Introducing Palates and Plates of Joy with the 2024 La Motte Vin de Joie Rosé
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Introducing Palates and Plates of Joy with the 2024 La Motte Vin de Joie Rosé
The Mediterranean conjures images of beautiful blue oceans, fields of lavender, acres of olive or lemon trees, charming villages, passionate people with foreign accents, generous plates of food and wine glasses filled to the brim. While all of these would be accurate, the area along the Mediterranean coast consists of 22 countries across three continents...
Beef French Dip Sandwich Recipe
A gourmet treat featuring tender slices of roast beef piled high in a crusty baguette. Served with a rich, savoury dipping jus, this hearty sandwich offers a deliciously satisfying mix of flavour and texture. Serves: 4Prep time: 15 minutesCook time: 4,5 hoursDifficulty: easy Beef Ingredients1kg beef silverside1 Tbsp (15 ml) olive oil1 Tbsp (15 ml)...
Sourdough braaibroodjie with French onion confit
We’re not trying to replace the classic, iconic South African braaibroodjie! However, we do love trying new things and marrying French and South African favourites. This is our take on a braaibroodjie inspired by classic French onion soup - traditionally served with crunchy gruyere toasts. Confit onions are similar yet even simpler to make than...
Breakfast Kota
A kota is an iconic township sandwich originally hailing from Soweto, but now available all over South Africa. “Kota” might refer to township slang for “quarter loaf”, because the sandwich is assembled in a quartered government loaf, hollowed out. Fillings are plenty, including items like chakalaka, sausages, polony, slap chips and sauces - similar to...
SA Street Food Reimagined
The La Motte Artisanal Bakery is all about bread and celebrating this humble product’s rich heritage as a staple food. When made with quality flour and yeasts as well as traditional methods of slow fermentation, bread is not only wholesome and delicious, but even an affordable luxury! To celebrate the everyday beauty of bread as...
Boerewors Gatsby
The Cape is known for this gigantic sandwich - a smorgasbord of French loaf, different kinds of meat or sausage, slap chips, lettuce, tomato and sauce/s. We’ve made a mash-up between two iconic South African sandwiches: the Gatsby and the boerewors roll - an enormous boerie in the Gatsby style that can be cut into...
Curry Bunny Crown
The Bunny Chow is one of South Africa’s most recognisable and loved sandwiches. Traditionally served in a hollowed out half loaf or quarter loaf of white bread, it is generously filled with Durban-style curry - lamb, chicken or vegetarian. Our version is served as a centrepiece-to-share in the Couronne from the La Motte Bakery: a...
Celebrating Heritage Month with all that is local and lovely at La Motte
More than a new season, September brings us Spring, the most optimistic time of the year with the promise of new life and longer days. On La Motte Wine Estate in the Franschhoek Valley, the age-old oaks and vineyards are sprouting with enthusiastic bright greens, while the Proteas and Cape Snow Bush plants are in...
Pan-Fried Trout with Brown Butter Beurre Blanc
Serves 4 Brown Butter Beurre Blanc 60 g butter 125 ml (1/2 cup) La Motte MCC 2 sprigs thyme 1 sprig flat leaf parsley 10 peppercorns 1 slither lemon peel 180 ml (3/4 cup) fresh cream sea salt flakes, to taste 15 ml (1 tablespoon) olive oil 4 (180 g) skin-on trout fillets a small...
A Red Revelation
With a thoroughly cold and wet Winelands winter, we don’t need any excuse to enjoy a glass of red wine, but we actually have a few! National Shiraz Day (21 August) always encourages us to open a bottle of Shiraz, but as it has been extended to Seven Days of Shiraz (21 – 28 August)...
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