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Scallop Tartare With Scallop Butter, Anchovies & Tomatoes

Scallop Tartare With Scallop Butter, Anchovies & Tomatoes

Roland Trettl
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours 15 minutes
Freezing time 4 hours
Total Time 6 hours 45 minutes
Course Appetizer
Cuisine International
Servings 4 servings

Ingredients
 
 

Tomato water:

  • 500 g ripe tomatoes
  • 500 g cherry tomatoes
  • 2 sprigs basil
  • 1 garlic clove

Lemon puree:

  • 3 lemons
  • 2 ½ g agar-agar
  • 100 g sugar
  • 25 g extra virgin oil
  • 1/2 lemon luice

Lemon mousse:

  • 4 gelatine leaf
  • 25 g freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 15 g freshly pressed lime juice
  • 1 lime zest and juice
  • 50 g whipped cream
  • 1 tablespoon lemon olive oil
  • a few silicone forms shaped like sardines
  • powdered silver food colouring
  • black liquid food colouring

Oven tomatoes:

  • 2 vine ripened tomatoes
  • a little icing sugar
  • a little extra virgin oil
  • 1 sprig thyme
  • 1 sprig rosemary

Scallop butter:

  • 1 teaspoon olive oil
  • 65 g scallops
  • 125 g fresh cuttlefish
  • 1/2 sprig rosemary
  • 1/2 sprig thyme
  • 375 g butter
  • 1/2 bulb garlic
  • 1/2 tablespoon fish sauce
  • 1/2 tablespoon ponzu sauce
  • 1/2 teaspoon Piment d'Espelette
  • a little soy sauce
  • a little finely grated lime zest
  • 1/4 very large soft baquette

Scallop tartare:

  • 1 very large fresh scallop
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon dashi vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon chives
  • 1 teaspoon light soy sauce

Assembly:

  • chive blossoms
  • 4 anchovy fillets
  • 1 tablespoon pinenuts
  • 8 tablespoons olive oil
  • basil

Instructions
 

Tomato Water:

  • Wash the tomatoes, remove the stem and cut into quarters.
  • Wash and halve the cherry tomatoes.
  • Put all the tomatoes in a processor and puree with the basil sprigs, salt, sugar and garlic.
  • Place some muslin in a tall bowl and pour the tomato puree in.
  • Tie the corners of the muslin and hang from a wooden spoon over the bowl to allow the liquid to drain out.
  • Leave in the fridge for 12 hours.
  • Measure 275 mL (about 1 cup) of the water.

Lemon Puree:

  • Wash the lemons in hot water, pat dry and wrap individually in one layer of aluminum foil.
  • Place lemons in a preheated oven at 150 °C/ 302 ℉ (heat from top and bottom) cook 1.5 hours.
  • Remove the lemons from the oven and let them rest for 15 minutes in the tin foil.
  • Then carefully peel the lemons, remove any pith from the skin and finely dice the skin.
  • Remove the white pith and dice the flesh. Make sure that no pith is used (it is bitter).
  • Add the lemon peel and the flesh into a pot and stir.
  • Fold together the agar-agar and the sugar mix.
  • Fold the agar-agar and sugar into the lemon mix.
  • Boil the mixture while stirring, then remove the pot from the heat.
  • Add the mixture into a blender jug and let it cool.
  • Add olive oil and freshly squeezed lemon juice and puree.
  • Separate 100 g ( about 3 ½ ounces) of lemon puree and chill.

Lemon Mousse:

  • Brush the silicone negative molds with some black liquid food coloring and dust with a little silver powder. The print is to represent an image of real sardine fillets.
  • Put the molds aside.
  • Put the lemon puree and tomato water in a bowl, stir together.
  • Soak the gelatine leaves in cold water for a few minutes, then squeeze out the excess water.
  • Add the gelatine to the freshly squeezed lemon and lime juice and warm to dissolve.
  • Fold the gelatine mixture through the lemon tomato water.
  • Fold in the freshly grated lime zest.
  • Then fold in the whipped cream and refine the lemon mousse with lemon olive oil.
  • Pour the lemon mousse into the prepared silicone negative molds and freeze at least 4 hours.

Oven tomatoes:

  • Bring plenty of water in a pot to boil.
  • Blanch the tomatoes in the boiling water, then plunge into iced water, peel and cut into quarters.
  • Remove the tomato stalk and the seeds.
  • Place the tomato quarters side by side in a baking dish and sprinkle with salt.
  • Sprinkle the tomato quarters with a little icing sugar and drizzle with a little olive oil.
  • Add the thyme and rosemary sprigs to the tomato quarters.
  • Put the baking dish in the preheated oven at 150° C/ 302° F (top and bottom) until the tomato quarters are slightly dried on the surface.
  • Remove the baking dish from the oven and leave to cool.
  • Finely chop the tomato quarters, season with salt and powdered sugar and marinate with olive oil.

Scallop Butter:

  • Heat the olive oil in a saucepan, add the scallops and cook until the liquid has evaporated.
  • Add the cuttlefish strips to cook.
  • Add 1 pinch of salt, and the rosemary and thyme and cook briefly.
  • Then add the butter and fry until until the butter is beurre noisette.
  • Remove the pan from the heat, add the garlic and let it stand for 10 minutes.
  • Pass the scallop butter through a fine sieve and let cool.
  • Then season with fish sauce, ponzu sauce and the Piment d’Espelette.
  • Season the scallops with butter, Maldon sea salt, a little soy sauce and some freshly grated lime zest.
  • Leave the scallop butter to cool in the fridge, stir it frequently while it is cooling until the scallop butter takes on a mayonnaise-like consistency.
  • Put the scallop butter into a piping bag with a small plain nozzle and refrigerate until needed.

Cracker:

  • Cut the baguette into 4 strips (15 cm long, 2 cm wide and 1 cm thick) (6 inches long, 1 inch wide, 1/2 inch thick).
  • Put them in a preheated oven at 180° C/ 356 °F (top and bottom) until the bread is golden and crispy.
  • Remove from the oven and let cool.

Scallop Tartare:

  • Dice the scallop meat very finely (brunoise).
  • Mix with the olive oil, the dashi vinegar and the finely chopped chives.
  • Season the scallop tartare with Maldon sea salt and the light soy sauce and serve immediately.

Assembly:

  • Place 4 small plates on 4 flat dinner plates.
  • Place 1 line of marinated oven roasted tomatoes centered on the small plate.
  • Remove the frozen lemon mousse from the sardine fillet shaped silicone negative molds.
  • Place on the line of roasted tomato and allow to thaw.
  • On each cracker, place alternately the scallop tartare and piped scallop butter along the cracker.
  • Then garnish with some chive blossoms.
  • Place each scallop cracker on the large plates.
  • Place the anchovy fillet strips, some pine nuts and a few basil leaves on the lemon mousse to garnish.
  • Finally, pour 2 tablespoons olive oil around the lemon mousse.

Notes

Scallop Tartare & Scallop Butter
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