There may be nothing fairly like a peaceable picnic on an ideal summers day. In your subsequent outing, strive these easy recipes for cheese tarts and flatbread, paired excellently with KWV’s Traditional Assortment.
Purple wine caramelised onions & goats’ cheese tartlets
Components
3 onions thinly sliced
3 Tbsp of olive oil
1 cup (250ml) of crimson wine
3 Tbsp of brown sugar
3 – 4 sprigs of contemporary thyme leaves eliminated and some additional for garnishing every tart
Salt and black pepper
2 sheets of puff pastry 23c x 23cm (Sam makes use of 1 pack of Woolworths all-butter puff)
100 – 200g goats’ cheese (relying on what measurement tarts you make)
Technique
Preheat the oven to 180°C
Warmth the oil in a pan and fry the onions over a low warmth till softened however not browned for about quarter-hour. Add ½ the crimson wine and deglaze the pan, permitting all of the liquid to cook dinner off. Add the sugar, thyme, salt and pepper and cook dinner for five extra minutes. Add the rest of the crimson wine and as soon as once more proceed cooking and stirring till the liquid has cooked off.
Place your puff pastry sheets on a floured floor and minimize out the circles to the specified measurement. You can additionally depart the pastry entire or minimize into 4 x squares. This manner you higher optimise the pastry sheet with no wastage by way of offcuts.
Rating the within of the pastry with a small cookie cutter or a knife ¾ of the way in which by way of, however don’t minimize right through, to make a small rim and place on a lined baking sheet. Bake within the oven for 10 minutes.
Take away from the oven and press down on the internal circle/sq. piece in order that it drops down, it ought to come away the place you’ve got scored it, and fill every pastry case with the caramelised onion.
High with the goats’ cheese (you possibly can both crumble this or minimize into discs), scatter over contemporary thyme leaves and return to the oven to bake for an extra 20 minutes till golden.
Serve heat or chilly on their very own or with a salad.
Chef’s tip
There may be sufficient onion to make both 2 x massive sq. tarts utilizing the two x 250g puff pastry or 8 smaller sq. tarts (every sq. minimize into 4). This manner there isn’t any pastry wastage. Or you may make 18 smaller tartlets however there shall be some additional pastry that’s trimmed off (you’ll solely use 100g goats’ cheese in case you are making smaller tarts)
This recipe may also make one bigger tart, or be made into smaller canape sizes for a celebration.
Crispy flatbread with roasted greens, steak & rocket
Components
Serves 2 – 4 at a picnic
Roasted greens
400g zucchini thickly sliced
1 massive crimson or yellow pepper minimize into tough chunks
1 massive crimson onion minimize into 8ths and damaged up into thick florets
2 contemporary thyme stalks
Olive oil
Sea salt and pepper
Crispy flatbread
150g self-raising flour
110ml chilly water
½ tsp salt
1 tsp sesame seeds – elective
½ tsp dried oregano – elective
Herb crème fraîche
½ tub (125g) crème fraîche
Zest from ¼ lemon
1 Tbsp of contemporary lemon juice
1½ Tbsps of finely chopped chives or parsley
Sea salt and pepper
Steak
250g steak of your alternative
Salt and black pepper
Olive oil
Lemon juice
Shaved parmesan to garnish
Rocket leaves to garnish
Technique
To roast the greens, preheat the oven to 200°C and toss the washed and minimize greens into a big oven tray. Sprinkle frivolously with olive oil, sea salt and black pepper. Add the thyme stalks if relevant and toss the greens to coat frivolously with the oil. Roast for half-hour till beginning to brown on the perimeters and cooked by way of. Take away and produce to room temperature.
To make the flatbread, combine all of the components collectively in a bowl utilizing a fork. As soon as a ball is shaped, take away from the bowl, and provides it a brief knead utilizing additional flour as required. Set the dough apart to relaxation.
To make the herb crème fraîche, combine all of the components collectively, season to style after which cowl within the fridge till you’re able to serve.
Brush the steak with olive oil and season very effectively with salt and black pepper. Fry in a very popular pan till caramelised and browned on the surface however pink on the within (or to your desire). Set it apart to relaxation for 10 minutes. When cool, thinly slice towards the grain and provides the meat a spritz of lemon juice.
Roll the dough out onto a floured floor till it’s as skinny as it can go with out breaking. It is going to be round 30cm in diameter. Warmth a non-stick skillet or cast-iron pan to very popular after which drop the flatbread straight into the pan. As soon as bubbles begin forming on the floor and the underside is beginning to brown, flip it over and cook dinner the opposite aspect.
To assemble; unfold the herb crème fraîche over the underside of the flat bread, prime with the roasted greens and the thinly sliced steak. Garnish with parmesan shavings and contemporary rocket. Season with extra salt and pepper and serve.
Picnic recipes by Sam Linsell of @drizzleanddip www.drizzleanddip.com for KWV Wines.
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