Recipes

Recipes

Recipes

OLIVE OIL CONVERSION CHART

1 teaspoon butter = ¾ teaspoon Olive Oil

1 Tablespoon butter = 2¼ teaspoon Olive Oil

2 Tablespoon butter = 1½ Tablespoon Olive Oil

¼ cup butter = 3 Tablespoons Olive Oil

½ cup butter = ¼ cup + 2 Tablespoons Olive Oil

1 cup butter = ¾ cup Olive Oil

GREEN OLIVE MUSTARD

This mustard works well mixed into Olive Oil and Lemon juice as a salad dressing.

Mixed into mayonnaise for potato salad, spread on gourmet sandwiches with cold chicken or pork and mix one heaped teaspoon into a creamy pepper sauce served with rump steak.

GORGONZOLA STUFFED FIGS WITH BALSAMIC REDUCTION

Ingredients

¼ cup good balsamic vinegar

Figs

Gorgonzola cheese

Prosciutto

Directions

Simmer the Balsamic vinegar in a small saucepan until it reduces to half the original volume.

Slice the figs open on the top.

Stuff a piece of Gorgonzola into the sliced open fig.

Grill the figs until the chesse melts, about 4 minutes.

Place the figs onto a serving dish and drizzle with the reduced balsamic vinegar.

Source  :  Closetcooking

ASPARAGUS  GRUYERE TART

Ingredients

1 Kg Asparagus, trimmed

1 x packet Puff Pastry, thawed

2 Tablespoons Green Olive Mustard

1½ cups Gruyere, shredded

½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

1 egg

1 Tablespoon milk

Directions

Grease a baking tray well.  Set the oven to 200°C.

Steam asparagus until tender-crisp, about 3 minutes.  Immediately remove from the pan and chill in cold water to stop cooking; pat dry and set aside.

Roll the pastry out to fit the baking tray and place on the prepared tray.  Very gently with a sharp knife, cut into the pastry (not right through) a 1 cm border around the edges.  This will allow the pastry to puf nicely.

Spread the Green Olive Mustard evenly not touching your 1 cm border.  Arrange asparagus, side by side and alternating ends, on the mustard.  Sprinkle the gruyere ontop and then the black pepper.

In a small bowl mix the egg and milk, lightly brush over the border of the pastry.  Bake in the oven until puffed and golden, about 18 minutes.

Source  :  e4eureka.com