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Recipe: blood orange polenta cakes

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It’s easy to fall in love with the blood orange, and the infatuation usually extends far beyond aesthetics. The sweet-sharpness of their crimson juice and the elegant ease with which the flesh tears away from the skin, makes them more than just a cut above your average orange. Here’s one way to enjoy this season’s must have citrus fruit.

Recipe and styling by Khoollect Food Editor Frankie Unsworth

Blood orange polenta cakes

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Preparation Time15 MINUTES

Cooking Time30 MINUTES

Resting Time MINUTES

Serves6

LevelEasy


ingredients

2 blood oranges

 

200g (¾ cup) butter, softened, plus extra for greasing

 

200g (1 cup) caster sugar

 

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

 

Pinch of sea salt

 

3 eggs, lightly beaten

 

200g (1¼ cups) ground almonds

 

150g (1 cup) quick-cook polenta

 

 

1 heaped tsp baking powder

 

2 lemons, zested and juiced

 

2 tbsp honey

1

 

Preheat the oven to 180°C / 160°C (fan)/325°F . Grease 6 ramekins with soft butter.

 

2

Using a small sharp knife, cut about ½ cm off the top and bottom of the oranges. Then cut the skin and pith from the oranges and discard. Slice the orange into 7 mm discs. Lay the discs in the base of the greased ramekins, overlapping so as to completely cover the base.

 

 

3

In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter with the caster sugar, vanilla extract and salt until pale and fluffy. Add the beaten eggs bit by bit until fully incorporated.

 

4

In a separate bowl, measure out the almonds, polenta and baking powder, then whisk together to combine. Grate in the lemon zest.

 

 

5

Fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients lightly. Once combined, divide the mixture between the ramekins.

 

6

Bake for 30 minutes or until an inserted knife or skewer comes out clean.

 

 

 

 

7

In the meantime, heat the lemon juice with the honey until just warm.

 

 

8

Leave to cool in the ramekins for 5 minutes, before turning out carefully onto a wire rack. Use a tooth pick to poke little holes in the top of the blood orange cakes, then pour the warm lemon syrup over the top. Top with extra slices of blood orange.

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Preparation Time15 MINUTES

Cooking Time30 MINUTES

Resting Time MINUTES

Serves6

LevelEasy


ingredients

2 blood oranges

 

200g (¾ cup) butter, softened, plus extra for greasing

 

200g (1 cup) caster sugar

 

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

 

Pinch of sea salt

 

3 eggs, lightly beaten

 

200g (1¼ cups) ground almonds

 

150g (1 cup) quick-cook polenta

 

 

1 heaped tsp baking powder

 

2 lemons, zested and juiced

 

2 tbsp honey

1

 

Preheat the oven to 180°C / 160°C (fan)/325°F . Grease 6 ramekins with soft butter.

 

2

Using a small sharp knife, cut about ½ cm off the top and bottom of the oranges. Then cut the skin and pith from the oranges and discard. Slice the orange into 7 mm discs. Lay the discs in the base of the greased ramekins, overlapping so as to completely cover the base.

 

 

3

In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter with the caster sugar, vanilla extract and salt until pale and fluffy. Add the beaten eggs bit by bit until fully incorporated.

 

4

In a separate bowl, measure out the almonds, polenta and baking powder, then whisk together to combine. Grate in the lemon zest.

 

 

5

Fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients lightly. Once combined, divide the mixture between the ramekins.

 

6

Bake for 30 minutes or until an inserted knife or skewer comes out clean.

 

 

 

 

7

In the meantime, heat the lemon juice with the honey until just warm.

 

 

8

Leave to cool in the ramekins for 5 minutes, before turning out carefully onto a wire rack. Use a tooth pick to poke little holes in the top of the blood orange cakes, then pour the warm lemon syrup over the top. Top with extra slices of blood orange.

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It’s easy to fall in love with the blood orange, and the infatuation usually extends far beyond aesthetics. The sweet-sharpness of their crimson juice and the elegant ease with which the flesh tears away from the skin, makes them more than just a cut above your average orange. Here’s one way to enjoy this season’s must have citrus fruit.

Recipe and styling by Khoollect Food Editor Frankie Unsworth

Blood orange polenta cakes

1

 

Preheat the oven to 180°C / 160°C (fan)/325°F . Grease 6 ramekins with soft butter.

 

2

Using a small sharp knife, cut about ½ cm off the top and bottom of the oranges. Then cut the skin and pith from the oranges and discard. Slice the orange into 7 mm discs. Lay the discs in the base of the greased ramekins, overlapping so as to completely cover the base.

 

 

3

In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter with the caster sugar, vanilla extract and salt until pale and fluffy. Add the beaten eggs bit by bit until fully incorporated.

 

4

In a separate bowl, measure out the almonds, polenta and baking powder, then whisk together to combine. Grate in the lemon zest.

 

 

5

Fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients lightly. Once combined, divide the mixture between the ramekins.

 

6

Bake for 30 minutes or until an inserted knife or skewer comes out clean.

 

 

 

 

7

In the meantime, heat the lemon juice with the honey until just warm.

 

 

8

Leave to cool in the ramekins for 5 minutes, before turning out carefully onto a wire rack. Use a tooth pick to poke little holes in the top of the blood orange cakes, then pour the warm lemon syrup over the top. Top with extra slices of blood orange.

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