Series One Recipes - Episode Five
Darren's Crayfish.
Kill crayfish humanly.
Bring a large pot of sea water to a rolling boil.
Add the crayfish and bring to a simmer, simmer for 6 minutes then
remove from the water and let stand for 20 minutes.
Split in half and eat.
Jo's BBq cray
Split cooked cray in half and remove meat. Roughly chop, season
lightly and add back to the shell. Cook on the BBq, basting with
garlic butter.
Eat.
Richard's garlic prawns
Ingredients
Bag of frozen green (uncooked) shelled prawn tails
Head of garlic
Couple of cups of oil
Handful rosemary
Salt
Lemon
Sherry
Method
Blend up peeled garlic, oil, rosemary.
Keep in a jar in the fridge. You've just made much more than you
need for this recipe, but this stuff is totally excellent on just
about anything (savoury).
Get BBq hot plate hot.
Throw on (thawed) prawns and a couple or dessertspoons of garlic
oil.
Shovel around until almost cooked, then splash on sherry and lemon
juice (didn't have lemons the day we filmed) and salt.
Shovel onto serving dish and stand back to avoid getting caught in
the stampede.
Dave's BBqed pork and smoked trout
Pork
Ingredients
Rolled pork roast x 1
Butter x 200g
Salt
Method
Butter the outside of the pork and salt well.
Put into your lidded bbq and follow the manufacturer's instructions
for which elements you need to have on, or better still follow the
wisdom gained from your years of experience, get it cooking and
stand back.
Dave's pork took 3 hours.
Get it out of BBq and smother yourself in pork fat.
Smoked Trout
Ingredients
Using one of the tin smokers as sold at red sheds, camping
stores and so on...
Appropriate wood chips (ie not treated timber sawdust!!)
Boned sides of trout (or some other fish, but larger fillets rather
than smaller and preferably with the skin on.)
Dave used manuka salt but I'd use regular old salt.
Tarragon
Brown sugar
Lemon juice
Method
Rub sugar, salt, lemon juice, tarragon into fish and let
marinate.
Dave says it's best the day before.
Put the wood chips into the smoker and the fish into the place
where you put the fish in the smoker, (there'll be instructions)
and put into the BBq, or over some other heat source to get the
wood chips smoldering.
Smoke for 15 mins then let stand for 5 then get it onto a platter
and get your teeth into it.
Serve with more lemon and toast.
Richard's Magic BBq sauce
Ingredients.
A big glug (1 cup-ish) salad oil. (Or any other oil you prefer, but
I wouldn't waste the finest olive oil on a BBq bash)
4 cloves garlic finely minced.
Rosemary minced.
2 Tbl mustard powder
2 Tbl sweet paprika
1 Tbl curry powder
4 Tbl sesame oil
1 Tbl soy
1/4 cup cider vinegar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup red wine
1 cup store bought BBq sauce
Salt.
Method
Combine.
Use to brush on anything that you BBq.
Flank Steak
This is a great flavoursome piece of meat that requires a bit of
method and slicing before serving.
Liberally smother the steak in magic sauce.
Put over hot coals. (This really does work much better over coals
than on a hot plate)
Cook until outside is browned and crusty ,but it is still bloody
inside.
Set aside to stand for 10 mins then slice ACROSS the grain into
thin slices and pile up.
I don't like when restaurants cut up my steak for me, so this feels
a bit off, to be recommending that you cut the meat for your
guests, but it really is necessary for this cut of meat.
It's wonderfully flavoursome, but a bit on the tough side unless
its well cooked and cut correctly.
It's worth gaining the experience and working out you best
method.
Vegetable.
Slice vegetables in BBq friendly way and BBq, brushing all the
while with the Magic sauce. Yum.
Alison's Steamed Jam Pudding
Ingredients
This is from the 1945 Women's Institute recipe book and 3 ounces
of butter
2 tbsps golden syrup
One large egg
3 ounces of light brown sugar
Half a cup of milk
9 ounces of flour
4 tbsp stiff jam
1/4 tsp salt
two level tsp of cream of tartar
One level tsp of baking soda
Method
Beat the butter and sugar to a cream,
add the syrup and the beaten egg
Dissolve the soda in the milk and add the crème of tartar to
the flour.
Then add the 1/2 the milk
Then 1/2 the flour, then the other half of the milk
Then the remaining half of flour.
Put the jam into the bottom of a greased pudding bowl and spoon
over the pudding batter mixture
Cover with lid (or use butter paper and then foil if you have no
lid)
and steam it for 2 1/2 hours.
Eat.
Richard's Lazy BBqed Store Bought Steamed Pudding
Ingredients
Store bought steamed puddings. (It would truly be a crime to
make Alison's recipe and turn around a BBq it).
Store bought custard.
Fruit (remember 5 plus a day!)
Butter (to grease hot plate and to keep dairy farmers in new 6
cylinder cars and petrol to drive them).
Method
Unwrap everything.
Cut up pudding
Cook on hot buttered BBq plate until it gets a bit'o'crust
Heat custard (or don't)
Cook fruit on BBq plate (or don't)
Serve and eat.
