Rosemary and Walnut Bread with Soup and Cream Cheese Sweet Bread with Cherries

Rosemary and Walnut Bread with Soup and Cream Cheese Sweet Bread with Cherries

Recipe by: Lizelle Solomon

Dough

Ingredients

Make double one part for dessert and one for main dish.

1 Cup Water 32’-43’C
1 tsp dry yeast
2 Tbsp Sugar
3 Tbsp Olive Oil
2 1/2 Cups Flour

Method

  1. Set oven at 200’C
  2. In a large bowl combine yeast and sugar- Stir and rest 5 min.
  3. Add oil and flour combine
  4. Add to an oiled bowl and cover with a tea towel.
  5. Rest for 40 min until doubled.

Cream Cheese Sweet Bread with Cherries

Cream Cheese

Ingredients

230g Cream Cheese
100g Castor Sugar
Can Pitted Cherries

Method

  1. Cream cream cheese and sugar (place in piping bag)

Crumble

Ingredients

113g Butter
94g Flour
42 g Sugar
1/2 t Salt

Method

  1. Food process butter-butter-sugar and salt.
  2. Press dough flat on a spray and cook pan.
  3. Pipe cream cheese in Vertical lines.
  4. Add cut cherries on Cream Cheese.
  5. Top with Crumble
  6. Bake 12-14 min
  7. Let cool and Ice with Icing
  8. Reduce Cherry Syrup to half and drizzle over before serving.
  9. Rest the dough to Olive oiled pan, press down with fingers, add more oil, Rosemary and toasted walnuts and maldon salt on top.
  10. Bake at 200’C until baked through.

Icing

Ingredients

1 cup Icing Sugar
2 tsp Milk

Potato, Pear and Leek Soup

Ingredients

6 Potatoes
4 Leeks Chopped
4 Pears Chopped
6 Cups Chicken Stock
1 Cup Cloudy Apple juice with 2 tinned pears blitzed in.
250ml Cream
280ml Milk
2 Tbsp Butter
Fresh Coriander Parsley and Basil
Ground pepper and Maldon Salt

Method

  1. Heat Butter – fry leeks
  2. Add Potato and fresh pears
  3. Add stock
  4. Simmer for 25 min or until soft.
  5. Process
  6. Add Milk, Cream, Juice and herbs.
  7. Salt and Pepper to taste