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LEMON MYRTLE

Lemon Myrtle Cheesecake

 

Filling:

500 g cream cheese

150 g castor sugar

1 tbsp lemon juice

2 tsp ground lemon myrtle

400 g cream

2 tsp gelatin in 50 ml hot water

Base:

1 packet Nice biscuits

80 g unsalted butter

 

 

 

To make base, melt butter and combine with crushed biscuits. Press into cake mould and set in fridge.

For filling, whip cream and set aside. Combine cream cheese, sugar, lemon juice and lemon myrtle and beat until smooth. Add gelatine dissolved in hot water and fold in whipped cream. Pour mixture onto base and set in fridge

 

 

Lemon Myrtle Prawns (serves 4 as entrée)

 

3 finely chopped spring onions

24 king prawns

1 tbsp olive oil

1 tsp Mountain Pepper

1 tsp ground Lemon Myrtle

½ cup dry white wine

salt to taste

 

Heat the oil and add prawns. Add salt, pepper and spring onions. Cook until the prawns are firm in touch. Sprinkle in Lemon Myrtle. Pour in the wine and cook to reduce the wine a little. Serve with cooked rice.

 

ANISEED MYRTLE

Aniseed Myrtle Dampers (12 pieces)

 

500 g self-raising wholemeal flour

2 tbsp aniseed myrtle ground

½ tsp mountain pepper

15 ml macademia nut oil

200 ml milk

 

 

Pre-heat oven to 180°C. Mix flour and aniseed myrtle. Add oil and milk and mix roughly using hands (do not overwork). Roll into log and divide into handfull sized balls. Place the damper onto a flour dusted baking tray and bake for 15-20 min. until golden brown.

 

 

Aniseed Myrtle Shortbread

 

250 g butter

1/2 cup caster sugar

2 tbsp aniseed myrtle

2 1/2 cups plain flour

1/2 cup rice flour

 

 

Cream butter, sugar and Aniseed Myrtle. Mix in remaining ingredients.

Spread mixture into a baking tray, cover with greaseproof paper and press into a slice about 1 centimetre thick.

Bake in moderate oven for 30 minutes. Slice while still hot.

 

BUSH TOMATO

Bush Tomato Muffins (Claudia's)

 

2 ½ cups self-raising flour

2 ½ tsp baking powder

1 cup cooked pumkin

1 pinch salt

80 g butter

150 g sugar

1 cup buttermilk

1 tbsp ground bush tomato

 

Warm-up buttermilk, sugar, bush tomato and butter in a saucepan and set aside to cool. Sift flour in a large bowl and add baking powder, pumkin and salt. Pour in mixture and combine roughly (do not overwork). Fill in a greased muffin tray and back at 170°C for 20-30 min.

 

 

Bush Tomato and Chilli Salsa

 

1/4 cup white vinegar

1 tsp salt

1 tbsp castor sugar

3 small red chillies, finely chopped

2 tsp ground bush tomato

10 large ripe tomatoes, finely chopped

2 onions, finely chopped

2 cloves garlic, chopped

2 tbsp olive oil

 

In a medium sized saucepan, bring the vinegar, salt, sugar and chillies to the boil. Add the ground bush tomatoes and cook for 10 minutes on low heat. Remove from the heat. Combine the tomatoes, onion and garlic in a large bowl. Add the saucepan ingredients to the bowl. Let the salsa sit for an hour. Just before use, drain off any excess liquid that has collected and stir through the olive oil.

 

MOUNTAIN PEPPER

Mountain Pepperberry Sauce

 

½ tsp Mountain Pepper, ground
10 whole Mountain Pepper Berries
200 ml brown sauce

120 ml red wine
½ bunch shallots

 

Place the Pepperberries and red wine with shallots in a saucepan and reduce by half. After reducing liquid, combine with prepared brown sauce and reduce by half again. Serve medallions masked with Pepperberry Sauce and dribble cream across the sauce.

 

 

Mountain Pepper Fish Marinade

 

2 or 3 tbsp of sweet Chile sauce

2 tsp of fresh ginger

1 clove of garlic

1 or 2 tsp of fish sauce

2 or 3 tsp of oyster sauce

1 tbsp of ground pepper leaf

½ cup Mountain Pepperberries

 

Mix ingredients together in a bowl. Lay whole fish or fish fillets on foil and rub in marinate. Wrap up fish in foil and let stand for 1 hour. Bake in oven on 200°C for 20 to 40 minutes, depending on size of fish size.

 

WATTLESEED

Wattleseed Shortbread

 

250 g butter

1/2 cup caster sugar

2 tbsp wattleseed

2 1/2 cups plain flour

1/2 cup rice flour

 

 

Cream butter, sugar and wattleseed. Mix in remaining ingredients.

Spread mixture into a baking tray, cover with greaseproof paper and press into a slice about 1 centimetre thick.

Bake in moderate oven for 30 minutes. Slice while still hot.

 

 

Wattleseed Ice Cream

 

250 ml cream

500 ml milk

3/4 cup (180g) sugar

4 egg yolks

1 tbsp wattleseed

 

 

Heat the milk and sugar in a saucepan, stirring. Remove from heat. Slowly pour onto beaten egg yolks while beating with a whisk. Add the wattleseed and return the mixture to the stove over low heat and stir until it begins to thicken (5-10 minutes). Allow to stand for 15 minutes, then add the cream and mix well. Cool and churn in an ice cream machine.

 

NATIVE MINT

Native Mint Dressing (for 250 ml)

 

1 1/2 tsp Native Mint crushed

2/3 cup olive oil

1/3 cup white wine vinegar

1 tbsp apple jus

1/4 tsp salt

a pinch of Mountain Pepper

 

In a bowl whisk together the oil, vinegar, apple juice, salt and pepper. Add the Native Mint and allow to steep for at least 2 hours (longer is better). Pour the dressing into a clean jar with a tight-fitting lid and shake well to combine the ingredients.

 

 

Native Mint Cooler

 

1 cup ice cubes

2 cups diced watermelon

1/2 cup strawberries

1 tsp caster sugar

1/2 tsp Native Mint

 

 

Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.

 

NATIVE THYME

Native Thyme Sauce

 

300 ml full-bodied red wine
3 shallots, coarsely chopped
3 tbsp beef stock
1 clove garlic, crushed
2 tsp Native Thyme ground

2 tsp Mountain Pepper ground

pinch of salt
1 tbsp brandy
3 tbsp butter

 

 

Heat the wine then add the shallots, stock, garlic, half the Native Thyme, the Mountain Pepper, and other seasonings. Boil and reduce to one third volume.

Add the brandy to the sauce and remove from heat. Swirl in the butter a little at a time, add the other half of Native Thyme and set back over a low heat, stirring for a few minutes.

 

 

Lamb Rack in Native Thyme and herbs crust (serves 2)

 

1 tsp mustard

1 tbsp fine breadcrumbs

1 tbsp Native Thyme ground

1 tbsp fresh herbs (such as parsley and mint)

2 tsp butter

 

 

Mix together mustard, breadcrumbs, Native Thyme, herbs and butter to form a paste. Season to taste. Press onto skinned side of a trimmed rack of lamb and roast skin side up at 200°C for 25 min.

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