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  • Prep:
    40 min
  • Cook:
    60 min

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Serves: 

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Ingredients

  • 30 grams sugar
  • 50 grams almond
  • 40 grams flour
  • 40 grams cocoa
  • 20 grams coffee
  • 60 grams butter

Beetroot

  • 500 grams beetroot

Sauce

  • 150 millilitres beetroot juice reserved from above
  • 150 millilitres red currant juice
  • 8 grams corn flour

Red Wine Vinegar Granita

  • 100 millilitres beetroot juice
  • 30 millilitres red wine vinegar

Olive Oil Powder

  • 20 millilitres olive oil
  • 20 grams malto

Garnish

  • bull's blood
  • watercress
  • Persian fetta cheese
November 18, 2011, By Hadleigh Troy

Method

Coffee and Cocoa
  1. Melt butter and combine with ingredients above in a bowl and mix through.
  2. Spread evenly onto a baking tray and cook for 30 minutes at 160°C
  3. Allow to cool then crush with fork.
Beetroot
  1. Scoop with Parisienne scoop then steam gently in its own juice.
  2. Once cooked reserve juice for below
Sauce
  1. Combine juices in a sauce pan and bring to the boil.
  2. Add corn flour and boil for a further minute
  3. Remove from heat and allow to cool
Red Wine Vinegar Granita
  1. Combine and freeze.
  2. Once required for plating scrape with a fork.
Olive Oil Powder
  1. Place oil in a bowl, add malto and stir to incorporate.
To Plate
  1. Spoon the coffee and cocoa into a bowl
  2. Add the beetroot balls and cover with sauce
  3. Top with crumbled Persian Fetta and grated granita
  4. Finish with olive oil powder and cresses