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Mushroom recipes

Thick-cut rib-eye with mushroom and green peppercorn sauce

15 minutes

Chicken recipes

Creamy chicken and mushroom with baby spinach

10-15 minutes

Roast mushrooms with Serrano ham and gorgonzola

10 minutes

Polenta recipes

Roast mushrooms on soft gorgonzola polenta

10 minutes

Aliums

Garlicky mushrooms with spinach and cream

10 minutes

Cooking with

Klein karoo springbok wellington with parsnip puree, baby root vegetables and red wine jus

10 minutes

Risotto recipes

Risotto with Gorgonzola and mushrooms

40 minutes

Steak recipes

Spinach-and-mushroom bake

25 minutes

Beef and cauli mash shepherds pie

Serves 4

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 25 minutes

Cooking Time 1 1/4 hours

Ingredients

400 g beef mince
125 g streaky bacon, chopped
40 g butter
1 large onion, finely chopped
4 celery sticks, roughly chopped
2-3 garlic cloves, minced
50 g tomato paste
250 ml good-quality beef stock
3 fresh thyme large sprigs, chopped
200 g button mushrooms, sliced
1x400 can chopped tomatoes
3 fresh origanum large sprigs, chopped
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
1 cauliflower head, broken into florets
2 free-range egg yolks
100 g butter
Ground nutmeg, to taste

Method

Sauté the mince and bacon in the butter in a medium-sized, heavy-based frying pan until golden brown.

Once the mince has browned, remove it from the pan and add the onion and celery.

Sauté the onion and celery in the fat until golden brown. Add the garlic and sauté until aromatic.

Return the mince to the pan, add the tomato paste and stir until a dark sediment collects on the base of the pan (this sediment gives the mince an amazing roasted flavour).

Add the beef stock, thyme, mushrooms and canned tomato and simmer over a low heat for 1 hour. Add the origanum and season to taste.

Steam the cauliflower until very soft. Place the cauliflower in a food processor and purée until smooth. While the blender is running, add the egg yolks.

Add the butter, one knob at a time, until it has melted and the mixture is smooth. Season with nutmeg to taste.

To assemble the cottage pie, fill a lasagne or pie dish with the mince and smooth the top. Top with the cauliflower purée and press the classic fork pattern into the top. Place it under the grill for 15 minutes until golden brown.

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Recipe reproduced with permission from The Real Meal Revolution by Tim Noakes, Sally-Ann Creed, David Greer and Jonno Proudfoot. Photograph: Craig Fraser.

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Beef and cauli mash shepherds pie

Beef and cauli mash shepherds pie

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