Loaded Leek Potato Bake

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Syn Free Loaded Leek & Potato Bake - Cheese - Bacon - Slimming World   

This syn unloosen activity is the result to all of your winter food prayers, especially if you're on Slimming Grouping! With seasonal flavours it's super hot, not to honor unexploded with cheeseflower and bacon&what writer could you poverty? I came up with this supply when I looked in the fridge and realised that I had singularly failed on the substance work and afterward had no nutrient to work into work the incoming day! There was a dejected packet of leeks, half a boat of bacon, a few different bits and bobs and of layer mallow (I may die to search but I am never without mallow!). My firstborn mentation was to do a leek and tater soup, as I knew we had a bag of potatoes in the closet, which would bang been lovely, but I've consumed quite a lot of soup in the lowest




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    Ingredients

    • 6x White Potatoes (e.g. Maris Piper, King Edward)
    • 4x Leeks (washed)
    • 1 Pint Chicken/Vegetable Stock
    • 4x Rashers of Bacon
    • 140g Grated Cheddar Cheese (HexA x 4)
    • Salt & Pepper (to taste)



    Instructions

    1. Preheat your oven to 180 degrees. Peel and wash the potatoes.
    2. Chop the potatoes into medium sized chunks, about one inch squared but no need to be specific as this dish is rustic. Slice the leeks into pieces about 2cm long.
    3. Add the potatoes and leeks to a sauce pan over a high heat and pour over the stock. Bring to the boil and then reduce the heat. Simmer for 5 minutes.
    4. Drain the potatoes and leeks, retaining 200mls of the stock to use for the baking.
    5. Tip the veg into a deep baking dish, I used a lasagna dish, distributing evenly. Pour over the 200mls of retained stock.
    6. Cover with tin foil and bake for 20 minutes.
    7. Mealwhile chop the bacon rashers small (removing the fat before cooking) and fry.
    8. Remove from the oven and take off the tinfoil. Scatter the bacon bits over the top, season to your taste and put back into the oven uncovered for a further 20 minutes.
    9. Remove from the oven again and scatter over the cheese, distributing evenly, and bake for a further 5-10 minutes until the cheese has melted.
    10. Serve hot or cold!