Pork Leg roast with apple, fennel & crackle

Ideal recipe for a Sunday roast. Roasting whole apples along with your pork roast is a great way to create a truly delicious apple sauce and everyone knows nothing beats a pork roast with crackling! Ingredients (serves 8-10): 2.5-2.8 kg  leg pork, bone in, skin on and scored (get your butcher to do this) ¼…

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Roasted Eggplants

Versions of this dish have been known to make priests faint it’s that good! A perfect roast for vegetarians for NZ Roast Day today. Or make as a side dish for a main meal. Whether you call them aubergines or eggplants, this recipe is tops! Serves: 4-6 Ingredients 4 medium sized eggplants or aubergines 1…

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Dalmatian inspired pot roast beef

The flavours in this dish are reminiscent of the famed Dalmatian dish pašticada – pot roasted beef with lots of herbs and spices in a rich, red wine gravy. Served as hot beef rolls, this makes a fantastic shared plate. Nici Wickes’s great pot-roast. Delicious!   Ingredients (Serves: 6-8)     1.5 kg bolar or topside…

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Green Peppercorn & Mustard sauce

A sauce for all seasons and almost any roast meat, this simple combination of white wine and crème fraiche spiked with mustard and green peppercorns is marvellous with beef, lamb AND pork. Nici Wickes’ Green Peppercorn & Mustard sauce.It makes a great substitute for gravy.   Ingredients (Makes 1 ½ cups)   200 mls white wine 50 mls cider vinegar 20…

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Trinidad Chicken Curry

This curry is delicious and great for those who enjoy a milder curry. It has an East Indian influence and uses the one key ingredient so common to Caribbean cooking – the green seasoning mix.

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