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At the Contemporary Australian Cuisine restaurant, we momentarily left
our seafood theme to try an Australian lamb prosciutto on mixed baby greens
and soft white goat cheese with a welcome-to-Australia sundried bush tomato
and macadamia nut salsa. For entrees (that’s what the Aussies call an
appetizer) there were prawns, scallops, and crab cakes with a pickled
green paw paw salad with coriander and sesame aioli and the famous Sydney
rock oysters with a ginger-clove dipping sauce. And for the Main course
there was more seafood of oven roasted fillet of blue eye cod, vine wrapped
swordfish, and pan-fried barramundi fillet.
For travelers who live to
dine, this is truly paradise.
Sundried Bush Tomatoes
and Macadamia Nut Salsa
- 2 ounces bush tomatoes
- 2 cups red wine
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch dissolved in 1 tablespoon
water
- 1 cup macadamia nuts, chopped
- ½ cup port wine
- 1 ounce sundried tomatoes, diced
- 1 ounce roma tomatoes, diced
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- salt and pepper to taste.
Boil bush tomatoes in wine for 20 minutes. Strain liquid into saucepan.
Add cornstarch dissolved in water. Bring just to the boil stirring constantly
until the mixture is thickened and clear. Remove from heat. Add nuts, port,
sundried and fresh tomatoes, sugar, Worcestershire sauce and salt and pepper.
Refrigerate for about 6 hours before serving. Makes 2 cups.
Note: Try this as an accompaniment to a strong flavored fish such as salmon.
Hayman
Island Resort, Whitsunday Islands
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