Six Must-Have Ingredients For Your Next Mid-Winter Feast
From tender beef shin to indulgent sticky date pud, discover the range of winter warmers available at your local Farro food store this month
TAKE IT SLOW
It’s official: beef shin, also known as osso bucco, is the cut of the season thanks to being rich in connective tissue which breaks down to meltingly tender mouthfuls when slowly cooked. Osso bucco is the basis of the eponymous North Italian stew which you find topped with green olive gremolata. Make enough of this and you can fold the le -overs through thick pappardelle pasta for an easy Monday night dinner, stir it into your favourite winter casserole, or pile into pastry cases for a delicious pie filling. Beef shin, red wine and mushroom pie, anyone? For Farro’s Beef and Lemon Osso Bucco Pappardelle recipe, visit Farro.co.nz.
INGREDIENT TO TRY: FILOTEA PAPPARDELLE
Filotea pappardelle is almost double the width of tagliatelle and offers a lightly textured surface, making it the perfect pasta to soak up a rich and saucy ragu, or le over shredded slow-cooked meat in sauce. Available exclusively from
Farro. $8.99/250g.
FOR THE LOVE OF FENNEL
The Farro team is currently in the middle of a love affair with fennel. They can’t get over the soft, buttery, aniseed taste and texture of this favourite winter vegetable when it is roasted and caramelized.
It really is melt-in-the-mouth delicious. For a super indulgent winter side, whip up a fennel gratin baked with cream and topped with parmesan – rich and oh so satisfying. Discover the recipe at Farro.co.nz.
PERFECT MATCH: SQUAWKING MAGPIE THE CHATTERER SYRAH
This delicate, barrel-aged Hawke’s Bay syrah is seriously rich in flavour, with soft tannins that keep it nicely approachable – perfect on cold winter nights. $19.99/bottle.
SHHH… NEW SECRET INGREDIENT
This month, the Farro team is excited to welcome Alexandra’s Rose Harissa
Paste to its shelves. A favourite in famed chef Ottolenghi’s pantry, this spicy harissa enhanced with rose petals can be used as a marinade, in soups or stews, or as a fragrant, spicy dip. Create your own rose harissa mayo by combining good quality mayonnaise with Alexandra’s Rose Harissa Paste and finely chopped preserved lemon. It makes for a delicious accompaniment to salt and pepper squid or grilled fish. $14.99/170g.
DECADENT DESSERTS
It doesn’t get more ‘comfort food’ than this. Farro Sticky Date Pud with Toffee Sauce is made fresh in the Farro Kitchen in Orakei, and is perfect way to finish any evening. $11.99/450g.