The Tripe Club in Fremantle, WA have been meeting for their monthly tripe lunches since 1986. Chef Ashley Ryan, of Clancy’s Fish Pub in Fremantle, has cooked many of their tripe lunches and is a firm favourite of the club. Ashley shares one of his popular tripe dishes that he has cooked for the club.Wine match St Hallett Cellar Release Touriga Nacional 2009, Barossa Valley, SA
My most memorable tripe dish came in Oporto in a salt-of-the-earth Portuguese restaurant and the paprika, chorizo and other spices take me back there in an instant. For a match, you cannot beat what the locals do and reach for the best quality local red variety, Touriga Nacional. It’s not a variety you see much in Australia, but it combines amazing violet and rich purple fruit aromas with a sense of rusticity and savouriness. One winery that has been working with the grape for years is St Hallett in the Barossa Valley, and their excellent Touriga hits all the high floral notes, while also having the body to cope with the forthright flavours in this dish.
-Dan Coward