What to do with oodles of leeks?

samsampotts

Hi!

I have two favourite dishes involving leeks;

Pasta bake

Leftover chicken from Sunday roast
Spare bacon from Sunday mornings bacon sarnies
Spare leeks from Sunday lunch
Tub of cream cheese with garlic and herbs
Creme Fraiche (just enough to get the consistency you want)
Pasta
grated cheese
Breadcrumbs made from the ends of the loaf that no-one wants to eat.

What to do:

Cook the bacon and leeks (don't need oil as fat from bacon is enough), throw in the cold cooked chicken and heat through. Meanwhile cook you pasta according to pack instructions. Add tub of cream cheese to chicken, bacon and leeks and let it melt as you stir together. Add cremefraiche until you are happy with the sauce consistency. Add cooked pasta, mix together and tip into casserole dish. Tope with breadcrumbs and cheese and brown under the grill. Very filling and can make loads!

Also:

Cheesey leeks

Slice leeks and cooked until just done. Place in a pan with some cream cheese and mix until cheese has melted - use to top a jacket potato.

shinydriver

MadCowMan wrote:

why notget some sausage meat , and make some pork & leek sausage patties ( or actual sausages if you have a handy sausage maker )

Do you cook the leek first? And do you add anything else? Managed to buy sausage meat in Tesco for 19p per pack last week and have leeks so I thought I'd give it a try

MadCowMan

Not sure , I would guess not ( like you wouldn't with onion )

Good bargain hunting on the sausagemeat though !!

in_my_wellies

Leek and Lamb Casserole

katmad99

Chopped leek is very nice on pizza! (i buy a lot of value pizzas and keep them in the freezer, then add whatever toppings i have round the house when i cook one, much cheaper than buying 'posh' pizza)

zenobia

This is the first time on here and I wonder if you can help.I've been given about twenty leeks fresh fron the garden today and i wanted to know if I steamed them and packed them in bags to go in the freezer would they be ok or come out mushy when de-frosted Thanks

Raspberry_Swirl

someone with better knowledge will be along soon, but my thoughts are that you would be better off freezing them raw. steaming them would make them mushy when defrosted, i think.

i know some veg is better off blanched first, but i would think leeks would be fine frozen without that treatment.

moggins

I freeze them raw, they come out fine.

greenmoneysaver_2

hello

This is fab for leeks (also onions too)!

• frozen puff pastry
• 1-2 leeks - depending on size - chopped about pound coin thickness
• 40g butter
• camembert or other similar cheese

puff pastry - defrost, put on floured baking sheet, and score about 1cm in from the edge.

melt 30-40g of butter in a large pan and gently fry 1-2 leeks for about 20 mins. Take a long time to cook them slowly and they taste better.

brush edge of pastry with melted butter from pan
put leeks evenly on pastry and put small bits of cheese all over.

cook on gas mark 200 for about 40 mins

The puff pastry comes in packs of two, so make double and freeze

nikibella

Hi
I freeze leeks raw in freezer bags, after I have cleaned and sliced them, so I can take every time only the amount I need.
They come out perfectly.