Private Chef Marbella

RECIPES
Dessert

Pastiera Napoletana

Ingredients

  • Makes one 9-inch pie, about 8 to 10 servings
  • 1/2 cup hulled white wheat berries
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • For the dough («pasta frolla»):
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, cold and cut into 8 pieces
  • 2 large eggs
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Dessert

Torrijas

Ingredients:

  • 8-12 slices of day-old baguette or other bread (the harder the better)
  • 2 cups milk
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1 TS lemon zest
  • 1 TS orange zest
  • 1 TS lemon juice
  • 1 TS orange juice
  • 1 TS ground cinnamon
  • 1 TB rum
  • 1/2 TS ground nutmeg
  • 1 TS vanilla
  • 1/2 TS salt
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 4-5 TB olive oil
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Dessert

Crema Catalana

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups whole milk
  • 1 cup cream
  • 1 vanilla bean
  • 4 strips orange peel (can also use lemon)
  • 1 cinnamon stick – optional
  • 8 egg yolks
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ½ cup turbinado or raw sugar
  • 3 tbs corn starch
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Vegetarian Dishes

Aubergine, Courgette, Tomato & Mozzarella Towers

Ingredients:

  • 1 jar Good Tomato, sauce
  • Olive oil, for cooking
  • 2 large aubergines, cut into 1cm slices
  • Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 large courgette, ends trimmed and cut into 1cm slices
  • 2 mozzarella balls, about 300g all together, thinly sliced
  • 2 large vine-ripened tomatoes, thinly sliced
  • Large handful of basil leaves,
  • Balsamic Vinegar
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Fish

Lobster Ravioli with Lemon Cream sauce

INGREDIENTS

Ravioli Dough

  • 3 cups flour
  • 4 large eggs, room temperature
  • 2 teaspoon olive oil
  • pinch of salt
  • 1-2 tablespoons of water
  • Egg wash (1 egg, lightly beaten)

Lobster Filling

  • 1 pound fresh or frozen lobster tails,
  • 4 teaspoons salt,
  • 1 teaspoon olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon unsalted butter
  • 1/2 shallot,
  • minced
  • 1/2 cup whole milk ricotta cheese
  • 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
  • 3 tablespoons Parmesan cheese,
  • Salt and fresh ground pepper to taste

Lemon Cream Sauce

  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 2 tablespoon unsalted butter
  • 1 clove of garlic, finely chopped
  • 1 small shallot, finely chopped
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Fish

Crab and salmon fishcakes with homemade tartare sauce

Ingredients

For the potatoes

  • 250g/9oz small potatoes, preferably red-skinned potatoes
  • sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 tbsp olive oil

For the fishcakes

  • 250g/9oz salmon, poached, flaked, bones removed
  • 150g/5oz white crab meat
  • 150g/5oz brown crab meat
  • 1 tbsp good quality mayonnaise
  • handful fresh flatleaf parsley, chopped
  • handful fresh dill, chopped
  • 1 red chilli, finely chopped
  • 1 tsp Dijon mustard
  • sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 tbsp olive oil

For the tartare sauce

  • 4 tbsp good quality mayonnaise
  • 4 small cornichons or gherkins, finely chopped
  • 1 tbsp capers
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