With Easter around the corner, it’s time to start planning your menu. Cape Herb & Spice have devised a mouthwatering menu to make your Easter entertaining simple and delicious. Stock up on everything you need to make this seriously tasty meal to share with your family and friends.

Easy Easter Entertaining

To Start: Smoked Snoek Paté With Mustard-Pickled Cucumber

For easy Easter entertaining (or indeed anytime), the key is make-ahead dishes that only improve as they stand. This snoek paté falls into that category. You can whip it up in mere minutes and it packs an extra flavour punch thanks to a generous sprinkling of Cape Herb & Spice Lemon Pepper Shaker Seasoning.

Serve it with dark seed loaf, rye or pumpernickel bread and super quick mustard-pickled cucumber ribbons. If you’re not able to get your hands on smoked snoek, smoked mackerel is an excellent substitute. Fresh, light, tasty and healthy, this one ticks pretty much all the boxes.

RECIPE: Smoked Snoek Paté with Mustard Pickled-Cucumber

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Mains: Roast Beef Fillet with Pangrattata Crust

When it comes to special occasion food, few things beat beef fillet. The most tender of all beef cuts, fillet simply melts in the mouth. Which is why it’s such a good idea to balance it with crunch in the form of a pangrattata crust.

Pangrattata derives its name from the Italian for breadcrumbs. In its simplest form, it’s just stale breadcrumbs toasted in a pan with olive oil and a clove of garlic. The resultant golden tastiness is most often encountered sprinkled over pasta, hence its nickname ‘poor man’s Parmesan’.

But there is so much more you can do with pangrattata. Sprinkle it over risotto, soft fried eggs, over fine green beans – the options are endless. Alternatively, really ramp things up as we’ve done here and use pangrattata to cover a fillet of beef. The addition of Cape Herb & Spice’s Mediterranean Rub elevates this pangrattata to new levels of yumminess and it’struly easy to make, perfect for effortless Easter entertaining.

RECIPE: Roast Beef Fillet with Pangrattata Crust

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Sides: Ultimate S&P Roast Potatoes

Roast potatoes are a winner for dinner no but even more so when they accompany a fabulous roast like our pangrattata-crusted fillet of beef. The secret to making the perfect roast potato is simple – seriously floury potatoes, pre-boiling and semi-smashing, followed by intense heat and a bit of fat.

Duck fat gets our vote any day, but if you can’t find it or avoid it for health reasons, good old vegetable oil does the trick too. Show these crunchy golden nuggets of deliciousness some S&P Shaker Seasoning love and you’re done!

RECIPE: for The Ultimate S&P Roast Potatoes

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Sides: Super Green Salad

Want to make a salad that’s incredibly tasty, ridiculously healthy and a visual knock-out to boot? Then think monotone – think green.  It doesn’t matter what you put in this salad, if it’s fresh and it’s green, chances are the ingredients will work together. The options are endless. Cucumber, celery, baby spinach, asparagus, mangetout, lettuce, rocket, watercress, avocado, briefly blanched green beans or broccoli. Add a shake of Cape Herb & Spice Garlic & Herb Shaker Seasoning to the dressing for punchy flavour.

RECIPE: Super Green Salad

So many ingredients, so much culinary fun to be had!

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