Rumbledethumps

Rumbledethumps

Core recipe

Serves 4

The name for this dish means "mixed together" - rumbled, and "bashed together" - thumped.
This is a meatless main course but can also be served as a vegetable dish along with meat.

1 lb potatoes
1 lb white cabbage, spring cabbage, or kale
1 medium onion or the white part of two leeks, finely chopped
2 oz extra light philadelphia
Chopped fresh chives
Black pepper and salt to taste


Slice the potatoes thickly and boil in a little salted water. Once cooked, drain and mash.
Slice the cabbage and boil gently in salted water, do not over cook!
In a heavy bottomed pan cook the onions or leeks.
Once soft right through, add the cooked potatoes and cabbage. Add the cheese and season to taste .
Place the mixture in an oven safe dish, place under a hot grill or oven to brown.

Rumbledethumps 2

Core recipe

 

Quaint name for this very Scottish recipe!

Frylight

1 large onion, finely chopped

227g boiled potatoes

113g boiled swede

454g cooked green cabbage

seasoning

Spray a frying pan lightly with Frylight and place over a medium heat.  Cook onion for about 5 minutes until softened and golden brown.  Meanwhile mash the potatoes and swede and chop the cabbage.  Season with salt and pepper.  Ad potatoes, swede and cabbage to the onions in the pan and mix well together.  Press the mixture down to flatten it out and cover the base of the pan.  Cook over a very low heat for about 5 minutes until browned underneath.  Turn the mixture over and cook the other side.  When very hot all the way through, slide out onto serving plate and serve.