Pickled Oyster w/ Iced Cucumber, Wine & Spicy Apple Foam
Ingredients
Oysters:
- no. 1 Sorlut oysters
Cucumber Sake:
- 250 ml cucumber juice including skin
- 100 ml sake
- 45 ml mirin
- 30 leaves mint
- 20 grams sugar
- 45 ml lime juice
- 1 sheet gelatine
Light Escabeche Marinade:
- 1 bulb garlic
- 3 medium onions
- 3 carrots
- 3 shallots
- 2 stalks celery
- 250 ml manzanilla wine
- 250 ml white wine
- 600 ml sherry vinegar
- 1 ½ liter ham stock
- 250 ml olive oil
- thyme as needed
- rosemary as needed
Ham Stock:
- 400 ml water
- 150 grams small potatoes washed and peeled
- 300 grams ham
- 4 grams garlic
- 1 small onion peeled and whole
Pickled Shallots:
- 100 ml apple cider vinegar
- 70 grams acacia honey
- 60 ml mineral water
- 2 grams black pepper ground
- 2 grams thyme fresh
- 50 grams shallots sliced
Sea Pearls:
- 160 ml oyster water
- 25 ml mineral water
- 5 ml lemon juice
- 3 grams sodium gluconate
- 0.7 gram silver powder SOSA
- 1 gram xanthan gum
Alginate Bath:
- 1 liter water
- 4 grams alginate
Spicy Apple Foam:
- 200 grams spicy syrup
- 400 grams granny smith apple puree
- 6.5 grams gelatine
Spicy Syrup:
- 500 ml water
- 150 grams sugar
- 4 peppers fresh
- 100 ml Txakoli
Instructions
Oysters:
- Open the oysters carefully trying not to break them. Place them in a bowl.
- Strain the water from the shell through a sieve.
- Wash oysters in the water.
Cucumber Sake
- Blend the cucumber with the skin, and all other ingredients except the lime juice.
- Combine in a processor and marinate for 15 minutes.
- Strain through a fine sieve.
- Add the lime juice and mix well.
- Season to taste.
- Put in the freezer to freeze, stirring every 5 minutes to maintain a bright green slush.
Light Escabeche Marinade
- Saute the vegetables starting with the garlic in oil over low temperature.
- Once all the vegetables are lightly cooked add the manzanilla wine and white wine and reduce to almost dry.
- Then add the vinegar and boil for 15 minutes to remove the intensity of vinegar until you are left with a nice marinade.
- Then add the ham stock and reduce by half.
Finishing the Marinade
- Once the marinade is ready, pass it through a fine sieve.
- Reserve the vegetables to one side and the marinade broth on another.
- Take one part of broth/escabeche (about 150 grams) and add it to all the vegetables in a processor and puree until you achieve a fine smooth creamy texture.
- Save the rest of the broth to warm the oysters with.
- If necessary add some more broth and xanthan to the creamy mixture.
Ham Stock
- Together in a saucepan add the water, potatoes, diced ham, garlic and onion and cook for 1 hour at low heat, semi covered so as to not evaporate too much.
Pickled Shallots
- Combine all the ingredients except the shallots and place on the heat.
- Once hot, add the shallots and let them cook on low heat for 5 minutes.
- Remove from the heat.
- Cover with baking paper and put inside the refrigerator for 12 hours.
Sea Pearls
- Combine sea water, mineral water, lemon juice, gluco silver powder and xanthan.
- Mix well in a processor until completely combined.
- Take the mixture into a syringe and remove the air 3 times.
- Using the syringe drop little drops “pearls” from a height of about 5 cm into the alginate bath.
- Leave in the bath for 1 minute and refresh in cold water, where they will remain for now.
Alginate Bath
- Combine the water with algin and stand at least 2 hours
Spicy Apple Foam
- Heat a pot with the spicy syrup.
- Hydrate the gelatin in cold water.
- Remove the syrup from the heat and add the dissolved gelatin.
- Add the liquid from apples to the mixture and place in a whipping siphon; cream gun.
- Close the siphon and introduce two loads of gas.
- Keep the food inside the refrigerator.
- Make a syrup by heating the water and sugar in a saucepan. Infuse fresh chilies, breaking one of them.
- Once infused drain and add the Txakoli.
- Reserve.
Finish
- Once the oysters are open and clean.
- Warm escabeche to 70 degrees. Remove from heat.
- Add oysters for 45 seconds.
- Plate on the shell.
- Top with escabeche (aprox 70 degrees)
- Add cucumber sake, pickled shallot, apple foam
Notes
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