Butter Chicken Meatballs

Butter Chicken Meatballs

Recipe By Courtney Roulston

Ingredients

• 1 tbs extra virgin olive oil 

• ½ jar Patak`s butter chicken paste 

• 400 g can Coles crushed tomatoes, plus 1/2 tin water 

• 150 ml Coles thickened cream, plus extra to serve 

• 30 g butter 

• ½ cup Patak`s mini pappadums plain, crushed to garnish 

Meatballs

• 500 g Coles chicken mince 

• 2/3 cup almond meal 

• 1 free range egg 

• 1 tbs fresh ginger, finely grated 

• ¼ bunch coriander, stems finely chopped, leaves reserve for garnish 

Method

• Place all the meatball ingredients in a large bowl. Season with salt and then mix until well combined. Using clean hands roll the mixture into balls in golf ball size. 

• Heat the oil in a large frying pan over a medium heat. Add the meatballs and cook for 3 minutes, turning occasionally until the outside has browned. 

• Make a space in the middle of the frying pan then add in the butter chicken paste and fry it for 2 - 3 minutes, or until aromatic. Add in the tomatoes, water and then stir into the paste and mix the meatballs into the sauce. Gently simmer for 4 - 5 minutes, or until the meatballs are cooked through. Stir in the cream and butter to make the sauce rich and glossy.

• Remove from the heat and garnish with a little extra cream, broken papadums and coriander tops.

• *Serve with steamed basmati rice or naan bread.

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Lamb and Feta Meatballs with Herbed Yoghurt

Lamb and Feta Meatballs with Herbed Yoghurt

Recipe By Michael Weldon

Ingredients

• 2 cups Jalna Greek yoghurt

• 1 bunch Coles mint, chopped

• ½ bunch parsley, chopped

• 2 garlic cloves, grated

• 5oo g Coles lamb mince

• 75 g crumbled feta

• 2 tbs breadcrumbs

• ½ bunch parsley, chopped

• ½ tsp chilli flakes

• extra virgin olive oil

• sea salt

Garnish

• picked mint

• lemon wedges

Method

• To prepare the yoghurt, place a chux cloth over a colander and place the colander over a bowl then top with the yoghurt and leave this in the fridge over night. This is so that the yoghurt can strain any excess liquid overnight which will make it extra thick and lebneh-like.

• In a large bowl with a wooden spoon mix the lamb mince, feta, breadcrumbs, garlic, chili flakes and parsley until it’s all combined.

• Pre-heat a pan with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. Roll the mixture into golf-sized balls and put on to the heat until they are golden and cooked through.

• To make the herbed yoghurt, in a separate bowl, add the yoghurt, parsley and mint. Mix through then add in the lemon juice and extra virgin olive oil.

• To serve, lather the herbed yoghurt on the base of a large flat plate and place the meatballs on top. Garnish with lemon and mint.

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Edamame and Brown Rice Salad

Edamame and Brown Rice Salad

Recipe By Courtney Roulston

Ingredients

• 1 ½ cups podded edamame soybeans

• 3 cups baby spinach 

• 250 g Coles cooked brown rice & quinoa ready to eat pouch

• 2 medium Lebanese cucumber, sliced 

• 1 avocado, peeled, sliced 

• 4 red radish, sliced 

• 1 nori seaweed sheet, toasted, sliced into matchsticks 

• 1 tbs white sesame seeds, toasted 

Dressing

• 1 tbs grated white onion 

• 3 tbs tamari soy sauce 

• 2 tbs rice wine vinegar 

• 2 tsp maple syrup, Coles honey or white sugar 

• 1 tsp Coles Asia sesame oil 

Method

• Place the edamame into a pot of salted boiling water and cook for 4-5 minutes, or until tender. Add the baby spinach into the pot and stir for 20 seconds, or until wilted then drain and allow to cool slightly. 

• Place the prepared rice and quinoa mixture into a shallow serving bowl. Gently toss through the edamame mixture, cucumber, avocado and radish through the rice.

• Mix all the dressing ingredients together then spoon over the salad.

• Arrange the nori and sesame seeds on top of the salad before serving. 

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Trout Almondine with Lemon & Fennel Salad

Trout Almondine with Lemon & Fennel Salad

Recipe By Courtney Roulston

Ingredients

• 2 whole rainbow trout (around 300 g each), cleaned 

• 1 bunch flat leaf parsley 

• 2 small fennel bulbs, finely slice, tops reserve 

• sea salt to taste 

• 4 tbs extra virgin olive oil 

• 100 g chilled butter, cubed 

• 1/2 cup whole roast almonds, roughly chopped

• 2 lemons (one on the small side as its going into the salad thinly sliced into rounds) 

• 6 silverbeet leaves, stems removed, sliced 

• 1 tsp Coles dijon mustard 

• 1 tsp Coles honey 

Cooked using The Ziggy available at Barbeques Galore

Method

• Pre heat a hooded BBQ to a medium heat. Place 2 sheets of aluminium foil (50 cm long) on a bench and place a piece of baking paper 40 cm in length on top. Place a trout on top of each piece of paper and stuff the cavity with half the bunch of parsley and the reserve green fennel tops. Season with sea salt and drizzle over 1 tbs of the oil. Seal the fish in the foil and place onto the BBQ. Close the lid and cook the fish for 25 - 30 minutes, or until they are just steamed through. Remove from the heat and allow to rest for 5 minutes. 

• Meanwhile place 2 tbs of oil, a pinch of salt, dijon mustard, honey and the juice of ½ lemon into the base of a mixing bowl. Whisk to emulsify and then add in the sliced fennel bulbs, chopped parsley and silverbeet leaves. Using a mandolin slice the small lemon into thin rounds and add into the salad. Toss to coat then place into a serving bowl.

• To make the almondine sauce, heat a small frying pan over a medium-high heat. Add in the butter and heat until it is foaming and starting to turn nut brown. Add in the almonds and cook for 2 - 3 minutes. Squeeze in the juice of the remaining half lemon and season with a pinch of salt to taste.

• Remove the trout from the foil and transfer onto serving plates. Spoon the almondine sauce over the fish and garnish with a few fennel fronds. Serve warm with the fennel salad on the side. 

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Chicken Katsu Curry

Chicken Katsu Curry

Recipe By Michael Weldon

Ingredients

Katsu Chicken

• 2 Coles chicken breasts, cut in half and pounded thin

• 2 cups panko breadcrumbs

• 4 free range eggs

• 1 cup Coles plain flour

• 1 tbs sesame seeds

• sea salt

 Curry Sauce

• 2 tbs Patak’s tikka masala paste

• 2 tbs olive oil

• 1 brown onion, diced

• 1 thumb size piece of ginger, diced

• 2 garlic cloves

• 400 g Coles coconut cream

• splash of water

• ½ apple, sliced thin

• ½ fennel, sliced thin

• ½ bunch coriander, stem chopped, leaf for garnish

• 2 tbs Patak’s mango chutney 

• sea salt

To Serve 

• side of cooked rice

• pickled ginger

• garnish with coriander

Method

• Set up a crumbing station for the chicken. Flour mixed with the salt in the first bowl, beaten eggs in the second and panko in the third. Crumb the chicken starting by coating flour then coat the flour in the eggs, then coat the eggs with breadcrumbs, really press the breadcrumbs on at this step to get lots of crumbs sticking. Repeat this process with all pieces of chicken. 

• In a large frypan over a medium-high heat add the onion, ginger and garlic with the olive oil. Cook for a couple of minutes until the ingredients soften, caramelise and become fragrant. Add the tikka paste and allow to fry off slightly and caramelise. Add in the coconut cream and a splash of water to help thin it out. Bring up to a boil then bring down to simmer.

• Heat 1 cm of oil in a frypan to 180 degrees (C). Add the crumbed chicken into the 2 pieces at a time. Cook until golden brown all over and the chicken is cooked through. Leave to rest on paper towel to absorb access oil and sprinkle with sea salt.

• To the curry sauce, add the apple and fennel until it goes soft. Then, add the mango chutney and stir. Taste the sauce for seasoning and adjust to your liking. Keep warm. Stir in the coriander.

• Serve in a bowl with a bed of steamed rice. Slice the chicken into bite sized strips and place onto the rice. Spoon over the curry, garnish with coriander and pickled ginger.

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BBQ Carolina Reaper Marinated Squid

BBQ Carolina Reaper Marinated Squid

Recipe By Courtney Roulston

Ingredients

• 3 large Coles deli squid tubes, scored in a cross hatch

• 2 garlic cloves, diced

• 1 lemon, zest

• 1 tbs parsley leaves, chopped

• 1 tsp smoked paprika

• 1/2 Coles carolina reaper chilli, finely chopped

• 3 tbs extra virgin olive oil

• sea salt

Garnish

• lemon wedge

• fresh parsley

• extra chilli *optional

Method

• Heat a BBQ grill until its smoking.

• In a bowl combine the squid, garlic, lemon zest, parsley, smoked paprika and Carolina reaper chilli, drizzle with extra virgin olive oil, season with salt. Mix together until the squid is evenly coated the marinade. 

• On the smoking hot BBQ cook the squid until charred and caramelised. 

• Once the squid is cooked season with extra salt and serve with some parsley leaves and a lemon wedge. 

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Tandoori Lamb Cutlets with Lime & Coconut Salsa

Tandoori Lamb Cutlets with Lime & Coconut Salsa

Recipe By Courtney Roulston

Ingredients

• 12 Coles lamb cutlets 

• 1 tbs Patak`s tandoori paste 

• sea salt to taste

• ¾ cup Greek yoghurt 

Salsa

• 2/3 cup Coles shredded coconut 

• juice & zest of 1 lime 

• ¼ cup Coles mint leaves

• ½ long green or red chilli

Method

• Pre heat a grill pan or BBQ over a medium heat. In a bowl, mix the tandoori paste with ¼ cup of the yoghurt. Rub the lamb cutlets all over with the tandoori mixture and season with a pinch of salt. Set aside for 5 minutes to marinade.

• Meanwhile to make the salsa, finely chop the mint and chilli together until it is fine. Place the coconut into a bowl and add in the lime zest and juice then stir through the mint and chilli. Season with salt and pepper and set aside.

• Grill the cutlets for 2 - 3 minutes each side, or until cooked to your liking. Remove the cutlets and allow to rest for 3 minutes.

• Place the cutlets onto a serving platter with the remaining yoghurt in a bowl and the coconut salsa on the side. Place a little yoghurt onto the lamb cutlets and top with some of the salsa before eating. 

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Spicy Nduja Spaghetti and Meatballs

Spicy Nduja Spaghetti and Meatballs

Recipe By Michael Weldon

Ingredients

• San Remo spaghetti 500 g no. 5 

Meatballs

• 150 g streaky bacon, diced

• 1 brown onion, diced

• 500 g Coles beef mince

• ½ cup grated tasty cheese

• 2 tbs cup breadcrumbs

• 1 tsp dried Italian herbs

• sea salt

Spicy Sauce

• 75 g nduja or another spicy salami

• 1 onion, diced

• 2 garlic cloves, diced

• 2 tins Coles diced tomato 

• olive oil

• sea salt

Garnish 

• basil, leaves picked

• parmesan 

Method

• In a frypan over a medium heat cook the bacon until crispy and the fat has been rendered. Remove the bacon and add the onion to rendered bacon fat, cook until the onions have softened. Remove from the pan and allow to cool.

• In a large bowl mix together the meatball ingredients with a pinch of salt. Once evenly mixed roll into golf ball sized balls.

• Heat a large frypan over a high heat. Add a drizzle of olive oil and the meatballs, cook turning often until browned all over then remove from the frypan.

• Place pan back on the heat and add the nduja, cook until the fat splits from the meat. Add the onion and cook until softened. Add the garlic, and fry for a minute. Add the tins of tomato and splash of water. Bring to the boil then turn down to a simmer.

• In a large pot of rapidly boiling salted water cook the spaghetti following the packet instructions.

• Add the meatballs into the simmering tomato sauce to gently finish cooking.

• When the pasta is cooked and drained, add the sauce and meatballs in, gently mix together to coat the pasta in the sauce.

• Serve straight away making sure every dish has a good number of meatballs on top. Finish with parmesan and some basil leaves. 

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BBQ Octopus with a Tamarind Glaze

BBQ Octopus with a Tamarind Glaze

Recipe By Michael Weldon

Ingredients

• 8 large octopus tentacles

 Tamarind BBQ Glaze 

• 1 shallot, diced

• 1 garlic clove diced

• 1 lemon grass sprig, grated

• 1 tsp galangal, grated

• 2 Coles birsdeye chillies

• 3 tbs tamarind puree

• 2 tbs fish sauce

• ¼ cup Coles brown sugar

Method

• In a pot on the stove, simmer the octopus for 1 hour until tender then drain and chill.

• In a saucepan, fry off the shallot in olive oil, once soft add in the garlic, lemongrass and galangal, fry for a minute. Add in the chilli, tamarind, fish sauce and brown sugar, mix in until everything is melted. Add ½ cup water and 1 crushed kaffir lime leaf. Bring up to the boil then simmer until the glaze thickens enough to be brushed onto the octopus.

• Heat a BBQ until it starts to smoke. Dress the octopus with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. Place onto the grill and brush on a coat of the glaze. Every time you turn the octopus, brush on another layer of the glaze. Cook until the glaze has caramelised on the octopus.

• Serve the octopus brushed with extra glaze and garnished with coriander leaves and sliced chilli.

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Apple, Pork & Sage Meatballs

Apple, Pork & Sage Meatballs

Recipe By Michael Weldon

Ingredients

• 500 g Coles pork mince

• 1 onion, diced

• 2 garlic cloves, diced

• 1 Montague apple, grated

• 6 sage leaves, sliced thinly

• ¼ cup breadcrumbs

• ½ cup pecorino, grated

• sea salt

• black pepper

• extra virgin olive oil

Sage Burnt Butter

• sage

• butter

• lemon

Method

• In a frypan over a medium heat, cook the onion in olive oil with a pinch of salt. Once the onion is soft, add in the garlic and cook until soft. Add in the apple and sage, remove from the heat and mix through the onion and garlic. Allow to cool to room temperature.

• In a mixing bowl combine the pork mince, onion mixture, breadcrumbs, pecorino, pinch of salt and pepper. Mix together until combined. Form into meat balls.

• In a large frypan over a medium heat cook the meatballs until golden all over.

• Serve the meatballs in a bowl dressed with sage burnt butter and extra pecorino.

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Beef Carpaccio

Beef Carpaccio

Recipe By Michael Weldon

Ingredients

• ¼ cup Squeaky Gate extra virgin olive oil

• 5 anchovy fillets

• ½ cup panko breadcrumbs 

• 400 g Coles eye fillet steak

• 1 large Coles red chilli, diced

• 1 large Coles green chilli, diced

• ¼ cup Squeaky Gate extra virgin olive oil

• 2 tbs white balsamic vinegar 

Garnish

• chives, sliced in 0.5 cm pieces

Method

• In a small frypan combine the olive oil and anchovy, place over a medium heat and gently bring up to temp. Cook until anchovy melts into the olive oil. Add the breadcrumbs and toast until crispy. Pour the breadcrumbs onto a plate or tray and allow to cool to room temp.

• In a bowl combine the dressing ingredients and whish until combined.

• Slice the fillet steak into thin rounds of ½ centimetre or less thickness. One piece at a time, place a slice between 2 sheets of baking paper. Using a heavy frypan or meat mallet pound steak as flat as possible. Once pounded flat place the beef onto a large serving platter. Repeat until all the steak is pounded thinly. Cover with cling wrap and place into the fridge to chill for 10 - 15 minutes. 

• To serve top the carpaccio with the dressing making sure to have a good spread of dices chilli over all the steak slices. Sprinkle over the breadcrumbs and finish with the sliced chives.

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Smoked Cauliflower with Yoghurt & Pickled Currants

Smoked Cauliflower with Yoghurt & Pickled Currants

Recipe By Courtney Roulston

Ingredients

• 1 whole Coles cauliflower, trimmed 

• 3 tbs Squeaky Gate extra virgin olive oil 

• sea salt and black pepper to taste 

• 2/3 cup Jalna yoghurt 

• 1 tbs pomegranate molasses 

• ¼ cup pepita seeds

• 1 tsp whole cumin seeds

• ¼ cup flat leaf parsley, leaves picked 

Pickled Currants

• 1/3 cup currants 

• 1/3 cup Coles finest white wine vinegar 

• 1 tbs maple syrup

Method

• Pre heat the smoker with cherrywood chips. Trim the bottom off the cauliflower so it sits flat then cut a cross with a small knife down into the core. Bring a pot of salted water up to the boil and place the cauliflower in the water upside down. Cook for 6 minutes then remove from the water and allow to dry. 

• Drizzle the cauliflower with 2 tbs of extra virgin oil and season with salt. Place in the smoker and leave for 50 minutes or until cooked through and smoked coloured with smoke all around the outside. Remove and set aside to rest. 

• Meanwhile, warm the vinegar, maple syrup, a pinch of salt and 2 tbs of water in a small pot. Place the currants into the pot and take off the heat. Set aside and allow to pickle for 20 minutes. Drain and reserve the pickle liquid.

• Whisk the yoghurt in a bowl with ¼ cup of the pickling liquid until smooth. Toast the cumin seeds in a small pan over a medium heat until fragrant. Lightly crush in a mortar and pestle. Toast the pepita seeds in the same pan until crispy and place into the mortar and pestle and gently crush. Place the seeds into a small bowl and drizzle with remaining oil. 

• Cut the cauliflower into 4 thick wedges and place onto a serving plate. Drizzle the yoghurt and pomegranate molasses over the top. Scatter with pickled currants, seed mixture and parsley before serving. 

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Grilled Tuna Steak with Warm Olive Oil Dressing

Grilled Tuna Steak with Warm Olive Oil Dressing

Recipe By Michael Weldon

Ingredients

• 1 cup Squeaky Gate extra virgin olive oil

• 1 shallot, sliced thinly

• 1 garlic cloves, sliced thinly

• 2 tbs chopped olives

• 2 tbs baby capers

• 2 tbs chopped roasted peppers

• ½ bunch parsley, chopped

• 1 tbs Coles finest red wine vinegar

• ½ tsp sea salt

• 4 Coles deli tuna steaks

• extra Squeaky Gate extra virgin olive oil

• sea salt

Cooked using The Ziggy available at Barbeques Galore

Method

• Heat a BBQ until it smokes.

• Warm the olive oil to just below a boil.

• Remove from the heat, add the shallots, garlic, olives, capers and toasted pepper, allow to gently cool down to room temperature. 

• Brush the tuna steaks with olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt. Place the tuna on the grill, cook for 1 minute then turn 90 degrees. Cook for 1 more minute, then turn and do the same on the other side. 

• To finish the sauce, add the parsley, vinegar and salt. 

• Place the tuna onto dinner plates, spoon the sauce over and serve with a crisp green salad.

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Radish & Citrus Salad with Smoked Olive Oil Dressing

Radish & Citrus Salad with Smoked Olive Oil Dressing

Recipe By Michael Weldon

Ingredients

• 2 cups Squeaky Gate extra virgin olive oil

• 1 bunch of radishes, sliced thinly on a mandolin

• 1 kohlrabi, sliced thinly on a mandolin

• 1 orange, skin removed and sliced into rounds

• 1 blood orange, skin removed and sliced into rounds

• 1 grapefruit, skin removed and sliced into rounds

• 1 lemon, sliced into rounds 

Smoked Olive Oil Dressing

• 1 cup smoked extra virgin olive oil

• 1 lemon, juice

• 1 tbs Coles honey

• 1 tbs Coles grain mustard

• salt 

Garnish

• 1 bunch of dill, leaves picked

Method

• Heat smoker until it reaches between 130 – 150 degrees (C). 

• Pour the olive oil into a flat tray or a skillet and place into the smoker. Smoke for 20 - 30 minutes.

• In a bowl, mix 1 cup of olive oil with the lemon juice, honey, mustard and a pinch of salt. Whisk until combined evenly.

• To serve, lay half the slices of radish and kohlrabi then top with half the slices of the citrus, spoon over some dressing to coat all the ingredients. Repeat to lay out another layer of the salad. Garnish with the dill.

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Plum, Grilled Radicchio and Goats Cheese Salad

Plum, Grilled Radicchio and Goats Cheese Salad

Recipe By Michael Weldon

Ingredients

• 2 radicchio, cut into 8 ths

• 1 cup stale sourdough torn into chunks

• 200 g goat’s cheese

• 5 Montague plums, sliced thinly

• 1 baby gem lettuce, leaves separated

• 1 bunch of dill, leaves picked

Dressing

• ¼ cup apple juice

• 1 tbs Coles finest apple cider vinegar

• ¼ cup olive oil

• 2 tbs Coles grain mustard

• sea salt

• black pepper

Cooked using The Ziggy available at Barbeques Galore

Method

• Heat BBQ until smoking. Drizzle the radicchio with olive oil and a little salt and place onto the grill to char and caramelise.

• Drizzle the sour dough with olive oil and place onto the grill to toast and char.

• In a jar combine the dressing ingredients with a pinch of salt and pepper. Seal the jar tight and shake the dressing until combined.

• Once the bread is cooked place in a bowl and crumble the goat’s cheese into it. Mix and toss the together until the goat’s cheese coats the croutons.

• Once the radicchio is cooked through arrange in an open fan on a large platter. Mix in the baby gem leaves and tuck in sliced plums in fan formation. Spoon over the dressing making sure all is coated. Top with the croutons and dill.

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Mexican Sweet Potatoes

Mexican Sweet Potatoes

Recipe By Courtney Roulston

Ingredients

• 4 medium sized Coles sweet potatoes (all must be similar size-not too skinny) 

• 1 tbs extra virgin olive oil 

• ½ brown onion, diced 

• 2 cloves garlic, crushed 

• 500 g Coles beef mince 

• 2 tsp ground cumin 

• 1 tsp paprika 

• 1 tsp ground coriander 

• ½ tsp dried oregano 

• ½ tsp ground chilli powder or flakes 

• 2 Coles vine-ripened tomatoes, grated into a pulp on a box grater 

• sea salt and pepper to taste 

• 2 cups red or white cabbage, finely shaved 

• 2/3 cup Jalna Greek yoghurt 

• 2 tsp hot sauce (optional) 

• 1 Coles long green chilli, sliced 

• ¼ bunch coriander, sprigs picked 

• 1 lime to serve

Method

• Pre heat the oven to 200 degrees (C). Spike the outside of the potatoes with a fork and place them onto a lined oven tray. Roast the potatoes for 50 minutes - 1 hour, or until slightly wrinkled on the outside and tender on the inside. 

• Meanwhile heat the oil in a non-stick frying pan over a medium-high heat. Cook the onion and garlic for 2 minutes to soften, then add in the beef mince. Cook the beef, breaking up with the back of a wooden spoon for 5 - 6 minutes, or until browned. Add in the cumin, paprika, coriander, oregano, chilli and a pinch of salt and pepper. Cook off the spices for a minute to become fragrant then add in the tomato pulp. Turn the heat down and simmer for 5 minutes, or until thick and rich. 

• Slice the potatoes in half lengthways and using a spoon, gently fluff up the flesh of the potatoes to form a boat shape. 

• To serve, place the cabbage into the sweet potato cavities. Top with the mince, dollop over the yoghurt, hot sauce and add on lime wedges, sliced chilli and coriander sprigs.

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Michael's Green Papaya Salad

Michael's Green Papaya Salad

Recipe By Michael Weldon

Ingredients

• 3 garlic cloves

• 3 tbs Coles roasted peanuts

• ¼ lime cut into wedges

• 2 tbs dried shrimp, soaked in boiling water to hydrate

• 12 Coles cherry tomatoes, yellow and red look great colour wise

• 2 snake beans broken into 4 cm pieces

• 2-4 Coles birdseye chillies, depending on how hot you like it

• 2 cups shredded green papaya 

• 2 tbs Coles brown sugar

• 3 tbs fish sauce

• 2 tbs lime juice

• 1 tbs tamarind puree

• extra roasted peanuts to garnish

Method

• In a large mortar and pestle pound the garlic with a pinch of salt, you can also do this in a mixing bowl with a rolling pin. Pound he garlic to break it up into small pieces, add the peanuts in and break up with the mortar and pestle. 

• Add the lime wedges and pound until broken into small pieces then add the dried shrimp, pound till broken. Add in the tomatoes and pop with the pestle and then add the snake beans and break into smaller pieces.

• Add in the chilli and break up into smaller pieces, the smaller you pound the more evenly the heat will spread through the salad. Add the papaya and bruise with pestle then stir with a large spoon. You need to do this a few times to season the papaya with the other ingredients. 

• Add the sugar, fish sauce, lime juice and tamarind according to your taste then pound and stir to finish dressing the salad.

• Serve the salad topped with a few extra roasted peanuts.

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Prawn Coconut Korma

Prawn Coconut Korma

Recipe By Michael Weldon

Ingredients

• 2 tbs butter

• 1 red onion, sliced

• 3 tbs Patak’s korma paste

• 1 tin Coles diced tomato

• 1 tin Coles coconut cream

• 16 raw Coles prawns, head and tail left on shell peeled

• 2 Coles birds eye chillies, optional

• sea salt

Garnish

• coriander sprigs

• green chilli, sliced

• juice from a lemon cheek

• side of rice

Method

• Melt the butter in a hot pan, add the onion, cook until the softened a slightly caramelised. Add the korma paste, fry off until fragrant. Add the tomato and coconut cream, turn the heat down to a simmer and gently reduce. 

• Add the prawns into the reduced gravy, gently simmer until the prawns are cooked through. 

• Serve the prawn curry on the top of steamed rice and garnish with green chilli, coriander sprigs and lemon juice. 

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Carne Asasda Tacos

Carne Asasda Tacos

Recipe By Michael Weldon

Ingredients

• 2 flat iron steaks

Marinade

• ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil

• 2 lime, juice

• 3 garlic cloves, diced

• ¼ bunch of corinader, chopped

• 1 tsp smoked paprika

• 1 tsp cumin powder

• 1 tsp sea salt

• 2 Coles jalapenos

• 1 tbs Coles sugar

• 1 tsp sea salt

• 2 tbs vinegar

• 1 avocado

• 1 lime, juice

• sea salt

• 1 brown onion diced

• ½ bunch coriander, chopped

• ¼ cup salt reduced feta, crumbled 

• 8 flour tortillas, warmed in a pan

Method

• Mix together the marinade ingredients then add in the steak and marinate for at least 30 minutes or up to 2 hours.  

• Combine the sugar, salt and vinegar in a pan on medium heat. Stir until the salt melts into the liquid. Pour over the jalapenos and allow to pickle. 

• Heat a bbq until it begins to smoke. Add the steaks to the grill and cook until your get a good sear on both sides of the steak and until done to your liking. Leave to rest for 3 - 5 minutes.

• To make you tacos, start with a spoon of avocado, top with steak then garnish with onion, pickled jalapenos, coriander and feta.

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Thai Prawn Omelette

Thai Prawn Omelette

Recipe By Michael Weldon

Ingredients

Omelette

• 2 tbs rice flour

• 2 tbs potato starch

• 1 tbs fish sauce

• ½ tsp white pepper

• 2 kaffir lime leaves, finely sliced

• 2 coriander sprigs, sliced thinly

• 1 Coles birdseye chilli, sliced thinly 

• 4 eggs

• 100 g prawn tails, diced 

• 1 cup extra virgin olive oil

Garnish

• ½ bunch coriander, leaves picked

• ½ bunch Coles Thai basil, leaves picked

• ½ bunch Coles Vietnamese mint, leaves picked

• 1 red chilli, sliced

• 1 green chilli, sliced

• 1 kaffir lime leaf, sliced thinly

Method

• In a mixing bowl mix the flour and starch with ½ - ¾ cup of water, mix until smooth, at this stage it the batter should be thin like a crepe batter. Add the fish sauce and eggs. Add in chilli, kaffir lime, prawns, coriander and a dash of white pepper. Mix the egg batter until evenly combined.

• In a wok over a medium heat warm the oil until hot, pour in the omelette mixture and fry. Fry for 4 - 5 minutes until the omelette is crispy on the base and sides, pour off any excess oil. Carefully with a spatula flip the omelette and cook the other side for a couple of minutes until just set.

• Once cooked, slide the omelette onto a plate. Top with the herbs and chilli, serve straight away whilst hot and crispy. 

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