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Step by Step Easy Sunday Lunch Menu

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Prawn Cocktail - Recipe for Prawn Cocktail

Prawn Cocktail

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Sometimes, making a full British Sunday lunch with a roast just isn't feasible; not enough time or simply after a busy working week, too tired. Yet, Sunday without lunch and certainly without Yorkshire Puddings is unthinkable.

This step-by-step easy Sunday lunch menu needs 45 minutes advance preparation in the morning, then just one hour to have it on the table.

Prawn Cocktail is a light and easy starter and takes only moments to prepare. No need to give up Yorkshire Puddings with Toad in the Hole: the meat (sausages) are cooked in with the puddings. As there is no roast meat in this menu there will be no meat juices for gravy, instead make a simple and quick onion gravy. No Sunday lunch is complete without pudding and they don't come any easier, or tastier, than a quick, easy, Apple Mouse.

The new potatoes are easy to cook. After washing, place into a pan of cold water with a pinch of salt. Cover the pan with a lid and boil gently until the potatoes are soft in the middle when pierced with a sharp knife. For the broccoli, I always prefer to steam for 8 - 10 minutes over a pan of boiling water as this is the best way to preserve the vital nutrients.

Menu

Prawn Cocktail

Toad in the Hole with, New Potatoes, Steamed Broccoli and Onion Gravy

Easy Apple Mousse

Time Planner

Time Planner – Lunch 2pm
10.00amRead all the recipes through, collect together all the ingredients.
Make Yorkshire Pudding batter .
10.20amMake Easy Apple Mousse and leave to set.
Prep onions for onion gravy , cook as directed in recipe until addition of stock. Leave to one side.
Wash potatoes, wash broccoli. Leave both to one side.
10.45amNothing to do now until 1pm.
1.00pmMake Prawn Cocktail and leave to chill.
1.30pm Put potatoes on to boil and finish gravy.
1.40pmPut fat in Yorkshire pudding tin and heat. Cook Toad in the Hole .
1.50pm Set the table, warm plates for main course and serving dishes.
2.00pm Keep Toad in the Hole, potatoes and gravy warm.
Put broccoli on to steam.
Serve the Prawn Cocktail.

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