Raw Slaw Summer Prawn San Choi Bao

Raw Slaw Summer Prawn San Choi Bao

Ingredient

500g Cooked Australian prawns, peeled
1 Lebanese cucumber, de-seeded, sliced
1 cup purple cabbage, finely sliced
1 cup savoy cabbage, finely sliced
1 carrot, peeled, grated
3 spring onions/scallions, finely sliced
½ bunch coriander, chopped
½ cup dill, chopped
8 Iceberg lettuce cups, trimmed, in iced water
1/3 cup macadamia nuts, roughly chopped

Dressing:
Juice of 1 lime, plus extra to garnish
1Tb fish sauce
1Tb brown sugar
1 long red chilli, finely sliced
2 teaspoons sesame oil

Method

Chop the prawns into rough 1cm chunks and place into a large bowl.

Add in the cucumber, cabbages, carrot, spring onions, coriander, mint and dill.

Whisk all the dressing ingredients together and pour over the prawn salad mixture and toss well to coat everything in the dressing.

Place the lettuce cups onto a serving platter and fill each cup with the prawn mixture. Garnish with macadamia nuts and extra sliced chili.

Recipe by Courtney Roulston

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Asparagus, Pea and Broad Bean Paella with Green Sauce

Asparagus, Pea and Broad Bean Paella with Green Sauce

Ingredient

1 Onion, diced
3 Garlic cloves, sliced
1 Green capsicum, diced
1 cup short grain rice
2 bunches of asparagus
1.5 ltr vegetable stock, warm
1tsp saffron added to the stock
1tbs smoked paprika, added to the stock
1 bunch of Asparagus, sliced thinly
1/2cup Broad beans
1/2cup peas
1 bunch parsley, chopped finely
1 bunch coriander, chopped finely
3 garlic cloves
1tbs capers
¼ cup Red Island olive oil
1 lemon, juice

Method

In a frypan heat some olive oil and the onion with a pinch of salt. Cook until the onion begins to soften then add the garlic cloves and capsicum, cook until they begin to soften.

Add the rice and then pour over the stock. Bring to the boil then reduce to the simmer. Cook gently stirring until most of the stock has been absorbed.

Add the asparagus, peas and broad beans. Stir through the rice gently.

Continue cooking until the rice is crunchy on the bottom and the vegetables have heated through.

In a bowl combine the herbs, garlic, capers, olive oil, lemon juice and a pinch of salt. Mix together.

Once the paella is finish top with the green sauce and serve with lemon wedges on the side.

Recipe by Michael Weldon

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Raw Zucchini Spring Salad With Beet Hummus and Goats Cheese

Raw Zucchini Spring Salad With Beet Hummus & Goats Cheese

Ingredient

2 large zucchini, sliced into noodles with a toothed peeler
1.5 cup frozen peas
Juice & zest of 1 lemon
2 cups baby spinach, roughly chopped
1 bunch mint, leaves picked (the long mint /spearmint)
6 red radish, thinly sliced into rounds on mandolin
2 teaspoons maple syrup
200g Coles finest Tasmanian Goats cheese, crumbled (or Meredith brand)
½ cup pistachio nuts, chopped

Beet Hummus:
1 x 400g tins chickpeas, rinsed, drained
2 x 250g Coles baby beetroot pre-packed ready to eat packs
1 tablespoon tahini paste
1 clove garlic, peeled
1 teaspoon ground cumin
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/3 cup (80ml) tablespoons Red Island extra virgin olive oil
Sea salt and black pepper to taste

Method

To make the beet hummus, place ¼ cup (60ml) of the oil and all other ingredients into an upright blender. Season with sea salt flakes and blitz until bright purple and smooth, adding a little extra water or oil if the mixture needs loosening.

In a large bowl toss the zucchini noodles, peas, lemon zest, mint leaves and radish.

Whisk the lemon juice, maple syrup and remaining oil in a bowl and pour over the salad. Season with salt and toss well to coat the salad in dressing.

To serve, spread the beet hummus onto the base of a serving platter and top with the zucchini and mint salad. Crumble over chunks of the goat’s cheese and sprinkle with pistachio nuts & black pepper before serving.

Recipe by Courtney Roulston

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Corn, Chickpea and Avocado Salad with Spicy Lime Dressing

Corn, Chickpea and Avocado Salad with Spicy Lime Dressing

Ingredient

5 cobs fresh corn
2 tablespoons Red Island extra virgin olive oil
Sea salt for seasoning
2 x 400g tins chickpeas, rinsed, drained
2 Lebanese cucumbers, sliced into 1cm cubes
1 large avocado, peeled sliced into 2cm cubes
3 green shallots/scallions, finely sliced
½ bunch coriander, leaves picked into stems

Dressing:
2/3 cup kewpie/whole egg mayonnaise
1 tablespoon Sriracha chili sauce
1/3 fresh lime juice, plus extra wedges to serve
1 tablespoon pure maple syrup
sea salt to taste

Method

Heat a non-stick frying pan over a medium/high heat. Slice the kernels from the corn cobs and place into the pan along with the oil and a pinch of salt. Cook for 5 minutes, or until slightly charred.

Allow corn to cool slightly before placing in a bowl along with the chickpeas, cucumbers, avocado and scallions. Gently toss the salad and place into serving bowls.

Whisk all the dressing ingredients together and drizzle over the corn salad. Garnish with coriander sprigs & extra lime wedges on the side.

Recipe by Courtney Roulston

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Extra Virgin Olive Oil Cake with Strawberry Berry Coulis

Extra Virgin Olive Oil Cake with Strawberry Berry Coulis

Ingredient

3 eggs
1 1/4 cup of Red Island Extra virgin olive oil
1 1/5 cups of caster sugar
1 cup almond milK
1 cup almond meal
1 cup plain flour
1tsp baking powder
1tsp bicarb soda
1 tsp salt
1 punnet strawberries - hulled
1/2 cup caster sugar
1 vanilla bean
1 tbs balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup toasted almonds
Double cream to serve

Method

Grease a medium-sized cake tin. 

Preheat your oven to 190 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar until they're pale and fluffy. Next, add in the extra virgin olive oil and milk. 

In a separate bowl, mix together the almond meal, plain flour, baking powder, bicarb soda and salt. Once they're mixed together fold them through the wet ingredients.

Add the cake batter to the greased cake tin and bake at 190 degrees for 1 hour or until a skewer comes out clean. 

While the cake is baking, place the strawberries into a bowl and add the caster sugar, vanilla and balsamic vinegar. Mix well and leave to marinate for half an hour. The strawberries will soften slightly and will create a glaze to pour over the cake. Top with the glaze, the strawberries and the toasted almonds.

Recipe by Andy Allen

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Master Stock Braised Duck

Master Stock Braised Duck

Ingredient

4 Luv-a-Duk Merylands legs
2 large cloves garlic, sliced
3cm piece ginger, julienne
½ bunch coriander, stems and leaves separated
1 star anise wheel
1 cinnamon quill
2 strips orange peel
½ cup Shaoxing wine (Chinese cooking wine)
½ cup soy sauce
1 tablespoon sesame oil
¼ cup brown sugar
3 cups water
1 long red chilli, sliced to serve
2 green spring onions, shredded and soaked in iced water
1 cup white rice to serve
Steamed Asian greens to serve

Method

Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees. Place the duck skin-side down, in a frying pan over a low/medium heat. Cook for 8-10 minutes to render out some of the fat.

Turn over a and brown on all sides.

Transfer the duck to a roasting pan and drain most of the oil from the pan and reserve it for another recipe.

Return the pan to a medium heat and cook the garlic, ginger and coriander stems for 1 minute or until aromatic. Add in the star anise, cinnamon, orange peel, wine, soy, sesame oil, sugar and water. Bring the stock up to the boil, then reduce to a simmer for 5 minutes to infuse. Pour the master stock over the duck, cover with foil and roast for 45 minutes.

Meanwhile, steam the rice in a pot for 20 minutes, set aside and keep warm.

Turn up the oven to 220 degrees. Transfer the duck to a clean oven tray and roast for a further 10 minutes, or until the duck skin is golden.

Strain the master stock into a saucepan and simmer for 15 minutes, or until reduced and thickened.

Serve the duck with steamed rice, steamed greens and garnish with coriander leaves, green shallots and sliced red chilli.

Recipe by Courtney Roulston

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BBQ Squid with Romesco, Parsley and Preserved Lemon

BBQ Squid with Romesco, Parsley and Preserved Lemon

Ingredient

1 large squid, cleaned
Juice of 1 lemon
1 bunch parsley, washed and leaves picked
2 eschallots, finely sliced
1 tsp diced preserved lemon
Salt and pepper

Romesco:
1kg red capsicums
2 tbs Red Island extra virgin olive oil
1 large brown onion, roughly diced
4 cloves of garlic, peeled and roughly chopped
2 tomatoes, diced
10g cumin powder
10g ground coriander
1 pinch chilli flakes
100g toasted almonds
3 garlic cloves, peeled
80ml white wine vinegar
50ml Red Island extra virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste

Method

For the Romesco, place the capsicums over an open flame to blacken the skin on all sides. Transfer the peppers to a bowl and cover it with cling film. When cool enough to handle, peel the blackened skin away from the flesh and remove the stem and seeds from the inside.

Place a large pot over a medium to high heat. Throw in the olive oil, brown onion, and garlic to the pan. Sweat down for 5 minutes or until the onions has browned and softened. Next add the cumin, coriander and chilli flakes to the onion and garlic. Cook the spices out for 2 minutes before adding the capsicum and diced tomato to the pot.

Reduce the heat to medium/low and continue to sweat the mix down for a further 10 minutes, making sure it doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pan.

Place the mixture into a blender with the toasted almonds, garlic, white wine vinegar, olive oil and salt and pepper. Blend on high until the mixture is smooth. Taste for seasoning.

For the squid, open the tube out and carefully score the flesh, making sure you do not break through the skin side.

Cut the tube into 5cm squares, place in a mixing bowl with the tentacles and season with salt and olive oil. Over a super-hot BBQ or griddle pan, place the squid over the heat for 1 minute on each side.

Place the squid, parsley, preserved lemon, eschallots, lemon juice and salt and pepper into a mixing bowl and toss together.

Spoon a good amount of the romesco onto a plate and top with the squid and parsley salad.

Recipe by Andy Allen

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Asparagus and Mushroom Noodles with Mushroom XO Sauce

Asparagus and Mushroom Noodles with Mushroom XO Sauce

Ingredient

1/4 cup Red Island olive oil
4 shallots diced
8 garlic cloves diced
2 Birdseye chilli, chopped
4 large red chilli, chopped
1tbs dried chilli
200g Button mushrooms, diced
100g shiitake mushrooms, diced
20g dried Shitake mushrooms, hydrated reserve liquid
2tbs soy sauce
1tbs black vinegar
1 shallot, sliced
1 piece of ginger minced
1 bunch of asparagus, sliced thinly
1 cup of button mushrooms sliced super thin
1 tub of enoki mushrooms, sliced thin
3tbs mushroom XO sauce
1tsp corn flour, mixed with 1 tbs warm water
400g thin egg noodles, hot ready to serve
Spring onion tops to garnis

Method

Add the oil to a large sauce pan over a medium heat. Add the shallots, garlic and chilli. Cook until every thing has soften completely.

Add the mushrooms and cook until completely softened. Add the mushroom liquid, soy abs vinegar. Reduce until the liquid becomes more like a syrup. Remove from the stove, cool completely and store in a jar.

Add a drizzle of oil to a smoking hot wok. Add the shallots and ginger and fry off until coloured slightly.

Add the asparagus and mushrooms. Fry for a minute until softened slightly.

Add the XO sauce, corn flour and mix through the vegetables. Cook until the vegetables are coated in the XO sauce.

Serve the noodles on the bottom. Topped with the asparagus and mushrooms. Garnish with spring onion tops and chilli oil if you like it hawt.

Recipe by Michael Weldon

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Furikake Seasoning

Furikake Seasoning

Ingredient

1 packet nori sheets
3tbs toasted sesame seeds
3tbs wild rice
200ml frying oil
3tbs puffed quinoa
2 tsp salt flakes

Method

In a medium sized pot, heat the frying oil up to 220 degrees. Drop 1 grain of wild rice into the oil to see if it is hot enough to puff. If it puffs, gently place in the rest of the wild rice.

Leave it to puff in the oil for 5 seconds before draining it and leaving to cool on paper towel.

Over an open flame, wave the nori sheets through the flame to toast them using a set of tongs to hold them. The nori should be a little bit charred in places and turn crispy and brittle.

Once you’ve toasted all of the nori, scrunch the sheets together in your hands to break it up into fine pieces.

Mix together the rest of the ingredients in a bowl and season with the salt flakes.

Store in an air tight container.

Recipe by Andy Allen

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Three Herb and Prawn Cold Rolls with Double Dipping Sauces

Three Herb and Prawn Cold Rolls with Double Dipping Sauces

Ingredient

12 cooked Prawns, sliced in half
1 bunch coriander, picked
1 bunch mint, picked
1 bunch basil, picked
1 onion, sliced thinly
1 carrot, sliced thinly
1 cucumber, sliced thinly
¼ Chinese cabbage, sliced thinly
50g bean shoots
1 lime, juice
1tbs fish sauce
1tbs sesame oil
2tbs peanut butter
1/4 cup Hoisin Sauce
1tbs Sesame oil
1 garlic clove
2tbs soy sauce
2 tbs rice wine vinegar
1 chilli, diced
1tbs sweet chilli sauce
1tbs diced coriander stem
12 Rice paper sheets

Method

In a small sauce pan combine the peanut butter, hoisin, sesame oil and a grated garlic clove. Bring to the simmer and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool

In a bowl combine the soy sauce, rice vinegar, chilli, sweet chilli and diced coriander, mix together.

In a bowl combine the onion, carrot, cucumber, cabbage, bean shoots lime juice and fish sauce. Mix together.

Quickly slide a cold roll wrapper through a bowl of cold water. Place on a board and top with a small amount of the salad filling. Top with 2 slices of prawn. Top that with a coriander sprig, 1 or 2 mint leaves depending on size and 1-2 basil leaves depending on size. Fold in the sides and roll up to form the cold roll. Repeat the process until all rolls are rolled. Serve with the 2 dipping sauces on the side.

Recipe by Michael Weldon

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Crunchy Beef Salad

Crunchy Beef Salad

Ingredient

300g Rump Steak
2 tbsp mango chutney
1/4 red cabbage, finely shaved
2 orange carrots, cut into thin ribbons
1 medium cucumber, cut into thin ribbons
2 long red chilli, finely sliced
1/4 cup coriander
1/4 cup Vietnamese mint
1/4 cup sliced spring onion
2 tbsp Red Island Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Juice of 2 limes
1 tbsp. fish sauce
1 tbsp. honey
1/4 cup roasted peanuts

Method

Preheat a frying pan over high heat and allow to come to temperature for 3-4 minutes before beginning.

Season the steak with a good drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and sea salt before placing into the hot pan. Cook to your liking - for medium-rare cook for 2-3 minutes each side before resting for a further 3-4 minutes.

Meanwhile, make the crunchy salad. In a large serving bowl add the Red Island Extra Virgin Olive Oil, lime juice, honey and fish sauce and mix thoroughly using a for until thoroughly combined. Check the seasoning and adjust if needed.

To the serving bowl add the cabbage, carrot, cucumber, chilli and herbs. Do not mix at this point, wait until you are ready to serve before tossing the salad together.

When the steak is cooked to your liking, turn off the heat and add the mango chutney and turn the steak through the chutney to completely cover before removing from the pan and placing on the board to rest. Pour any pan juices over the salad.

Thinly slice the steak, give one last season with salt and freshly cracked pepper before placing on top of your salad.

To serve, toss the ingredients together ensuring everything is evenly coated with the dressing and enjoy.

Recipe by Lynton Tapp

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Duck and Dumpling Noodle Soup

Duck and Dumpling Noodle Soup

Ingredient

1 Luv-a-Duck whole duck, broken down into breasts, thighs and carcass
100g pork mince
1tbs diced ginger
1 Spring onion, diced
1tbs sesame oil
1tbs Soy Sauce
12 Wonton wrappers
6 chicken wings
1 onion, diced roughly
4 garlic cloves
1 thumb size piece of ginger sliced
2 Cinnamon quills
4 star anise
1tbs soy sauce
1tbs hoisin sauce
2 Bok Choy, quarters
400g Thin Egg Noodles
½ bunch Coriander

Method

In a 180c oven roast the duck carcass and chicken wings until golden brown, remove and drain off any fat.

In a large pot over a medium heat cook off the onion, garlic, ginger, cinnamon and star anise. Add the duck and chicken wings, cover with water and bring to the boil. Turn down to a simmer and cook for 2 hours until the broth is dark and rich. Strain off and season with the soy and hoisin sauce.

Cut the duck leg meat and skin from the bone and dice. Combine in a food processor with the pork mince, diced spring onion, diced ginger, sesame oil and soy sauce. Process until the duck meat is chopped into the other filling ingredients. Fill the wonton wrappers and fold into dumplings.

Score the duck breast into the fat. Place skin side down in a cold pan. Place over a medium heat and cook until the skin is crispy and fat is rendered out. Cook on the skin side for 3/4s of the time then turn to finish on the flesh side. Once cooked rest for 3-4 minutes then cut into 1/2cm slices.

To serve, bring the soup to the boil and cook the dumplings for 2 minutes. Divide the noodles, bok choy, duck breast evenly between 4 bowls. Add the cooked dumplings and top with the boiling soup. Allow to sit for a couple for minutes to heat the other ingredients through. Enjoy.

Recipe by Michael Weldon

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Oven Baked Buffalo Wings with Blue Cheese Sauce

Oven Baked Buffalo Wings with Blue Cheese Sauce

Ingredient

1kg Free Range Chicken wings, cut into single pieces and patted dry with paper towel
1tbs sea salt
1tbs black pepper
1tbs smoked paprika
1tbs Garlic powder
1tbs Onion powder
½ cup butter
½ cup Franks Hot Sauce
1tbs Honey
½ cup yoghurt
½ cup Blue Cheese
1tsp Celery salt
1tsp black pepper
Pickled Celery to garnish

Method

Preheat an oven to 210deg C

Combine the salt, pepper, paprika, garlic powder and onion powder in a large bowl, mix together. Add the wings and toss until evenly coated in the spices.

Place unto a wire cake rack over a baking tray. Making sure to space the wings so they don’t touch. Place in the oven and cook until crispy and golden.

In a saucepan combine the hot sauce, butter and honey. Place on a medium heat, cook stirring gently until the butter and honey are melted into the sauce.

Add the yoghurt, blue cheese, celery salt and black pepper to a bowl, mix together until combined into a sauce.

Once the wings are cooked add to a large bowl and pour over the hot sauce, toss until the wings are coated. Serve straight away with the blue cheese sauce on the side and come pickles. I like pickled celery.

Recipe by Michael Weldon

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Roast Beef and Potatoes

Roast Beef and Potatoes

Ingredient

1 ribeye roast
100g unsalted butter
4 garlic cloves
½ bunch thyme
Sea salt flakes to season
Red Island Extra virgin olive oil

Roast Potatoes:
1kg potatoes, peeled and halved
Sea salt flakes to season
Red Island extra virgin olive oil

Method

Preheat an oven to 170 deg C.

For the Roast Potatoes, place the potatoes in a saucepan of salted cold water. Bring the potatoes to the boil and cook until they begin to break around the edges. Strain in a colander and shake gently to fluff the outside of the potatoes.

Place potatoes onto an oven tray, drizzle with a generous amount of extra virgin olive oil and toss through until evenly coated. Place tray into the oven and cook for 30-40 minutes or until golden and crispy. Season immediately with salt.

For the Ribeye, heat an ovenproof frying pan over high heat until it smokes. Season the beef with salt and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. Sear the beef in the pan.

Halfway through the searing process add the butter, garlic and thyme. Once the butter melts, baste whilst turning and cooking the beef. When the beef is evenly browned all over, place the frying pan and beef into the oven.

Cook to your favourite level of cooking. Remove ribeye from the oven and rest for 15 minutes.

Carve the ribeye and serve with roast potatoes and your favourite condiment.

Recipe by Michael Weldon

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Bread and Butter Pudding

Bread and Butter Pudding

Ingredient

Softened butter, for spreading 1 table spoon for cooking
3 large apples
4 cardamom pods
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
8 thick slices bread (or any bread you have available)
2 cups (500ml) milk 
1 cup (250ml) single (pouring) cream 
3 large free range eggs
3/4 cup caster sugar 
1 vanilla bean, split and seeds scraped 
2 tablespoons Demerara sugar or raw sugar if not available
ice-cream or double cream, to serve

Method

Preheat oven to 170c. Butter the bread slices.

Place the milk, cream, eggs, caster sugar and vanilla bean and seeds in a bowl and whisk to combine.

Dice apples (2cm cubes leaving skin on).

Add butter to a non stick pan and slowly cook apples with all spices until apples are tender, then combine ¼ cup of sugar and set aside.

Place the milk, cream, eggs, remaining caster sugar (1/2 Cup) and vanilla bean and seeds in a bowl and whisk to combine.

Butter the bread slices and add cooked apple in between layers in baking dish then on top layer add remaining buttered bread with peaks facing up.

Pour custard mixture over the bread. Allow to soak for 1–2 minutes. Sprinkle over the Demerara sugar and place in a large deep baking dish. Add enough boiling water to come halfway up the side of the dish Butter the bread slices Butter the bread slices Butter the bread slices. Bake for 1 hour or until just set. Serve with Double Cream or Ice Cream. Serves 6.

Recipe by Phil Vakos

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Chicken Schnitzel

Chicken Schnitzel

Ingredient

2 Chicken Breasts, cut in half and bashed thin
150g Plain flour
3 eggs
200g Panko bread crumbs
5 thyme sprigs, leaves picked
75g Parmesan, finely grated
1tsp ground Black Pepper
1 tsp sea salt, plus extra for seasoning
Sunflower oil for frying
Lemon for garnish
Parsley for garnish

Method

Fill a sauce pan of oil over a medium high heat. Bring it to 180 deg C.

Combine the bread crumbs, thyme, and parmesan in a bowl and mix together. Repeat the process in another bowl with the flour, pepper and salt. Crack the eggs into the third bowl then line the bowls up starting with the flour followed by the eggs and finishing with the crumbs.

Coat the chicken in flour first, then through the eggs and finish in the crumbs ensuring that there is an even thick layer of crumb on the chicken.

Once the oil is hot carefully place the schnitzel into the pot and cook unitl golden, depending on oil depth you may need to flip the schnitzel half way through cooking.

Once golden remove and place straight onto paper towel to remove any excess oil. Season with some extra salt at this stage to season the schnitzel.

Serve with a wedge of lemon and some lightly dressed parsley leaves.

Recipe by Michael Weldon

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Texas Potato Salad

Texas Potato Salad

Ingredient

1kg Baby Poatoes, halved
4 Eggs, soft boiled and diced
3 pickles, sliced
1 celery stalk, diced
200g mayo
50g mustard
50mls pickle liquid
1tsp black pepper
sea Salt
Celery leaves
½ Dill sprigs, picked

Method

Boil the baby potatoes until cooked. Strain and allow to cool for 5 minutes.

Add the mayo, mustard, pickle liquid, black pepper and salt to a large bowl, mix together till combined.

Whilst the potatoes are still warm add the dressing and toss through to combine.

Add the eggs, pickles, celery, half of the dill and half of the celery leaves.

Serve in a sharing bowl and top with extra dill sprigs and celery leaves.

Recipe by Michael Weldon

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Split Iceberg Lettuce Salad with Yoghurt and Fried Onions

Split Iceberg Lettuce Salad with Yoghurt and Fried Onions

Ingredient

1 iceberg lettuce (large iceberg with a few crisp outer leaves on for continuity)
2 large Lebanese cucumbers, cut into 1.5cm dice
200g cherry tomatoes, halved
1 cup large pitted Kalamata olives, roughly crushed
6 small red radish, thinly sliced
1 cup flat leaf parsley, chopped
½ cup dill, roughly chopped
1 cup Jalna Natural yoghurt
3 Golden/French shallots, sliced into rings
Red Island olive oil for frying

Dressing:
3 tablespoons Red Island extra virgin olive oil
2 tablespoon red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon maple syrup
sea salt & pepper to taste
1 teaspoon sumac, plus extra to serve

Method

Trim any outer leaves from the lettuce and wash away any dirt.

Cut the lettuce in half horizontally so you have two even halves and place onto a clean work surface cut side up.

Place the cucumbers, tomatoes, olives, radish, parsley & dill in a large bowl.

Whisk the dressing in a bowl, pour over the cucumber salad and set aside.

Heat 1 cup of oil in a small pot over a medium heat. Fry the onions for 2-3 minutes, or until golden and crisp and drain on kitchen paper.

Whisk the yoghurt until smooth and drizzle over the cut lettuce.

Place the cucumber salad over the top of the dressed lettuce. Drizzle with any excess dressing and garnish with extra dill and fried onions.

Recipe by Courtney Roulston

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Peri Peri Chicken

Peri Peri Chicken

Ingredient

1 free range chicken
200ml fermented chilli sauce

Fermented chilli sauce
20 fermented red chillies
330ml apple cider vinegar
4 garlic cloves
120ml vegetable oil
30g ginger
80g brown sugar
20g cooking salt

Method

To ferment the chillies, place the chillies in a jar and submerge them in a 5% salt brine (ie. 1L water to 50g salt).

Place a lid on the jar and place in a warm place for 7-10 days.

Place all of the ingredients into a blender and blend for 2 minutes on high until the sauce is smooth.

Preheat your oven to 220 degrees.

Butterfly the chicken by removing the backbone and wishbone. Press flat so that the chicken is a roasting pan skin side up.

Give the chicken skin a good drizzle of oil and season well with salt and pepper.

Place the chicken in the oven for 7 minutes.

Remove and brush generously with the fermented peri peri sauce. Place back in the oven for another 5 minutes.

Remove and glaze again with the peri peri. Repeat this process until the chicken has been in the oven for a total of 25 minutes or until the internal temperature at the breast bone reaches 58 degrees. The chicken should be bright red, charred and yummy.

Serve with a couple of fresh lemon cheeks

Recipe by Andy Allen

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Chorizo, Apple, Parsley and Lentil Salad with Chermoula

Chorizo, Apple, Parsley and Lentil Salad with Chermoula

Ingredient

1/2 tbs Red Island extra virgin olive oil
2 chorizo, halved lengthways and sliced on the diagonal
1 green apple - julienned
1 head radicchio - core removed and roughly chopped
1.5 cups cooked lentils
1 bunch parsley - washed and leaves picked

Dressing:
15ml lemon juice
30ml verjuice
50ml Red Island extra virgin olive oil
1tsp dijon mustard
1 tsp smoked paprika
1 clove garlic, peeled and minced
Salt and pepper to taste

Chermoula:
1 bunch parsley, leaves picked
1 bunch coriander, washed
1 garlic clove, peeled and finely chopped
zest and juice of 1 lemon
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp ground coriander
1/2 tsp smoked paprika
2tbs Red Island extra virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste

Method

For the dressing, place all of the ingredients into a jar and shake well until they come together.

For the chermoula, place all of the ingredients into a small blender and pulse until they come together.

Place a large frying pan over a high heat. Add in the olive oil and chorizo and colour the chorizo for two minutes or until it’s golden.

Place all of the ingredients for the salad in a large mixing bowl, dress generously with the dressing, season with salt and pepper and gently toss together.

Transfer the salad onto your serving plate and spoon over a few dots of the chermoula.

Recipe by Andy Allen

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