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19 Sept 2012
11 May 2012
Asian style bouillabaisse with coconut broth
Serves 4
Fish for stew
4 scallops (cleaned)
8 Palorde Venus calms (cleaned)
8 Mussells (cleaned)
4 Tiger prawns (shelled and de-veined) keep the shells
4 Crab or lobster claws (cooked) keep the shells
4 60g portions of seabass
4 60g portions of red mullet
4 60g portions of gurnard
Coconut broth
2 tbsp Unsalted butter
4 Kaffir limes
1 Leek (cleaned and chopped)
2 Lemongrass stalks (roughly chopped)
100g Thinly sliced fresh ginger
2 Cloves of garlic (minced)
2 Star anise
2 tbsp Red curry paste
850ml Coconut milk
650ml Fish stock
400ml Vermouth
Any prawn/crab/lobster shells
Other ingredients
350g Soya noodles
200g Sliced spring onions
100g Pea shoots
4 Small bokchoy (blanched)
1 handful Chopped coriander/baby coriander
1 packet Wonton skins
100g Sesame seeds
1 Egg white
1 pinch Paprika
4 Tomatoes (blanched, peeled and diced)
Method
Coconut broth
In a large saucepan, melt the butter over a medium heat, add the kaffir leaves, leek, lemongrass, ginger, garlic and star anise and cook gently for 2-3 minutes or until fragrant. Add the lobster/crab and prawn shells and sauté for another 5 minutes or until lightly coloured. Add the curry paste and stir until ingredients are combined. Add the coconut milk, vermouth and fish stock. Bring to the boil and reduce to a simmer and cook gently for 1 ¼ hours or until reduced by a third. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Strain through chinois or fine mesh sieve and set aside to cool.
To finish
1. In a large saucepan of boiling water, cook the soya noodles for 10 minutes, then drain.
2. In a large saucepan, heat 500ml of the curried coconut broth over medium high heat until boiling. Reduce the heat to a simmer and add the noodles, spring onion, bokchoy, pea shoots and tomatoes. Warm for 1-2 minutes.
3. Meanwhile in a large pan bring the remaining coconut broth to the boil and add the mussels, clams and prawns. In a separate pan, heat a little oil and sear the bass, red mullet and gurnard on the side skin until crispy and golden, then add to the bouillabaisse to finish. In the same pan sauté the scallops on one side for 1 minute and also add to the bouillabaisse and then simmer for 5-7 minutes or until the mussels and clams are open and the fish is cooked through.
4. Take the wonton squares and slice in half so they form a triangle . Take the egg white and whip it up a little. Mix the sesame seeds, paprika and salt and place on a tray. Using a brush, brush the egg white on to the wontons, then dip into the sesame seed mix and fry on 180° for 2 minutes, getting enough for 4 per portion. Place on kitchen paper.
5. Mound some of the noodles, bokchoy, spring onion, pea shoots and tomatoes in the centre of 4 bowls. Using a slotted spoon, remove the shellfish and fish from the broth and arrange around the noodles. Ladle some of the broth over and around the fish and shellfish and garnish each bowl with the coriander. Serve immediately with the wontons in the broth like bread.
2 May 2012
Ginger Sponge & Sticky Toffee Pudding Recipe"s
Ingredients
8oz Soft Butter
2 cups Dark Brown Sugar
2 cups Black treacle
Put in a mixer and cream
together
2 Eggs
Slowly add to the above
5 cups Soft Flour
8tsp Ground ginger
4tsp Cinnamon
4tblsp Baking Powder
4 tsp Baking Soda
Put all the dry ingredients
together, and then add to the above.
3 cups Boiling Water
Method
Slowly add to the above. Make
sure the mix is all mixed evenly
Pipe mix in to Large Muffin
moulds and cook at 180°c for 20-25 mins. When cooked allow to cool.
Place sponge in to bowl and
microwave with a little Caramel sauce on top for 30 -45 seconds. Then in a pan
Heat the Caramel sauce and pour over Sponge. Serve with hot Caramel Sauce and
Vanilla Ice Cream. Will freeze well if you make a few.
Sticky
Toffee Pudding Sponge
Date
base
Ingredients
3kg
stone less dates
3ltr
water
Method
Boil
together until the water had been absorbed.
Liquidise
and cool.
Sponge
Ingredients
1350g
date base
350g
butter
1.1kg
soft dark sugar
11
eggs
650g
soft flour
650g
strong flour
25g
baking powder
10g
bicarbonate of soda
Method
Cream
the butter and sugar
Add
the eggs slowly
Add
the flours, baking powder, and bicarbonate of soda and mix well.
Add
the date base and mix lightly
Pipe
into greased foil cups and bake at 180°C
Place sponge in to bowl and microwave with a little Caramel sauce on top for 30 -45 seconds. Then in a pan Heat the Caramel sauce and pour over Sponge. Serve with hot Caramel Sauce and Vanilla Ice Cream. Will freeze well if you make a few.
Cappuccino Creme Brulee with Cinnamon Doughnuts Recipe
Cappuccino Creme Brulee with Cinnamon
Doughnuts
330ml Whipping Cream
330ml Milk
12 Egg Yolks
100g Sugar
27g Instant Coffee
Bring milk &
cream to the boil add Coffee and allow to dissolve. Put egg yolks and sugar in
a bowl and whisk.Pour over the cream and milk. Pass through a fine sieve. Pour
in to cups. Cook in a water bath at 150c in oven for 30 – 40 mins or until set.
Crème pate
500ml milk
1x vanilla pod
6x egg yolks
150g sugar
50g flour
In a bowl, cream the egg and sugar together and then add the flour.
Meanwhile scald the milk and vanilla together, then pour over the egg mixture
over a medium heat, whisking all the time. Do this until the mixture is thick
and the four has been cooked out around 5 mins. Place in container and place
clingfilm on top of cream to stop cream
a skin forming and allow to cool in fridge.
When cooled down take 300g of mix and fold in to 300ml of whipped cream.
Spoon mix on top of brullee mix and smooth the top. Take some castor sugar and
sprinkle on top of cream and then glaze with a blow torch to caramelize. Dust
some icing sugar and cocoa powder on top and serve.
Doughnuts
600g strong white flour
5tsp of baking powder
200g sugar
½ tsp of cinnamon
80g melted butter
2 whole eggs
350g milk
Combine all the
ingredients in a bowl till smooth. Chill for 1 hour then roll 1cm thick (no
more) and deep fry. Once cooked roll in sugar with cinnamon. 100g to 1 tsp
cinnamon powder.
14 Apr 2012
New Crab Dish as there is some beautiful Devon Crab around
Serves 4
INGREDIENTS
1lb Fresh
white Crab Meat
20g fresh
chopped chives
1 fresh beetroot (for carpaccio)
2tbsp Mayonnaise
8 Tiger
Prawns
Mixed Salad Leaves
Salt and Pepper
METHOD
Take the white Crab meat and pick through it
to make sure there is no shell in it. Mix the Mayonnaise, chopped chives in and
season to taste. Place in fridge till ready to use.
TO COOK THE BEETROOT
Wrap the fresh beetroot, with a little salt
in tin foil and cook in in the oven at 170c for 1 hour. Once cooked, take out
of oven and allow to cool. When cool, peel off the skin, slice very thinly and
using a 4cm cutter, cut rounds from the slices and place in fridge till ready
to use.
FOR THE APPLE JELLY
4 Granny
Smiths Apples (or 200ml good quality apple juice)
2 Leaves
Gelatine
1tsp Lemon
Juice
Salt & Pepper
METHODCore the apples and extract the
juice in a juicer. Squeeze the lemon juice into the extracted juice. Soak the
gelatin in ice cold water for 5 minutes. Warm 5 tablespoons of the apple juice, take the gelatine and
squeeze out any excess water then add gelatine to apple juice and allow to
dissolve, add the warm juice to the remaining juice and pass through a
strainer. Place in to a container and allow to set in fridge for at least two
hours.
FOR THE TEMPURA BATTER
200g Plain
Flour
1tbsp Baking
Powder
100g Corn
flour
200ml Sparkling
water
Salt & Pepper to taste
METHOD
Mix all the ingredients together and whisk
until smooth.
TO SERVE
On each of the 4 plates place the beetroot
rounds in the centre to form a flower pattern. Take a 6cm mould ring and place
the crab mixture about half-way up the ring, pushing the crab out to the sides
to create a well. Chop the jelly into small cubes and place in to the well,
then just top a little more crab over so that the jelly will be covered and in
the centre of the mix. Position the mould in the middle of the beetroot flower
and carefully lift of the ring.
Dip the prawns in the Tempura batter and fry at 180c in a deep
fat fryer for 2 minutes. Whilst these are cooking, dress the salad and arrange
on top of the crab. Arrange the cooked prawns on either side of the crab. Serve
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