Smoked Eel, Pigs' Trotters, Cauliflower, Maple And Sherry Vinegar

Ingredients

Ingredients For the cauliflower crisps
  • 1 head cauliflower, cut into florets, florets thinly sliced on a mandoline

  • salt, to taste

For the pigs' trotters
  • drizzle olive oil

  • 1 leek, chopped

  • 1 onion, peeled, chopped

  • 2 carrots, peeled, chopped

  • 2 bay leaves

  • 5 white peppercorns

  • 1 garlic bulb, halved horizontally

  • 4 pigs' trotters

  • 1 litre/1 pint 15fl oz ham stock or water, to cover the trotters

For the maple and sherry vinegar jelly
  • 200ml/7fl oz maple syrup

  • 50ml/2fl oz sherry vinegar

  • 2 gelatine leaves, soaked in cold water until softened

  • pinch agar-agar powder (available from larger supermarkets and Asian grocers)

For the smoked eel beignets
  • 200g/7oz smoked eel fillets

  • salt and freshly ground black pepper

  • 1 free-range egg

  • 100g/3½oz breadcrumbs

  • vegetable oil, for deep frying

For the cauliflower cream
  • 1 large head cauliflower, chopped into florets

  • 250ml/9fl oz milk

  • 200ml/7fl oz whipping cream

  • pinch agar-agar powder (available from larger supermarkets and Asian grocers)

For the smoked bacon crisps and powder
  • 15 smoked bacon rashers

For the maple and sherry reduction
  • 100ml/3½fl oz maple syrup

  • 50ml/2fl oz sherry vinegar

  • 100ml/3½fl oz olive oil

  • salt and freshly ground black pepper

For the garnish
  • micro cress

Description

Recipe Uses 1 Head Cauliflower, Cut Into Florets, Florets Thinly Sliced On A Mandoline, Salt, To Taste, Drizzle Olive Oil, 1 Leek, Chopped, 1 Onion,...

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