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Recipe ideas for using Vitalities gourmet antipasto:

• Crostini - smear Vitalities antipasto on crostini and top with a piece of feta or camembert
• Brushetta - smear pieces of French bread garlic butter and antipasto, top with mozzarella and grill
• Gourmet dip - mix cream cheese, antipasto and a dash of lemon juice
• Essential for antipasto platters
• Spice up those meatballs by adding Vitalities antipasto
• Panfry slices of aubergine and spread with antipasto and mozzarella cheese, roll and bake
• Spinach and antipasto pate
• Greek feta, yoghurt and antipasto dip - smear dip on crostini or melba toast
• Pizza wheels - combine antipasto, parsley, ham and cheese, spread over pastry and make pinwheels
• Cheese and antipasto toasts
• Deep fried ricotta and antipasto ravioli
• Blini topped with cream cheese and antipasto
• Vegetable frittata topped with cream fraiche and antipasto
• Herbed pikelets with blue cheese and antipasto topping
• Capsicum muffins with antipasto and mascarpone
• Roast beef and antipasto on croutes
• Salmon and antipasto cakes with herb mayonnaise
• Arancini - deep fried rice balls stuffed with antipasto and proscuittio
• Turkish bread with herbed zuchinni and antipasto
• Prawn and antipasto mini pizzas
• Mediterranean twists - layer three sheets of filo brushed with butter then top with mixture of antipasto, parsley and gruyere cheese and top with another three sheets of buttered filo, cut into strips and twist and bake
• Mini steak and antipasto sandwiches
• antipasto palmiers
• Ratatouille and antipasto mini pies
• antipasto and potato balls topped with pesto
• Goats cheese fritters with roasted capsicum and antipasto sauce
• Grilled aubergine - brush aubergine slices with olive oil and lightly grill both sides, top with antipasto and mozzarella and place under the grill
• Pasta salad - toss antipasto, feta, cherry tomatoes, fresh basil and vinaigrette through cooked orzo
• Steamed mussels with fresh tomatoes, white wine and antipasto
• Gourmet pizza - use antipasto as pizza base
  

Kalamata olives & feta cheese muffins
Ingredients:

• 2 cups plain flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 50 g butter, melted
• 1 egg
• 200 g feta, cut into 1cm cubes
• 1¼ cups milk
• 1 cup chopped, pitted Kalamata olives
• 1 teaspoon rosemary, chopped

Sift flour with baking powder into a large bowl. Make a well in the center of dry ingredients and add butter, milk, cheese, olives and rosemary to the dry ingredients. Mix until just combined. Three-quarter fill greased, deep muffin pans or mini muffin pans. Bake at 190°C for 20-25 minutes or until muffins spring back when lightly touched.
Sarahjane W

QUICK CHICK'N'antipasto
Stuff boneless chicken breasts under the skin with a spoonfull of VITALITIES antipasto (any flavour - but we like the little fire-burst of Chilli Olive Gourmet antipasto). Bake them @ 180 C. for 35 minutes or until juices run clear. Great served with salads.
Diane D

TWO HANDS BREAD
See Vitalities antipasto on www.twohandsbread.co.nz - recommended to have with their Lightly Rye and Poppy Seed bread.

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