At home
If you’re looking to get creative in the kitchen, or would like to pair the wines of Vriesenhof at home, you can try one of these three recipes, carefully curated for our range.
An ode to seafood and wine pairing that goes beyond boundaries and pairing traditions, try one of these mouth-watering matches made in heaven.
Seafood Pie With Silver Fish
Paired with our Pinot Noir
Prep time: 40 mins / Cook time: 30 mins / Serves: 6-10
You will need:
- 300g firm white fish like carpenter, hake or monkfish, filleted and cut into chunks
- 150g fresh squid, cleaned and sliced
- 150g fresh mussels, cleaned, steamed and shells discarded
- 150g haddock (smoked hake), boned and flaked
- Butter, for frying
- 1 small brown onion, peeled and finely diced
- 4 leeks, rinsed and thinly sliced
- 2 cloves of garlic, crushed
- 90g plain flour
- 300ml homemade fish stock
- 250ml fresh cream (or leftover mussel sauce)
- 1 lemon, juiced
- 4 sprigs of fresh dill
- 400g ready-rolled puff pastry, defrosted
- Plain flour, for dusting
- 1 egg, beaten
- Coarse ground sea salt and black pepper
Grilled Maasbanker with Salsa Verde
Paired with our Unwooded Chardonnay
Prep time: 15 mins / Cook time: 10 mins / Serves: 4 to 6
You will need:
- 20g fresh rosemary, leaves removed from the woody
stalks - 20g fresh flat leaf parsley
- 10g capers
- 2 – 3 green capsicum chillies
- 125ml extra virgin olive oil, plus extra for bottling
- The juice and zest of a lemon
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 15 – 20 fresh maasbanker or sardines, cleaned
- Coarse ground sea salt and black pepper
Mussels with parsnips & Parmesan
Paired with our Oaked Chardonnay
Prep time: 20 mins / Cook time: 20 mins / Serves: 4
You will need:
- 3-4 kilograms of fresh mussels, cleaned
- 250ml fresh cream
- 100ml dry white wine
- 50ml chicken stock
- 4-6 leeks, thoroughly washed and thinly sliced
- 30ml butter, for frying
- 3-4 large parsnips, peeled and grated
- 2 sprigs of fresh thyme
- 4 large cloves of garlic, crushed
- 100g grated Parmesan
- Coarse ground sea salt and black pepper