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Feel like whipping up one of the guy's delicious dishes? Here are their recipes from Episode 4 - filmed in the Southern Lakes region.
Ben's rabbit and chorizo and freshwater crayfish paella
Ingredients:
Will need paella pan
250gm paella rice
150gm chorizo picante for cooking
1-2 fresh rabbits
6-8 fresh water crayfish/snails
100gm celery
1 medium onion
3-4 cloves garlic
1 litre chicken stock
12 cherry vine tomatoes lightly roasted.
1 cup broad beans
1 good pinch saffron
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
1 dried chilli dried
2 lemons cut in half
1 glass white wine
Method:
- Heat olive oil, sauté the rabbit, chorizo until nicely coloured, remove to the side
- Shallow fry the onions, celery and garlic for 2 minutes
- Then add the sautéed rabbit and chorizo back to the pan along with the fresh water crayfish
- Then sprinkle the rice over the rabbit, chorizo and crayfish.
- Steep the saffron in the white wine for at least 10 minutes
- Pour the white wine and saffron mixes, over the rice and allow to evaporate. Then pour in the chicken stock; shake the pan to disperse the ingredients. Add the broad beans and simmer for fifteen to twenty minutes. Shaking the pan every so often but not stirring.
- Just before you turn the paella add the cherry vine tomatoes.
- Season to taste, chopped parsley and eat.
Ben's gaucho venison with grilled of grilled chilli, garlic and shallots
Ingredients:
Small leg of venison
Salt paste
100gm sea salt
2 tablespoons water
2 oranges zested and juiced
1 tablespoon thyme
1 teaspoon juniper
1 teaspoon of black current and apple vinegar
Salsa - to be char grilled
500gm thai shallots
6 cayenne chillies
1 head garlic
2 tablespoons parsley
1 table spoon white wine or red wine vinegar
3-4 tablespoons olive oil
4 punnets of cherry vine tomatoes
Mortar and pestle
Method:
- To make the salt paste, pound the dry ingredients in a mortar and pestle until fine. Then add the liquid and combine to a smooth wet paste.
- To make the salsa. Place all the ingredients on to a medium heat BBQ and char until tender. The tomatoes will only take seconds while the onions and garlic will take longer.
- Place the char grilled tomatoes into a bowl then squeeze the shallots and garlic into the same bowl. Peel and chop the chillies and add to the bowl.
- Season with salt, pepper, the vinegar and olive oil and reserve to dress the meat.
- To cook the meat make sure that you have a hot fire with a good coal base before you start to cook as the heat needs to be hot enough to roast the meat. Then simply thread the haunch of venison on to a thick metal skewer (I used a crowbar in the show) and secure with wire so that you can turn the meat with out the fear that it will fall off the skewer.
- Place the meat over the hot coals and brush with the paste. Allow the meat to brown and give a nice crispy crust then carve of the outer layer the meat will be rear where you have carved off the first slices.
- Then repeat this process each time you carve of any layers. Simple place the carved meat in a nice crusty bun and serve with a dollop of salsa.
Mark's game pie, venison & rabbit
Ingredients:
1kg venison, denver leg
1 rabbit - whole
6 rashers streaky bacon
500g Flour
2 Tlb fresh thyme
2 Tlb juniper berries
150ml cognac
100g prunes
2 onions
1 carrot
1 stick celery
1 bulb garlic
4 bay leaves
2 ripe tomatoes
1L venison stock (convenience) optional
1 bottle - pinot noir
Salt & pepper
1kg puff pastry
1 egg
100ml milk
Method:
- Using a large shape knife or cleaver cut the rabbit into three sections front legs, middle and back legs.
- Break the venison down into chunks slightly larger than one of the rabbit’s rare legs.
- Coat the meat with seasoned flour, cook until coloured in a hot frying pan (seal). Place the meat in a large pot. Grill the bacon but keep it aside for later.
- Ruff cut (3cm chunks) the veges and add.
- Add herbs & spices.
- Add the liquid until the meat is covered.
- Put the lid on and gently simmer for 2-4 hours.
- After 1 hr lift the rabbit out and remove the fillets from the middle section, as they will be cooked, continue cooking.
- When tender remove the meat, strip the rabbit down, break down the venison a little if needed, reserve. Remove the bay leaves then blend & strain the cooking liquid.
- Reduce the liquid over heat until the sauce is thick.
- Season the sauce, add the meat, bacon, prunes, fresh thyme (extra) then pour into a ceramic pie dish lined with puff pastry. Cover the top with pastry, egg wash the pastry. Bake 180 c for 40 min or until golden brown.
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