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B&B Luncheon, February 2004

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Baked Figs with Prosciutto and Gorgonzola Cheese

Serves 6

Ingredients:

  • 12 thin slices of prosciutto or cullatello
  • 12 fresh figs
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 425g cream
  • 220g Gorgonzola

 

Method:

Preheat oven to 180C
Wrap one slice of prosciutto around middle of each fig and secure with a toothpick.
Melt butter add cream and gorgonzola together in a saucepan over a low heat.
Place figs in an ovenproof dish, pour cream sauce over and cover dish with foil.
Bake for 7 minutes.
Remove foil and bake 1 more minute.
Place 2 figs an each serving plate and pour sauce over them.

 

Main

Braised Lamb with Olives and Lemon and Sweet Pumpkin Mash

Serves 4

Ingredients:

  • Leg of lamb (boned)
  • 1 x Red onion
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1 cup red wine
  • 1 x tablespoon balsamic vinegar
  • 1 cup beef stock
  • 2 tins diced tomatoes
  • 2 x cinnamon sticks
  • 3 bay leaves
  • 12 pitted olives
  • 2 tablespoons chopped oregano leaves
  • Zest of 1 fresh lemon

 

Method:

Chop boned leg of lamb, remove excess fat and sinew.
Brown in olive oil. Set aside.
In oven proof dish saute chopped red onion and garlic.
Add red wine and reduce by 1/3.
Add balsamic, cup of beef stock, tomatoes, cinnamon sticks and bay leaves. Season with salt and pepper.
Bring to the boil.
Add meat and cook in oven at 180c for 90 minutes.
Add pitted olives and 2 tablespoons of oregano leaves and zest of 1 fresh lemon
Cook for further 30 minutes.
Serve with butternut pumpkin mash.

 

To serve:

Place mash on plate with hollow and fill with lamb stew.

 

Dessert

Mango Napoleon with Lime Cream Custard, Passionfruit Sauce and Angel Wings.

Serves 4

Ingredients:

  • 3 egg yolks
  • 55g cornflour
  • 400ml thickened cream
  • 100ml milk
  • 1 vanilla bean
  • 2 limes (zest grated)
  • 2 ripe mangos
  • 250g puff pastry
  • 600g castor
  • 100ml passionfruit juice
  • 100ml orange juice

 

Method:

Whisk 100g sugar, egg yolks and 35g cornflour until thick and pale.
Bring cream, milk, vanilla bean, lime zest to the boil.
Pour cream mixture into egg yolk mixture and whisk.
Return the mixture to the saucepan and heat, stirring over a medium heat for 4 minutes (until the mixture has thickened)
Remove from heat and allow to cool.

To make the angle wings.

Pre heat oven to 175°C
Roll pastry out into a large square about 5mm thick.
Sprinkle with castor sugar and roll pastry into logs about 4cm thick.
Chill for about 15 minutes.
Remove the logs from fridge and cut into 1cm thick disks.
Dust bench with castor sugar (not flour) to roll on.
Lay pastry disk on castor sugar and roll to form an oval shape about 4mm thick.
Place on a baking tray and bake for about 15 minutes or until golden brown.
Remove from oven and allow to cool.

For passionfruit sauce.

Blend passionfruit pulp with orange juice and strain to remove seeds.
Place juice into a saucepan with 125g castor sugar.
Bring to the boil.
Whisk in 20g cornflour to thicken.
Remove from heat allow to cool.

To serve:

Peel mangoes and cut 4 cheeks.
Slice each cheek 3 times lengthwise.
Place a teaspoon of lime custard onto plate and lay an angel wing on it.
Form a layer of mango and lime custard.
Drizzle with passionfruit sauce and top it off with an angel wing on top.

 

Wine

Wine List

Course: Wine:
Aperitif: Grant Burge Pinot Noir Chardonnay
Brut Methode Traditionelle
Jacobs Creek, Barossa Valley Way,
Tanunda, South Australia
Entree: St. Hallett Union Church
Chardonnay 2002
Barossa Valley, South Australia
2002
Main 1: T'Gallant Wine Makers
Mornington Peninsular Winery
Flying Jib, Pinot Noir 2001
Main 2: Rosemount, Coonawarra,
South Australia
Cabernet Sauvignon 1997
Main 3: Leasingham, Clare Valley,
South Australia
Bin 61 Shiraz 2001
Desert: Tempus Two Botrytis Semillon 2003
Broke Road, Pokolbin NSW
Fortified: McWilliams Hanwood 10 year Port
Hunter Valley NSW

 


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