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Elderflower Winter Fruit Compote Recipe

Elderflower Winter Fruit Compote Recipe

This winter fruit compote can be very handy during the winter season as it can be made in advance and keeps well in the fridge for days. Serve it for breakfast or brunch with some granola or pancakes. Or you can serve it with roast meat, particularly with poultry and game. If you have any left, it makes a lovely dessert with custard or ice-cream or to make crumble!

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warm vegetable salad

Gluten Free Dressings - not just for lettuce!!

Light & zesty Elderflower Dressing - drizzle over warm potatoes, asparagus, avocados, tomatoes & salad greens. Add to salmon & prawn salads, grilled fish, sashimi & fresh oysters. 

Tangy Elderberry Dressing with freshly grated orange zest - perfect tossed through mushrooms, stir-fries, rice salads and couscous. Drizzle over hot roasted veggies, or warm duck/chicken salads and barbecued meats. 

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Delicious Ideas for Using Elderflower Concentrate

Delicious Ideas for Using Elderflower Concentrate

Here are some of our favourite Elderflower Syrup recipes ideas and serving suggestions for you, your family and friends to enjoy...

Sweet Entertaining - elderflower is simply delicious folded through whipped cream to use as a topping over pavlovas, desserts, sponge cakes and scones. Add to sorbets and jellies, or to create a spectacular birthday or wedding cake.

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How to Use Elderberry Syrup

How to Use Elderberry Syrup

Our Elderberry Concentrate delivers delicious flavours and is perfect to enjoy with hearty dishes throughout winter and help while keep colds & flu at bay!

Here are some of our favourite Elderberry Syrup recipes ideas and serving suggestions for you, your family and friends to enjoy...

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Elderberry Syrup Chia Pudding Recipe

Elderberry Syrup Chia Pudding Recipe

This delicious Elderberry Syrup recipe, both sweet and tart, works as a healthy breakfast or snack...or dessert! This is a quick and easy way to enjoy the rich berry flavours and a boost of vitamins and antioxidants from our Elderberry Concentrate, perfect to keep colds and flus away throughout winter.

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How to make Elderflower Prosecco Cocktail

How to make Elderflower Prosecco Cocktail

Monica Shaw reveals the recipe for her 'Bump Start' Prosecco cocktail – and the story behind it! Made with elderflower concentrate, gin, lemon and lime, this elderflower cocktail is ideal to have during a late summer evening.

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Elderflower and Rhubarb Glazed Ham

Elderflower and Rhubarb Glazed Ham

What's the secret to the best Glazed Ham?

It's Elderflower! The unique flavour of elderflower in our glaze recipe will turn as average ham into a sensation!

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Donal Skehan's Strawberry and Elderflower Cake

Donal Skehan's Strawberry and Elderflower Cake

Although elderflower has a short season, elderflower cordial (or Ashbolt Elderflower Concentrate) is a perfect pantry ingredient that bottles summer and allows you to savour the flavour long after the last flower has fallen. Strawberries are a quintessential summer ingredient and this strawberry and elderflower cake is a wonderful dessert to savour the last of the summer.

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Carpaccio of Yellow Fin Tuna with Ashbolt Olive Oil

Carpaccio of Yellow Fin Tuna with Ashbolt Olive Oil

The vibrant green colour of the Ashbolt Extra Virgin Olive Oil features prominently in this Carpaccio of Yellow Fin Tuna with a salad of fennel, grapes and olives. 

Recipe from Simon West, Meadowbank Estate Vineyard

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