Name: Milk-poached carrot-and-turnip mash with vino cotto-roasted butternut
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 1 min
Total time: 41 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Main Meals
Ingredients: For the mash: ,whole turnips, peeled and quartered 8,baby carrots 400 g,garlic, crushed 2cloves,bay leaves 4,sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste ,full-cream milk 1litre,For the roast butternut: ,large butternut, peeled, seeded and cut into chunks 2,olive oil 2T,sea salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste ,honey 2–3 T,vino cotto 2–3 T,lime juice 1–2 T,For the creamy pink peppercorn sauce: ,olive oil 1T,shallots, peeled and halved 2,garlic, crushed 2cloves,cream 1cup,pink peppercorns, slightly crushed 2T,butter 1T,sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

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Serves 4-6

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cooking Time 20 minutes

Ingredients

100 g sugar
1 1/2 t ground cinnamon
90 g cake flour
Salt, a pinch
3 T butter
1 1/2 litres milk
1 cinnamon stick

Method

Mix the sugar and ground cinnamon.

Rub together the flour, salt and butter with your fingers until it is nice and crumbly – the Afrikaans word for this is frummel (verb) or frummels (noun).

Add 3 T cinnamon sugar and continue mixing with your fingers. Pour the milk into a large saucepan and add the cinnamon stick. Bring to the boil. Once the milk is boiling and frothy, reduce the heat and allow to simmer while slowly sprinkling the frummels into the milk, whisking.

Reduce the heat and simmer gently, while whisking continually, for about 10 minutes. Turn off the heat, allow to rest for 5 minutes before serving with a generous sprinkling of cinnamon sugar.

Cook Tips: Do not skimp on the cinnamon sugar – if you are cautious with it, you have no business making and serving melkkos. If you like your melkkos more milky, simply use more milk and less flour.

Alternatively, if you want to have small lumps of cinnamon dough drifting like tiny islands in a bowl of milk, gently stir with a wooden spoon instead of whisking. Just do what feels right. Melkkos is not a science, it’s an emotion.

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