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            Serves: 10
            
            
            Time to prepare:  10 mins
            
            
             Time to cook:  20 mins
            
            Dietary requirements: Vegan (with substitutions)
          
          
          
          
          
            Ingredients
            
            
            
              
                - 225g/8oz self-raising flour
 
              
                - 1 leek, finely sliced
 
              
                - Freshly ground black pepper
 
              
                - 100g/3½oz half-fat cheddar, grated
 
              
                - 175ml/scant ¹/₃ pint semi-skimmed milk
 
              
                - 1 egg or egg replacement (optional)
 
              
                - 50ml/3 tbsp olive oil
 
              
                - 10 cherry tomatoes
 
              
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
           
          
          
            Instructions
            
              - Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas mark 6.
 - In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, leek, freshly ground black pepper and cheddar and mix well.
 - In a separate bowl, mix together the milk, egg and olive oil. Add this mixture to the dry ingredients and mix well.
 - Grease ten muffin moulds and half-fill each with the mix.
 - Prick each cherry tomato – this stops them popping when they cook – and press one tomato into the top of each spoonful of mix.
 - Spoon the remaining mixture over each muffin to conceal the tomato. Cook for about 20 minutes until golden brown.
 
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