Recipes

Caramelised Onion Tarts

Quick and easy pre-dinner nibbles, or make them larger for lunch - 24 mini tatlets or 8 larger, depending on the size of your muffin tins.

1 jar Martinborough Manner Onion Marmalade

2 sheets pastry, puff or savoury or home-made

2 eggs

5T cream

Salt and pepper to taste

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C, Cut rounds of pastry to fit your mini (or larger) muffin tins. Grease the tins and then push the pastry into the tins neatly. Place a teaspoonful (or more for larger muffin tins) of onion marmalade in the pastry. Beat together briefly the cream and the eggs, season to taste, and pour a small amount into each tartlet shell. You need to fill almost to the top of the pastry. Bake for 10 minutes for the mini-tartlets, longer for larger ones, or until they are golden brown. Remove the tartlets from the tins and cool on a wire rack. Garnish with sprigs of thyme if you have some (the onion marmalade has thyme in it).

Beef Fajitas with Onion Marmalade and Sour Cream Dressing

Rub spices and seasonings of choice over a piece of sirloin steak [for example, ground cumin, ground coriander, cayenne, crushed garlic, small quantity olive oil to mix, salt].

Sauté steaks for 2 – 3 minutes each side or until done as you like them. Leave to rest on a plate for 10 minutes.

Sauté some capsicum in the pan juices from the meat. Add desired quantity of Martinborough Manner Onion Marmalade and a squeeze of lemon or lime juice.

Sour cream dressing – mix sour cream with crushed garlic, and grated zest from a lime or lemon, and the juice from the lemon or lime. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

To serve – slice the steaks thinly across the grain. Spread a tortilla with the dressing, top with finely cut lettuce, tomato, avocado, other vegetables to taste, steak, and onion marmalade. Roll tortillas to serve.

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