Confit Ratte Potato with Sauce Soubise

Robin Read

Robin Read

15th August 2024
Robin Read

Confit Ratte Potato with Sauce Soubise

160 min

This is a current dish from The Counter by Robin Read in Royal Tunbridge Wells.

Ingredients

Potatoes

  • 4 Ratte Potatoes, the size of a golf ball
  • Rapeseed oil
  • Dulse
  • Rosemary
  • Garlic

Sauce Soubise

  • 2 medium white onions, thinly sliced
  • 3 Shallots, thinly sliced
  • 1 clove garlic, sliced
  • 50ml rapeseed oil
  • 50ml vegetable stock
  • 50ml Good quality Chardonnay
  • 50ml Double cream

Mushroom Ketchup

  • 500g Mushroom trimmings
  • 100g shallot, thinly sliced
  • 20ml Sherry vinegar
  • 20ml Rapeseed oil

Parsley Emulsion

  • 100ml Parsley oil
  • 30g egg yolk
  • Lemon juice
  • Garnish – crispy kale

Method

For the potatoes

Warm the oil, dulse rosemary and garlic in a pan
Add the Potatoes and place in the oven with a lid at 150 for around 90 minutes
Check the potato is cook through leave to rest in the warm oil

For the sauce

Gently cook the onions, shallots and garlic with no colour
When soft ad tender add the wine, reduce to nearly nothing then add the stock and cream
Bring to the boil and puree, pass through a chinois

For the ketchup

Saute the mushroom trimmings with the shallot till golden
Deglaze with sherry vinegar and then puree till smooth

For the chive emulsion

Blend the oil into the egg and lemon juice till emulsified

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