Vitello tonato 2.0

Buy 4 thin slices of veal fricandeau at the butchers and a nice 100g piece of tuna at your fishmongers.

Put 1 free range egg yolk, 1 tsp sushi vinegar, 1 anchovy filet, 1/2 tbsp rinsed capers and 100g tuna from a tin in a food processor on a low speed, then blend until smooth. 

Slowly pour 100ml grapeseed oil into the tuna mix until it forms a thick mayonnaise. If it’s too thick, mix in a small amount of warm water. Taste and season if required (the anchovies and capers will be quite salty). 

Start plating with the tuna sauce.

Slice the fresh tuna and roll up the fricandeau, serve as shown. Finish with capers and salad leaves

(Inspired by Marjan's recepten on Facebook)

Hot smoked salmon, Baharat creme and pickled veggies

A day in advance mix 1,5 dl sunflower oil with 1 tbsp Baharat.

Next day xix 100g caster sugar, 100g water, 100g vinegar, 5 blackpeppercorns and 1/4 deseeded red chili. Bring to the boil, simmer for 10 mins and cool.

Use a perissiene scoop to create 6 balls of cucumber. Put 3 cherry tomatoes under boiling water, then cold water then remove the skins and halve them

Cut a pumpkin in a 4x 7 cm retangle, then use a peeler to create 6 thin slices.

Put the cucumber balls, the halved tomatoes, the pumpkin slices and 10 shimeij mushrooms in the pickling mix

Sieve the Baharat oil.

Mix 31g egg white, 21g sushi vinegar, 3,5g yuzu and 28g yogurt with the stick blender, then slowly add the Baharat oil to create a thick creme. Transfer to a piping bag. 

Cut 120g hot smoked salmon in nice cubes.

Tightly roll up the pumpkin slices.

Serve as shown, with some nice salad leaves

(Recipe by Librije's Atelier)

 

Salmon, salsify, mash and pickled Hollandaise

Fill a pan with 1 l water, some salt, the juice of 1/2 lemon and stir in 1 tbsp flour

Peel 500g salsify, cut in 5 cm pieces and put in the lemon water asap before they start to colour.

Bring the water to the boil and boil the salsify for 12 mins, then  drain and rinse under cold water to remove the flour.

Peel 400 g floury potatoes and boil for 18 mins

Mix 1,5 yolk with 2 tbsp white wine then whisk au bain marie till foamy before adding 100g butter, bit by bit, to make the Hollandaise. Make sure it does not start to boil!

Finish with cayenne, salt, pepper, 1 tbsp lemon juice and 1 tbsp piccalilly

Panfry 2 fillets of salmon, skin side down in butter.                                                                                          In the meantime drain and mash the potatoes with salt, butter, milk, an egg yolk and hacked parsley                        Turn the salmon and fry for another couple of minutes                                Start plating with the mash, then the rest on top

(Here the video with Jeroen Meus cooking his recipe, in Flemish)

Fennel soup with langoustines and vanilla

Cut half a vanilla pod in 2/3 and 1/3. Reserve the 1/3 piece and remove the marrow from the 2/3 and marinate in 30 ml sunflower oil for 1 hr.

Peel and clean 6 langoustines, bask them with plenty vanilla oil and rest for half an hour, then softly cook them in 6 mins in a 100°C oven

Peel and mince 1/4 shallot and 200g fennel. Softly fry them in some sunflower oil with a sprig of thyme. Deglaze with a glug of Pernod and reduce a bit.

Add the marrow from the reserved 1/3 piece of vanilla and the pod as well

Then add 150 ml chicken stock, 50 ml double cream, 50 ml milk and a small star anise. Softly simmer for 20 mins, them remove the star anise, vanilla pod and the thyme.

Blend, sieve and season with salt and pepper

Peel and mince 1/2 shallot and 1/2 clove of garlic, softly fry them in a tbsp sunflower oil then add 1/2 tbsp curry madras for another minute. Add 2 dl sunflower oil and simmer for 15 mins. Doing this a day in advance improves the taste. Finally sieve and cool.

Flatten a slice of white bread, then cut into very small croutons. Fry them crispy in the curry oil.

Slice a young fennel bulb thinly on the mandoline, crisp in ice water. Just before serving dry the fennel and dress  with olive oil and season with salt.

Start plating with the crispy fennel. Followed by the langoustines. Pour some warm soup around it and finish with the croutons and fennel green.

(Recipe by Librijes Atelier)