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Border Union Show - Recipes.
Thank you to everyone who visited us at the Border Union Show. Please find below the recipes from the Taste Scottish Borders Food Fair. The Chef responsible for these dishes was Kenny Coltman of the Caledonian Hilton in Edinburgh.
Enjoy!

Warm Salad of Roe Deer with Traquair Ale
Ingredients:
Traquair Ale
Seasonal Berries
Seasoning
Salad Leaves
Cherry Tomatoes
Asparagus (Cooked)
Method:
Pan Fry the meat.
Remove meat and slice.
Add Berries and Traquair Ale into the liquid in the pan used to cook the meat.
Arrange Salad Leaves, Cherry Tomatoes and Asparagus on serving dish.
Place meat on plate with vegetables.
Dress with sauce.
Pickled Mackerel in Caraway Dressing
Ingredients:
Strips of Pumpernickel
Salad - Shredded
Quails Egg - Boiled
Caraway Seeds
Oil
Seasoning
Pickling Juice
125ml Rice Vinegar
75g Sugar
2 tblspns Maldon Salt
1 Whole Clove
1 teaspn Mustard Seeds
1 teaspn White Peppercorns
1 teaspn Chopped Fresh Ginger
Method:
Make the pickling juice.
Add mackerel to the pickling juice - heat until just cooked.
Drain, make caraway dressing.
Place mackerel on serving dish and garnish with pumpernickel, salad and
boiled egg, finish with dressing.
Mixed Berries with Traquair Ale Sabayon
Ingredients
1 tblspn Caster Sugar
50ml Traquair Ale
125g Mixed Berries
1 Tblsp Red Wine
6 Fresh Basil Leaves - Chopped
1 Tblsp Yoghurt
Half Lime - Zest Only
Honey
Method:
Make Sabayon.
Place fruit in serving dish.
Add some honey onto fruit.
Top with Sabayon.
Use blow torch to colour surface.
Garnish.
