Category Archives: Recipes

The Purple Platter

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Our chef Nelly has shared with us her recipe to cooking some of her favourite purple vegetables. All things purple – A sweet, smokey, and crunchy ensemble with a hint of exotic spices. Ingredients Your favourite purple veggies EVOO Honey Mediterranean spice Seasoning (Dukkah, sumac, Ras El Hanout) Fennel seeds Red shallots Garlic Lime juice

Nelly’s Ultimate Fritters

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This fritter batter recipe creates a versatile, light golden, stay-crunchy fritter batter for sweet or savoury dishes. Excellent for bananas, apples, rhubarb, as well as fish, prawns, scallops and stick veggies.  Dry Ingredients: 1 cup self raising flour 1 cup sieved plain rice cracker powder-the secret ingredient (ground finely 100g of plain rice crackers in a grinder)