A dish for all seasons.
Print Recipe Chilled cucumber soup Serves: 6 Cooking Time: 10 mins Ingredients 2 cucumbers, peeled and diced 200g tomatoes, blanched and peeled 100ml good-quality chicken stock 5ml Tabasco salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste 300g plain yoghurt 250ml fresh cream 10ml fresh mint, to garnish Instructions 1 Place the cucumber, tomato, chicken stock
Recipe by Thuli Martins
Print Recipe Caramelised onion soup and Gruyère toasts Serves: 4 Cooking Time: 25 mins Ingredients 8 brown onions, sliced 30ml (2 tbsp) fresh rosemary, finely chopped 60ml (¼ cup) olive oil 120g sugar 1,5L beef stock, hot 8 baguette slices 100g Gruyère, grated Instructions 1 Put the onions, rosemary, oil and sugar in a pot
*Ostrich is generally served medium-rare as it can toughen up, so if you want it a little more well done I would take to medium but that’s about…
This dessert is decadently delicious and a must to end any long, traditional lunch. TO DRINK: Alvi’s Drift Muscat de Frontignan 2005 has aromas of raisins, almonds, cinnamon, dried apricots and toffee in abundance
Onion soups have always been popular, but French onion soup is the true pièce de résistance as far as liquid starters go. You can’t fail with this easy and delicious appetiser. Recipe by Leila Saffarian Photograph by Roelene Prinsloo
Print Recipe Asparagus, mushroom and mascarpone mini tartlets Serves: 12 Cooking Time: 1 hr 10 mins Ingredients 1 x 400g puff pastry 12 asparagus stalks, reserving the tips 250g baby button mushrooms 250g mascarpone 4 large eggs salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste 100g feta cheese, crumbled + extra for serving Instructions 1
Print Recipe Vegetable tart Serves: 4 Cooking Time: 1 hour 45 mins Ingredients QUICK SHORTCRUST PASTRY 120g (1 cup) cake flour pinch of salt 60g butter, cubed 45ml (3 tbsp) cold water FILLING 30ml (2 tbsp) butter 60ml (¼ cup) olive/avocado oil 2 garlic cloves, chopped 250g leeks, roughly chopped 250g baby marrows, sliced diagonally
Print Recipe Chilli pineapple chicken pops Serves: 4 Cooking Time: 1 hr 10 mins Ingredients CHILLI PINEAPPLE ½ red pepper, roughly chopped 2 red chillies, seeded and chopped 1 x 120g tin pineapple, drained and juice reserved 3 star anise 15ml (1 tbsp) tamarind paste 15ml (1 tbsp) sugar 5ml (1 tsp) vinegar CHICKEN BATTER
Print Recipe Summer pudding with white chocolate rum sauce Serves: 4 Cooking Time: 20 mins Ingredients CHOCOLATE SAUCE 125ml (½ cup) milk 200g good-quality white chocolate, chopped 80ml (1/3 cup) rum 500ml (2 cups) fresh raspberries 250ml (1 cup) mulberries 100g castor sugar 60ml (¼ cup) water 2 stale croissants, halved and toasted Instructions 1