1.
QUENELLES OF JOHN
DORY WITH CAVIAR BUTTER
By
Tony
Bilson
Ingredients
1 kg white fish
6 egg whites
100 g shallots (chopped)
1 tsp thyme leaves
1 tsp white pepper
1 ltr cream
Beurre Blanc
200 g shallots
300 ml Chardonnay
100 ml champagne vinegar
500 ml
cream
1 kg finest butter
150 g Sevruga caviar
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Method
1. Make sure all ingredients are icy cold. Robotcoupe (blend)
all ingredients except the cream to a fine paste and pass through
the fine sieve.
2. Beat cream into
the fish purée over ice water and then season with salt.
3. Boil shallots, Chardonnay and champagne vinegar and reduce the
liquid until almost evaporated but still a little liquid left.
4. Add cream and reduce by 1/3, whisk in the butter over a low heat.
Before serving, measure out the sauce required and add the caviar.
5. Place the poached quenelles on a little wilted julienne of leek
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2. ESCALOPE OF FOIE GRAS WITH ROASTED YABBIES AND CARAMELISED CELERIAC
By
Tony
Bilson
Ingredients:
celeriac
240 g foie gras
80 g yabbies (blanched)
500 ml port wine
100 ml balsamic vinegar
200 ml duck jus
15 g castor sugar
2 tbsp clarified butter
pinch of cayenne
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Method
1. Cut the celeriac into 7cm diameter and 1cm thick. Cook in salted
water and drain on absorbent paper.
2. Cut the foie gras into escalopes of 1cm thick.
3. Blanch
yabbies, refresh in iced water. Shell the yabbies and make a sauce
Americaine from the heads, deglazing the pan with port wine instead
of white wine.
4. Reduce
the port wine and balsamic vinegar, reduce to 100ml, add in the duck
jus.
5. To serve: Season the celeriac discs with castor sugar and sauté
in clarified butter. Drain on absorbent paper. Cut the yabby tails
in half and brown on mirror grill (season with salt and a touch of
cayenne). Sauté the escalopes of foie gras on hot non-stick
pan without fat. Dress the hot plates with two sauces. Place the celeriac
in the centre, then the foie gras and finally the grilled yabby tail.
Dress with the pan fat from the foie gras.
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