Highland celebrity cook Claire Macdonald has concocted a new recipe for enjoying Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival this year.

The creator of the Michelin-starred Kinloch Lodge Hotel in Skye is curating the ‘Deliciously Bella’ feasting tent at the festival, where diners can enjoy a restaurant experience and the best produce the Highlands has to offer.

Supported as part of the Year of Food and Drink, an initiative delivered by VisitScotland, ‘Deliciously Bella’ will feature gourmet breakfasts and four sittings a day for a lunch/ dinner menu created by Claire. The feasts will take place on long banqueting tables in the new woodland area of the festival, and will serve as the perfect setting for birthday celebrations, anniversaries, or just an excuse to spoil yourself with a delicious Highland’s meal.

Festival promoter Joe Gibbs said: “It’s going to be a case of ‘Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I’ve Got Love In My Tummy.

“Although Bella already offers one of the best selections of outdoor catering around, we felt there was demand from some of our audience to get around a table and eat the finest that the Highlands can offer. Naturally we went to our Highland superstar cook Claire to curate this for us.” The menu will feature many local producers to highlight the bounty of local produce in the Highlands area including the Cromarty Bakery, who will bring flour power to the meal with a range of their artisan breads, served with Hebridean sea salt, Cullisse cold-pressed rapeseed oil and balsamic vinegar.

There will be surf-and-turf each day including seafood platters of west-coast langoustines, scallops and crab from the Scottish West Coast Langoustine cooperative.

On Friday, the turf will be mouthwatering seared fillets of 28-day matured Highland beef, and on Saturday there will be cutlets and slow-roast legs of Highlands lamb over an open fire, from Fraser Brothers butchers in Dingwall.

Vegetarians will have Claire’s delicious walnut pastry, pink peppercorn and three cheese tart, with cheeses supplied by Connage Dairy, as well as salads galore with produce from Wester Muir Fruit Farm, Macleod Organics, potatoes from the Black Isle and many more. Wine and Highland ales will also be available.

On top of this there will be a rolling brunch menu with offerings such as Kedgeree with Herbredian Smoke House salmon, Fishcakes from the Isle of Ewe Smoke House, Harry Gow bakery treats, and omelettes from The Egg Box in Cromarty.

Joe added: “In true Bella style, this must be the only restaurant in the world where you’ll be welcome in your wellie boots while you listen to a string quartet and round off four courses with deep fried Mars Bar bites which are Claire’s favourite treat.” Tickets for the feast, which has a limited capacity, are £35 in advance (more on the day), and are available for four sittings a day at http://bit.ly/bella15tix.