Recipe of the month

Slow-cooked sea bass with Opperdoezer round. snails and a watercress coulis

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You can now make the recipe that the Topchef candidates made in the Topclass with Onno Kokmeijer at home!

Ingredients 4 persons                          
1 pc or 2 pounds Bass (about 2 pounds)
200gr Opperdoezer new potatoes
12 pieces Snails
1 Summer or Winter Truffle (Seasonal)
San Mauro Olive oil
100 g Sea lavender
12 pieces Willowherb
1 pc Salted lemon
2 Erinki mushrooms
Clarified butter
Salt and pepper

  
Cut off the cap of the Erinki mushroom, about 2 inches below the cap. Cut even slices of the cap on position 7 of the cutting machine. Put olive oil and some salt on a silicon mat and place the slices on the mat. Then cover with another silicon mat and place the whole in an oven at 160 degrees for 20 minutes.

We cut the rest of the Erinki mushroom into cubes of 5x5 mm which we fry on high heating in clarified butter, then our off and dab on a paper towel to remove excess fat.

 

Watercress Coulis           
1 bunch Watercress
1 / 2 Shallot
1 / 2 Nicola potato
3 dl Chicken stock
 50 grams Butter
 1 dl Olive oil San mauro

 

Slice the shallots and potatoes into thin slices and heat them in the colorless butter.
Then quench the whole with chicken stock and let it cook over low heat. Meanwhile, remove the coarse stems from the watercress, you will only need the leaves and hold back about 20 nice tops for the layout. Put the picked watercress in a food processor and add the chicken stock with the potato and shallots as they are sufficiently cooked. Let the food processor run for 2 to 3 minutes continuously and season with salt and olive oil.

 

Garlic Cream      
1 dl Cream
1 dl Fish stock
1/2 clove Garlic

 
Boil the cream and fish stock together and reduce until a beautiful lobed cream is created. Then remove the pan from the heat and add the grated garlic.

 

Method

Fillet the sea bass and remove his skin. Then remove the middle bone so the nice back of the bass is kept. Cut equal slices of 6mm thick of the back of the bass. Put it on a plate or tray and marinate it in enough olive oil, cover with plastic and put it in a warm place so it can cook slowly in the olive oil. We cook the Opperdoezer round in plenty of water for 15 minutes, depending on the size of the Opperdoezer. After 15 minutes the potatoes cool slightly and rinse the blade with a small thin layer removal. Then we cut the potato into 4 equal pieces and mix it with the snails in garlic cream.

 

Use this link to what the Top Chef episode.

 

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