Lidl recipe challenge: are you ready to surprise them with your culinary creation? 5x£50 Lidl vouchers to be won! NOW CLOSED

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Lidl have asked us to find out Mumsnetters' favourite family-friendly recipes.

They'd like to see what great family-friendly recipes Mumsnetters can come up with when faced with an ingredients challenge.

Maybe you rate yourself as the best baker never to have appeared on GBBO, or perhaps your pasta sauces or casseroles are the stuff of local legend?

We'd like you to choose from one of two baskets of ingredients - sweet or savoury - all of which are available at Lidl, and then come up with a recipe you'd make using all (or most) of the ingredients in that basket.

You can add in any normal store cupboard staples too (within reason).

Sweet basket - Apples, Chocolate, Butter, Pastry, Eggs, Double cream

Savoury basket - Potatoes, Celery, Garlic, Chicken, Tomatoes, Double cream

Everyone who posts their recipe on this thread will be entered into a prize draw where 5 Mumsnetters will each win a £50 Lidl voucher.

thanks and good luck!

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Savoury - am veggie, so losing the chicken!

I'd cook up the celery and garlic with onions and peppers and lentils and use to stuff tomatoes. Then I'd make a kind of dauphinoisse to serve alongside them.

Savoury basket - Potatoes, Celery, Garlic, Chicken, Tomatoes, Double cream

I'd fry the Celery and Garlic before adding the chicken and tomatoes (both chopped) and fry until the chicken was browned. This would be put in a casserole dish. I'd boil the potatoes and mash them before adding a small amount of the cream and spreading this mixture on top of the chicken. I'd then bake it until the potatoes were brown and the chicken cooked through.

I pick the Savoury basket - Potatoes, Celery, Garlic, Chicken, Tomatoes, Double cream

Id make my favourite dauphinoise potatoes with the garlic and cream (thinly sliced potatoes, cover in cream and crushed garlic, bake in oven until cooked through for about an hour)

And with the remaining ingredients, i'd make them into a sauce which would then fill a pancake (pancake can be made with storecupboard ingredients right - milk, flour, egg) - so it would be a tomatoey chicken sauce which included the celery and fill the pancake with it and serve with the dauphinoise potatoes.

I'd go for savoury and make a chicken souffle, really easy, but needs to be eaten straight away!
Ingredients:
Cube chicken,
slice onions
Sliced mushrooms
Tube of cream cheese
3 x eggs (seperated)
Potatoes
Milk
Salt and pepper to taste
Good pinch of netmeg
Fry onions, garlic, sliced mushrooms, diced chicken and once chicken cooked through add in cream cheese.
Set aside. Boil potatoes till fully mashable, drain well, then make a potato puree by adding some cream and milk whilst mashing the potato.

The potato needs to be really really smooth.
Seperate eggs
Add egg yolks, milk and nutmeg to smooth potato, mix in really well.
Beat egg whites till stiff, and fold in to potato mixture.
Transfer chicken mixture into souffle dish, add potato mixture on top and bake in pre heated oven gas mark 5 (190C / 375F)
Bake for 45 mins
Serve with salad and crusty bread and YUM!!!!

Sweet basket

Chocolate Mousse:

Separate the eggs
Melt the chocolate and cool slightly
Whisk the egg yolks with store cupboard caster sugar until thick and pale
Fold in the melted chocolate
Whisk the cream until floppy
Whisk the egg whites until stiff
Fold the cream into the chocolate mix
Fold the egg whites into the mix
Pour into ramekins and set in the fridge

The leftover apple and pastry can be used to make a tarte tatin
Place an ovenproof/heatproof pan on a low heat
Add some store cupboard sugar (caster or brown or demerara) and a knob of butter if available
let this melt then add thickly sliced apple
top with a pastry lid and bake in the oven

two puddings from one basket and something for everyone!

Sweet for me too, make a quick apple pie with the pastry and apples, glaze with butter and lie about the fact I'd eaten all the chocolate in the basket and not shared with the kids.

Sweet!

Make custard with the egg and double cream.

peel and thinly slice the apples

cut large biscuit sized circles from pastry and use to line bun tins/ muffin tins.

Bake blind with baking beans/rice.

Layer apples, cinammon sugar, grated chocolate into baked pastry cases (probably 1 or 2 times depending on depth of the cases)

Serve hot with the custard.

You could probably do something clever with custard in the cases, but I'm not good enough for that!

Savoury basket - Potatoes, Celery, Garlic, Chicken, Tomatoes, Double Cream

I'd make oven roasted chicken with celery and tomato, with dauphinoise potatoes

Dauphinoise potatoes
Add cream, milk and garlic into the pan
Slice the potatoes finely, about 4mm
Add them to the cream and simmer for a few mins until just cooked.
Remove the potatoes and pop them into an ovenproof dish
Pour over the garlic infused cream
Cook

Oven Roasted Chicken with Celery and Tomato
Season chicken with salt, pepper, herbs and garlic
Loosely cover in foil
Roast in the oven
Dice celery, tomato and garlic and add to a pan
Sweat tomatoes, celery and garlic in a pan with a bit of oil & seasoning for around 5 minutes until soft

Serve.

Enjoy

(I think I need to make this for my dinner this evening! The thought of it is making me hungry!!)

Sweet!
The first thing I could think of to make was apple pie.
Use the butter to grease the tin
Stew the apples adding a small amount of cinnamon
Make a pastry bottom, add the apples and make a pastry lid
Glaze with egg and serve with cream!

Savoury

Could pretty much do a one pot dish by putting the chicken, tomatoes, celery, potatoes & garlic into a roasting tin - add a bit of oil & seasoning and whack in the oven for an hour or so.
The result - delicious crispy roast potatoes, roast chicken, roasted garlic with juicy toms & celery to ensure it isn't too dry.
All my family would love this!

This makes a chocolate apple roulade with the sweet basket. I just didn't use the pastry and added sugar from the store cupboard. Cut the apples into chunks and stew the apples, leave to cool down. Melt the chocolate and butter together and add some sugar, stir till blended in. Separate 4 eggs and add the yolks to the chocolate mixture. Whisk the egg whites until stiff. Fold into the chocolate mixture. Line a 8 x 12 tin with non stick paper and spread mixture over it. Bake at 180C for about 20 minutes. Leave to cool. Whip cream and spread over the roulade base. Add the stewed apple and roll up. Pipe the top with whipped cream and grate some more chocolate over the top. This makes a lovely light dessert perfect for the autumn!

Savoury: Everyone loves Roast chicken... roast the chicken in a hot oven, well seasoned and rubbed with plenty of garlic, and butter of course, about 45 mins per kilo. Leave to stand for at least ten minutes before carving. You can make a lovely gravy with the juices by boiling rapidly in a small-ish pan, with extra water/stock/sprinkle of gravy granules, if you wish. My kids like mayonnaise with their chicken!!

The potatoes I would slice in thin slices and then arrange in a buttered dish in layers. Add pieces of thinly sliced garlic and or onion, season each layer as you go. When all the layers are complete, pour over the cream to cover the layers of potato. You could add a grating of cheddar/parmesan/whatever grate-able cheese you have. It need not be grateable: you could layer dobs of goat's cheese or soft cheese between your layers, for a bit of variation. I love grated nutmeg with cream and potato - but it's up to you. Bake in same hot oven for about an hour, until all potato slices are cooked through.

I love celery braised - particularly good for a tough old bird. Clean and trim the celery of the leaves, leaving the stalks long. So either in a large pan with a lid on the hob or in a deep dish in the oven (depending upon how much space you have) , add the celery stalks, part cover with water, season with lots of butter, pepper, and a squeeze of lemon.

Of course the tomatoes are those lush, large tomatoes from Lidl. Just slice thinly, arrange on a plate. Shred some basil eaves, sprinkle of sea salt, and drizzle of balsamic vinegar to lift any tomato salad before serving. Add a drizzle of olive - if you wish.

Ooo and Lidl - I will stop shopping at Aldi if you add a British rape seed oil to your range. I love this oil - both for salads, cooking, and even baking. And it's supporting our local British farmers too. What's not to love?

Savoury basket - Potatoes, Celery, Garlic, Chicken, Tomatoes, Double cream

I'd season the chicken and par boil the potatoes - then roast them together with the garlic, celery & tomatoes.
I'd use the juices from the chicken & veg to make a rich gravy by adding the cream.

Thanks for all the recipes - winners of the £50 vouchers are CopperPan, BabyGanoush, ButterflyOfFreedom, CheeseEMouse, pillowaddict