Development
Kitchen

Ingredients

• 100g Kale
• 100ml Water
• 50g Butter
• ½ a Lemon
• 15g Pumpkin Seeds
• 10 – 15g Parmesan

Method

1. Remove stem and roughly cut up Kale
2. Lightly pumpkin seeds and roast for 8-10mins at 200°C, once roasted remove from the oven and allow to cool.
3. Add 100ml water and 50g butter to a saucepan and bring to the boil.
4. Once boiling add the lemon juice and zest.
5. Now add the kale and cover with a lid for 4-5 mins or until all the liquid has dissolved.
6. Remove from the heat and add to a side dish.
7. Sprinkle the roasted pumpkin seeds over the top
8. Grate the parmesan over and serve immediately as a side dish to desired meal (a good steak is always a good option but will work with chicken, fish dishes)

Click here to download lemon buttered kale recipe.

Ingredients

• 100g Kale
• 40g Pine Nuts
• 40g Parmesan
• ½ a Lemon
• 2 Garlic Cloves
• 75ml Olive Oil

Method

1. Remove stalks from kale and roughly chop so you have 100g.
2. Bring a pan of water to the boil.
3. Once boiling drop the kale into the water and cook for 1 minute to soften.
4. Remove the kale from the water using a sieve and allow to cool and dry on some paper towel.
5. Once the kale is cool add all the ingredients to a food processor and blitz until it forms a course pesto.
6. Store in the fridge in an airtight container.
7. Use in pasta dishes, salads and chicken dishes.

Click here to download our kale pesto recipe.

To celebrate National Curry Week our development chef has been busy in the Freshview development kitchen cooking up some delicious dishes.

His selection included: –

• Sweet potato & chickpea masala finished with curry oil and coriander
• Banana blossom bhajis with coconut raita
• Karam Saag Aloo, a heavenly combination of potatoes, kale and spices topped with coriander spiced yoghurt
• Roasted king scallop with curried butternut squash puree, granny smith apple, spiced toasted pumpkin seeds, curry oil and micro coriander

Thanks Chef!

Our development kitchen diary is always busy these days, as more and more of our customers join us and our development chef to share knowledge and their experiences with food.

Tasked recently with coming up with some autumnal menu ideas, chef got stuck in and we invited some of the guys from Upstairs At The Grill and Bar Lounge in Chester to join us for an afternoon of food. It proved to be another huge success, and chef really nailed the brief. We use these exercises to discuss food, new product arrivals, exciting vegan options, allergen awareness, cooking methods, share ideas, and never to coach or instruct chefs. The visits are becoming known as a knowledge exchange and in no way a training event in a kitchen.

Our development kitchen is open to all our customers, as is the expertise of our chef. We love getting involved and assisting whenever possible, remember chef spends much of his time on menu development and trialling new and exciting products we are always looking to add to our range of goods whilst many of you are extremely busy in your own kitchens cooking for your customers. Drawing on our own experiences, even the most accomplished chefs (including our development chef) benefit from sharing wisdom and ideas for inspiration.

Many of our customers are utilising both our development chef and our kitchen as a free resource, some returning on a regular basis for cook off’s and to share ideas on the next new menus. If you would like to take advantage of our kitchen and development chef contact your account manager to arrange the appointment. Great food, innovative ideas, what’s not to like?

Our development chef has been treating the staff to some epic burgers as we’ve been celebrating National Burger Day (UK) at Freshview, all using a variety of excellent burger carriers from our friends at Speciality Breads. His selection included: –

• Vegan Eden bun, vegan cornflake crusted soy “chicken” with vegan mayo, lettuce tomato and roast onion jam
• Rustic brioche, butter milk southern fried chicken with Korean kohlrabi slaw
• Tennessee bun, black and blue burger, Cajun spiced wagyu burger with blue cheese and smoked bacon
• Pepper bun, “Rossini burger”, wagyu beef burger, chicken liver parfait, onion jam and truffle jus
• Brioche bun, double smoked bacon, mature cheddar cheese and a wagyu beef burger

Needless to say, there was a long queue at the door of our development kitchen for this free treat for our staff. Thanks Chef!

More Veganuary gastronomy from our development chef.

Perhaps the best tasting lemon meringue pie we have ever tasted!

Chef’s been busy in the development kitchen, making a spiced roast pineapple with mango and passion fruit sorbet complimented with spiced oat crumbs and a pina colada style syrup.

It tastes even better than it looks!