(For copyright reasons, as the picture is at Yahoo, please look there; the link is attached below.)
Looking for volunteer to try this recipe at home. The winner of $50K, this is curried and has shrimp and pork belly, a combination that you don’t run into every day.
Crispy shrimp:
2 pounds Laughing Bird shrimp
2 cups flour
1 cup egg yolk
1 cup water
2 cup Panko bread crumbs
Bread the shrimp in the traditional manner and reserve.Sous vide pork belly:
5 pounds pork belly
1 cup brine (saltwater brine)
vacuum bagCook at 60 degrees Celsius for three full days (72 hours) and chill.
Cauliflower espuma:
2 pounds cauliflower
¼ cup truffle oil
1 cup cream
salt and white pepper
1 teaspoon Versawhip
1 tablespoon orange zest
3 ounces butterProcess in a vita-prep until smooth.
Curry glaze:
½ cup red curry paste
1 cup coconut milk
1/8 cup kaffir lime leaves
1/8 cup ginger
¼ cup carrots
1 cup water
1 teaspoon tapioca starchSimmer all together and thicken with tapioca and strain.
Roasted Ginger and Kaffir lime leaf air:
1 cup milk
½ cup roasted ginger
¼ cup kaffir lime leavesSimmer together strain and add 1 teaspoon of soy lecithin.
In hot pan sauté a slice of the pork belly and toss with curry glaze. Keep warm. Deep fry the shrimp and reserve on a hot plate. Pump the cauliflower espuma on a plate in a rectangle shape and top with curried pork. On top of the pork place a shrimp and finish with milk air. Garnish with fresh herbs and a nitrogen olive sheet.
Let me know if you have all these ingredients on hand. I wouldn’t myself. Frankly, I don’t think I’m going to make it either, but it sounds like a nice result if you have a lot of time on your hands.



13 Comments

You crazy woman!
I like a person of dreams in the extreme.
Some one show me to the truffle oil. I’ll just stay with that.
Pork belly with Shrimp? Not likely, but it was fun to read.
Thanks Ruth. If you can figure out a way to bring it into line with my culinary requirements I’ll be happy to give it a try. Requirements are 5 (or fewer) ingredients and 5 minute prep time. In special circumstances I might be persuaded to do 6 minutes prep (I’m such a glutton for punishment). “g”
Looked like a good eat, but the fixing sounds like too much work.
Raw pork belly is pro’ly not a good idea. Sorry. Will keep looking for some one that’s got lotsa time.
Cooking time doesn’t count, though 3 days might be a teensy bit longer than I typically prefer to wait… :)
This is one of the recipes that originally probably began ‘pick out a good chunky stoat from the litter…’
Oddly, I have everything except the Versawhip. (Quesion: the HELL is Versawhip?)
Seriously, I’d eat it, but even I don’t love food enough to cook something for three days.
Also, Celsius is commie and might impact my purity of essence.
Actually, Missouri Bird googled and found it; ‘Versawhip® provides twice the aerating capabilities of egg whites. It can be used to reduce cost or incorporate more air into preparation. It also enhances aeration consistency.’
http://www.lepicerie.com/catalog/product_702660_Versawhip_600K.html
Never heard of it before.
But cooking in celsius means getting commie temp stuff, it would no doubt kill the pork belly juices or something. Sigh. No volunteers yet.
Hey, somebody else knows what I figured out by accident a few weeks ago — tapioca starch makes a good thickener for sauces; better than flour in my opinion as you don’t need to roux it first to remove the flour-y taste. (I had some left over from making tapioca pudding and gave it a try when I needed to thicken a mushroom sauce. Works perfectly.)
Or you can Google “60 degrees celsius to fahrenheit.” Answer, 140 degrees Fahrenheit.
“The trouble with Germans is that they have no word for weltanschauung.”
-G.W. Bush
You were first! The winner probably owes you a cut.