Othello's Restaurant - January/February 2012 A La Carte Menu

2 courses £16.95 - 3 courses £20.95

Starters

Seasonal Soup of the Day
With flavoured home baked bread

Smoked Salmon
With green pea puree and anchovy beignets

Melon and Kiwi Salad
With iced lemon sherbert and mango sauce

Smooth Chicken Liver Parfait
With tangerine salad and Melba toast

Potted Local Meats
With ham, duck, lamb and rabbit served with apple puree
and plum compote

Warm Smoked Mackerel
Served on a salad of baby potatoes, caramalised onion,
brioche crisps and sweet balsamic

Panfried Scallops
With a duck and goats cheese spring roll and butternut
and nut butter purees
(3.50 supplement)

King Prawn in Cajun Spice
On a potato and spring onion salad and parmesan wafer
(£2.00 supplement)

Mains

Roast Lakeland Turkey Breast
With Apricot Stuffing, Chipolata, Fondant Potato and Cranberry Gravy

Salmon in Parma Ham
With a crab croquette, roast vegetable ratatouille and crisp parmesan wafer

Slow Roast Pork Belly
With sweet red cabbage, cream potatoes and brandy peppercorn sauce

Shank of Pendle Lamb
Braised in a broth of chorizo, chestnut, lentils and peas
with carrot and potato puree

Yorkshire Pigeon Breasts
With an apple and black pudding samosa, lightly spiced cranberry jam
and dauphinoise potato

Seabass in Garlic Butter
With a kingprawn and rosemary skewer, pecorino crushed potatoes,
vegetable spaghetti and hot Ceaser style sauce

John Penny’s Beef Fillet and Venison Medallions
With wilted spinach, breaded brie, Cumberland gravy and duck fat roast potatoes
(£4.50 supplement)

John Penny’s Sirloin Steak
Served with thick chips broccoli, glazed carrots and classic Diane sauce
(£2.95 supplement)

Cumbrian Chicken Breast
With mushroom and bacon linguine and a tomato, basil and mozzarella salsa

Vegetarian Options

Roasted Field Mushroom
Topped with a Leek and Garstang Blue Cheese Parcel served
with rosti potato and Cumberland sauce

Roasted Pepper
Stuffed with vine tomatoes, garlic and basil with a chestnut crumble

Roasted Vegetable Filo Tart
Flecked with coriander and feta cheese with rosti potato
and chardonnay sauce

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Homemade Thick Chips
£1.95

A Selection of Seasonal Vegetables
£1.95

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If you should require any dish plain or without spices
our chef will be pleased to oblige

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Desserts

Cappuccino Pannacotta
With Baileys Cream Profiterole and toffee sauce

Iced Lemon Parfait
With miniature pavalova and honeycomb crumble

Astley Bank Christmas Pudding
Laced with rum and Guinness with lashings of boozy white sauce

Fig Bakewell Tart
With cherries jubilee and vanilla ice cream

Key Lime Pie
With exotic fruit salad and raspberry yogurt sauce

Poached Pear
With rum and raisin ice cream and hot Belgium chocolate sauce

Assiette of Astley Bank Desserts
(£2.50 supplement)

Enhance your dessert with a glass of Wellwood Botrytis
Semillon Dessert Wine £5.75 per 125ml

Local Lancashire Cheese and Guest Cheese
With Ale Chutney and Fudges Crackers

Accompany your cheese with a glass of one of our fine Ports,
Dows Vintage 1985 - £8.65 or Grahams LBV 1999 - £3.30

Beverages

Freshly Brewed Filter Coffee £2.45
Colombian full roasted with a smooth mellow body and a rich
slightly nutty flavour

Cappuccino, Espresso and Latte £2.50
All served with home-made chocolate truffles

Speciality Coffees £4.80
With your choice of liqueur