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Bean cakes with tartar sauce

Serves 2

For the fish cakes

  • 80g cooked haricot beans,
  • 1 onion diced,
  • ½ tspn chilli powder,
  • 1 clove of garlic diced (all fried off together),
  • 120g cooked mashed potato,
  • juice of half a lemon,
  • 20g chopped capers,
  • 20g chopped cornichons,
  • chopped parsley

For the breadcrumb outer

  • 60g plain flour seasoned,
  • 1 beaten egg,
  • 60g bread crumbs

(all in three separate bowls)

Tartar Sauce

  • 1 fresh egg,
  • 3 tspn lemon juice,
  • 2 tbsp white wine vinegar,
  • 1tspn Dijon mustard
  • vegetable oil,
  • 2 tbsp chopped capers and cornichons,
  • 2 tbsp chopped parsley
1. First make the tartar sauce. Put the egg in a bowl and add the lemon juice, white wine vinegar and mustard. Add a little salt and pepper. Wisk and slowly start adding the vegetable oil. As the mayonnaise comes together, wisk harder. When combined, add the capers, cornichons and parsley.

2.Mix the bean cake ingredients together. Weigh into 50g portions, shape using a pastry cutter, and then dip each cake into the flour, egg and finally breadcrumbs. Shallow fry for 3 minutes in sizzling hot vegetable oil, and turn every 30 seconds to prevent burning. Finish off in oven at 160oc/Gas 6 for a further ten minutes. Serve with Tartar sauce.

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Matt and his team did such a great job hosting us for our work summer party! We has great fun learning how to make pasta and the staff always made sure we had our glasses topped up. The chefs were very knowledgeable and were great at guiding us through the experience. Everyone is already asking me if we can go back again :) Highly recommend!
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We booked this venue for a global team meeting. It coincided with the hottest day of the year (think 37c), so I was quite nervous about how it would turn out. The venue is close to the tube and easy to find (even for me and I'm hopeless with directions). We were greeted by an exceptionally friendly team and handed an ice cold glass of prosecco - which along with wine and water, flowed freely. We did the pasta making class which was such fun. The kitchen had air con thankfully and the staff were knowledgeable but very friendly and completely approachable. Best was we got to eat what we made. I wholeheartedly recommend this place and I'm very glad we chose it. Big shout out to the staff as they were all great.
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