Recipe ideas

Les Pastinades are ideal to flavour your apéritif, as tantalizing bites on slightly toasted bread. There are endless possibilities to combine, mix or cook them! The following list will help you play with their tastes and colours. It's up to you to!

On toasted bread slices :

• together with raw vegetables, such as cherry tomatoes, cauliflower, radish, celery, carrots, mushrooms, pepper, beetroot, or even fruit such as apples or pears (all flavours)
• topped with a slice of green pepper (sardine-balsamic), red pepper (fresh goat cheese-tapenade) or a thin slice of carrot (black olive-garlic)
• along with raw ham (mushroom-mint) or cooked ham (eggplant-basil), smoked salmon (artichoke-fennel), shrimps (tomato-pepper), fresh anchovy (anchovy-cumin), marinated raw tuna (beetroot-ginger), or dices of grilled chicken breast (zucchini-curcuma)

As an appetizer :

• on a potato or cucumber slice (anchovy-cumin)
• in a cherry tomato (tuna-capers)
• in puff pastry or filo bites, as well as in savoury cakes (all flavours)

As an ingredient :

• mixed with cream cheese or cottage cheese, along with raw vegetables as well as tarts and cakes
• as a sauce to be served with boiled eggs, instead of mayonnaise (salmon-cranberry)
• as a basis for a salad sauce (fresh goat's cheese-herbs)
• in a fresh salmon tartar (green olives-curry), or fresh tuna tartar (beetroot-ginger)
• in an avocado puree (chicken-lemon)
• in an omelett (black olives-garlic)
• in a quiche or savoury cake (zucchini-curcuma and mushroom-mint)
• in stuffed vegetables (green olives-curry)
• to give a fish sauce the final touch (sardine-balsamic)
• mixed with olive oil as a sauce for pasta or rice (tomato-red pepper)
• in a fish papillotte (artichoke-fennel)
• as a condiment for cold fish (aubergine-basil) or cold meat (anchovy-cumin)

As a snack :

• in a sandwich, with salad leaves and tomato slices (tuna-capres)
• on a slice of bread, gratinated in the oven (all flavours)
• on a slice of toasted bread, with a green salad (all flavours) or on a thin layer of honey (fresh goat's chesse-herbs)