Outstanding Summer Platter

Outstanding Food Producer Awards have worked with a handful of award winners to create an easy-to-assemble, guaranteed-to-be delicious platter, that you can serve all summer long! From pre-Christmas catch-ups, through the festive season and into 2025, this simple collection of flavours will become a summer favourite. By starting with produce from five medal winning producers you can be sure your platter is high quality. 

Match with Leefield Station Pinot Noir Rosé 2024 and Emerson’s Orange Roughy.

Serves a crowd.

Take a selection of produce from Outstanding Food Producer Awards medal winners – we chose:

• Proper Crisps Big Cut Purple & Gold
• Kiki Seed Cracker Mix Sea Salt
• Robbies Peach & Ginger Chutney
• Pepler’s Plum ε Cardamom Paste
• Woodlands’s Certified Organic Pōhutukawa Honey

Then match these five with other great Kiwi produce to fill out your platter. You add your favourites – we used:

• Mayonnaise Pepler’s Basil Pesto Mayonnaise
• Rocket
• Cured meat (such as local prosciutto, bresaola or coppa)
• Thinly sliced fresh peach
• Fresh Microgreens Pea, shoots picked
• Semi-hard cheese, very thinly sliced (we used Meyer Cheese Fenugreek Gouda)
• Very thin slices of rare venison
• Red witloof (or red witloof or Belgian endive)
• Whitestone Cheese Co Windsor Blue or Oamaru Blue

Step-by-Step Outstanding Summer Platter Instructions

1. Make your Kiki Seed Crackers
2. Choose a board or large platter. Use baking paper to add texture
3. Add two small bowls for the whipped NZ feta
4. Add whipped NZ feta to each bowl and drizzle with olive oil
5. Add Proper Crisps
6. Add red witlof
7. Add Kiki Seed Crackers
8. Put a dollop of mayonnaise on each cracker then top with rocket
9. Fill witlof with crumbled or thinly sliced NZ blue cheese, drizzle Woodlands’s Certified Organic Pōhutukawa Honey over
10. Add cured meat and sliced fresh peach to half of the crackers, top with Robbies Peach & Ginger Chutney
11. Add thin slices of semi-hard cheese to remaining crackers and top with Pepler’s Plum ε Cardamom Paste
12. Add sprigs of fresh herbs
13. Add drinks - we served Emerson’s Orange Roughy & Leefield Station Pinot Noir Rosé 2024
14. Enjoy!

Whipped NZ Feta, topped with olive oil, spring onion, coriander leaves and finely grated lemon zest

Whipped NZ Feta - makes 1 generous cup

150g creamy New Zealand feta, crumbled

150g New Zealand crème fraiche

3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

2 very thin spring onions, finely sliced

a small handful of coriander leaves

finely grated zest of 1 small lemon

Method

Put the Feta, crème fraiche and 2 tablespoons olive oil in a small food processor and process until smooth. Season with salt, if needed.

Put into a dish or two small dishes, drizzle with the remaining olive oil and top with the spring onion, coriander and lemon zest.

Grab a Proper Hand Cooked Crisps Big Cut Purple & Gold Cracked Pepper & Sea Salt crisp and dig in!

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