Coastal Kitchens Recipes (Series 1)

The following recipes are taken from Series 1 of Coastal Kitchens. Please click on an individual recipe title to view the recipe details or click expand all to view all the recipe details.

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Honey & Lavender Baked Goats Cheese
Honey & Lavender Baked Goats Cheese
4 individual Goats Cheeses or ½ a Goats Cheese log sliced into 2cm thick slices
6 tablespoons Clear Honey
Zest & Juice of 1 Lime
1 tablespoon of Whole Grain Mustard
Lavender to taste




Method

Mix all ingredients together and pour over Goats cheese. Leave overnight.

Bake or Grill & Serve

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Honey & Mascarpone Mousse with Lavender Biscuit
Honey & Mascarpone Mousse with Lavender Biscuit
Mousse Ingredients
500g Mascarpone
4 tablespoons Clear Honey
500mls whipped Double Cream
½ Vanilla pod scraped

Biscuit Ingredients
100g unsalted Butter, softened
50g Caster Sugar
100g Plain Flour
Grated rind of 1 Lemon
10 drops Lavender Cooking Essence
A pinch of dried or fresh Lavender flowers

Method

Beat the Butter, Sugar & Lavender Essence until creamy. Work in the other ingredients.

Press the mixture into a round 20cm loose baked cake tin. Bake at 160°C or gas mark 3 for 30 – 35 minutes until light golden brown. Slice and then leave to cool in the tin. Sprinkle with some water caster sugar and serve.

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Mussel Chowder
Mussel Chowder
Knob of butter
2 Carrots - Diced
1 Onion - Diced
3 Sticks of Celery - Diced
1 Potato - Diced
½ pint of Fish stock
½ pint Milk
Chopped Fresh Herbs e.g. Dill, parsley, tarragon, chervil
½ Smoked Haddock Fillet - Diced
½ Leek Diced
1 Pint of Mussels



Method

Sweat off the Carrot, Onion, Celery & Potato until soft. Add the stock & Milk & cook for 10 minutes then add the leeks, smoked haddock, mussels & herbs.

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Mariner’s Mussels (Moules Marinière)
Mariner’s Mussels (Moules Marinière)
1 Pint of Mussels cleaned
Knob of butter
1 diced Shallot
½ clove of Garlic minced
100ml Dry White Wine
100ml Double Cream
Pinch of Gremolata- Chopped Parsley Lemon Zest & Garlic


Method

In a Mussel Pot put your Butter, Garlic & Shallot then throw in your Mussels & Wine, cover for a couple of minutes then add the cream, remove the lid when mussels have opened and sprinkle with Gremolata & serve.

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Grilled Mackerel & Barbster Potatoes
Grilled Mackerel & Barbster Potatoes
For the Mackerel
2 Mackerel, gutted, cleaned and scored, then grilled on barbeque or grill.

For the Potatoes
500g cooked & quartered New Potatoes
100g Pitted Olives
6 Garlic Cloves
Thyme Chopped
Parsley Chopped
50g Whole Almonds
Drizzle Olive Oil
Sea Salt
Ground Black Pepper

Method

Heat a frying pan and add the oil & potatoes, cook for a few minute & add all other ingredients & cook in a hot oven for 10 – 15 minutes.

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Mackerel & Pesto Skewers with Smoked Mackerel Pate
Mackerel & Pesto Skewers
6 Mackerel fillets
2 Cups of basil
¼ Cup of grated parmesan
½ Cup of olive oil
3 Tablespoons pine nuts
3 Garlic cloves minced

Pate Ingredients
2 Smoked Mackerel, skinned & boned
125g Cottage cheese
150g Soured cream
Juice of ½ a lemon
Pinch of salt & pepper
Pinch of cayenne & nutmeg

Method

In a food processor blend the basil & garlic add the Pine nuts & parmesan & slowly pour in the olive oil until you get the consistency you require. Marinade the mackerel fillets in the pesto & place on the skewers. Grill & serve.

For the Pate

Blend all ingredients in a food processor then place in a serving dish, chill & serve.

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Cockle Fritter
Cockle Fritter
1lb Cockles
3oz Flour
1 Egg
¼ of a pint Milk
Salt & Pepper





Method

Make up a batter by mixing Flour, Egg, Milk & Season then add the Cockles, take 1 tablespoon of the mix and fry in a pan until golden brown on both sides.

Finish with sour cream & red onion marmalade.

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Strawberry Summer Pudding
Strawberry Summer Pudding
1 Loaf of Bread (ideally a day) crusts removed & sliced
500ml of Water
200g Caster Sugar
1 large punnet of Strawberries – hulled & halved
1 punnet of Raspberries
1 punnet of Blackberries
1 punnet of Blueberries
1 punnet of Redcurrants


Method

Boil the water & sugar then simmer. Add the strawberries then cook for 1 minute, then add all other berries and cook for a further 2 – 3 minutes. Take off the heat & strain the fruit keeping the juice.

Dip the slices of bread in the juice & line a bowl overlapping each slice of bread. When the bowl is fully lined fill with your fruit mix finally place a soaked bread slice over the fruit to seal it in. Press the pudding down, place some Cling film over it, lay a plate on top & weigh down with a heavy object. Refrigerate.

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Strawberry Pavlova
Strawberry Pavlova
Meringue Ingredients
4 cups of Caster Sugar
2 cups of Egg White
1 teaspoon of Cornflour
1 teaspoon of White Wine Vinegar
Topping Ingredients
1 pint of Whipped Double Cream
1 Punnet Strawberries - Hulled




Method

In an electric mixer start to blend the Egg Whites slowly add the Sugar then the Cornflour & White Wine Vinegar. When the meringue starts to form stiff peaks it is ready.

Spoon meringues onto a baking tray lined with baking parchment, heat oven to gas mark 2 then reduce & bake for about 1 hour at gas mark 1 then turn oven off & leave for a further hour. The meringue should still be soft in the middle.

Place a dollop of cream on top of the meringue & cover with Strawberries.

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Venison & Quail Egg Tartlet
Venison & Quail Egg Tartlet
Short crust Pastry case - cooked
2 Egg yolks
1 Egg
¾ of a pint of mixed ½ Cream & ½ Milk
Salt & Pepper
Diced Smoked Venison
4 Quail Eggs



Method

Mix the Eggs with the Cream & Milk, Season and add the diced Venison.

Pour into a pastry case then carefully crack the Quail Eggs and gently pour into the tart.

Bake for 30 – 40 minutes at gas mark 3.

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Blackcurrant Jelly
Blackcurrant Jelly
1 pint of Blackcurrant Juice
8 Gelatine Leaves
A splash of Cassis
Pistachio nuts - chopped






Method

Boil the Blackcurrant Juice.

Soak Gelatine Leaves in cold water, drain and add to Blackcurrant Juice. Pour in Cassis, then pour into moulds & refrigerate until set.

Finish off with whipped cream and chopped Pistachio nuts.

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Lobster Provencale
Lobster Provencale
1 Aubergine - finely diced
1 White Onion - finely diced
1 Courgette - finely diced
1 Red 'Bell' Pepper
1 Garlic Clove - minced
Splash of Olive Oil
1 Large Tomato Puree
Handful of Fresh Herbs - thyme and dill
1 Cold Cooked Lobster


Method

Gently heat the garlic in the olive oil, then add the onion and courgette until they start to soften. Then add the aubergine and red pepper and continue to cook until well softened. Add tomato and herbs and briefly allow them to heat through before removing from the heat and allow to cool.

Fill a serving ring with the ratatouille and place Lobster on top. Place salad leaves on top of the Lobster & garnish plate with a lemon Mayonnaise & Marie Rose Sauce.

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Pacific Belly of Pork
Pacific Belly of Pork
1 Pork Belly

For the Marinade
½ pint of Water
½ pint of Dark Soy sauce
2 Chilli's
2 inches of Ginger
6 Garlic cloves
A good glug of Mirin (Japanese rice wine)

Method

Bring all ingredients to the boil & reduce by half. Let cool then marinade the Pork for 2 hours then barbeque for a further 20 minutes.

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Pan Fried Pesto Lamb
Pan Fried Pesto Lamb
1 Neck Fillets of Lamb
Salt & Pepper

For the Pesto
2 cups of Basil
¼ cup Grated Parmesan
½ cup of Olive Oil
3 tablespoons Pine nuts
3 Garlic cloves minced

Method

Marinate the Lamb Fillets in the Pesto & season. Seal in a oiled pan & work for a couple of minutes, remove & rest for a minute then slice & serve on a dressed rocket & tomato salad.

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Classic Dressed Crab
Classic Dressed Crab
1 dressed Crab per person
2 hard boiled Eggs, sieve and keep yolk and white separate
Parsley chopped
4 stuffed Olives
Mayonnaise




Method

Decorate the Crab with the sieved egg. Add a line of chopped Parsley. Finish with the Mayonnaise and stuffed Olives.

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Sweet Crab Sushi
Sweet Crab Sushi
1 cup Sushi Rice
Enough water to cover the rice
2 tablespoons mirin
Pinch of Salt

For the Nori Sheets
1 Carrot – Julienned
¼ of a Cucumber - Julienned
2 Spring Onions - Julienned
½ of an Avocado - Julienned
Slice of Honeydew Melon - Julienned
Wasabi paste
The meat from 1 Crab - shredded
1 tablespoon Mayonnaise

Method

Cook the Rice on a gentle heat, covering tightly, then cool.

Place Nori sheet on a rolling mat or clean tea towel then spread a very thin layer of wasabi paste on the nori. Next spread Rice on Nori leaving 1 inch at the top & bottom then layer the vegetables, crab and a little Mayonnaise. Roll, refrigerate, cut and serve.

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Plum Tart
Plum Tart
½ kilogram Plums pitted & halved
1 Flan ring lined with sweet paste

For the Frangipan Filling
230g Sugar
230g Butter
230g Eggs
230g Ground Almonds
230g Plain Flour

Method

Cream the Sugar & Butter together until white add Eggs one at a time then fold in the Flour & Almond.

Plum Jam can be spread on the sweet paste if desired. Then fill with the frangipan then place halved & pitted plums on top.

Bake at gas mark 5 for 30 minutes

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Plum Crumble
Plum Crumble
½ kilogram Plums pitted & quartered
100g Demerara Sugar

For the Crumble
150g Flour
1 tablespoon Cinnamon
80g Butter
80g Demerara
4 crushed Digestives

Method

Combine Plums & Demerara sugar & place in a buttered dish. Mix crumble ingredients together & sprinkle over plums.

Bake on gas mark 5 for 20 minutes or until lightly browned.

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