Sea anemones

Ortiguillas de mar
Ca´Sento
Cuisinier: Raúl Aleixandre
Pays: España
Localité: 46024 Valencia
Adresse: Méndez Nuñez, 17
(+34) 963301775

Here is the most important version of sea anemones that we have encountered in haute cuisine. Buttery inside with a crispy exterior and dressed with a light coating, they flood the mouth with a profound flavor of the sea. This breaking wave and the enchantment of its fleeting texture are ratified with the accompaniments: they are placed over a spongy bed of breadcrumbs soaked in clam juice water, which itself exerts an unctuous sauce, finished with a dash of chive oil that encircles the nucleus of the plate. Lime fragrance, adorning vegetables, and arugula flowers to beautify the gastronomic wonder all complete a highly original creation that pays homage to the art of frying and to the torrija, or soaked bread. In short, cleverness mixed with historical perspective.



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Ingredients

  • 400g striped venus clams
  • 1 head garlic
  • olive oil
  • one slice water bread
  • arugula flowers
  • chives
  • one lime
  • parsley oil

for the batter

  • 200g flour
  • 5g pressed yeast
  • 200g beer
  • 100g water

Method

Mix all of the ingredients for the batter and allow to rest for 20 minutes.

Line a saucepan with oil
Brown the garlic and add the clams. Cook for 20 minutes, then strain. Reduce by half and save half of the juice.
Place the water bread in a pot and add half of the juice. Heat without allowing it to boil.
Assembly. Coat the sea nettles in the batter and fry in plenty of oil.
Arrange the water bread in a deep dish with a bit of juice from the mollusks.
Top with the nettle and grate a bit of lime on top.
Finish with the arugula flowers and chives and a few drops of parsley oil. Serve.

Battered sea nettles with mollusk juice and water bread

 

 

 



Tortelli di Zucca

Tortelli de calabaza
Dal Pescatore
Cuisinier: Nadia Santini
Pays: Italia
Localité: 46013 - Runate-Cannetto sull’Oglio
Adresse:
(+39) 0376723001

This is classic Italian cuisine in its pure form. The style of this dish is different, elegant and flavorful, while maintaining the essence of the family recipe inherited by Nadia Santini. A vocational chef distinguished by her delicacy, harmony, sensitivity… and her innate good taste. Not to mention her immaculate style and nutritional consciousness. All these qualities and many more, like the magic touches that somehow convert a simple dish into something complex, are present in this pasta dish, one of the most exquisite and virtuosic in all of Italy. It is sweet, yet there is a hint of bitterness to it as well. Creaminess and texture abound. The traditional flavors and aromas are expressed with extreme exquisiteness. In short, a savory sweet that has a bit of genius and a lot of perfection to it.



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Ingredients

(serves 4)



Caramelized foie gras ice cream over vinegar sponge cake

Perfecto Caramelizado de Foie Gras con Bizcocho de Vinagre
Cenador de Amós
Cuisinier: Jesús Sánchez
Pays: España
Localité: 39793 Villaverde de Pontones (Cantabria).
Adresse: Pl. del Sol. s/n.
(+34) 942508243.

Jesús is a chef that has exalted foie gras to new heights. His grilled duck liver with a spattering of coffee marmalade and grape soup is already famous. Completing the circle, he offers us an original and technological way of presenting this appetizer that is a symbiosis of mousse and terrine. It goes by the name caramelized duck liver ice cream over a vinegar sponge cake. The foie gras, playing the role of body and soul here, is situated between a sweet layer above and an acidic base. It offers two complementary textures: creamy and crispy. The lure of the muscatel gelatin, a floral garden in itself, opens up a world of colorful, olfactory, and flavorful sensations.



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Ice cream
Ingredients

  • 600g fresh duck liver
  • 800ml milk
  • 300g liver in cubes
  • 9g alginate
  • Brandy
  • Pepper
  • Salt

Method

Warm the duck liver to 40°C. Cut the liver into six pieces to later be passed through a sieve.
In a saucepan, infuse the milk with the pepper and a few drops of aged brandy.
Obtain a paste by passing the liver through a sieve at the adequate temperature. This is the paste that is later mixed with the warm milk mixture – never heat past 80°C –, add the alginate and blend until it has a creamy consistency.
Cut the rest of the liver into half-centimeter cubes.
Heat a frying pan until very hot and add the liver cubes. Heat them and drain the fat. With the help of a round spatula combine them with the previous mixture.

 

Olive sponge cake
Ingredients

  • 100g black olive puree
  • 20g sugar
  • 40g flour
  • 3 egg yolks
  • 2 egg whites

Method

Whip the egg yolks with the sugar and flour, adding in the olive puree and then the already whipped egg whites. Spread the mixture into a mold and bake at 180°C for six minutes.

At the base of a cylindrical mold place the olive sponge cake covered by a balsamic vinegar reduction, then fill the rest of the mold with the previously prepared dough mixture and set aside for the next day.

 

Salad
Ingredients

  • Raspberry soup
  • Extra virgin olive oil
  • Vinegar reduction
  • Pansies
  • Carnations
  • Begonia
  • Lobelia
  • Lilac
  • Arugula
  • Red chard
  • Mizuna salad

Method

Prepare the vinaigrette with the raspberry, olive oil, and balsamic reduction. Pour it into a circle and place the flowers and herbs on top.

Ochoa muscatel gelatin
Ingredients

  • 3/4 liter Ochoa muscatel
  • 4 gelatin leaves

 

Method

Prepare a traditional gelatin.

Remove the mold from the mold cylinder, warm it in the oven, caramelize with brown sugar, and finish by seasoning it with Maldon salt.

Festín entrega del I Premio Tartufo de Alba

Festín entrega del I Premio Tartufo de Alba

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Squab of Bresse with salt crust

Piccione di Bresse in crosta di sale
Cuisinier: María Antonia Sañudo
Pays: España
Localité: 39800 Ramales (Cantabria)
Adresse: Barón de Adzaneta, 17
(+34) 942646157

This is without a doubt one of the finest squabs that can be found anywhere in Spain. What’s the secret? First, there is a standard variety used: the squab comes from Bresse, weighing about 450-500 grams each, and is tender and very flavorful. Secondly, the preparation technique has two components: on one hand, the body, covered by a crust of salt, flour, and egg white, is roasted whole in the oven at 230°C for 10 minutes. It is then removed from the oven and left to stand for another 10 minutes. The breasts, which remain completely and uniformly red, are then cut, releasing their juices against the knife - they have an unprecedented, delicate flavor. On the other hand, the upper part of the legs are deboned and stuffed with pine nuts and raisins, then breaded with chopped parsley, sage and rosemary, and fried rapidly so that the surface becomes crispy while the interior remains succulent, as a consequence of the breading and the herbs. Finally, juices from the squab, perfumed with the wild aromas of the herbs, finishes off a recipe in which truth, work, and erudition prevail… savoir-faire.



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Squab of bresse with salt crust
Ingredients
  • 1 large squab of Bresse
  • salt
  • pepper
  • thyme
  • sage
  • parsley
  • olive oil

FOR THE SALT CRUST:

  • 500g sea salt
  • 500g flour
  • 8 egg whites

Mix the ingredients into dough for covering the squab.

 



Grilled freshwater eel with confited garlic

Grilled freshwater eel with confited garlic
Villa Fiordaliso
Cuisinier: Riccardo Camanini
Pays: Italia
Localité: 25083 Gardone Riviera
Adresse: Corso Zanardelli, 132
(+39) 036520158

What could be better than looking over Lake Garda while enjoying a fresh fish recently caught in its own waters. The eel, of intrinsically high quality and deliciously grilled, is the best we’ve eaten in years. The author is Riccardo Camanini, a schooled chef that practices a well-tempered cuisine in which expertise and technique prevail. Though he dabbles in rather elaborate formulas, he demonstrates great versatility with dishes such as this one, a testimony to sublime simplicity, divine. The eel, roasted slowly over the embers, takes on a form not unlike a giant paupiette, demonstrating a gelatinous interior texture and a golden exterior, its meat oozing with olive wood fragrances. It embodies the sublimation of the ingredient and the fire: nature and aroma. Such a magnanimous dish needs just a bit of garlic confited in duck fat to culminate its delicacy.



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Ingredients

  • 2 eels of 700g
  • 1l duck fat
  • 4 garlic cloves
  • 50g dried black olives, chopped finely
  • 50g oilseed
  • Wild fennel flowers
  • Guérande Salt and pepper

Method

Remove and discard the eel skin. Open and clean the eels and cut into 140g filets. Roll them up and fix them with an olive twig.
Choose 4 small heads of garlic. Remove the base of the garlic heads and blanche 7 times. Next, place the garlic in a pan with a little raw sugar, a dash of salt and the duck fat, cover and cook in the oven at 60° for approximately 3 hours. Blend the olives and the oilseed together. Grill the eel for 25/30 minutes over a low flame; grill the whole garlic heads as well. Finally, trace a fine line of the black olive oil on to the plate, then place the eel ‘skewer’, the garlic cloves removed from the heads, Guérande salt flakes and the wild fennel flowers.



Cod tripe stew with saffron and puntalette risotto

Estofado de callos de bacalao con azafrán y risotto de puntalette
Tristan Bistro
Cuisinier: Gerhard Schwaiger
Pays: España
Localité: 07081 Portals Nous (Mallorca)
Adresse: Puerto Portals, local 1
(+34) 971675547

Gerhard Schwaiger wonderfully demonstrates his noble style with this dish - erudite, academic, and cosmopolitan, with technique and efficiency at the forefront. This particular example is imbued with enormous clarity, intermingling Mediterranean cultures in order to achieve a dish of great substance and complexity in which two contradicting yet complementary textures are juxtaposed – gelatinous and crunchy – with the luring saffron flavor standing out, completely dominant on the palate, above the cod tripe and the pasta, its uniformity strengthened by the flavor of the base and by the quality given to it by the Espelette pepper. Vice.



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Ingredients

For 4 servings

  • 100 g Puntalette pasta
  • 20 g butter
  • 2 shallots, diced
  • 1/4 l chicken stock
  • salt
  • ground white pepper
  • a few drops of lemon juice

Cod tripe stew:

  • 200 g desalinated cod tripe
  • 1/2 white onion, julienned
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 40 g yellow bell pepper
  • a pinch of toasted saffron
  • 1 spoonful olive oil
  • a pinch of Espelette pepper
  • 4 spoonfuls chicken stock
  • salt

Method

Desalinate the cod tripe for three days in water with a lot of ice. Fry the onion for one minute, add the slices of tripe and the rest of the ingredients. Cook for 10 minutes on low heat, cover and let cool for 1 hour. Reheat before serving.

Puntalette risotto:

Fry the diced shallots with the butter in a Teflon pan. Add the Puntalette pasta. Gradually add the chicken stock, always in quantities that the pasta can absorb. Continue this process until the pasta is just right. Salt, pepper and dress with lemon. Serve immediately.



Ravioli filled with extra virgin olive oil, anchovy juice and pantelleria capers, served with fresh tomato sauce

Ravioli filled with extra virgin olive oil, anchovy juice and pantelleria capers
Caino
Cuisinier: Andrea Menichetti
Pays: Italia
Localité: 58050 Montemerano
Adresse: Vía Canónica, 3
(+39) 0564602817

With this dish, Andrea Menichetti won the First International Prize for Cuisine with Olive Oil: “Jaen, paraíso interior”. A creation that has become the flagship of the restaurant. It constitutes an exaltation of the most characteristic flavors of Italy. The pasta is imbibed with extra virgin olive oil and imparts its immaculate flavor. It evokes bread dipped in oil, as well as bread with oil and tomato. It transmits the unctuousness of the vegetable’s oil—a drop is felt as it runs through the mouth, spreading its exquisite essence. This recipe’s magnitude is such that it has traveled around the world in honor of its fame.



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Ingredients
FOR THE FILLING

  • Extra virgin olive oil 200g
  • Micri sauce base 150g
  • Anchova oil 24g
  • Capers in water 12g
  • Garlic 1g
  • Anchovies 4g

FOR THE PASTA

  • Eggs 2
  • 00 Flour 120g
  • Durum wheat semolina flour 120g
  • Extra virgin olive oil 1 tablespoon
  • Salt To taste

FOR THE FRESH TOMATO SAUCE

  • Tomatoes with thick pulp 1kg
  • Extra virgin olive oil To taste


Tagliatelle with ragú and brochette of thrush uliassi

Tagliatelle with ragú and brochette of thrush uliassi
Uliassi
Cuisinier: Mauro Uliassi
Pays: Italia
Localité: 60019 Senigallia (An)
Adresse: Banchina di Levante
(+39) 07165463

It’s ironic that the restaurant of Mauro Uliassi, which is dedicated in flesh and soul to aquatic cuisine, and that only in exceptional cases does it offer any proposals of meat whatsoever, should impress us so with such an uncustomary dish for this attractive establishment situated on the Adriatic.

It’s a formula where pasta – of which the chef is a master, using, for example, the Farro de Latini line, “Gerardo Di Nola” linguine, always the finest brands cooked to perfection – converges with murex – a fascinating and profound marine delight – and thrush, a prohibited delicacy that tantalizes with its exquisite, wild nature. Nothing could be better.



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Ingredients

  • 320 g of tagliatelle*
  • 3 dl of murex sauce*

Method

Cook the tagliatelle in an abundant amount of water with salt for one and a half minutes so that they are still fairly crunchy, then give them a creamy consistency mixing them well with the murex sauce.
Portion out the tagliatelle onto 4 soup plates.

 



Char-Grilled Baby Squid

Chipirones a la Parrilla
Elkano
Cuisinier: Pedro Arregui
Pays: España
Localité: 20808 Getaria (Guipúzcoa)
Adresse: C/ Herrerieta, 2
(+34) 943140614

The grill is not absent from the current boom in haute cuisine. In a clearly nonconformist gastronomic age, at the start of the third millennium in which innovation and perfectionism mark the difference between success and failure, the most archaic and primal of preparations—grilling over a flame—plays a part in the great beginnings of this golden age that we are enjoying, and of which we would never have dreamed.

Like an Adrià or a Berasategui, the names of Pedro Arregui and Victor Arguinzoniz are rising. They have been incorporating new delicacies to the grill. In the case of Elkano, in Getaria (Guipúzcoa), which is attaining a legendary career of more than 40 years, the turbot stands out for its virtuosity, followed by the collar of hake, the clams and, recently, the hake cheeks and baby squid.

Its evolution has brought with it the adaptation of tools that make possible the preparation of these ingredients over coals—“newly fashioned grilling pans”. In the case of cephalopods, this consists of two small, flat, parallel grills separated from one another by a centimeter and attached to the handle from the opposite side. The device is placed a short distance from the coals, about ten centimeters, and over high heat—since these are delicacies of limited volume, they need a blast of heat and exterior aromatization, with just the slightest penetration of heat on the interior of the meat.

The size of the baby squid depends on the season and the market. If you are able to choose, pick two bite specimens, six or seven centimeters in length. If not, you will have to try them a bit bigger, three to four bites, which are tastier and more consistent than the very small ones, infinitely more delicious and more ecologically sound—pieces that spend two minutes on each side over the heat of the embers for a total of four minutes, depending on the aforementioned factors. Served with a black sauce made with onions, garlic, large squid and their ink.



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