Festive Fine Ingredients To Upgrade Your Christmas Dishes.

How about upgrading your Christmas dinner to a Fine and Festive one?

At times gourmet cravings just cannot be ignored especially when Christmas rolls around. However, lack of time often makes it challenging to realise these fine menus. This is about to change just by adding one or two ingredients the usual recipe you already master.

Indulge in a hearty and tasteful Truffle Dish!

Truffle up your Christmas dinner while cutting short your time in the kitchen and investing more in family bonding.

From a delicate pasta tossed in rich truffle pasta sauce, to a creamy roasted cauliflower dish made with some Parmigiano Reggiano Cream and White Truffle with Balsamic Vinegar or even some delectable truffle hummus prepared with some exquisite extra virgin black truffle oil perfect as your party appetiser, the chef in you will not be held back this Christmas.

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The Real Finesse - Foie Gras.

If you are feeling a little more adventurous, you could treat yourself and your guests with some refined foie gras cream puffs and truffles. For a dish of real finesse, the very famous seared fois gras on toasted brioche with caramelised onions is a must try; it may sound like a complicated dish but it is actually quite simple to prepare. The bonus is that grocery shopping has never been easier. Place for your order for foie gras online and it will be delivered at your doorstep.

The Confiture de Figue - For sweet and savoury dishes.

Put aside your habitual sweet preserves and opt for an even juicier and crunchier Confiture de Figue for your Christmas dinner. You will not have to prepare it from scratch. All you have to do is to place your order online.

Scoop and spread the delicacy and it shall fit into a variety of dishes that will leave your guests craving for more! Start your festive mornings with an easy but gourmet toast bread! Follow up later that evening with appetizers of all sizes. A mini brie and bacon tartelette accompanied with a bit of fig preserve and baked to perfection.

Have the children have a go with stuffed crepes or pancakes as it does equally well with dessert as with savoury dishes. Forget honey and grab your fig jar to unapologetically glaze your roasted meat for that tenderness rich taste. Fancy a cheesecake for dessert? Just throw it in your batter and enjoy the surprising sweetness of the cake. You can always just top up any food you feel deserve some fig and you will be impressed with the outcome.

RECIPES

Chicken lovers, indulge in some home prepared truffled mushroom chicken with this recipe:

Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 15-20 mins
Serves: 4
Calories: 600 Kcal

Ingredients:

3 tbsps of olive oil
Salt & Papper to taste
1 1/2 pounds of boneless skinless chicken breasts or small thighs
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
1/4 cup of freshly chopped parsley
Pinch of crushed red pepper flakes.
2 cloves of grated garlic
2 tbsp of fresh thyme
1 tbsp of white truffle oil
1 tbsp of flour
1/2 cup of white wine
1/2 cup of chicken broth
1 cup of milk

Method:

Season chicken with salt and pepper.
Heat 2 tbsps of olive oil in a skillet and place the chicken in the skillet. Sear on both sides until brown for about 4-5 mins.
Remove the chicken from the skillet and add another tbsp of olive oil to the skillet. Add the mushrooms and season with salt + pepper. Cook for 5 minutes. Stir in the garlic and thyme, cook another minute. Add the flour and continue cooking another minute longer.
Slowly pour in the wine, whisking as you pour, until the wine is incorporated into the flour. Whisk in the chicken broth and milk.
Bring the mixture to a low boil. Stir in the truffle oil, parmesan cheese and then slide the chicken back into the sauce. Simmer the sauce over medium low heat until the chicken is cooked through and the sauce has thickened slightly, about 10-15 minutes depending on the size of your chicken.
Remove the sauce from the heat and stir in the parsley + a pinch of crushed red pepper flakes.
Serve!

Seared foie gras on toasted brioche with caramelised orange, as realised by Chef Drabble:

Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 15-20 mins
Serves: 4

Ingredients:

6 slices of brioche
6 slices of foie gras
1 orange (peeled)
3 tbsp of light browned sugar
Salt and pepper to taste
Sherry wine

Method:

Take some brioche and slice it to approximately 5mm thick. Cut it into rectangles around 2.5cm x 2cm toast it and keep it warm.
Slice some fresh foie gras approximately 1cm thick (6 slices). Season it with salt and pepper and sear in a very hot pan on both sides quickly just to caramelise each side.
Remove from the pan and place on an oven proof tray or dish.
Take an orange and peel it with a knife, slice it into slices approx 5mm thick and trim into even-sized discs approximately 1.5cm in diameter. Put the orange discs onto a heatproof tray and sprinkle with light brown sugar. Caramelise with blowtorch or by putting on broil option on electric stove.
To finish off the dish, warm the foie gras through in an oven at 160°C. Slice the foie gras and lay it on top of the brioche and then put the orange on top. Garnish with a small salad and a sprinkle of Sherry.

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Indulge in a hearty and tasteful Truffle Dish!

The Real Finesse - Foie Gras.

The Confiture de Figue - For sweet and savoury dishes.

RECIPES

Chicken lovers, indulge in some home prepared truffled mushroom chicken with this recipe:

Ingredients:

Method:

Seared foie gras on toasted brioche with caramelised orange, as realised by Chef Drabble:

Ingredients:

Method:

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