Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Easter Spiced Lamb Pittas Recipe

Ingredients

  • 2 tblsp olive oil
  • 1 onion (peeled and chopped)
  • 1 large clove of garlic (peeled and crushed or finely grated)
  • salt and freshly ground
  • 1 tsp turmeric
  • black pepper
  • 1 tsp ground cumin
  • 1 tsp ground coriander
  • 450 g (1lb) lamb mince
  • 225 g (8oz) potatoes (peeled and cut into 5mm (¼in) dice)
  • 75 g (3oz) frozen peas

Easter Loin of Lamb Recipe

Ingredients

For the lamb:
  • 1 large baking potato (peeled, about 375g)
  • 5 tsp olive oil
  • 2 tsp chopped flat-leaf parsley
  • 2 tblsp dried white breadcrumbs
  • 2 (450g each) boneless loins of lamb (completely trimmed of fat)
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • sprigs of mint, to garnish

Roast Rack of Pork

Ingredients

  • 1 4-bone rack of pork
  • sunflower oil
  • salt and pepper
  • 1 large onion
  • 4 garlic cloves
  • 1 sprig thyme
  • 1 sprig sage

Chicken with Hummus Easter Main Dish


Ingredients

Ingredients for potato bake:
  • 8 chicken thighs
  • 1 large sweet potato (peeled and diced)
  • 1.50 red onions (peeled and cut into wedges)
  • 1 inch fresh ginger (chopped)
  • 0.50 red chilli (finely sliced)
  • 3 rosemary sprigs
  • 1 tblsp honey
  • 3 tblsp oilve oil
  • salt and pepper
  • 1 lemon (juice)

Shoulder of Lamb with Mint Dressing

Ingredients

  • 1.50 kg shoulder of lamb on the bone
  • 4 cloves of garlic (cut in half)
  • drizzle of olive oil
  • salt and pepper
  • 1 tblsp ground cumin
  • 2 sprigs rosemary

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Lamb Cutlets

Ingredients

  • 8 trimmed lamb cutlets
  • 155 g sachet Continental Teriyaki
  • honey and ginger Flavour Base
  • 2 tsp sesame seeds
  • 1/3 cup Orange Juice
  • 1 tsp chopped chives
  • cooking oil spray
  • 1 sliced onion
  • 1 sliced green capsicum
  • 420g can drained Mixed Vegetables
  • 1 cup shredded red cabbage
  • 150g baby spinach leaves
  • 450g packet fresh noodles
  • 2 tsp sweet chilli sauce

Chicken with homemade peanut sauce

Ingredients

Homemade Peanut Sauce

  • 1-2 Tbs tamarind paste from a jar
  • 2/3 cup brown sugar
  • 1 tsp salt + more to balance at very end
  • 1L water
  • 2 Tbs lime juice + more to balance at very end
  • 500g salted, roasted, crushed peanuts

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Swedish Christmas Ham

Ingredients

  • 1 kg ham
  • 2 l julmust or cola
  • 1 large onion
  • 1 tblsp black peppercorns
  • 1 bay leaf

Salmon Pthivier

Ingredients

  • 50 g 2 oz butter, softened
  • 2 tblsp chopped fresh parsley
  • rind of ½ a lemon
  • black pepper
  • 1 tblsp lemon juice
  • salmon pithivier
  • 300 g 12 oz salmon fillet boned and skin removed
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 225 g 8 oz fresh baby spinach, washed and dried well1 pk ready-made puff pastry
  • plain flour, for dusting
  • 1 egg, beaten

Caponata

Ingredients

  • 2 medium aubergines, cut into 2cm cubes
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 large onions, chopped
  • 5 celery stalks (trimmed and cut into 1.5cm pieces)
  • 500 ml tomato sauce
  • 65 g capers, rinsed
  • 50 ml white wine vinegar
  • sugar, to taste
  • 125 g green olives
  • crusty bread, to serve
  • 50 ml olive oil, extra.virgin
  • 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 1 tsp tomato purée
  • 2 400g cans plum tomatoes, crushed
  • fresh basil leaves
  • sugar to taste
  • salt and pepper to taste

Christmas Ham


Ingredients

Whole ham on the bone (approx 7 ½ lb/3.5kg)
  • 4 tblsp irish mist
  • 50 g brown sugar
  • 4 tblsp irish whiskey marmalade
  • 18 cloves

Pan Fried Duck Breasts


Ingredients

  • 4 duck breasts (skin and fat left on)
  • salt and ground black pepper
  • 2 shallots or 1 red onion
  • 6 tblsp redcurrant jelly
  • 2 tblsp red wine vinegar
  • juice of 2 oranges

Bacon and Cabbage with Mustard Sauce


Ingredients

  • 1.50 kg loin of bacon
  • 1 carrot
  • 2 celery sticks
  • 2 leeks
  • 1 tsp peppercorns
  • topping
  • 1 tblsp mustard
  • 0.50 tblsp brown sugar
  • 1 tblsp oven-dried breadcrumbs
  • knob of butter
  • mustard sauce
  • 50 g butter
  • 25 g flour
  • 1 tblsp mustard
  • 250 ml mixture cooking liquid and cream (½ & ½)
  • 1 kg cabbage (finely sliced)

Fattoush

Ingredients

  • 2 round pitta breads or 1 large oval pitta (cut into bite-sized chunks)
  • 5 tblsp olive oil
  • salt and freshly ground
  • black pepper
  • 0.50 cucumber (cut into 2cm chunks)
  • 3 tomatoes (cut into 2cm chunks)
  • 0.50 red onion (peeled and thinly sliced)
  • 1 small red pepper (de-seeded and cut into 2cm chunks)
  • 2 tblsp chopped coriander
  • 2 tsp sumac (optional)
  • finely grated zest and juice of ½ lemon
  • 1 clove of garlic (peeled and crushed)
  • 1 tsp red wine vinegar
  • pinch of granulated or caster sugar

Spiced Lamb Pittas

Ingredients

  • 2 tblsp olive oil
  • 1 onion (peeled and chopped)
  • 1 large clove of garlic (peeled and crushed or finely grated)
  • salt and freshly ground
  • 1 tsp turmeric
  • black pepper
  • 1 tsp ground cumin
  • 1 tsp ground coriander
  • 450 g (1lb) lamb mince
  • 225 g (8oz) potatoes (peeled and cut into 5mm (¼in) dice)
  • 75 g (3oz) frozen peas

Roast Pheasant


Ingredients

  • 3 pheasants, oven ready
  • 6 slices pancetta
  • rosemary olive oil
  • a few rosemary sprigs
  • salt and pepper to season

Roasted Turbot with Tomato Concasse


Ingredients

For the sauce:
  • 1 large beef tomato (de-seeded)
  • chopped fennel, parsley, chervil and chives
  • 2 tblsp baby capers drained
  • 50 g salted butter
  • 1/2 juice of lemon
 For the turbot:
  • 1 fresh fillet of turbot
  • 50 g salted butter
  • pinch of salt
  • cracked black pepper (ground from pepper mill)
  • olive oil

Spicy Chicken


Ingredients

For the chicken goujons:
  • 2 fillets of free range chicken (sliced lengthways)
  • 80 g flour
  • 100 g fine breadcrumbs
  • 2 eggs (beaten)
  • 4 mini pitta pockets (lightly toasted)
  • for the chilli jam:
  • 1 red pepper (de-seeded and chopped)
  • 2 chillies (de-seeded and chopped)
  • 100 g tinned tomatoes
  • 100 g sugar
  • 1 inch of fresh ginger, grated

Baked Salmon with Lime Butter Sauce

Ingredients

  • 1.50 kg salmon fillet (skinned and pin boned)
  • 1.50 kg carrots
  • 1.50 kg purple sprouting broccoli
  • 1kg of sweet potatoes
  • 1 orange
  • 2 limes
  • 100 g butter
  • 150 ml cream
  • salt
  • white pepper
  • flaked toasted almonds
  • fresh thyme
  • 2 whole star anaise

Penne pasta


Ingredients

  • 400 g penne pasta (‘de cecco’ brand if possible)
  • garnish
  • 100 g cashel blue cheese
  • 25 g cashel blue reserved for garnish
  • 300 ml double cream
  • 50 g rocket (chopped roughly)
  • 1 leek washed and sliced finely
  • 25 g roasted hazelnuts (crushed)
  • 25 ml extra virgin olive oil
  • drop of sherry vinegar
  • fresh pepper
  • for poached pears
  • 4 williams’s pears (peel and cored)
  • 600 ml red wine
  • 100 g sugar
  • 1 orange “zest and juice”
  • 1 clove
  • 0.50 cinnamon stick