Latest recipes from La Motte

Salads have found a new lease on life. No longer are they only iceberg lettuce tossed with tomato and cucumber! No, today's salads contain anything from raw to cooked, vegetable to fruit, meat, dairy and lovely textures in the form of croutons or nuts. With their delicious complexity of flavours, salads have their own demands when...

Coq au vin pie The iconic French chicken stew, coq au vin, is a delightful chicken dish with red wine, mushrooms and onions. Inspired by the 2018 La Motte Millennium, The Food Fox, Ilse van der Merwe turned this traditional French stew into a scrumptious (boneless) pie with a royal homemade sour cream pie crust. ...

GRAPE FOCACCIA Ingredients Dough mix 290 g  Bread Flour 290 g Cake flour 15 g Salt 400 g Water 10 g Instant yeast 20 g Olive oil 1 tsp Chopped rosemary Grape wine mix 120 g red grapes 70 g Sugar 100 ml Red wine Toppings 150 g Grapes Flaked salt Olive oil Rosemary leaves Method...

  Makes 14 - 16 dumplings Ingredients 2 dried shiitake mushrooms, soaked in hot water for 30 minutes 200 g coarsely chopped pork loin or skinless belly (or substitute with pork mince) 1 Tbsp finely chopped fresh ginger 1 spring onion, the white part, thinly sliced 1 Tbsp soy sauce 1 Tbsp rice wine (or...

SWISS CHARD TART (TOURTE DE BLETTES) For the dough: 325 g flour 65 g sugar 1½ tsp baking powder ½ tsp salt 80 ml olive oil 2 large eggs For the filling: 1 kg Swiss chard leaves 80 g dried grapes (raisins) 20 ml brandy 50 g macadamia, toasted ½ tsp ground cinnamon 50 g...

Harvest Chicken  1 Large free range Chicken 250 g Chicken stock 100 ml Olive oil 200 ml La Motte Chardonnay  80 g Raisins 60 White grapes Stuffing 6 Bacon slices 60 ml Olive oil 1 Garlic clove, minced 1 Lemon zest, grated 150 g Onion, chopped 8 Sage leaves chopped 20 g Flat leave parsley 50...

Sole Veronique The Veronique sauce is a French cream sauce, made with vermouth and white grapes. It is most commonly served with delicate fillets of sole. Ingredients 20 g Butter 2 Skinless sole fillets 200 ml Fish stock 100 ml Dry vermouth 1 bay leaf 150 ml Cream 200 g Green grapes, cut in half and deseeded...

Harvest Pavlova Recipe (Recipe is enough for 4 smallish Pavlovas, each serving 2) Meringue: 500 g Castor Sugar 250 g Egg Whites Pinch of Cream of tartar 1 Tsp. Vanilla Essence Method: Begin by placing the egg whites and pinch of cream of tartar in the bowl of an electric stand mixer. Whip the egg...

Banana, date and almond parfait lollies  Makes 8 600 g Banana 2 x vanilla pods, seeds scraped out 100 g Almond butter 30 g pitted dried dates, softened in 50 ml warm brandy 3 tblsp honey For the chocolate dip: 200 g melted white chocolate 60 g toasted almond flakes Method: Add all the ingredients...

Spiced Savoury blueberry, coriander and citrus scones with charred red pepper and basil butter Serves 8 90 g Oatmeal flour 90 g brown bread flour 20 g Flaxseed flour 1 ½ tsp baking powder ½ tsp bicarb 1 tsp ground Cinnamon ½ tsp freshly grated nutmeg ¼ tsp Maldon salt ¼ tsp ground black pepper...