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Blue cheese leeks with crispy bacon breadcrumbs

• Janine Ratcliffe

Published: September 18, 2017 at 12:34 PM

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Serves 4

Easy

Total time: 2 hrs

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This indulgent blue cheese leek recipe with crispy bacon breadcrumbs is super simple to make, it only takes 30 minutes to prepare, and makes the perfect Sunday roast accompaniment

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Ingredients

Nutrition

• 6 large leeks

  washed and cut diagonally into 6cm pieces

• 50g blue cheese

  crumbled

• 500ml double cream

• 1 tbsp Dijon mustard

Crispy topping

• 75g diced pancetta

• a few sprigs rosemary

  finely chopped

• a pinch dried chilli flakes

• 50g breadcrumbs

• olive oil

Nutrition: per serving

• kcal853
• fat78.8g
• saturates46.5g
• carbs18.6g
• sugars8.1g
• fibre7.2g
• protein13.9g
• salt1.6g

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Method

• step 1

  Heat the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6.

• step 2

  Put the leeks into a 15 x 20cm baking dish, packing them in tightly as they will shrink when cooked.

• step 3

  Mix the crumbled blue cheese, double cream and mustard in a bowl with a little salt and lots of black pepper.

• step 4

  Pour over the leeks, cover with a double layer of foil and bake for 1 hour 30 minutes until the leeks are very soft.

• step 5

  Put the pancetta into a cold frying pan then fry over a medium heat for 10 minutes until really crisp.

• step 6

  Add the rosemary and chilli flakes, and cook for 1 minute.

• step 7

  Put the breadcrumbs in a bowl, tip in the pancetta, including all of its fat, and mix well.

• step 8

  Remove the foil from the leeks and cover evenly with the breadcrumbs and a drizzle of olive oil.

• step 9

  Return to the oven for 15 minutes or until the breadcrumbs are golden.

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Janine RatcliffeFood director

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