Recipes Archive
(December 2017)

1 December 2017

Tandoori Estate Partridge leg Samosa with Badger Bean Curry

METHOD For the marinade – combine all ingredients together and marinate partridge breasts overnight. Cook breasts on a hot griddle pan – a few minutes each side. To make the samosas, sweat off veg with the spices and then leave to cool. Then mix with cooked and cooled partridge leg meat. Double up filo sheets Read more…

Doddington Herd Beef Cheek

METHOD Remove sinews off beef cheeks and roughly chop veg – add to a casserole dish with herbs and peppercorns and cover with red wine and beef stock. Cook for 3.5 hours at 160C until meat is falling apart. Let cool slightly and remove meat from dish, reserving the strained cooking liquid. Pull apart the Read more…

Coffee Panna Cotta

METHOD Reduce coffee with vanilla pods. Heat milk, cream and sugar. Add coffee to cream mixture, add softened gelatine leaves to dissolve and pass through a sieve. Place over ice until almost set and portion into moulds and chill for 3 hours. To make the espresso granita, boil sugar and water, then add coffee beans. Read more…

Brussels sprouts Caesar salad with lemon thyme

They also complete a Christmas Day lunch and if they’re not on the menu then I’m not turning up. I realise that for many they are not so popular but I think this is usually down to the fact that they’re often over-cooked and can taste very bitter. Whatever you feel about the humble Brussel, Read more…

Festive gluten-free and vegetarian rocky road

You may think this is an odd dish to claim the gluten-free and vegetarian qualities but there are some quite specific ingredients that take the rocky road from regular to festive. With many guests now being gluten intolerant and vegetarian, I’ve had to find alternatives. The amaretti biscuits are by Orgran (and are divine) and Read more…