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Atlantic Way Food Dish 21st-‐24th June 2012
@ Wild Honey Inn, Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare
“Wild Honey Inn Crab Cocktail”
This dish was created using ingredients from the following producers:
Malbay Shellfish Joe Garrihy
Miltown Malbay Co. Clare
A community driven initiative to support a sustainable food and tourism industry along Ireland’s West Coast. www.atlanticwayfood.com
Wild Honey Inn
Wild honey Inn Crab Cocktail
Ingredients:
500g White hand picked Wild crab meat (Specially supplied by Malbay Shellfish, Co Clare) 1 Granny Smith Apple peeled Homemade Mayonnaise Lemon Juice Large Leaf Coriander Chives Snipped Light Vinaigrette Frisée Salad Micro cress: Celery, Roquette, Chervil, Coriander, amaranth or red chard. Gazpacho Dressing Cold Pressed Olive Oil for drizzling Method:
Mayonnaise:
• 3 yolks, Champagne vinegar, Dijon mustard, salt pepper, 500ml peanut or sunflower oil • whisk yolks seasoning mustard and vinegar in a bowl, slowly add oil drizzling bit by bit until it
has emulsified. Check seasoning add lemon juice to taste and if too thick add a little water.
Gazpacho:
500g plum tomato pulp no seeds, ½ peeled and deseeded cucumber, dash tabasco, 50g tomato purée, little olive oil, dash red wine vinegar, 1 garlic clove peeled and sliced.
Put all ingredients into the blender and blend on high speed until the skins of the tomato are no longer visible and a smooth texture is achieved. Check for seasoning and adjust with lemon juice if necessary.
Vinaigrette:
Put a little champagne vinegar in a squeezy bottle, approx ¼ of volume, ½ clove garlic, salt, pepper, a little water approx 1 Tblspn, olive oil and peanut oil 50/50 and fill the bottle leaving ¼ empty at the top. Shake the bottle and taste should be slightly sharp but offset by the oil and water.
Assemble the Cocktail:
• Put the crabmeat in a bowl and add a little mayonnaise, enough to bind add some of the snipped chives and shredded coriander leaves, lemon juice and freshly ground pepper.
• Using a nice shaped glass, pack the mixture into it and tamp down with the back of a spoon making sure there are no air pockets visible through the glass. Important do not over fill the glass.
• Next stir the gazpacho if separated and spoon over the crab mix 2 dessert spoons of the gazpacho and shake or tap lightly to level.
• In another bowl mix the cress and frisée making sure there is a nice colourful mix of leaves and dress lightly with the vinaigrette place lightly on top of the gazpacho.
• Drizzle with cold pressed olive oil serve on a lined side plate with unwaxed lemon to squeeze. And a thin crisp of dries sourdough bread for texture or little croutons fried in clarified butter.