This is a quick and easy recipe to prepare ahead of time and keep in the fridge for unexpected guests. Use a very good olive oil and try experimenting with different flavourings such as sun-dried tomatoes and dried chillies, or with flavoured oils. For this I used a lemon-flavoured oil. TO DRINK: Try a chilled glass of Monis Pale Dry Sherry. Its intense aroma will stand up to the spicy flavours of the dukkah, while its crisp acidity will cut through the creaminess of the cheese. COOK’S TIP Instead of dukkah you could roll the cheese balls in herbs, black…
Don’t be fooled into thinking that this elegant dish will take hours. Lamb cutlets with lentil and potato mash is quick, easy and absolutely delicious.
Print Recipe Aurelie’s veggie patties Serves: 4 Cooking Time: 20 Mins Ingredients 150g red beans, cooked 150g butter beans, cooked 150g lentils, cooked 15ml (1 tbsp) olive oil 2 spring onions, chopped 2 garlic cloves, crushed 3g ginger root, grated 1 sprig of fresh thyme, leaves only 5ml (1 tsp) wholegrain mustard 10ml (2 tsp)
MAPLE SYRUP comes from the sap of the maple tree. It is boiled for hours to reduce it to a syrup. The perfect syrup for hot buttered waffles…
There nothing more appetizing than the smell of garlic roasting in your kitchen There nothing more appetizing than the smell of garlic roasting in your kitchen. Preheat the oven to 200°C. Cut the top off a bulb of garlic. Place the garlic on a roasting tray. Drizzle abundantly with olive oil and sprinkle with coarse salt. Roast until the garlic is soft and almost golden, about 20 minutes. Delicious spread on hot toast or bruschetta with anchovies, olives, capers, tomato and parsley. Mix roast garlic with butter as a filling for baked garlic bread, or simply serve it with roast…
Print Recipe Lemon-marinated prawns with a sweet chilli dip Ingredients 40 tiger prawns, cleaned and deveined, tails intact handful fresh herbs (coriander, basil, mint, parsley), chopped juice of 4 large lemons salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste oil, for frying good-quality Asian chilli sauce, to serve soy sauce, to serve fresh coriander, to
Print Recipe Coconut cream and vanilla risotto with gold leaf Serves: 4 Cooking Time: 1 hour Ingredients 350g risotto rice 1,5 litres water 50g castor sugar 1 vanilla pod 80ml (1/3 cup) fresh cream 125ml (½ cup) coconut cream 100ml desiccated coconut pinch of salt edible gold leaf (optional), to serve Instructions 1 Rinse the
TO DRINK: Grendel Wines Sauvignon Blanc 2009 (Standard Range), or a more pocket-friendly match is the Slanghoek Winery Sauvignon Blanc 2009. Sauvignon Blanc is the perfect answer to goat’s cheese. COOK’S TIP The better the quality of Parmesan you use, the tastier the biscuits will be. Play around with flavours by adding different herbs or spices to the dough.