Ingredients
- 2 onions
- 50 gm butter
- 30 mls olive oil
- Stale toast bread 6 loaves
- 12 egg yolks (keep whites)
- 1-1.5 lts milk
- 6 garlic gloves made into a paste
- 100 gms dried cherries
- Ground nutmeg ¼ t
- Seasoning to taste
- Reserved egg whites
- Parsley – large handful
Cherry Stuffing makes 5 Rolls
Method
- Finely dice onions and sweat off in the butter and oil until soft but with no colour
- Spread on a flat tray to cool Cut the crusts off the bread then dice bread into 2cm squares
- Mix the yolks with 1 ltr of the milk then pour over the bread and leave to soak for 20 min
- Mix the onion, garlic, dried cherries, nutmeg and seasoning with the bread mixture
- Whisk the whites to stiff foam and fold through the bread mixture
- When the bread has absorbed the wet mix fold through the parsley then form into tubes on double glad wrap and roll tightly to form a large sausage
- Steam for 40min until firm, leave to cool before reheating and cutting for service
- Serve on the side of the carved chicken
Comments
Thank you to Julie and the Otago Polytechnic for undertaking this demonstration