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Main Course Recipes
Our passion at carte-du-vin is wine and food pairing
Check out our tried and tested recipes, each with a wine recommendation!
Quick tips
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Assemble all the ingredients before starting to cook
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Always pre-heat your oven in advance
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Keep tasting and adjust seasonings as you go along.
BBQ Lamb with Red Wine and Garlic
Traditional spring lamb is amazing cooked like this
15-30 minutes - this depends on how rare you like your meat!)
6 servings
Baked Salmon with Pistachio Crust
Intro: This fish dish is one of my 'go to' dishes for a quick supper for those unexpected visitors. Easy to prepare and uses store cupboard ingredients (I always have salmon steaks in the fridge)
40 Minutes
4 Servings
Beef Daube
This is a great dish for Summer or Winter serve with a green salad in the summer and root veggies in the Winter.
3 hours 30 minutes
6
Beef Lasagne
Lasagne is a crowd pleaser and once made put it ion the oven and relax!
1 hour
4-6
Beef in Guinness
Guinness adds a rich Irish flavour to this great stew.
3 hours 30 minutes
4 servings
Beef with Gorgonzola-Walnut “Butter”
This recipe is great to use when you BBQ a steak just have the walnut butter ready and pour over the grilled meat.
30 mins
4 servings
Biltong, Caramelised Onion & Blue Cheese Pizza
Homemade pizzas are delicious and a great way to use up leftovers. The recipe here is just to give you ideas!
1hr 30 minutes
4
Bobotie
This is a traditional South African dish and the flavour is in the Cape Malay style
1hr 20 mins
6
Cape Malay Fish Curry
Cape Malay recipes are very popular in South Africa and pair very well with their Bordeaux blends
45 minutes plus 2 hr to marinade
4
Chicken & Bacon Caesar Salad
This is a lovely version of this classic Summer lunch
1hr 30 mins
2
Chicken & Chorizo Pasta Bake
Tasty easy supper for week day
50 mims
4 servings
Chicken Breast Stuffed with Mushrooms
Great chicken breast dish with this lovely mushroom stuffing – so tasty!
1 hr 15 mins
6
Chicken Cassoulet
Cook one day in advance and keep chilled, the taste will only improve!
1 hr 15 mins
4 servings
Chicken and Tomato Pesto Pasta
Its bright flavour is the highlight of this easy pesto pasta recipe, packed with cherry tomatoes and chicken.
45 mins
6
Chicken, Squash & Pesto Lasagne
As with all lasagne it takes a while top prepare - this recipe is definitely worth the effort!
1 hr 15 mins
4
Clementine & Vodka-Baked Salmon with beetroot crème fraiche sauce
This dish makes a great centre piece for a Summer lunch can be served warm or cold
40 mins
6 -8 servings
Coq au Vin - Blanc
This makes a lovely change as you add white wine not red so perfect for a summer's evening.
1hr 10 mins
6*8
Coq au Vin – Rouge
Intro – The hearty French stew is perfect for a winters evening with friends
2hrs 10 mins
6
Cottage Pie
Great traditional dish to make vegetarian use good quality meat substitute.
1hr 30 mins
4-6
Cranberry Apple Stuffed Pork Loin
Buy the Pork tenderloin from a quality butcher to get the best flavour – it is not expensive cut
1hr 30 mins
6 servings