Outstanding Summer Platter with Organic Pōhutukawa Honey

Outstanding Food Producers Awards have teamed up with a handful of award winners to create an easy-to-assemble delicious summer platter that is perfect for serving over the festive season, featuring our organic pōhutukawa honey! When planning your summer platters this season, be sure to include as many ingredients from local kiwi producers as possible.

Prep time: 20 minutes
Assembly time: 15 mintues
Serves: A crowd

Platter Ingredients

• Woodland’s certified organic pōhutukawa honey

• Proper Crisps big cut purple & gold

• Kiki seed cracker mix sea salt

• Robbies Peach & Ginger chutney

• Pepler’s Plum & Cardamom paste

• Mayonnaise - Pepler’s basil pesto mayonnaise

• Rocket

• Cured meats (such as local prosciutto, bresaola or coppa) 

• Fresh Microgreens Pea, shoots picked

• Semi-hard cheese, very thinly sliced (we used Meyer Cheese Fenugreek Gouda)

• Thin slices of NZ Blue Cheese

• Very thin slices of rare venison

• Red witloof (or red witloof or Belgian endive)

Whipped NZ Feta Ingredients

• 150g creamy New Zealand feta, crumbled

• 150g New Zealand crème fraiche

• 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

• 2 very thin spring onions, finely sliced 

• a small handful of coriander leaves

• finely grated zest of 1 small lemon

Method NZ Whipped Feta

1. Put the Feta, crème fraiche and 2 tablespoons olive oil in a small food processor and process until smooth. Season with salt, if needed..

2. Put into a dish or two small dishes, drizzle with the remaining olive oil and top with the spring onion, coriander and lemon zest.

Step by- step Outstanding Summer Platter Assembly Instructions

1. Make your Kiki Seed Crackers

2. Choose a board or large platter. Use baking paper to add texture 

3. Add two small bowls for the whipped NZ feta

4. Add whipped NZ feta to each bowl and drizzle with olive oil

5. Add Proper Crisps

6. Add red witlof

7. Add Kiki Seed Crackers

8. Put a dollop of mayonnaise on each cracker then top with rocket

9. Fill witlof with crumbled or thinly sliced NZ blue cheese, drizzle Woodland’s Certified Organic Pōhutukawa Honey over

10. Add cured meat and sliced fresh peach to half of the crackers, top with Robbies Peach & Ginger Chutney

11. Add thin slices of semi-hard cheese to remaining crackers and top with Pepler’s Plum ε Cardamom Paste

12. Add sprigs of fresh herbs

13. Add drinks - we served Emerson’s Orange Roughy & Leefield Station Pinot Noir Rosé 2024

14. Enjoy!