Tomato chutney

Servings 600 gram

Ingredients
  

  • 750 g Tomato
  • 1 tbsp Ghi
  • 1 pcs Cinnamon stick
  • 3 pieces Bay leaves
  • 3 pieces Cloves
  • 0.5 tsp cumin seeds
  • 2 pieces of dried chili pepper
  • 1 tbsp ginger grated
  • 3 tbsp brown sugar

Instructions
 

  • Blanch the tomatoes briefly, peel and puree with an immersion blender. Heat the ghi, lower the flame and fry the cinnamon stick, bay leaves, cloves, cumin seeds, chillies and ginger, stirring occasionally. Then add the tomatoes. Let the chutney cook over a low flame for about 25 minutes without a lid. Stir occasionally at first, but more often as the chutney thickens. Continue until almost all of the moisture has evaporated. Stir in the sugar and turn the flame up. Now stir faster for 5 minutes, until the chutney has thickened into a thick sauce. Remove the cloves, bay leaves and cinnamon stick and season with salt. Serve at room temperature.
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Bisque of shrimps with clams or mussels

Course Entree fish, Soup
Cuisine Dutch
Servings 6 pax

Ingredients
  

  • 200 g Shrimps Dutch
  • 1 pcs Carrots
  • 1 pcs Onion
  • 1 Branch Celery
  • 2 glass White wine
  • 1 pcs Leek
  • 1 tblsp Tomato paste
  • 125 ml Cream
  • 1 tblxp Olive oil
  • 1 dl Mayonaise
  • 1 Clove Garlic
  • 0.25 pcs Lemon for juice
  • 1 sniff Cayenne pepper
  • 5 brenches Chives
  • 500 g Clams Or mussels
  • 4 slices of bread Croutons

Instructions
 

  • Peal the shrimps and keep in the refrigerator.
  • Shortly pan fry the shrimp shells with the tomato paste in olive oil. Rince and cut the vegetables (carrot, leek, onion, celery) in mirepoix (bigger cubes) and add to the shrimp shells. Glace with white wine and add water just enough to cover the ingredients. Leave to simmer for 30 minutes.
  • Cook the mussels or clams with a glass of white wine just done. Pour and pass through a sieve. Keep the liquid and add to the shrimp shells and vegetables. Blender the soup and sieve.
  • Cook the soup again and let it reduce a little. Add the cream, reduce again, stir and bring to the taste with salt, pepper and lemon juice.
  • Cut small croutons of the bread and leave to dry in the oven at 100ºC.
  • Take half of the clams or mussels out of their shell and add with the shrimps to the soup. Place the other half of the clams or mussels in a bowl and pour the hot soup over it. Serve with the croutons and a rouille.
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Codfish with sauce mousseline

Servings 4 persons

Ingredients
  

  • 800 g cod fillet
  • 100 g of sea salt
  • 10 g Butter for baking
  • 10 g Butter for cooking in the oven
  • 20 ml Olive oil
  • 1 pinch pinch Fleur de sel
  • Puff pastry cookies
  • 200 g puff pastry
  • 1 pcs Egg

Spinach

  • 400 g Spinach Young spinach
  • 30 g Butter
  • 1 piece shallot
  • 0.5 clove Garlic

Mousseline Sauce

  • 3 pieces Egg yolk
  • 2 tbsp water
  • 45 g Butter in cubes
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • 50 ml Cream

Instructions
 

Codfish

  • Preheat the oven to 140 °C. Roll the fish in coarse salt. After 8 minutes, rinse the fish under cold running water. Pat dry with a clean towel. Heat a fireproof pan with the butter and olive oil. Color the fish on the skin side. Season with pepper and a little salt. Turn the fish over, add butter and cook for another 5 minutes in the oven at 140 °C. Bake the fish in the oven with the melted butter. Remove the skin from the fish and season with some fleur de sel.

Puff pastry cookies

  • Roll out the puff pastry on the work surface. Take a dressing ring and cut out 16 moons. Place them on baking paper on a baking tray. Brush them with the egg yolk. Bake them in the oven at 190 °C for about 19 minutes until nicely browned.

Spinach

  • Put a pan on the stove and melt the butter. Finely chop the shallot and garlic. Stew the shallot and garlic glassy. Add the washed and dried spinach. Stir and season with salt and pepper.

Mousseline Sauce

  • Beat the egg yolks with the water over a low heat until smooth. As soon as the egg yolks start to set, take the pan off the heat. Gently stir the cubes of cold butter into the sauce until they are completely melted. Season with salt, pepper and lemon juice. Half whip the cream and add gently to the sauce.
Source: Peter Goossens
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Marmite or beef stock

Course Broths
Cuisine Frans
Servings 5 liters

Ingredients
  

Bouillon

  • 0,4 kg Shank
  • 1 pieces Veal foot
  • 0,8 kg Roast beef
  • 0,4 kg Beef meat
  • 0,8 kg Beef loins
  • 0,8 kg tailpiece
  • 150 g carrots
  • 1,5 kg Beef bones
  • 150 g onions
  • 150 g celeriac
  • 150 g celery
  • 1 head garlic
  • 1 piece Bouquet garni
  • 8 liter water

Finish

  • 20 pieces peppercorns
  • 6 pieces cloves
  • to the taste sea salt

Instructions
 

  • Cut the meat in cubes of 2 cm.
  • Cut the onion in halfes and brown in a hot pan with the open side under.
  • Rince the vegetables and peel if necessary. Cut into mirepoix.
  • Add all ingredients in a pan and fill with water. Bring slightly to the taste with salt, pepper and cloves and add the bouquet garni. Bring to the boil and defoam if necessary. Let ik cook lightly for 8 - 10 hrs.
  • Pass through a fine sieve. The meat is usable for another application like croquettes.
  • Cool down and keep in the refrigerator or freezer.
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