NEWCASTLE FESTIVE FOOD MARKET & WINTER FOOD FESTIVAL RECIPES

 

Duck Liver Terrine with Marmalade Onion

INGREDIENTS

1lb duck livers, ½lb butter, ½ pint of double cream, garlic and orange liqueur.

RECIPE

Pan-fry duck livers with garlic.

Splash of orange liqueur, add 1lb of butter, add ½ pint of double cream, liquidise and cool.

Slice red onions, add redcurrant jelly, splash of port, vinegar, brown sugar and simmer for 10 minutes.

 

Mosaic of Game with Cumberland Sauce

INGREDIENTS

1 pheasant, 1 partridge, 1 duck, 1 pigeon, ½ lb sausage meat, 2oz chorizo and ½ lb of good back bacon.

RECIPE

Bone-out game, arrange neatly inside pheasant. Place in sausage meat and chorizo. Roll up with bacon. Cover with Clingfilm and poach.

Boil Port, redcurrant jelly, mustard, orange juice & zest, lemon juice & zest. Cool and serve.

 

Roast Red Onion & Sweet Potato Soup

INGREDIENTS

Red onions, sweet potatoes, vegetable stock and salt & pepper.

RECIPE

Roast red onions in a hot pan, cover with vegetable stock, add sweet potatoes, boil, season, purée and serve.

 

Free Range Northumbrian Chicken Broth

INGREDIENTS

Carrot, swede, leek, red onion, white onion, sweet potato, parsnip, herbs, chicken, chicken stock and pearl barley.

RECIPE

Sweat diced vegetables & pearl barley. Add chicken, and chicken stock. Boil, season and serve.

 

Duck egg and wild mushroom frittata with roquet salad and nettle pesto

For the pesto

1 hand full of washed picked nettles

2 cloves of garlic

1 hand full of other herbs that you like e.g. basil, coriander, rocket

2 table spoons of pine kernels

A good glug of olive oil

Salt pepper

Strong cheese

Put the ingredients into a food processor and pulse into a rough loose paste

For the frittata

2 duck eggs

A handful of wild mush

Salt /pepper

Chopped herbs

Lightly cook the sliced mushrooms in a non stick pan with some olive oil

Pour the lightly beaten duck eggs thinly over the base of the pan; cook gently until you’re happy with them. I like mine loose

For the Salad

Toss a hand full of roquet in extra virgin olive oil with some shaved hard cheese, olive oil, sea salt and black pepper

To assemble the dish

Place the Roquet salad on a plate roll the frittata, place on top and dress with the pesto.

 

Lamb tagine with dried fruits and couscous and flat bread

1kg of lamb shoulder Cut into even size pieces

Pinch of saffron

200gm of onions

3 Cloves of garlic chopped50ml of olive oil

50gms butter

2ooml of meat stock

100gms of flaked almonds

Chopped coriander

Spice mix

1/2tsp turmeric

½ tsp sea salt

1tsp ground cinnamon

Ground black pepper

100gm of dried apricots

100gm prunes

100gm figs

2 cinnamon sticks

Put the lamb in a tagine or a casserole dish, sprinkle the spices on to the meat and rub into the meat,

Add the saffron water; add the onions garlic oil, butter and a little water and the stock cover and leave to cook over or in a moderate heat for 1 hour

Half way through add the dried fruits and cinnamon sticks

Lift the top off the tagine and sprinkle with almonds and chopped coriander serve with couscous and flat bread

 

Apple tart tartan with vanilla mascarpone

100gms of butter

200gms of sugar

4-5 apples (any kind even, wind falls)

Some puff pastry

A tub of mascarpone and a vanilla pod

Melt the butter in a metal handled frying pan

Add the sugar and caramelise until golden brown

Add the halved apples skin side down

Cut the rolled out puff pastry a little bigger than the pan and place on top tucking in the edges.

Bake in a hot oven until golden brown

Place a plate on the top of the pan and carefully but quickly turn the tart over, so the puff pastry top now becomes the bottom.

Strip the seeds out from the vanilla pod and mix into the mascarpone, serving a dollop onto each slice of tart

Enjoy!

 

North Eastern shellfish and wild Northumbrian mushroom broth

For 4

25gms butter

1 onion Chopped

1 carrot Chopped

1 small leek Shredded

2 sticks celery Chopped

¼ clove elephant garlic finely chopped

4ooml of fish stock

Some chopped parsley

A handful of sliced seasonal mushrooms

1 Small squid

Some whole small shellfish or big shell fish meat (Crabs, Mussels, clams, lobster, cockles)

1 table spoon of crème fraiche

Melt butter in a large sauce pan, Add onion, carrot, leek and celery cook gently for a few minutes to soften the vegetables slightly, don’t brown, add the mushrooms cook gently for a couple more minutes.

Add the hot stock and the shellfish cook for 5(ish) more minutes until the whole shellfish open (chuck away any that don’t)

Stir in the crème fraiche, check seasoning and adjust consistency

Sprinkle with fresh parsley

Serve

 

Tea Smoked Kelly bronze Turkey wrapped in pancetta , Highland burgundy mash, fresh cranberries and turkey jus.

For the tea smoked turkey

4 x 200gm pieces of turkey meat cut from the crown wrapped in pancetta seasoned with sea salt and black pepper

A knob of butter

4 teaspoons of earl or lady grey tea

For the mash

1kg of potatoes

Milk

Butter

Salt to taste

For the sauce

100gms fresh cranberries

30ml of raspberry vinegar

200ml of reduced turkey stock

Place the tea in the bottom of a biscuit tin, pop your turkey on top of some sort of trivet. Put the lid on pop it on the gas and give it some heat for a couple of minutes.

Heat the butter until it starts to foam add the turkey and seal in the juices. Cook in a hot oven for until the juices run clear, lift the turkey out of the pan and rest in a warm place to relax (that’s the turkey not you)

Deglaze the pan with raspberry vinegar reduce to sweeten, add the cranberries cook gently for a minute or two add the stock and a sprig of thyme

Cook the potatoes in the skin to keep in the flavour

Peel and pass the potatoes through a fine mill.

Add the hot milk and butter beat until smooth.