Chicken Meatballs

Ingredients
100g minced chicken

1 egg

1 tsp Worcester sauce

85g dried breadcrumbs

50 grated parmesan cheese
3tsp garlic, minced
1tsp onion powder
1/2tsp  dried oregano

2tsp dried basil
2tsp dried parsley

salt and pepper

Method

Preheat the oven to 200C. Line  baking sheets.

Mix the Worcestershire sauce with the egg, and then include the chicken. 

Mix all of the dried ingredients. Then add the chicken mixture. Combine well, without over working.

Split the mixture into 32, and make into meatballs.

Cook for 20 minutes.

Notes

The meatballs are great served with spaghetti in a carbonara sauce, or cold at a picnic. 

The meatballs can be frozen before or after cooking. If freezing raw meatballs, open freeze on a lined baking sheet, and transfer into a ziplock bag. Defrost before cooking.

Chocolate Fudge Cake

Ingredients

Cake

125g chocolate broken into pieces

125g butter, plus extra for greasing

200g light soft brown sugar

100g caster sugar

1 tsp glycerine

2 eggs 

100ml natural yogurt

1/4 tsp vanilla

200g gluten-free SR flour

1tsp xanthan gum

2 eggs

Ganache

175g chocolate

250ml double cream

Method

Cake

Preheat the oven to 180C. Grease two 20cm cake tins.

Melt the chocolate, and allow to cool.

Cream the butter, sugars and glycerine until fluffy and light. Slowly add the eggs. Add the yogurt, vanilla, and the cooled yogurt.

Fold in the flour and xantham gum. Add a little warm water if the mixture is too stiff.

Divide the mixture between the tins, and bake for around 30 minutes. Allow the cakes to cool in the tins for 30 minutes, then removed and finish the cooling on a wire rack.

Ganache

Grate the chocolate. Heat the cream on the stove. When the cream starts steaming remove from the heat, and pour it over the grate chocolate. Leave for 2 minutes. Stir well to melt the chocolate and mix it well with the cream.  Leave to cool at room temperature.

Spread half over the bottom layer of cake,Add the top layer. Spread the remaining half on top.

Notes

The cake keeps in an air tight container for 3-4 days. It can also be frozen.