna
White sauce
Chicken
Cheese
Lasagna
White sauce
Chicken
Cheese
Lasagna
White sauce
Cheese
Leave to stand for a while...Bake at 180 degrees for 20mins before serving.                                                   You can add sautéed mushrooms to chicken or half a tin cream style sweet corn n omit green peppers.

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