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 |
