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BASIC CLAFOUTIS

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Serves: serves 4

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Originally, clafoutis comes from the Limousin region in France and is made with cherries. Any kind of fruit works though; if it's big, you can just cut it up to roughly the size of cherries. Prunes, apricots and the like can just be halved. This recipe is the simplest one I've got and is not very sweet. About 260 Kcal per portion and serves 4 (yeah, right!)

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Ingredients

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  • 500 grams black cherries (or red cherries)
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 ½ tablespoons icing sugar
  • 4 tablespoons plain flour
  • 2 litres milk
  • 1 butter (to grease your ovenproof dish)

Method

  1. Preheat your oven at 225°C and grease an ovenproof dish with butter.
  2. Wash and stone your cherries.
  3. Beat your eggs with 2 tablespoons icing sugar. Add the flour and milk and mix until you get a smooth batter.
  4. Evenly spread the cherries over the bottom of the ovenproof dish. pour over the batter and set the dish in the middle of your oven.
  5. Bake for around 20 minutes. Dust over the remainder of the icing sugar.
  6. Return the dish to the oven and bake for another 15 minutes. Serve cold or lukewarm.

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  • 2 litres of milk! 2 Litres? Pull the other one. You're making a batter not a milk shake.

    Posted by russgoff on 20th Dec 2012 at 17.45