Food and Mood - Recipe 2, Corned Beef Cobbler

Prep time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Serves 6-8

This is called a 'cobbler' because the dumpling things look like a bit liuke the surface of a cobbled street when cooked. You could make just the hash if you wanted.

Ingredients - Hash

1 small onion, chopped
1 tin corned beef (buy one with a ring pull, not a key. Ring pull tins are safer and easier to get the corned beef out of)
4-5 medium potatoes
1 standard tin baked beans
1 carrot, peeled and chopped
1 stock cube

Method

Pre-heat oven to 200C (gas 6)
Peel potatoes and chop into chunks, put into a pan together with the carrot pieces.
Add enough water just to cover the veg.
Bring to boil then simmer until veg are cooked.

Whilst the veg is cooking make the cobblers.


Ingredients- Cobblers

150g self raising flour
25g margarine or butter
1 teaspoon mixed herbs
Milk to bind

Method

Rub the flour, herbs and marg or butter together.
Add milk gradually, mixing as you go, until you achieve a firm dough.
DO NOT ADD too much liquid! Go steady! The mi should hold together, without sticking to the bowl.

Roll into small balls then flatten a bit, place on a plate and pop intop fridge until needed.

Now chop the corned beef up a bit and add it to the pan along with the veg and beans.
Bring to the boil, then transfer whole mixture to a casserole dish.
Fetch cobblers out of fridge and arrange on top of the hash.
Bake for 15-20 minutes until cobblers are browned.