Mrs Crunch’s favourite traditional dishes featuring homegrown ingredients which fly the flag for Britain
Great value recipes in association with Morrisons
BRING home the harvest this autumn and cook up a feast from mouth-watering homegrown produce.
With British Food Fortnight running until October 2, there are great deals to be had on the spoils of the soil, from juicy blackberries to chunky squashes.
Now is also the time to celebrate the best of British meat, fish, cheese and dairy products – in fact, anything grown and produced here in the British Isles.
Did you know Britain now makes around 700 varieties of cheese?
That’s 350 more varieties than they make in France.
But with seven in ten of the apples sold in the UK imported, our shopping habits are not always so rosy.
Start looking at the labels to find the very best of British and enjoy the harvest with these great home-grown deals.
And check out our fabulous recipes.
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Roast pork with fennel and apple
Serves eight
YOU NEED: 2kg boneless leg of pork; 1 tbsp sunflower oil; 1 tsp salt flakes; freshly ground black pepper; 25g butter; 2 fennel bulbs, trimmed and sliced; 2 apples, cored and sliced into wedges; 100ml cider.
METHOD: Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/Gas 6.
Rub the skin of the pork with oil and sprinkle on the salt and pepper. Put the joint in a roasting tin and roast for an hour.
When the hour is nearly up, melt the butter in a pan, toss in the sliced fennel and apples. Fry until they take on a little colour, then pour the cider into the pan.
Spoon this caramelised mixture around the pork and return to the oven for 40-50 minutes until the pork is cooked through and the veg is tender.
Remove the crackling and snap into bite-sized pieces. Carve the pork garnished with thyme sprigs and serve with the crackling and veg.
Autumn pudding
Serves six
YOU NEED: 700g red apples; 400g seasonal British pears; 75g caster sugar; ½ pack raspberry flavour jelly cubes; 1 tsp Morrisons Food Fusions cinnamon paste; 100ml water; 9 slices thick white bread (three to four days old); 300g blackberries (reserve a few to decorate).
METHOD:
Peel and core the apples and pears and dice the flesh into small chunks.
Place in a pan along with the sugar, jelly, cinnamon paste and 100ml water.
Bring to the boil, cover and simmer gently for 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, remove the crusts from the bread and cut six slices in half, diagonally.
From the remaining slices, cut a circle to fit the bottom of a 1.5 litre pudding basin.
Place it in the base and use the triangles to line the edges. Make sure you have no gaps and trim the bread where necessary.
Add the blackberries to the cooked fruit and continue cooking for five minutes.
Remove from the heat then spoon into the bread-lined basin (reserving 4 tbsp of the juice).
Pack the fruit in tightly, then cover with the remaining bread.
Place a circle of greaseproof paper on top, then cover the bowl loosely with cling film. Lift the bowl on to a tray and place a saucer, just slightly smaller than the diameter of the pudding basin, on top.
Weigh it down with a large can and leave in the fridge overnight.
To serve, carefully run a round-bladed knife around the edge of the basin and upturn the pudding on to a serving plate.
Spoon the reserved juices over the pudding (if it has set, warm it through for ten seconds in the microwave or heat for a few minutes in a small pan on the hob).
Garnish with a few blackberries dusted in caster sugar.
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Best of British: meat and fish
Morrisons British sirloin steak was £17.78/kg, now £14/kg.
The price of British beef topside joints has been slashed from £10/kg to £6.97/kg at Morrisons.
Asda Extra Special whole free-range British corn-fed chicken (typically 1.9kg) has the price cut to £3.75.
Try Yorkshire-reared Asda Extra Special venison steaks, two per pack, for £5 or buy two packs for £7.
Enjoy six free-range pork sausages, 400g, from Waitrose for half price, now £1.64.
Get 25 per cent off at Waitrose for two boneless Scottish loch trout fillets, 280g, down from £5.99 to £4.49, saving you £1.50.
Cornish sardine fillets, and British mackerel fillets, both 180g, are £2 at Sainsbury’s.
Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference Orkney Isles dressed crab, 130g, is £3.75.
Buy plaice fillet from Morrisons’ fishmonger for £8.73/kg, down from £10.22/kg until October 2.
Best of British: fruit and vegetables
BRITISH broccoli, 335g, is down from 60p to 38p at Morrisons.
Save 25 per cent on selected fruit and vegetables at Waitrose including 2.5kg King Edward potatoes, down from £2.14 to £1.61.
Save 28p on Morrisons large flat mushrooms, 250g, now 72p.
Pick up British fruit and veg for less as part of Aldi’s Super Six offers – all at 59p, including a kilo bag of Charlotte potatoes.
Taste the season with Asda’s Grower’s Selection blackberries, 150g, for £2, and Grower’s Selection red apples, 650g, £1.
Save on Morrisons spring greens, 500g, now 56p from 77p.
Best of British: cheese
Morrisons Milk for Farmers mature cheddar, 350g, is £2.34 or buy two for £4.
Try Waitrose 1 Moody’s Rosary Ash goats cheese, 100g, made on the edge of the New Forest, £3.89.
Tuck into Asda Wensleydale cheese with cranberry or apricot, 200g, £1.90 or two for £3.
Waitrose 1 Appleby’s Cheshire cheese, 200g, is £4.49, from a family farm on the Cheshire plains.
Kids will love the Asda cheese selection pack with two mini blocks of Mature Cheddar, Red Leicester and Extra Mature Cheddar, 180g, £1.50.
Enjoy Tesco British goats cheese, 125g, £1.50.
Best of British: beer
GET four 500ml bottles of British ale for £6 at Morrisons (or £1.65 each) including Blond Witch, Wold Top, Yorkshire Wold Gold Blonde Beer, Siberia Rhubarb Saison from Ilkley, West Yorks, Wells Sticky Toffee Pudding Ale, Hellfire Pale Ale and Saltaire Brewery Raspberry Blonde.
Waitrose has 20 per cent off Suffolk-brewed Adnams until October 5 including both Adnams Broadside and Ghost Ship down to £1.43 from £1.79.
At Sainsbury’s buy Taste the Difference Kentish Ale, Yorkshire Bitter, Suffolk Blonde and Westmoreland Ale, all £1.50 for 500ml.