Caribbean Starters/Desserts

Caribbean Starters
Either served on a plate to seated diners
or on a platter at a stand-up situation:
We have included a few starters from further afield than the Caribbean.

Choose your party starter course as follows:
• Pick two starter dishes coloured red
• Plus pick two starter dishes coloured green
• Plus pick two starter dishes coloured blue
And you have your starter course at the prices below.

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Choose two protein starters from those listed below in red:
Choose two vegetable starters from those listed below in green:
Choose any two starter chutneys from those listed below in blue:

Price: Starter Plate:
up to 40 diners ~ £7 per diner
up to 60 diners ~ £6.50 per diner
up to 80 diners ~ £6 per diner
over 80 diners ~ £5 per diner
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Caribbean Desserts

Diners may feel full at this stage so we make sure our desserts are light and fresh and easy eating.
Pick one dessert.
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Banana Fritter ~ Banana mashed with nutmeg and cardamom then embalmed in a light batter, fried, sprinkled with cinnamon and served with creme fraishe.   £2.50 per person
Deep-fried Kulfi ~ Not practical for more than 30 diners but a treat for those who have it. Vanilla Kulfi icecreaqm is wrapped in a filo-pastry parcel, deep-fried, dusted with icing sugar and served fast with a lime wedge. £2.50 per person
Fruit Satay ~ What a great pudding it makes for your party. Cubes of fresh fruit are skewewed, about five pieces per long skewer, one skewer per diner. It is glazed with palm sugar syrup. We use only firm fruit with contrasting colours.   Nice with apples, nectarines, peaches, mango, banana, kiwi fruit, etc, and if possible use star fruit for dramatic effect. It is lightly grill and serve hot to table with creme fraishe or ice cream.   £2.50 per person
Gajjar Halva ~ Gujarati Sweet Carrot Pudding ~ Made from jaggery (palm sugar) clarified butter milk and carrot, and tasting much better than it sounds! Here it is served hot, garnished with pistachio and with creme fraishe.
£1.50 per person
Gulab Jamun with Jalebi ~ The Indian’s Indian dessert: Gulab Jamun – Golden Globes, literally meaning ‘rosy plum’, referring to it’s shape. Balls of curd-cheese paneer are deep-fried to golden, to achieve a cake-like texture and served cold in light syrup, topeed with Jalebi – Syrup-drenched crispy spirals – curly, crisp, sticky golden spirals of deep-fried batter drenched in sticky syrup. £2 per person
Kesari Srikand ~ Saffron Yoghurt Syllabub ~ Ground almonds, double cream and thick natural yoghurt whipped together to create a creamy syllabub, flavoured with La Mancha saffron stamens and cardamom, sprinkled with freshly grated nutmeg. Served cold, ideally in a stemmed glass.   £1 per person
Mango Surprise ~ A syllabub or smoothie of yogurt, cream and mango purée topped of with sliced mangoes in syrup. Served cold, ideally in a stemmed glass.   £1 per person
Moyra Banana  ~ Moyra is a Goan town and this is their pudding. A heated sweet and syrupy sauce made from jaggery (palm sugar) and butter ghee, amalgamated with chopped nuts, dates and golden sultanas, flavoured with ground green cardamom is poured over banana, and served with creme fraishe.   £1.50 per person
Patishapta Pitha ~ Bangladeshi Sweet Pancakes ~ Not practical for more than 30 diners. Pancakes filled with whipped soft cream cheese and thick soured cream, sweetened with sugar and spiced with ground green cardamom and grated nutmeg, dusted with icing sugar. Served cold with hot date palm or pomegranate syrup. £2.50 per person
Pyasam ~ Coconut Rice Pudding ~ Pudding rice flavoured with coconut milk and cream, topped off with a coulis of exotic fruits and nutmeg. Served hot.   £1.50 per person
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