Make the Churchill Downs’ official menu at home

Chef Kenneth Hardiman will get it as a compliment if you get your seersucker dirty when taking in the formal Kentucky Derby 148 menu.

He’s not out to destroy any of the extravagant outfits the derby is identified to catch the attention of, but he desires you to imagine his menu featuring seared hen with fennel cream, small ribs with Vidalia onion demi glace and pimento cheese creamed spinach is so delightful, it’s worthy of a trip to the dry cleaners.

“If it’s really fantastic I never know if I can do anything at all about that,” he jokes.

Hardiman, who beforehand oversaw foods functions at Fiserv Forum arena in Milwaukee, came to Churchill Downs Racetrack in February. Even though making his initially official menu for the legendary race, he required to showcase Louisville flavors and source local ingredients for dishes like the Kentucky bibb salad, which depends practically completely on deliver and nuts sourced from inside the state.

The menu will be portion of The Chef’s Table dining alternatives at Millionaires Row and Skye Terrace. In other elements of Churchill downs, folks can locate signature fare like Derby pie and burgoo. Of study course, mint juleps are served as perfectly.   

“I did not want to go mad or alienate by using away a thing that was distinctive,” he reported. “I want to make upon it. How do I take a dish like Benedictine and make it a bit more elevated?”

Hardiman is serving Benedictine distribute, which is believed to have been invented in Louisville in close proximity to the starting of the 20th century by Jennie Carter Benedict, on a charcuterie board. You can obtain his recipe for that and all the official menu dishes on the Kentucky Derby site.

Pimento Cheese Creamed Spinach 

Servings: 14

Components:

• 1 cup diced pimentos, drained 
• ½ cup product cheese (cubed)
• 2 cups grated Parmesan cheese
• 3 packages of frozen spinach (10-ounces each individual), thawed, drained and squeezed dry
• ½ cup yellow onion, smaller diced 
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted, divided
• 2 cups significant cream
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 cup bitter cream 
• ½ cup mayonnaise 
• ¼ cup Dijon mustard 
• 1 egg, beaten 
• 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese, divided 
• 1 cup panko bread crumbs 
• 1 teaspoon Kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 levels and flippantly grease a 2 1/2-quart baking dish with melted butter.