Jean-Marie Pratt - Food and Wine Matching Menu

Our recent workshops with Jean-Marie Pratt on food and wine matching were a great success, for those of you who would like to re-create the recipes we have compiled them here.

Lamb Shanks with Parsnip and Potato Rostis

Lamb shanks have become the quintessential winter warmer, the beetroot in this dish adds a brilliant colour and a wonderful earthy-ness. The rosti is a great little accompaniment to any meat dish and gives a little difference to the same ol’ same ol’ potato and parsnip match. It’s also a great breaky dish with a poached egg and bacon!

Pumpkin, Saffron and Leek Risotto

Such a simple, comforting and hugely versatile dish. Serve as the accompaniment to the main meat or as the main dish in itself.

Roast Sirloin with Brussel sprout, pancetta and gem salad and parmesan crisps

Here’s a recipe for a dish that’ll get you in the mood for the cooling autumn nights. Next summer you can change the roast whole sirloin to steaks and serve the salad cold with equal success. The parmesan crisp is a neat little trick that adds a little bit of texture and visual interest to salads.

Grilled pork scotch with white bean and chorizo broth

This is a fantastic, simple to prepare dish that is light enough to serve during the summer months but is also a comforting, warming dish that is equally suited to the cooling Autumnal weather.

Fruit ’n’ nut lamb leg

We tend to keep things simple with spring lamb, but as the season and lamb changes try adding bolder flavours to the meat. This stuffing has sweet and savoury, moist and crunchy components.

Roast plums with French toast and creamy yoghurt

Ripe red plums… quickly cooked to retain seasonal freshness and firmness, they make a great accompaniment to roast pork or grilled ham. But for a great brunch dish, serve with thick whipped creamy yoghurt mix and French toast – or ‘eggy bread’ as we like to call it – made from rich brioche or a plaited challah loaf.

Chicken and Asparagus with Tahini

The tang of lemon and richness of tahini – a Middle Eastern sesame seed paste best known for its role in hummus – bring the chicken and nutty roast asparagus together beautifully. Use hulled or unhulled tahini according to taste; the unhulled has a darker colour and more intense flavour. Allspice, another popular ingredient in Middle Eastern cooking, is also known as pimento – and not to be confused with mixed spice!

Chicken and Asparagus Stir Fry

Fast food that’s healthy and delicious… this is lean, nutritious but certainly not short on flavour. Keep Asian staples like oyster and hoisin sauce on hand to liven up the simplest meat and vegetable dishes. Don’t discard broccoli stems; peel thicker sections and slice along with the florets. Serve the dish with plain steamed rice.

Zigeunerschnitzel “Gypsy schnitzel”

Nosh Pancake Day Recipes

In English-speaking nations, it’s often called Shrove Tuesday. Some Latin countries have reinvented it as Fat Tuesday or Mardis Gras. Other nationalities refer to it as Pancake Day. But whatever you call it, Tuesday February 16 is considered a ‘last feast’ day before the more austere days of Lent leading up to Easter. And while the 41st day before Easter is the master of disguise, it remains one of the world’s much-loved occasions.

Crayfish ravioli with prawns

This is the carb’ course. No, you don’t have to spend the whole day making them… there are now excellent filled pasta on the market that cook in just a few minutes. Wine ? You can sneak a white in here – a full flavoured Chardonnay would be delicious with the buttery prawns, or if you must drink Sauvignon Blanc, find a less acrid, rounder Pouilly Fumé style.

Duck breast with pink peppercorns

Fresh duck is a luxurious and delicious meat, and the fat rendered during cooking a valuable bonus – keep it in the fridge for another time when you fancy the tastiest, crustiest roast potatoes. The salad leaves, tossed with a little fruity oil and seasoning at the last minute, cut the richness of the dish. Serve with a top-notch Pinot Noir.

A date with a peach

Okay so it’s an old joke from a Christmas cracker… but this really is a romantic fruit salad! It can be sorted well in advance, and if things have gone intoxicatingly already, it makes a fine breakfast. A glass of moscato – lightly sparking, floral and fragrant and lower in alcohol – is the perfect wine match either way.

Roast eye fillet of beef with red wine & shallots

A whole eye fillet, or beef tenderloin as it’s also known, lends itself to elegant and generous entertaining. It’s also very simple to cook – remember the better the ingredients, the less you need to do to them!

Sauté salmon, mushroom and leek with crème fraiche and herbs

The new Regal Fresh Cuts Salmon Loins lend themselves to delicate dishes like this elegant, classically inspired sauté. Mushroom and leek is a classic combination that works well with seafood, and the crème fraiche provides both a creamy texture and a fresh tang.

Cooking the Perfect Turkey

Festive Bread and Butter Pudding

Pickled walnuts and an orange dressing add a festive note to this fresh summery side dish. Again, this is an easy dish to scale up when feeding a crowd.

Eggplant and Ricotta Lasagne

Warm evenings call out for lighter renditions of Mediterranean flavour. Here’s a delicious summer-weight lasagne, where fresh ricotta (available across the deli’ counter) replaces mozzarella, eggs and cream substitute for a laborious white sauce, and golden fried eggplant with a top quality tomato puree – straight from the bottle – stand in for meat ragu.

Green Bean and Endive Salad

Pickled walnuts and an orange dressing add a festive note to this fresh summery side dish. Again, this is an easy dish to scale up when feeding a crowd.

Kiwifruit and Apple Salad with Labane and Meringue

The classic kiwifruit pav’ turned upside down... labane is a soft, delicate yoghurt-based cheese form the Middle East, similar to crème fraiche. This makes 4 individual portions but can be scaled up and served on a platter.

Grilled Beef and Chopped Salad Mexican Style

In our Mexican Beef Chopped Salad recipe, the beef is teamed with a fresh, tasty salad that’s a definite summer crowd pleaser. Serve plated, or supply a stack of hot tortilla and let people wrap portions of the tasty charred beef and salad between ice cold beers. Buen provecho!

Corn and courgette cakes with smoked salmon

Simple corn and courgette fritters make a delightful base in this recipe, ideal for a weekend brunch or supper on a warm evening. Serve with a fresh unoaked chardonnay or a flavoursome methode champenoise.

Blanquette of lamb

The term ‘blanquette’ comes from the French word for white – blanc – in that it’s a ragout or stew with a white sauce. Classically veal is prepared ‘en blanquette’ however chicken, rabbit and young lamb can also be showcased in this style.

Spring lamb & béarnaise style new potato salad

Spring lamb teamed with new potatoes, peas and beans: but this is no Sunday roast, rather a delicious warm salad where the meat and vegetables are brought together by a dressing that mirrors the beloved flavour of a classic sauce béarnaise.

Summer pasta with salmon and avocado

Pasta salads can have a dubious ‘leftovers’ air about them, but this need not be so. Simply cook the pasta freshly, and ensure all other components are compatible and of top quality for an exceptionally appetising outcome.

Toad In The Hole

Toad-In-The-Hole – Sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding style batter. Delicious? Yes ! Affordable ? Certainly ! Nutritious ? Well, serve it with plenty of ketchup and green vege, or brown onion gravy and a tomato salad, and you’re on the right track.

Toad In The Sky

Steak Tartar

Steak Tartar allegedly hails from the Mongolian tartars, which carried raw meat under their saddles which they ate, liberally spiced, after a day’s marauding had tenderised it.

Lamb Ragu d Abruzzi

Lamb is a more versatile meat than many think, and here’s a favourite dish that combines a few other distinctive Nosh specialities: d’Abruzzi after the Adriatic region of Italy where they eat this kind of thing.

Simple green salsa

Pumpkin a la Dauphinoise

Slow cooked broccoli

Asparagus, lemon and mascarpone risotto

Beautiful fresh asparagus, grilled to bring out its nutty sweetness, is showcased with marvellous mascarpone.

Caponata

A classic Sicilian sweet and sour eggplant dish.

Sirloin Steak with roasted Beetroot, Celeriac and Watercress

Tender Sirloin teamed up with mouth watering accompaniment's.

Warm Pumpkin & Chorizo Salad

A beautiful warm Pumpkin and Chorizo Salad to get your taste buds tingling!

Black Pepper and Herb Butter

Delicious Black Pepper and Herb Butter

Baby Vine Tomatoes Stuffed with Pesto and Bocconcini

Great recipe for making up an Antipasto Platter using baby vine ripened Tomatoes, Pesto and Bocconcini.