- Miso glazed scallop:
- • 4 Large fresh scallop
- • 225ml sake
- • 225ml mirin
- • 675g miso paste
- • 337g white sugar
- Miso broth:
- • 1.6ltr dashi stock
- • 3 shallots
- • 3 cloves garlic
- • 50g fresh ginger
- • 2 sticks of lemon grass
- • ½ carrot
- • 10g red curry paste
- • 125g white miso paste
- • 10g mirin
- • 30g Kikkoman soy sauce
- • ½ tin of coconut milk
- • 15g dry kombu seaweed
- • 5g cardamom seed
- • 2.5g coriander seed
- • 125g pear puree
- • 125g grapefruit juice
- • 2 coriander storks
- • 1 small kaffir lime juice and zest
- • 1 sprig basil
- Pickled mushrooms:
- • 1 pkt of shimeji mushrooms
- • 50ml mirin
- • 50ml water
- • 3g salt
- • 3g sugar
- Pickled red cabbage:
- • ¼ red cabbage
- • 300g sugar
- • 500ml water
- • 250ml white wine vinegar
- • 25g ginger
- • 25g coriander seeds
- • 5 pieces star anise
- • 5 pieces cloves
- • ½ orange zest
- • ½ lemon zest
- Dashi stock:
- • 5ltr water
- • 100g Dashi kombu
- • 100g Bonito
- • 500ml soy sauce
- • 250ml mirin
- • 1 oranges
- Crispy garlic:
- • Garlic clove
- • Oil
- • Salt
- Pickled Ginger:
- • Ginger
- • Red cabbage pickling liquor
Ingredients
Method
Miso glazed scallop:
Bring sake and mirin to the boil add miso paste and sugar, stir over a low heat until well combined.
When cooled place in a sous vide bag along with the scallop to marinade. When ready take out scallop remove excess marinate and sear in a hot pan.
Can be finished with a little warm miso glaze spooned over.
Miso broth:
Bring the stock to the boil, meanwhile pan fry the shallots, garlic, ginger, lemon grass, and carrots until nicely coloured. Add the red curry paste and cook out a little. Add the stock along with the miso, mirin, soy sauce, coconut milk, seaweed, cardamom and coriander seeds bring back to the boil and cook out for a few mins. Add the pear puree, grapefruit juice, lime, coriander and basil and leave to infuse and cool down. To finish pass the stock through muslin cloth.
Pickled mushrooms:
Boil mirin, water, sugar and salt. Add the mushrooms and allow to cool naturally.
Pickled red cabbage:
Boil water and sugar and all ingredients and infuse for 15 minutes. Pass and re-boil, add the julienne of red cabbage and allow to cool down.
Dashi stock:
Combine water, kombu and bonito and infuse 3 hrs at 60°C. Meanwhile reduce soy sauce and mirin by 1/3 add the peel of the an orange and allow to cool down then pass into the stock and pass through muslin cloth.
Crispy garlic:
Slice the garlic very thinly on a mandolin and fry at 140oc until crispy put on absorbent paper and season with salt.
Pickled Ginger:
Julienne the peeled ginger and put inside boiled pickling liquor leave to cool down.
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