Pan Seared Steak in Garlic Butter Mustard Sauce
Tuesday, October 08, 2024An easy and delicious recipe for pan seared steak with a pan sauce made with shallot, garlic, fresh herbs, mustard and butter. It's buttery, restaurant-worthy and works with all cuts of steak.
Steak strips are first marinated with a mixture of soya sauce, olive oil, and choulula, then quickly seared in a skillet. The brown bits providing the basis for the most delish pan sauce ever.
36 Salmon Recipes to Make Again and Again
Monday, October 07, 2024Looking for some salmon recipes to try for midweek meals or impressive centrepieces? Flavourful, nutritious, and versatile, salmon is a good source of omega-3 fatty acids, high-quality protein, B vitamins and with plenty of flavour variations – from Asian, middle-Eastern to Mediterranean, and can be pan-seared, baked or steamed – you’ll never be short of ideas. I have rounded up some easy and delicious salmon recipes, so you can try something new every night of the week to make the most of this nutrients-packed fatty fish.
Pumpkin Chips with Pumpkin Curry Ketchup
Sunday, October 06, 2024Ketchup is automatically understood to mean tomato ketchup. The word ‘ketchup’ simply describes a condiment consisting of tomatoes, sugar, vinegar, salt and spices. But if you cannot tolerate nightshade vegetables (tomato, potato, eggplant and bell pepper), you can also make the ketchup without tomatoes. Use more pumpkin instead and add a little more vinegar for acidity if necessary.
An autumnal ketchup with a strong pumpkin flavour. Like tomato ketchup, it can be used in a variety of ways and goes wonderfully with pumpkin chips/fries, burger, onion rings nachos or even grissini and many more.
Pumpkins are generally “wetter” than potatoes, so for the chips or fries, you might want to use starchy varieties like Hokkaido, sweet mama, kabocha or buttercup, to get the better result.
Pork Knuckle with Beer Sauce
Saturday, October 05, 2024This pork knuckle is crispy on the outside and tender and juicy on the inside. The beer sauce gives the dish a special savoury note, which is perfectly rounded off by the bitterness of the beer and the distinctive piney fragrance of the rosemary. This dish goes perfectly with hearty side dishes such as sauerkraut or red cabbage (if you have no problem digesting cruciferous vegetables), roasted potatoes, sourdough bread dumplings and is ideal for Oktoberfest, other festive occasions or a rustic Sunday lunch. . I used carrot, onion and fencel for the sauce, but you can use celery or leek too.
Whole Spelt Banana Bread with Honey and Applesauce
Friday, October 04, 2024Homemade banana bread is one of life’s simple pleasures. It's sweet, tender and delicious. However, classic banana bread is usually loaded with refined sugar and calorie dense. This quick bread is made with freshly milled wholegrain spelt flour, homemade applesauce and naturally sweetened with very ripe bananas and honey, and it tastes as flavourful and supermoist as a traditional one and no-one will guess it’s better for you.
40-Clove Garlic Beef Brisket
Thursday, October 03, 2024This beautiful beef brisket dish is a variation of my favorite chicken recipe with 40 cloves of garlic. I left out the alcohol here and just used homemade beef broth. It turned out so tender and moist. Instead of thyme, you can also use rosemary. The brisket tastes even better the next day because there's more time for the flavors to develop and it gets more tender as it sits. Make this a day or two ahead and refrigerate. Skim off any fat before reheating, covered, in the oven or on top of the stove.
Cape Malay Eggplant Curry with Garam Masala Cashews
Wednesday, October 02, 2024Mopped up with some flaky rotis or steamed rice, this easy, deliciously mild vegetarian curry is for sure a winner. Eggplants, like zucchini, are very mild and quite bland in taste, so they are perfect for the bold curry dishes as they will absorb the flavour of whatever they are cooked with. Cape Malay cuisine is known for its fruity, mild spices and full-bodied flavours, which are heavily influenced by Malaysian, Indonesian and East African slaves, who were brought to Cape Town by Dutch settlers in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Chicken Cacciatore
Tuesday, October 01, 2024Chicken cacciatore is a rustic, warming and hearty chicken stew in a rich tomato-based sauce with vegetables, herbs and wine. Serve this earthy hearty stew with crusty bread or on a bed of polenta or pasta, sprinkled with some freshly grated Parmesan. I have used white wine, but you can definitely use red wine instead.
Chicken cacciatore, literally meaning “hunter's style chicken,” has origins that date all the way back to the 14th century. The primary meat of cacciatore back then was rabbit, but other versions add meats like salami and sausage as the protein of choice. Since then, chicken has evolved and become the crowd-pleaser.
Matcha Pistachio Cake with Mascarpone and Figs
Monday, September 30, 2024This cake is something very special and less guilty as it doesn't contain refined sugar and flavoured with antioxidants-rich matcha. The bright green, Japanese-inspired creation is not just a visual eye-catcher, but also very delicious with its subtle flavour, which contrasts beautifully with the rich mascarpone cream. The fresh sweet figs do the rest to create an unforgettable dessert experience. For the cake batter, I used a mixture of white spelt flour and ground pistachios, but you can replace them with regular wheat flour and the blanched almond flour. Other seasonal fruit can be used instead of figs.
Pumpkin Diane
Sunday, September 29, 2024In the 19th century, sauces made “a la Diane” were dedicated to Diana the Rome goddess and was originally served as an accompaniment to venison, giving it a luxurious and rich flavour. The sauce is mainly made with shallots, Dijon mustard, beef stock, Worcestershire sauce, and cream. It was originally cooked tableside and sometimes flambéed. Though the sauce is a classic accompaniment to meat dishes, you can certainly use the sauce for vegetables too. This recipe, adapted from Taste, put a vegetarian spin on it with a carnival pumpkin (the skin of a carnival squash is entirely edible), lentils and oyster mushrooms. You can use other wild mushrooms like shiitake, chanterelles or just regular button mushrooms.
Clementine Salad with Figs and Goat Cheese
Saturday, September 28, 2024This wonderfully light, bright and fruity is packed with easy-to-find seasonal produce and loaded with delicious flavours and textures. It makes a perfect appetizer or as a light lunch. The sweetness of the clementine and figs pair perfectly with the bitterness of the arugula and tartness of pomegranate arils. If you don't like goat cheese, tangy and salty blue cheese would be an excellent alternative.
Pollo Fritto with Saltimbocca Salt
Friday, September 27, 2024Pollo fritto, Italian for fried chicken, is a Tuscan-Jewish dish (without Saltimbocca salt) traditionally enjoyed for Hanukkah, where the chicken is simply marinated in a mixture of lemon juice, garlic, herbs and spices, then coated with flour and egg before deep-frying until golden crispy. Traditional recipes use a whole chicken, cut into parts, but you can simply use a mixture of wings, drumsticks and thighs.
What makes this chicken recipe a standout is the Saltimbocca salt. A simple but genius condiment made with crumbled crispy Prosciutto, sage and salt and black pepper. Saltimbocca, Italian for “leap into the mouth”, is an Italian classic made with thin cutlets (chicken, veal, or pork) wrapped or topped with prosciutto and sage.