Culinary Hotline - Festive Menu
Our presenters share what’s cooking or their festive menu!
All recipes by Nicole Snelling
Ingredients:
- +- 3kg Boneless smoked gammon
- 1 onion, roughly chopped
- 2L Ginger beer
- 1L Vegetable stock
- 2-3 Carrots, peeled and roughly chopped
- 2-3 stalks celery, roughly chopped
- 2 Leeks, sliced
- 2 cloves garlic
- 3 star anise
- 3 whole cloves
- 2-3 bay leaves
- 1 Tbsp oil
- The glaze:
- ½ Cup Honey
- 2 Tbsp grated fresh ginger
How To Make Sticky Ginger Beer Gammon
- Add the onions, celery, leeks, carrots and oil to a pot and sauté for 6-8 minutes until slightly golden.
- Add the vegetable stock, add the gammon and top up with the ginger beer.
- Add the whole spices and bay leaves, cover with a lid and allow to simmer for 2- 2 ½ hours. Top up with water if needed.
- Once the gammon has cooked and softened, remove the gammon from the stock and remove the netting from the gammon and remove the rind from the fat.
- Strain the vegetables and spices from the gammon stock.
- To make the glaze, add ½ Cup of the stock to a pot, along with grated ginger and honey.
- Cook the glaze for 15-20 minutes until thickened and sticky.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C. Score the fat and brush with the glaze.
- Place the gammon into the oven to cook for another 20-30 minutes until the glaze has coated the gammon evening and the fat has crisped up slightly.
- Glaze the gammon every 5-7 minutes to build a lovely thick sticky layer of glaze.
- Carve the gammon when ready to serve.
Ingredients:
- 1 whole snoek, butterflied
- 350-400g Shelled mussels
- 100g Butter, softened
- 1 large lemon
- 3 large garlic cloves, finely minced
- 5 Tbsp apricot jam
- 5 Tbsp capers
- Handful parsley, chopped
- Handful dill, chopped
- Black pepper and salt to taste
How To Make Snoek with Mussels
- Preheat the oven to 190°C.
- In a mixing bowl, add the butter, jam, zest of 1 lemon, garlic, parsley, dill, capers, salt and pepper.
- Combine until smooth. Lay the fish skin side down onto a baking sheet, top with mussels and the butter spread.
- Place into the oven to cook for 15-20 minutes, or until the snoek has cooked through.
- Serve with fresh rolls and salad of your choice.
Ingredients:
- Fillet steak of your choice
- 2 Tbsp butter
- 2 Tbsp flour
- 250ml milk
- 125ml cream
- 2- 2 ½ Tbsp ground pepper corns
- 1 tsp hot mustard
How To Make Fillet Steak with Pepper Sauce
- To prepare the sauce, add the butter and flour to a sauce pot and cook for 1 minute.
- Slowly add the milk and cream while whisking, making sure all the lumps are gone.
- Once all the milk and cream has been added. Add the mustard and pepper.
- Season with salt and set aside until ready to serve.
- Prepare your fillet steak to your liking, make sure to season well with salt and pepper and a good drizzle of olive oil.
- Serve the steak with some roasted potatoes and pepper sauce.
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Wow look delicious. I will definitely try this
I enjoy your show very entertaining. Thanks for the recipes. Happy Xmas 🎄 to all on the Expresso show
Gammon and steak recipe