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Leek

Tastiest way to prepare leek

Ingredients

• leeks (I quite like a bit of dark green leaf on the leeks - you don't want those "baby leeks" they sell as they taste quite dull and boring)
• pepper
• nutmeg
• butter
• 1/2 vegetable stock cube

Preparation

Pre-heat your oven to 180 degrees centigrade.

Leeks
	Cut both top and bottom end off the leeks. Then cut from the top down the middle until you hit the white section of the leek as we have to clean out sand and soil from inside the leek. Hold under running water and fan out the section you cut in half and thoroughly clean it out - otherwise you'll be chewing sand ...
	Put the leek(s) into a pyrex dish - add some water (about 5mm high), pepper the leek and grate some nutmeg on it. Add a knob of butter and half a vegetable stock cube. Put into the pre-heated oven. I don't use any extra salt on this as the stock cube and the butter already contain enough salt. After 5 minutes, make sure the vegetable stock cube has dissolved (you can help it along with a fork) and turn around the leek. Check every 15 minutes or so - turn the leeks around so they are moistened by the vegetable stock. That will keep them from burning. Total time in the oven is around 40 minutes - this is up to you depending how tender you want your leek - you can test with a knife.
	This one has been in the oven for 40 minutes - which still leaves it with a bit of a "bite".

Best with ...

A winter vegetable that goes well with anything!

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Comments:

2	I think that picture was the best because it has lots of detail of the pan the actul leek itself
10	Excellent idea, and great taste. Let's have some more recipes!
10	it was yummy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
10	thank you I have always been very nervous about cooking leeks but I won't be any more
10	thankyou
9	Thank you for photos with instructions, this was quite helpful for me to prepare correctly.
9	Thank-you! I've never cooked with leeks before. Very helpful!
10	thank you
10	Thank you, I wanted to make a soup recipe which called for leek, but didn't know how to prepare one.
10	This is very good. Coming to the US from India, I cannot figure out how best to cook the vegetables available here. Your recipes with pictures are a great help.
10	cool
10	Beautiful, we had these with roast beef and used the stock with the meat juices to make a wonderful gravy.
10	Great directions.