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Montag, 27. September 2010
Beef Carpaccio
We use entrecote
Making sure that we trim off all excess fat to make it as lean as possible.
We then wrap it in cling film and press it in one of our orange moulds.
To achieve rectangle shape.
Pickled Carrot
300ml Carrot Juice
50g Sugar
1 Sprig of Thyme
1 Sprig of Tarragon
10 Black Peppercorns
100ml Water
100ml White Wine Vinegar
7 Carrots: Peeled and cut 2-3mm thick.
- Bring everything except the carrot strips to the boil and leave to infuse.
- Pass, place back in a pan, add the carrot strips, cover with a cartooch and cook the carrots in liquor until al dente.
Pickled Silver skin Onions
100g Shallot, roughly chopped
30g Caster Sugar
10 Black Peppercorns
1 tsp Coriander Seeds
1 Sprig of Thyme
1 Sprig of Tarragon
1 Bay leaf
400ml Water
200ml Vegetable Oil
150ml White Wine
150ml White Wine Vinegar
500g Silver skin Onions, peeled and trimmed
- Bring all the ingredients except the silver skins to the boil and infuse.
- Pass, place back into a pan, cover with a cartouche, and cook until el dente.
- Store in the liquor until needed to develop the flavour.
Pickled Baby Turnips
100g Shallot, roughly chopped
30g Caster Sugar
10 Black Peppercorns
1 tsp Coriander Seeds
1 Sprig of Thyme
1 Sprig of Tarragon
1 Bayleaf
400ml Water
200ml Vegetable Oil
150ml White Wine
150ml White Wine Vinegar
2 tbsp Honey
1 box Baby Turnips, washed and stems trimmed
- Bring all the ingredients except the baby turnips to the boil and infuse.
- Cook the baby turnips in a pan of boiling salted water until the turnips are cooked half way.
- Pass off the pickling liquor, place back in a pan, add the turnips, and continue to cook until el dente.
- Store in the liquor until needed to develop the flavour.
Onion paper
5 Spanish onions
1 tbsp unsalted butter
1 tbsp olive oil
3 tbsp isomalt
Slice peeled onions finely on the mandolin, add butter and olive oil.
Carefully sweat the onions off, approx. 2 minutes.
Clingfilm sauce pan and place on the left middle side of sauce stove on rings.
We do not want direct heat contact; allow to cook slowly about 2.5 hours until caramelised.
When caramelised place in bar blender and blend until smooth, pass and place back into sauce pan. Now add the isomalt and bring back to boil.
Sprat on to silicon mat and dry in middle oven over night.
Smoked marrow bone
Push the marrow bone out of bones.
Stuck in the freezer for about 10 minutes.
Cut the marrow bones into 1cm squares.
Put back in the freezer.
Place smoking chips mixed with brown sugar in gastronome tray and place on heat.
When start to smoke place the marrowbones in it and cover with a second gastronome tray.
Making sure that the edges are tightly covert in aluminium foil.
After 5 minutes place on ice water to reduce the heat inside of the trays.
When ready freeze them. Pane the marrow bone in bread crumbs twice.
Season the flour with smoked salt.
Deep fry when on order.
Extra garnishes
Mustard frill
Horseradish cream
Salt, pepper
Olive oil
Orange and chocolate pave
Orange and cointreau ganache
250g cream
200g dark chocolate
30g stock syrup
40ml cointreau
Cest of 1 orange
Honey comb
100gr sugar
50ml glucose
30gr honey
7g bicarbonate of soda
Put sugar, glucose, Honey in heavy sauce pan and bring to boil.
When the mixture reaches 160 on sugar thermometer add bicarbonate of soda.
Pour into oil brushed tray and let cool down.
When cold break up into small chunks and mix with orange powder.
Orange powder
100g sugar
250ml water
Peelings of four oranges with all the white removed
Bring water and sugar to boil and add the orange peelings and boil for 15 minutes.
Dry in oven on 120 for about 90 minutes.
Grind to powder
Chocolate sponge
20 medium eggs
500g caster sugar
360g flour
250g butter
50g cocoa powder
50g corn flour
Whisk the eggs and sugar over a pan of hot water
Continue until the mixture is light and double in bulk.
Remove from the heat and whisk until cold and thick
Fold in the flour and coco powder and corn flour
Fold in the melted butter very gently
Place on flat tray with baking paper
Bake on 200 for about 5 minutes
Orange blossom Pavlova
4 large free range eggs
250g caster sugar
10ml orange blossom
Whisk egg whites and sugar until stiff and fold in the cointreau.
Dry over night in base oven
French macaroons
125g ground almonds
225g icing sugar
4 medium egg whites
Pinch of crème Tatar
25g castor sugar
½ cest of orange
Preheat oven to 180. Sift the ground almonds and icing sugar together.
Whisk the egg whites until they are foamy, and add cream of Tatar and whisk to soft peaks.
Reduce speed and add castor sugar, then return to high heat and whisk until meringue is firm.
Fold in the orange cest by hand and now add the dry ingredients.
Pipe to small rounds and allow resting for ½ hour before baking on 180 for 10 minutes.
Marinated orange segments
5 Clementine’s
3 cardamom pods
½ Vanillas
150g sugar
250ml orange juice
Take off the skin of Clementine segments, bring all the other ingredients to boil and add to Clementine’s to marinade.
Extra garnishes
Vanilla ice cream
Chocolate cream
Dusted pistachio nuts
Orange confit julienne
Pear, Quail, Walnut and Stilton Salad
Pear, Quail, Walnut and Stilton Salad
Blue cheese Gnocchi
250g Desiree potatoes, peeled
50g strong flour
30g semolina + extra for dusting
75g crumbed mature Stilton cheese
1 small free-range egg
Salt and freshly cracked black pepper
Preheat the oven to 100°C.
Peel and roughly dice the potatoes. Boil the potatoes in salted water until soft, drain the potatoes, lay them on a oven tray and dry the potatoes in the preheated oven for 10 – 20 minutes to remove any excess water.
Place the flour and semolina in the thermomix and blend for 30 seconds on speed 10.
While the potatoes are still warm pass the potatoes through a food mill with the crumbed Stilton, milled flour and seasoning. Mix in the egg and rest the gnocchi mixture in the fridge for 1 hour.
Bring a large saucepan of salted water to the boil.
Lightly dust a clean work surface with semolina, divide the gnocchi mixture in to 6 even size balls, then roll each ball into thin long sausages with the diameter of 20 pence piece, cut each piece in 1.5cm long pillows, use a fork and mark the one side of the gnocchi.
Blanch the gnocchi in salted rapid boiling water for 2 minutes, or until they float, transfer them with a slotted spoon to an ice water bath to cool them rapidly.
Drain the gnocchi and toss with olive oil, keep them refrigerated until needed.
Quail Sausage
4 quails legs
2 slices of lemon
1 sprig of thyme
60g chicken breast meat
70ml double cream
Salt and freshly cracked black pepper
1tbs chopped watercress
50g morel mushrooms
1tsp unsalted butter
6 slices of pancetta
Few drops of fresh lemon juice
Preheat the water bath to 68°C.
Season the quail’s legs with salt and freshly cracked black pepper.
Place the quail’s legs in a vacuum bag with the slices of lemon and sprig of thyme. Seal on hard vacuum.
Cook for 50 minutes in the preheated water bath. Once cooked, cool in ice water.
Flake the quail leg meat from the bones and remove the skin.
Sauté the morel mushroom in the teaspoon of butter until golden, drain on kitchen paper and rough chop the mushrooms.
Place the chicken breast meat in the thermomix bowl, blend for 30 seconds on speed 10, scrape the sides down and repeat the process until the chicken meat is smooth. Pass the chicken puree through a fine sieve to remove the connective tissue.
Transfer the chicken puree to a small bowl, season and then whip in the cream bits at a time. Do not overwork the mousse.
Fold the flaked quail meat, chopped watercress and chopped sautéed morel mushrooms into the chicken mousse and season to taste. Transfer the mixture to a disposable piping bag.
Lay a double layer of clingfilm on the work surface.
Cut the pancetta slices in half and lay the pancetta slices onto the clingfilm to form a long rectangle.
Cut the piping bag, make a large opening about the size of 20pence size, and pipe the mixture onto the pancetta slices. Roll the pancetta up to form a sausage with the help of the clingfilm.
Secure the openings of the clingfilm.
Poach the sausage in the preheated water bath at 68°C for 20 minutes and cool the sausages over ice. Reshape and roll the sausage up in clean clingfilm once chilled to secure the round shape.
Place in the fridge to set.
Quail Breast
2 small quails, crowns only
25g unsalted butter
2 slices of lemon
2 sprigs of thyme
Preheat the water bath to 68°C.
Clean the quails and pat them dry with kitchen paper.
Heat a non-stick frying pan; Season the quail crowns and sauté in the warm pan with the butter until golden brown all over.
Place the browned quail crowns in two separate small vacuum bags with one slice of lemon and one sprig of thyme per bag. Seal on hard vacuum and cook the quail crowns for 20 minutes in the preheated water bath.
Chill the quail crowns in ice water, until completely cold.
Once chilled remove the crowns from the bags, remove the breast from the carcass, drain on kitchen paper, and set aside till ready to serve.
Pickled Walnut Salt Encrusted Quails Eggs
4 quails eggs
1 pickled walnut, drained
1tbs Maldon Sea salt
Bring a small saucepan with water to the boil, add the quails eggs and soft boil for 2 minutes and 30 seconds, cool and peel the eggs.
Finely chop the pickled walnut, lay the chopped walnut on a tray and let it dry out. Add the salt and then return the dried chopped walnut and salt to the chopping board and chop until very fine.
Hamhock peach and pickled cucumber
Ham hock
Soak the ham hock for 1 night.
Simmer until done with bouquet garni.
Allow to cool down in liquor.
Pick the meat and add foie gras butter as well as seasoning.
Roll into ballontine shape in cling film and place in fridge to set
Pickled cucumber
500ml vinegar
350g sugar
Ribbons of cucumber
Bring to boil and chill.
Marinate cucumber ribbons just before plating
Poached peaches
10 peaches
200g sugar
1.5l water
Cover the peaches with water and sugar. Bring to the simmer and take off the heat.
Allow to cool in the water and peal.
Carefully cut out wedges
Pickled peach puree
1g coriander seeds
1g star anis
2 cardamom seeds
50g archers peach schnapps
60g white wine vinegar
150ml water
50g sugar
Poached peach trimmings
Bring all the ingredients except the poached peach trimmings to the boil and allow cooling.
Pass through chinoise. Place all the peach trimmings in bar blender and blend. Now add the pickling liquor to taste.
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