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Pre-Prepared Gourmet Meals

Enjoy being a "foodie" with a little help. Our chef will pre-prepare and deliver your selected dishes and provide you with step by step instructions, which will allow you to produce that gourmet meal with success.

Te Kowhai Landing Sample Menu 2006
Entrée

(All Entrée are accompanied with fresh homemade bread)

(NZ) Whitebait frittata's with sauce gribiche and a dill and beetroot salad

Twice baked goats cheese souffle served on a bed of rocket with salsa rossa

Garlic and lemon pan fried prawns served on a seafood and fennel risotto

Salt and spice roasted duck breast served on a watercress and orange salad

Marinated chicken and pistachio terrine served with parsnip crisps and green leaf salad

Traditional French steak tartare with toasted homemade bread

Juniper berry and thyme marinated salmon gravadlax served with a dill and potato blini with grainy mustard and creme fraiche

Main courses

South Island baked salmon with a saffron beurre blanc, celeriac remoulade, wilted spinach served on a potato rosti

Rosemary and olive braised lamb shanks drizzled with gremolata served on a bed of creamy nutmeg pureed potatoes and honeyed carrots

Fillet of beef served with a béarnaise sauce, portabello mushrooms, french beans and sautéed potatoes

Prime marinated local venison with a parsnip puree, roasted squares of kumara and potato, sugar snap peas and a port wine jus

Parmesan and herb crusted lamb rack served with a cauliflower puree, pan fried courgettes and roasted potatoes

Marinated pork fillet filled with spinach, ricotta and pine nut farce served on basil pureed potatoes and french beans with a tomato pepperade

Grilled and marinated portabello mushrooms served with baby carrots, wilted spinach and roasted gourmet potatos with a thyme lemon beurre blanc

Dessert

Individual wild berry trifles, layers of cassis soaked almond and polenta cake, vanilla anglaise, wild berry compote and fresh cream

A Russian chocolate torte served with a orange and cardamom compote and mascarpone

Pears poached in Sangria served in between cinnamon tuilles and vanilla ice cream

Chocolate and hazelnut tart served with vanilla icecream

Individual lemon and lime tarts with lemon and sugar coated strawberries and crème fraîche

Char grilled mango and pineapple served with a tamarind, maple and lime syrup with mascarpone


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