Thursday, March 17, 2011

From NOMA - Glazed beets and apples; a world class expirience at home

Glazed beets and apples. Photo: Cullinaire Saisonnier
This first of two recipes featuring the worlds best restaurant, NOMA (Restaurant Magazine). This recipe is a little work and require timely preparations; however this is an opportunity to create a Worlds Best Restaurant/3 Michelin Star expirience in your own home.
Friends, family and who ever you choose to invite to join your dinner table will have a culinary expirience that will be difficult to match - even by the absolute top 10 restaurants in the world!!!
Serves 4 persons
Ingredients:
Sauce
2000 g big beets
20 g fresh or dried woodruff
1 star anise
15 g chickenglace
Applevinegar

Smoked  marrow
200 g. Marrow from vealbones
1000 g water
70 g salt
100 g woodchips

Garnish
4 mediumsized long beets
1 big round beet
4 green acidic apples
60 gr water
50 gr butter
2 twigs of thyme
8 leaves of sorrel
Sauce
Peel and juice the big beets, add the woodruff and star anise and reduce to 1/4 . Season with the chickenglace, applevinegar and strain.

Marrow
Soak the bone marrow in ice water for 48 hours changing the water at least two times a day. Cook a brine on salt and water and when cooled down soak the marrow for another 48 hours. Smoke lightly in smoker with smoking chips and hay. Cut slices of approx. 0,5 cm and cut them out with a round cutter. Melt all the marrow remainings and pass through a strainer when completely melted.
Garnish
Boil the long beets for 35 min until tender, strain off and peel them before they cool down, cut in discs of 1 cm thickness. Slice the apples 1 cm thick and cut them out with a roundcutter in the same size as the beets. Heat the water and whisk in the butter to emuslify, add the thyme and cook the apples at low heat for around 2 min.
Slice the big beet finely on the meatslicer and cut out 3 discs per person with a roundcutter twice the size of the beets and apples. Cut the sorrel in the same size and let it sit in cold water for 5 min.

Serving
Heat and glace the beets in the sauce and plate them with the apples, sorrelleaves and the raw discs of beets, heat the marrow slowly in the oven and add to the plate, split the warm beetsauce with the melted marrow and sauce the plate.

DINNER - by Michelin Star Chef Rene Redzepi is served!

1 comment:

  1. This has to be one of the most Artistic and beautiful starter salads I've ever seen. I imagine it's just as flavorful as it looks. That chef and restaurant seems pure genius to be so simple. Thank you Per for having the understanding and appreciation to bring it to our attention. WONDERFUL WONDERFUL WONDERFUL using only local flavors, local foods and creating such simple beautiful art.

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