We’re in the kitchen this week with Elizabeth Robertson of Babette’s Feast. Add these great recipes to your Christmas menu.

Cinnamon Whole Roasted Chicken Filled with Rice Pilaf

Ingredients:

1 Whole Roaster

4 pegs garlic

2lbs rice

1/2 cup raisins

1 pack pine nuts

Salt and pepper to taste

2 tbsp cinnamon

Splash of olive oil

Method:

Rub cinnamon and olive oil salt and pepper on skin and under breast skin of chicken.

Sweat the garlic in olive oil with raisins and then add rice and chicken stock. Allow to cook.

Add roasted pine nuts

Stuff in cavity of chicken and then roast till done.

Shrimp and Beef Kebabs 

Ingredients:

3lbs Shrimps

4lbs Beef tenderloin cubed

5 assorted sweet peppers

4 large onions- quartered

Large bamboo skewers

Salt and pepper

For the beef: soya sauce,olive oil and thyme and garlic.

For the shrimp:olive oil, salt and pepper and lemon grass

Kebabs:

Stick on skewers alternating vegetables eg beef, onion, beef, sweet pepper, beef mushrooms beef. Do the same for the shrimp.

Shrimp with cranberrys and vegetables 

Ingredients:

5lbs shrimp

Vegetables: brocolli ,snowpeas, stringbeans [any of these]

Salt and pepper

Olive oil

Butter

2 medium onions (wedged)

1 head of garlic (crushed)

Method

Season shrimps with salt and pepper and diced onions and crushed garlic.

Marinate overnight

The Following Day:

Sweat onions and garlic in butter

Add vegetables and stir fry till just done.

Add the shrimps and lightly saute till done (do not over cook).

Grilled vegetable pasta salad in marinara suace

Ingredients: 

Marinara sauce

4lbs Tomatoes

3 tins of diced tomatoes

2 heads garlic

2 large diced onions

4 basil leaves

Oregano leaves

Olive oil

Vegetables: zucchini, eggplant, black olives

2 boxes of penne pasta

The sauce

Sweat seasoning in olive oil.

Add tomatoes and allow tomatoes to break down. Add chicken stock and reduce for two hours

Pasta

Add pasta to a pot of boiling water until al dente

Grill vegetables and then cut into cubes

Set aside

When ready to serve add garlic, onion and olive oil then add pasta, vegetables and sauce.

Toss and serve hot.