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Chef Warrick Taylor trained in the Drakensberg at Alpine Heath Resort and Conference Centre and completed a three year City and Guilds course.He then moved down to the Mount Nelson in Cape Town to work under Garth Stroebel in the Cape Colony restaurant as Junior Chef de Partie.Later moving to Johannesburg to work as a Sous chef at the Michelangelo Hotel. Chef spent 6 years in Jersey, working at the Pomme d Or Hotel I  StHelier and the Relaix and Chateaux, Longueville Manor, before returning  to the Arabella Western Cape Hotel and Spa as Sous chef, later promoted to Executive Chef. Now at Creation wines.

 

 

 

 

Chef Warrick shares two of his recipes with us! Enjoy!

Chef Warrick Taylor - Creation Wines

 

 

 

 

Ingredients

 

4

duck legs

500ml

duck fat

1

fresh buchu stems

1  clove

garlic

1 stem

rosemary

2

eggs

as needed

sunflower oil

25ml

white wine vinegar

1 teaspoon

mild curry spice

1 bottle

Creation Syrah Grenache

500ml

sugar

as needed

salt and pepper

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ingredients

 

1

pork belly, skin and rib bone removed

1

onions

3

carrots

1

leeks

2 stems

celery

5 cloves

garlic

3lt

beef stock

100gr

Chinese five spice

1 bunch

spring onions

200gr

prunes

3 tea bags

Darjeeling tea

2

eggs

1 pkt

wonton pastry

as needed

salt

 

 

 

 

 

 

Method

 

Pulled pork

1. Liberally marinate the pork with salt and five spice

 

2. Place the pork belly into a large oven proof dish with the

 

carrots, leeks, onion, celery, garlic and beef stock

 

3. Cover with tinfoil and cook at 145 degrees for 3 hours,or until soft

 

4. Remove foil and cook for a further 30 min

 

5. Take out of the over and allow to cool

 

6. Once cool strip the meat up into small pieces

 

7. Mix in the chopped spring onions

 

8. Reseason with five spice and salt

 

9.  Roll  the mixture into small balls and chill ready for wrapping

 

in the wonton pastry

 

 

Prune puree

1. In a saucepan place the prunes and teabags

 

2. Fill the saucepan with water to cover

 

3. Bring up to a simmer on low heat and cook until prunes are soft

 

4. Top up the water if neccesary

 

5. Romve from heat, remove teabags and puree in a blender

 

6. Pass through a chinois

 

 

Wontons

1. Place a sheet of wonton pastry on the  table and brush

 

with egg wash

 

2. Place the rolled pork in the middle

 

3. Fold as you would a tortelini, trying to ensure that you do

 

not trap any air inside

 

 

 

 

Five Spice Pulled Pork Wonton with a Prune & Daarjeling Puree 

To assemble  

1. Fry the wonton in hot oil  and drain on paper towel

 

2. Top with the prune and Darjeeling puree

 

Method

 

Duck confit

1. Season the duck legs and leave over night

 

2. Place in a tray and cover with duck fat

 

3. Add garlic, rosemary and buchu

 

4. Place in the oven at 130 dgrees for 3 hours

 

5. Allow to cool slightly and then remove the skin and bones and discard

 

6. Shred the duck roughly, season and roll in cling film into a cylinder shape

 

7. Refridgerate

 

 

Malay aioli

1. Whisk the eggs

 

2. Add in the vinegar

 

3. Whisk in the oil

 

4. Season with curry spice and salt

 

 

Syrah Grenache Syrup

1. In a small sauce pan, reduce the wine with the buchu stem

 

and sugar

 

2. Just before desired consisitency is reached, remove from

 

heat and cool

 

 

Poppadum

1. Cut poppadumsinot a triangle shape

 

2. Place in between two laddle and fry in hot oil

 

3. Drain on paper toweling and season.

 

 

 

 

 

 

To assemble

 1. Place a salad pea shoot leaf on the poppadum

 

 2. Slice the duck and place ontop of the leaf

 

 3. Place a teaspoon of the Malay aoili on top of the duck

 

 4.  Place a small amount of the syrup in the center of the Malay

 

 aioli .

 

Pair with Creation Syrah

Pair with Creation Syrah Grenache

​Confit leg of duck, Malay aoili, Syrah Grenache syrup, poppadum

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