🐟✨ Festive Side of Salmon ✨🐟
Christmas is around the corner and nothing says summer celebration like a beautiful salmon centrepiece. This festive side is quick to prepare, looks stunning on the table, and pairs perfectly with a bright yoghurt sauce. Serve warm or at room temperature, although the sauce holds best when the salmon is slightly cooler 👌
~ Ingredients ~
Salmon
▪️A side of salmon, skin on, approx 1kg
▪️1 tbsp olive oil
▪️30gm butter, melted
▪️Juice of half a lemon
▪️1 tsp wholegrain mustard
▪️1 tsp runny honey
▪️½ tsp sumac
▪️Salt and pepper
Topping
▪️1 ½ cups Cyclops Thick and Creamy yoghurt
▪️Zest and juice of a lemon
▪️2 tsp horseradish sauce (optional)
▪️½ red onion, finely sliced
▪️¼ cup cranberries, roughly chopped
▪️½ cup pomegranate arils
▪️70gm pinenuts
▪️Fresh parsley and dill, roughly chopped
▪️Salt and pepper
~ Method ~
▪️Heat oven to 180c
▪️Line a tray with baking paper and place salmon skin side down
▪️Mix olive oil, butter, lemon juice, mustard, honey and sumac
▪️Brush the glaze generously over the salmon
▪️Season with salt and pepper and bake for about 20 minutes
▪️Cool the salmon, covered
▪️Combine yoghurt, lemon zest and juice and horseradish and chill
▪️Mix onion, pomegranate, cranberries, pinenuts, dill and parsley
▪️Transfer cooled salmon to a platter and top with half the sauce
▪️Add the pomegranate mixture, season again and serve with extra sauce
Full recipe is on our website via the link in our bio. Share your Cyclops Christmas creations with us 🎄🎅
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🌴✨ Tropical Breakfast Trifles ✨🌴
These tropical breakfast trifles are a bright and festive way to kick off a summery Christmas morning. Fluffy mini pancakes, juicy mango and pineapple, and tangy passionfruit curd are layered with light and airy whipped yoghurt cream. Quick to assemble, fresh, colorful, and bursting with tropical flavour 🥭🍍✨
~ Ingredients ~
Whipped yoghurt cream
▪️ 1 cup Cyclops Yoghurt - we used 1% Thick & Creamy, but any variety would work, including our flavoured greeks!
▪️ 1/2 cup thick coconut cream
▪️ 2/3 cup cream
▪️ 1 tsp honey or maple syrup (optional)
Trifle
▪️ 200 g mini pancakes
▪️ 1/2–2/3 cup passionfruit curd
▪️ 1 mango, diced
▪️ 1/2 pineapple, diced
▪️ 1/4 cup toasted coconut chips
▪️ Lime zest
~ Method ~
▪️ Beat yoghurt, coconut cream and cream until soft peaks form. Sweeten if you like. Keep chilled.
▪️ Layer pancakes into glasses, add passionfruit curd, then mango and pineapple.
▪️ Top with whipped yoghurt cream.
▪️ Repeat layers and finish with a swirl of cream and extra curd.
▪️ Scatter coconut chips and lime zest. Serve immediately for maximum fluffiness.
The full recipe is on our website, click the link in our bio 😁 Share your Cyclops xmas creations with us and we will share a Cyclops voucher with you! 🎅❤️
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✨🐑 Indian-Spiced Slow Roasted Leg of Lamb 🐑✨
The ultimate relaxed summer Christmas centrepiece. Tender, fragrant and marinated in Cyclops Greek yoghurt for extra juiciness. Serve it with the cooling mint coriander raita and prepare for compliments 😁
~ Ingredients ~
Lamb
▪️ 1 leg of lamb, approx 2 kg
▪️ 1/2 cup Cyclops Greek yoghurt
▪️ 1/4 cup fruit chutney
▪️ 1 tsp each cumin, coriander, mild curry powder, turmeric
▪️ Salt and pepper
▪️ 1 garlic bulb, halved
▪️ 3 small onions, quartered
▪️ Fresh ginger slices
Raita
▪️ 1 cup Cyclops Greek yoghurt
▪️ 1/2 cup mint leaves
▪️ 1/2 cup coriander, leaves and stems
▪️ 2 tbsp lemon juice
▪️ 1/2 tsp cumin
▪️ Salt and pepper
To serve
▪️ Mint and coriander
▪️ Pomegranate arils (optional)
~ Method ~
Heat oven to 160°C.
Mix yoghurt, chutney, spices, salt and pepper into a thick paste. Rub all over the lamb.
Place garlic, onions and ginger in a roasting dish. Sit lamb on top, add 1/2 cup hot water, cover tightly with foil.
Roast 3.5–4 hours until very tender.
Remove foil for the last 30 minutes to caramelise.
Make raita by blending or stirring yoghurt, herbs, lemon and cumin. Season to taste.
Rest lamb 20 minutes, pull apart or carve, scatter herbs and pomegranate, serve with raita.
Full recipe in link in bio. Share your Christmas recipes with us and we may share some Cyclops vouchers with you! 🥰🎅🎄
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🍰 Raspberry & Vanilla Bean Croissant French Toast 🍰
Xmas is coming in hot and we`ve got some great recipes to include Cyclops in your feasting! 🎄
This creamy, decadent croissant French toast bake is the perfect breakfast to feed a hungry crowd on Christmas morning. You can prepare it the day before, and then bake it on the morning you plan to eat it. Mix up the berries depending on what’s available, or substitute fresh berries for frozen.
~ Ingredients ~
▪️6 eggs
▪️½ cup caster sugar
▪️1 cup cream
▪️¾ cup of milk
▪️¾ cup of Cyclops Vanilla Bean Greek Yoghurt, plus extra for serving
▪️½ tsp cinnamon
▪️½ tsp vanilla bean paste
▪️½ tsp salt
▪️8 croissants - halved horizontally
▪️2 punnets of fresh raspberries
▪️A few tablespoons of icing sugar, for dusting
~ Method ~
▪️Heat oven to 180. In a large bowl whisk together the sugar, eggs, cream, milk, cinnamon, vanilla, yoghurt and salt until well combined.
▪️Grease a large rectangular oven dish, then arrange the cut croissants to fill the dish.
▪️ Scatter over the raspberries (keeping half of a punnet aside for garnishing), placing a few between each of the croissant halves.
▪️Carefully pour the egg mixture over the croissants and gently press down with your hands to ensure the croissants are all soaked in the mix.
▪️Cover with foil and bake for 20 minutes, then remove the foil and continue baking for another 15-20 minutes or until the custard is set and the top is golden brown.
▪️Remove from the oven, leave to cool slightly before dusting with icing sugar and dividing into bowls.
▪️Serve each portion with a few fresh raspberries and a generous dollop of vanilla bean yoghurt.
We can`t wait to see how you include Cyclops on your Christmas recipes, so please share with us! 🤩🎄❤️
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