White Chocolate and Cranberry Flapjack

White Chocolate and Cranberry Flapjack

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Equipment

Ingredients

  • 175 g butter
  • 175 g light brown sugar
  • 175 g golden syrup
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 250 g porridge oats
  • 150 g white chocolate
  • 100 g cranberries

Instructions

  • Pre-heat oven to 140°C and line an ANTA Baking dish with greaseproof paper.
  • Melt the butter, sugar, syrup and cinnamon in a pan.
  • Stir in the the porridge oats
  • Chop 100g of chocolate in to small pieces and add to pan with cranberries.
  • Press in to the baking dish and bake for 30-40 minutes.
  • Remove from oven and allow to cool.
  • Once cool melt the white chocolate and drizzle over the top.
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Wild Trout Terrine

Wild Trout Terrine

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Equipment

Ingredients

  • 1 kg flaked trout
  • 200 ml double cream
  • 125 g unsalted butter
  • ½ small courgette
  • lemon Juice and zest of a
  • 1 small red chilli fresh
  • Sea salt to season
  • freshly ground black pepper to season

Instructions

  • Pre-heat oven to 180°C.
  • Clean and gut the trout and put 25g of butter in the cavity and season with salt and pepper.
  • Wrap in tinfoil and bake for 20 minutes.
  • Allow to cool, remove the head, skin and bones.
  • Flake the meat with a fork and set aside.
  • Slice the courgette thinly and deseed and slice the chilli in half.
  • Melt the remaining butter in a shallow pan over a low heat and remove the froth to clarify it.
  • Soften the courgette slices and chilli halves in the butter until slightly coloured.
  • Heat the cream slowly in a small pan until it thickens.
  • Allow to cool, chop the chilli and add it together with the lemon juice and zest to the trout.
  • Season with salt and pepper and pack it into two ANTA porridge bowls.
  • Decorate the tops with the courgette slices and seal with melted clarified butter.
  • Chill in the fridge and serve spread on crisp breads from an ANTA serving plate.
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Raspberry & White Chocolate Sponge

Raspberry & White Chocolate Sponge

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Ingredients

  • 200 g butter chopped into small cubes, plus extra for greasing
  • 100 g white chocolate broken into pieces and an extra 50g for melting over the top
  • 4 large eggs
  • 200 g caster sugar
  • 200 g self-raising flour
  • 175 g raspberries fresh or frozen

Instructions

  • Pre-heat oven to 180°C / gas 4.
  • Grease and line an ANTA baking dish.
  • Put the chocolate and butter into a heatproof mixing bowl, set over a pan of barely simmering water and allow to melt slowly, stirring occasionally.
  • Once the butter and chocolate have melted, remove from the heat and allow to cool for 1 – 2 minutes.
  • Beat the eggs and sugar together with an electric whisk before folding in the flour and raspberries.
  • Gently pour the mixture into the ANTA baking dish and bake for 30 – 35 minutes or until golden brown.
  • To check, insert a scewer into the centre and if it comes out clean it’s ready (the raspberries may leave a residue on the skewer so don’t be fooled by their juiciness!).
  • Remove the sponge from the oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.
  • Place the extra chocolate into a heatproof bowl and set over a pan of barely simmering water.
  • Stir until the chocolate has melted and is smooth.
  • Drizzle over the cake before serving.
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Course Chocolate / Fruit / Pie

Apple Crisps

Apple Crisps

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Ingredients

  • 2 apples we prefer Granny Smiths as they retain their shape and flavour
  • Cinnamon for sprinkling

Instructions

  • Pre-heat oven to 160°C / gas 3.
  • Core the apple and slice through the centre into very thin slices, roughly 1-2mm thick.
  • Dust with cinnamon and lay flat on a baking tray, lined with greaseproof paper.
  • Cook for 45 minutes to 1 hour, turning halfway through and removing any crisps that have already browned.
  • Continue to cook until the apples have dried out and are lightly golden.
  • Cool before storing in an airtight container.
  • Enjoy as a snack or use to dress festive cakes before serving on an ANTA Holly serving plate.
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Course Fruit / Snacks

Hot Beetroot and Red Onion Soup

Hot Beetroot and Red Onion Soup

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Equipment

Ingredients

  • 3 medium fresh beetroot
  • 3 large red onions
  • 3 small potatoes
  • 6 cloves garlic
  • 1 red chilli deseeded
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • Salt and pepper to season
  • Chopped parsley and double cream

Instructions

  • Wash the beetroot and boil for 15 minutes in their skins.
  • Peel and boil the potatoes in water in a separate pan.
  • Chop the onions, garlic and chilli and sauté in the oil until soft.
  • RInse the cooked beetroot in cold water and remove the skins.
  • Discard the water and skins.
  • Chop and add them together with the potatoes, the water the potatoes were boiled in together with the stock.
  • Bring to the boil and simmer for 5 minutes until soft.
  • Mash them roughly, season with salt and pepper and serve in a warmed ANTA pasta dish garnished with cream and parsley.

Notes / Tips / Wine Advice:

do not over cook as the beetroot will loose it’s colour.
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Course Soup / Vegetables
Diets Vegetarian

Apple and Almond Tart

Apple and Almond Tart

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Ingredients

  • 200 g plain flour
  • 150 g unsalted butter taken straight from the fridge
  • 3 tablespoons cold water
  • 6 apples sliced and cored leaving the skins on
  • 100 g ground almonds
  • 100 g caster sugar
  • 3 tablespoons red current jelly
  • 3 tablespoons hot water

Instructions

  • Heat the oven to 180°.
  • Cut the butter into small pieces and rub it well into the flour until it resembles bread crumbs.
  • Add the cold water and mix gently until it holds together as a paste.
  • Roll it just larger than the tin before lining. (Always cook pastry in a tin, it goes soggy cooked on stoneware).
  • Place the ground almond and sugar in the pastry case.
  • Arrange the sliced apples and bake for 20 minutes.
  • Meanwhile, melt the jelly and water in a pan.
  • Remove the tart from the oven after 20 minutes and pour the glaze over the top.
  • Return it to the oven and cook for a further 5 minutes.
  • Remove from the tin.
  • Serve hot or cold on an ANTA serving plate.
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Course Fruit / Nuts / Pie

Blue Cheese and Walnut Tarts

Blue Cheese and Walnut Tarts

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Equipment

Ingredients

  • 200 g plain flour
  • 150 g unsalted butter taken straight from the fridge
  • 3 tablespoons cold water
  • 100 g locally sourced blue cheese we use Strathdon Blue
  • 24 walnuts
  • 250 ml double cream
  • 1 egg
  • Salt and freshly ground pepper

Instructions

  • Heat the oven to 180° and grease a tartlet tin.
  • Cut the butter into small pieces and rub it well into the flour until it resembles breadcrumbs.
  • Roll out the pastry thinly.
  • Cut into 24 circles and place in the tartlet tin.
  • Divide the cheese into 24 small pieces.
  • Put a walnut on the top.
  • Mix the cream and egg in a jug adding salt and pepper.
  • Pour the mixture into the tin dividing equally.
  • Place in a hot oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until brown.
  • Serve warm on an ANTA plate.
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Course Cheese / Nuts

Red Pepper and Walnut Dip

Red Pepper and Walnut Dip

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Equipment

Ingredients

  • 6 long red peppers
  • 100 g walnuts
  • 5 garlic cloves
  • 3 red chillies
  • Olive oil
  • Lemon
  • Salt and freshly ground pepper

Instructions

  • Pre heat oven to 180°.
  • Cut peppers and chillies in half and deseed.
  • Place on a baking tray and add the garlic.
  • Drizzel with olive oil and roast in a hot oven for 20 minutes or until the peppers begin to blacken.
  • Allow to cool.
  • Add the walnuts and the juice of 1/2 a lemon before blending with a food processor.
  • Put into an ANTA bowl and serve with rye or sourdough crackers.
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Course Sauce / Side Dish

Baked Apples from Anta Cook

Baked Apples from Anta Cook

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Ingredients

  • 6 Bramley cooking apples
  • 100 g mixed dried fruit to taste e.g. sultanas apricots, raisins, candied peel, cranberries
  • 3 tbsp muscovado sugar mixed with 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • knob of butter
  • flaked almonds

Instructions

  • Pre heat oven to 180° / Gas 4.
  • Grease an ANTA Baking Dish.
  • Using an apple corer, core each apple and score round the middle.
  • Place in the baking dish.
  • Three-quarter fill each apple with the dried fruit, topping with the sugar mix, and a knob of butter.
  • Sprinkle with the flaked almonds.
  • Add 3-4 tablespoons of water to the dish.
  • Place in the oven and bake for 40-50 minutes until golden and the apple pulp is oozing from the scored skin.
  • Serve in individual ANTA Small Bowls with cream or ice-cream.
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Course Dessert / Fruit / Side Dish