Cooking Together Fine Dining Recipes
Our cooking together cookery classes are as much about learning to cook as they are a sociable experience. We hope you enjoyed your class and are ready to recreate the meals at home.
We Cooked:
- Starter: Sea bass – lemongrass – mouli – chilli – watermelon
- Main: Gressingham Duck – Garlic – smoked potato – salt baked beetroot – truffle & prune sauce
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Starter
Sea bass tartar; lemongrass Gel vinegar; mouli ; chilli; watermelon
Ingredients: Serves 2
- x2 sea bass fillets
- 50g watermelon
- x4 radish
- x1 chilli red
- x1 shallot
- ½ Mouli, sliced thinly
- 1 lime, zested and juiced
- Pinch rock salt
- Micro herbs and edible flowers to garnish
Vinegar Mix
- 200ml cider vinegar
10 coriander seeds
2 cardamom pods
Pinch of salt
Pinch of sugar
Boil and leave to cool before using as a pickle
Lemon Grass Stock
- 200ml water
5 lemongrass sticks
50ml lemon juice - Boil and allow to cool then blend and strain through a jay cloth
Lemon Grass Gel
- 25g Ultratex thickening agent, buy online
- Use 100ml of vinegar mix and 100ml of lemon grass stock whisk with 25g ultratex until desired consistency (should be a gel)
Method
- Skin, debone and remove belly from the seabass fillet
- Carefully dice the fillet in to 2mm/2mm pieces and leave to come to room temperature
- Finely dice watermelon/radish/chilli
Slice shallot in to rings and place in vinegar mix until serving - Slice mouli on a mandolin or as thin as you can
- Mix sea bass, watermelon, chilli, radish, zest and juice of the lime and a Little rock salt leave to stand for 2 minutes
Plating Up
Arrange mouli in a circle off centre to the plate, using a chef ring, fill with the sea bass mix and decorate with shallot rings, gel and micro herbs and flowers
Main Course
Gressingham Duck -wild garlic -smoked potato -salt baked heritage beetroot -truffle & prune sauce
Ingredients: serves 2
Salt baked beetroot
- x1 large red beetroot
- 500g table salt
- x2 egg whites
Wild garlic oil
- 100g wild garlic – out or season replace with chives
- 200ml Olive Oil
Smoked mash potato
- X2 large baking potatoes
- Smoke Powder
- Butter 1/3 block
- 100 ml cream
Duck
- x2 duck breasts
- Salt
Truffle & Prune Sauce
- 300ml brown stock (beef or Veal)
- 100ml red wine reduction
- 10g dried prunes
- 5ml truffle oil
- 50g cold butter
Method
Salt baked beetroot
- 1 large beetroot, 500g table-salt and 2 egg whites – mix egg whites with salt and completely cover the beetroot- roast 220 for at least 40 minutes no more that 1hr – crack open the salt case and cut beetroot in to perfect round fondants.
Wild garlic oil
- Blanch wild garlic, in boiling salted water for 30 seconds and plunge in to iced water, drain and add to blender with 200ml of olive oil blend for at least 2 minutes, strain through muslin cloth.
Smoked mash potato
- Bake 2 large potatoes for 1hr until soft, remove potato from skins and mash until smooth, season and add 10g of smoke powder, burn 100g of butter in a pan and add 100ml of double cream mix potato and butter mix and stir until smooth off the heat. Place in a piping bag until needed.
Duck
- Heavily season the skin of the duck breast and place in a heavy pan on a medium heat for at least 10 minutes until the skin is completely rendered turn only when the skin is golden and crispy, cook for a further 2 minutes remove from pan and allow to rest until serving.
- Combine stock and reduction and bring to the boil
- Add chopped prunes and truffle oil
- Whisk in cold diced butter until emulsified in to the sauce, serve straight from the pan
Brown Stock
4kg beef or veal bones
2 carrots
2 sticks of celery
1 large white onion
1 bulb garlic
1 leak
10 sprigs of thyme & rosemary
10 black pepper corns
4-6 ltrs of water
• Roast bones on a high heat for 30-40 minutes
• Roughly chop all the veg and sauté for 5 minutes in a deep pan
• Add the herbs and the peppers corns
• add roasted bones and water bring up to heat but never boil (this will lead to calcium leaving the bones and making your stock cloudy and bitter
• Simmer very slowly for 8-12 hrs
Alternatively buy a decent beef stock from the butchers
Red Wine Reduction
1 heavy red wine
6 shallots
1 star anise
4 rosemary
1 garlic bulb
100g red current jelly
• Slice peeled shallots and sauté until soft in a little veg oil
• Add remaining ingredients to the pan and cook for 2 minutes on a high heat
• Deglaze the pan with red wine and reduce until sticky and sweet
• Pass through jay cloth and leave to cool naturally
1 whole bottle of red wine should give you around 300mls of red wine reduction
We Hope You Enjoyed The Class
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