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Welcome to Tickets Evolution
Tickets dishes
2014
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2016
2017.
Inspirations
Origin
In 2010 we were in China presenting the dessert book Natura, and we had dinner at
a restaurant that had different stations where food was offered (wok, dumplings,
Peking duck), a drink bar and some other that now I do not remember. I found it to
be a very effective system to be able to give a fast and dynamic service that would
allow us to serve many clients. I suppose that image was etched in my memory, since
from that idea we designed Tickets.
The aesthetics of the restaurant respond to the street where it is, the Parallel, a place of
leisure and shows that was the king of Barcelona's nightlife since the end of the century
XIX until the 1970s. Along the avenue, countless theaters, cabarets and other venues had
been concentrated. It was the equivalent in importance to Montmartre in Paris. At
present, there is little left of that Parallel, but it is everyone's intention that this street
shine again as before, hence the Ticket bulbs shine in all their splendor and that the
festive atmosphere of the place is the visual language of this restaurant that has a name
as silly as it is easy to remember. As we anticipated in our first bookTapas. The kitchen at
Tickets, also published with RBA in 2013, the restaurant was conceived with a very
different approach from what it has become over time, hence the title we have chosen
for this second volume: Tickets Evolution. The restaurant opened on March 3, 2011 and
the expected closure of elBulli in July of that same year caused many people to think that
we were going to do something similar in Barcelona, as a possible substitute, a very
difficult company and that we never missed. by the head. The first days of testing with
clients were as stressful as they were frustrating, as we were forced to modify
everything done during a year of work due to the need to offer the diner what they were
looking for: something similar to elBulli! Very far from my initial intention, which was to
develop a project called Inopia, a bar that, remember, baptized gastrobars and gave
back the illusion of recovering traditional tapas. Our main virtue at Tickets is to be able
to enjoy "haute cuisine in the neighborhood" (as we like to define it) in an informal
atmosphere, somewhat uncomfortable and noisy, with small tables and chairs. For some
it is too much, but for many others it is a concept that has brought them closer to this
style of cuisine, which little by little they have lost their fear. Not surprisingly, at a time
when gourmet restaurants tended to continually reduce seats, Tickets served 230 meals
on Saturdays. Although, to be honest, not at the level of the recipes in this book, which is
called
Tickets Evolution.
The lid as a concept
Tourists make up about 50% of elBarri's clientele, in fact, given the vast gastronomic
offer offered in Barcelona, it is almost impossible for us to survive without them, and by
"we can" I mean all of us who are part of the offer of restoration of the city and even of
the country. The positive of all this, in our opinion, is that we have managed that, in
addition to sun, beach and culture, tourists come to Spain to discover our gastronomy.
This is something that we have earned hard, based on a lot of work and effort, and with
what we have achieved that today Spanish cuisine is recognized worldwide, a milestone
that, ironically, has been achieved in part thanks to the haute cuisine, with
internationally acclaimed restaurants (and I will not mention any because there are so
many!). These kitchen temples have carried out actions that have reinforced this
recognition. For example, for years, after offering a unique product to gastronomes
from all over the world, they have invited them to spend a few days in their cities in
order to discover our traditional cuisine, our products and the diversity of our regional
cuisine. For tourists, the magic word istapas, and this is a real fact that, in addition, we
must celebrate: we finally have a solid and defining brand of Spanish cuisine beyond
clichés. The questions that arise to me now are: what are tapas? What is ittapas? Do we
all understand tapas in the same way? How do I explain to a foreigner clearly what a
tapa is, beyond what is understood in one region or another? And I prefer not to extend
myself because I do not clarify myself. However, when they ask me if Tickets is a
restaurant with Catalan, Spanish and tapas cuisine, I answer without hesitation: «Sure!».
The revolution
I often resort to the following phrase: "A restaurant is a mass of mistakes and our job is to minimize them." However, we can also
say that many small details make a difference and make up a great detail, in such a way that we provoke a constant evolution. We
can see this, for example, in the evolution of the clothing of the Tickets team, especially that of the waiters, which has undergone
several modifications, from less to more formality, although, yes, without losing the spark. We can also verify it in the letters: the
first was pocket-sized and folded, and then we went on to make a version with a rigid cover but of reduced dimensions, which, in
turn, gave way to a larger one. Obviously, the most transformed has been the menu and beverage service, in which we went from
30 to 130 references and from none to three sommeliers. In the living room we removed the high tables, uncomfortable for older
people and that prevented enjoying an increasingly complete proposal, the paper napkins became linen and the table was dressed
little by little, the dishes were transformed for a proposal More formal and small plates arrived, which we were already able to
serve individually. This way of working and evolving was one of the main characteristics of elBulli, something that many know, and
that is that, in that restaurant in Cala Montjoi, not everything was spherical. the crockery was being transformed for a more formal
proposal and the small plates arrived, which we were already able to serve individually. This way of working and evolving was one
of the main characteristics of elBulli, something that many know, and that is that, in that restaurant in Cala Montjoi, not everything
was spherical. the crockery was being transformed for a more formal proposal and the small plates arrived, which we were already
able to serve individually. This way of working and evolving was one of the main characteristics of elBulli, something that many
know, and that is that, in that restaurant in Cala Montjoi, not everything was spherical.
2011
2013
2015.
2017.
Oshiboris.
Business cards
The shirt gives way to a vest with embroidery.
Napkins, from paper to linen.
From the can to the wooden ticket holder.
The cocktail menu gains color and increases in size.
From folding letter to rigid letter. Then we add color and finally we increase size.
Small magnetic letters that give way to a hand-drawn scroll.
We went from 30 wine references to 130.
Evolution of Ticket dishes
Free-range chicken sot-l'y-laisse skewer with minishiitake
2011
2011
Onion water lily
2016
Sunflower artichoke with tarama, ginger tapioca, mint and pickled lemon
2017
Cherrys salad with gazpacho jelly 2011
Tomaco
2017.
The team
I do not want to think that the obligatory lines of gratitude to the team and its
managers move between banality and set phrases. I have a problem: I have to divide
myself between five children, who are the restaurants to whom I love the same and to
whom I dedicate the same time, which causes that, in reality, I am not in any of them
and at the same time in all, about all thanks to its closeness. But I am also fortunate to
have the great administrative work carried out by my partners, the Iglesias brothers:
Pedro, Borja and Juan Carlos, which allow me to focus on what I really like, which is
cooking, what I do with the support and energy of Fran Agudo, the solemn chef at
Tickets for four years. Without your help, we would not have been able to achieve the
goals we set for ourselves. Nor do I want to forget two young people with both quality
and enthusiasm, Jaume Marambio and Álvaro de Juan, who help Fran with the daily
organization. This book is a part of them and of all those who have contributed their
effort at some point to write a part of our little history.
To share
During the first two years of Tickets' existence, we were not able to offer individual
preparations or servings. In addition, we were strict about the quantities or portions, in
such a way that it caused some confusion in some customers, who, with good reason,
did not understand, for example, why there were six slices of tuna on a plate for the four
people of the table. This is something that we have managed to modify, although it has
not been quick or easy, mainly due to the services of 120 people, which was
overwhelming. The current proposal in Tickets begins with a phase offingerfood
combined with individual caps in which the spoon in many cases is the protagonist of a
cuisine of seasonal and tasty products. Finally, the final firework, with the large pieces,
which allow Tickets to be given a unique personality. Skip eating 10-12fingerfood and
8-10 individual tapas to end up sharing a great piece, be it meat or seafood, it is
something that the customer loves and, therefore, it is a concept that we will continue to
develop.
Room
Allow me a few words in a personal capacity. I am more and more convinced that the
success of a restaurant lies mainly in the room service, as long as you eat well, obviously.
As cooks, it is something that is more difficult for us to accept, but one that I quickly
learned at Tickets thanks to more than direct contact with customers. From my pass
monitor I can observe the interaction of the waiters with their tables and how they may
be able to modify behaviors and take them along the desired route, which, basically, is
to seek the happiness of the diners. Welcome is the most critical moment in a restaurant
and believe me, I speak from experience. My master is called Heart. When we opened in
2015, we received about 450 people in just one hour, and we accompanied them and sat
them in two different spaces. I know that deep down everything is routine, but I learned
the client's ability to detect weakness, as well as the importance of control from the first
moment. Of course, Tickets is much simpler than the Ibizan giant, but not in terms of the
reception at the door, at which time it is very important to be pragmatic, quickly find the
reservation and lead the customer to the table. When I speak of welcome, I mean that
Tickets does not have a tasting menu, therefore, the interview that the waiter has with
customers before starting to eat is vital. The freedom of eating à la carte allows us to
offer the customer what they want and the waiter feel like a waiter. Hence, the challenge
of gaining the confidence to make a proposal to your liking and needs requires a very
great complicity and a great knowledge of what is being sold, something very difficult
considering that the job of waiter has lost a lot of school and in which it seems that
everyone is passing in search of a better future. It reminds me of that idea we have of
Hollywood, where all the waiters are actors waiting for their moment. The office as such
is hurt. We only hope that this changes and that little by little their work will be
recognized, at the level of the chefs, and that they will be compensated like these. I take
these lines - since it is my book for a reason - to thank Xavi Alba for his commitment and
passion and, above all, for being the way he is. Tickets owes him a lot and I do too, it is
something that the whole team, family, Clients and friends know and it is acceptable to
be honest in recognizing the value of the people around you, something that I also love.
Well, I don't roll over and leave you with him ...
Good evening and welcome to Tickets!
My name is Xavi and today I am going to be your waiter. Is it the first time you come to
Tickets? No? Well, anyway, I remind you. In Tickets we offer two options: the first, that
you choose yourself from the menu. Normally, people eat about fifteen savory
preparations, some individual, others are to share. The second is that I ask you a couple
of questions, as to whether you have allergies or intolerances, as well as your
preferences and tastes, and from there I make a selection according to what you tell
me. Even if there are different tastes among you, it is not a problem: we make a totally
personalized selection. At any moment you can stop and I myself will ask you how
hungry you are. If you see something that you find interesting or even want to repeat,
we add it without any problem. I leave the letter for you to take a look and I'm back
right away. A straw while you choose? Thank you very much and welcome back.
Sweet World
I am myself again, because now I have to talk about desserts and I have already played that game. I must say that afterNatura, which I consider my sweet testament, I had a
monumental pájara that prevented me from getting within a meter of the sugar and for five years I practically did not make any dessert. Ironically, I was named the best pastry chef in
the world in 2016 by "The World's 50 Best Restaurant", something that I thank from my heart. The hesitations disappeared when a lanky man who reminded me a lot of a young Oriol
Castro appeared at the Ticket door to take charge of La Dolça or, rather, La Dolça station, since the current space was modified some year later . David Gil, who is the name of the kid,
has the aura of the chosen ones, of those who come to this world to do things and not to walk. During these five years he has not stopped growing and from being a Ticket pastry chef
he came to have the enormous responsibility of carrying all the sweet part of elBarri, while as someone who does not want it he won the Spanish Chocolate Championship in 2015. His
job is difficult and it has undoubtedly carried it out with outstanding marks, giving each restaurant its personality. Of course, it has the complicity of the respective pastry chefs. I hope
that soon we will be able to publish a joint work in the form of a book in which the desserts of all the restaurants are presented. Meanwhile, I have returned to make desserts in Enigma
with Jordi Saavedra, another of the greats, to enjoy this wonderful job while I get new cavities. I leave you with David Gil, remember this name. while as someone who does not want it,
he won the Spanish Chocolate Championship in 2015. His work is difficult and he has undoubtedly carried it out with an outstanding mark, endowing each restaurant with its
personality. Of course, it has the complicity of the respective pastry chefs. I hope that soon we will be able to publish a joint work in the form of a book in which the desserts of all the
restaurants are presented. Meanwhile, I have returned to make desserts in Enigma with Jordi Saavedra, another of the greats, to enjoy this wonderful job while I get new cavities. I leave
you with David Gil, remember this name. while as someone who does not want it, he won the Spanish Chocolate Championship in 2015. His work is difficult and he has undoubtedly
carried it out with an outstanding mark, endowing each restaurant with its personality. Of course, it has the complicity of the respective pastry chefs. I hope that soon we will be able to
publish a joint work in the form of a book in which the desserts of all the restaurants are presented. Meanwhile, I have returned to make desserts in Enigma with Jordi Saavedra,
another of the greats, to enjoy this wonderful job while I get new cavities. I leave you with David Gil, remember this name. It has the complicity of the respective pastry chefs. I hope
that soon we will be able to publish a joint work in the form of a book in which the desserts of all the restaurants are presented. Meanwhile, I have returned to make desserts in Enigma
with Jordi Saavedra, another of the greats, to enjoy this wonderful job while I get new cavities. I leave you with David Gil, remember this name. It has the complicity of the respective
pastry chefs. I hope that soon we will be able to publish a joint work in the form of a book in which the desserts of all the restaurants are presented. Meanwhile, I have returned to make
desserts in Enigma with Jordi Saavedra, another of the greats, to enjoy this wonderful job while I get new cavities. I leave you with David Gil, remember this name.
The Dolça
It is difficult to convey and explain in a few words what the desserts represent for
Tickets. It must be borne in mind that they are the fruit of seven years of continuous
evolution and of many changes that we could not understand without talking about our
little history. Something that has made desserts a very important element of Tickets has
been Albert Adrià's past as a pastry chef at elBulli. In addition to giving value to quality
and creativity, he has always attached great importance to sweets, as well as to
ensuring that customers keep a corner in their stomach so that they can taste them,
something that, he tells me, does not it always happened at elBulli. Tickets patisserie
was born humbly, as a small part of the restaurant run by two pastry chefs. We go
through various times of change. In one of them we proposed the concept of "sweet
tapas", as Ferran Adrià called them. We did not understand that a tapas restaurant does
not have individual desserts, so sweets were born, preparations that allowed people to
finish not only one, but also be able to taste four or five desserts, and even the entire
menu. For me it was one of the most significant changes of Tickets, which without a
doubt gave identity, freedom and happiness to the pastry shop. However, what really
changed the customer's experience with desserts was the closing of the 41st and the
opening of La Dolça. Albert conceived a unique space so that sweets could be enjoyed in
an adjoining room, thus giving the world of desserts all the importance it deserves. We
were like kids in a pastry shop, desserts and more desserts, privileged with a squad of
seven pastry chefs to convert non-believers and transform them into faithful
parishioners who wish to return to La Dolça, a paradise for children and the elderly. Due
to this great change, but also due to the long history of seven years since we started,
Tickets has been the mother house of the other restaurants that have been opening in
the same line of work and rigor that Albert has marked. We believe that if there is
something that makes us different, that something is desserts, the reason why in this
book there are no sweet recipes, because it is our desire to capture our philosophy, way
of thinking and working with sweets in a separate work, to give this world the place that
it has earned in all Albert Adrià's restaurants.
1 With the help of scissors cut the fibers of the stracciatella, to make it
easier to eat.
2 Pass the hedgehog through a strainer and mix with the pasteurized yolk.
Thinly slice the truffle so that it covers the entire stracciatella and make a string of
sea urchin sauce and yolk on the outside of the plate.
To finish, pour a thread of olive oil all over the plate.
Pizzeta with stracciatella
2014
For 4 people
1 Grind the Crutomat in a coffee grinder until it turns into a powder. Keep in an
airtight container.
3 Using a knife, cut the 2 brick pasta wafers with a 21 cm circular mold.
Paint a wafer with mild olive oil. Grate half of the cheese on top and cover with
the other. Paint again with oil and grate the rest of the cheese.
Leave a few seconds in the salamander so that the cheese melts slightly. Then
place in the oven preheated to 160ºC for 8 min. After this time, remove the wafer
from the oven and sprinkle with the Crutomat and the
oregano powder. Cut it into 8 triangles and let cool. Store in airtight
containers at room temperature.
4 Heat ¼ part of the basil water and add the salt. Add the agar agar, bring to
a boil and stir with rods until well dissolved.
Remove the saucepan from the heat, add the rest of the basil water, transfer the mixture to a
flat-bottomed container and reserve in the fridge for 2 hours.
When it is gelled, blend with the blender until it becomes a thick cream without
lumps. Reserve.
5 With the help of scissors, cut the stracciatella to make it easier to eat. Salt and
pepper and store in the fridge.
1 Clean the chicken skin of excess fat and spread it on a tray lined with
greaseproof paper. Store in the freezer for 12 hours, well covered. After this
time, remove, defrost and season.
Arrange the chicken skin on a rack, cover with greaseproof paper and place another
rack on top to prevent it from bending. Preheat the oven to 180 ºC and then cook for
20 min.
After this time, lower the temperature to 160 ºC and bake for 20 more minutes. Then remove the
top rack and the parchment paper and cook for 5 more minutes.
When the skin is crisp, remove from the oven and cut it into rectangles 3 cm
wide and 10 cm long with scissors. Store in an airtight container in a cool, dry
place.
2 Clean the anchovy of scales and open through the gut with scissors. Separate
through the central spine, keeping the tail, and put to bleed for 15 min in water with
plenty of ice.
After this time, remove the anchovies from the bath and cover them with the
anchovy salt for 13 min. Then clean them in a cold water bath.
Dethorn the anchovies with the help of tweezers and trim the belly area to
make it round. Store them in an airtight container covered with olive oil.
1 Remove and discard the parmesan rind, and cut it into 5mm cubes. Heat the
cream in a saucepan and, when it is about to boil, blend together with the cheese
with a blender until obtaining a fine cream. Add salt and strain. Reserve in the fridge.
Once the cream is tempered, add the water and the egg white, and place in a
mixer at speed 6 for approximately 2 min. It should be a well aerated cream.
Put it in a sleeve with a small curly nozzle and reserve in the fridge.
2 Peel a lemon leaving the segments and the other leave it with the skin, removing the upper and
lower peduncle. Cut into cubes of 3 mm on each side.
Put the lemon cubes with the sugar and glucose in a saucepan and cook over a very
low heat for about 15 min until candied. Store in an airtight container in the fridge.
3 With a peeler, cut 12 slices (1 mm thick and 3 × 4 cm long and wide) of the
Parmesan Reggiano.
Store on parchment paper in an airtight container in the fridge.
4 Grind the Crutomat in a coffee grinder until you get a fine powder. Reserve in
an airtight container.
1 Wash the mushrooms well and drain them. Put them to hydrate in mineral water and
jang for 12 h at room temperature.
After this time, transfer the preparation to a saucepan and boil the mushrooms for 20 min.
Then, remove the saucepan from the heat, film it and let it rest for 2 h. When ready, go
through a cheesecloth and reserve.
Heat the death trumpet tea to a boil and serve it in a kettle to pour over the
oyster in front of the diner.
Oriental fine shell
2014
For 4 people
1 Dissolve the salt in the water and purge the mollusks in this preparation for 1 h.
2 Place the thin shells in a vacuum bag and seal completely. Cook in the Róner
at 100ºC for 1 min and 40 s. Cool quickly in a container with plenty of ice and
water.
3 Remove the shells from the bag and reserve all the water that they have released.
Carefully peel off the body on a container so as not to lose the water. Reserve the shells.
On a board, remove the outer cord of the mollusk and reserve. Clean with a
Trim the dark-colored viscera and discard.
Make a small transverse cut in the body from the bottom to the part of the
red tip without going through, so that, when it extends, it is upwards as if it
were a fin.
Dissolve the salt in the water and add plenty of ice. Leave the thin shells very clean
for 20 min in this water. After time, strain them and place them in the water that
they have released during cooking (previously also washed). Keep in the fridge until
the moment of service.
4 Put all the ingredients in a saucepan, except the katsuobushi, the lemon juice and the
xanthan.
Bring to a boil and remove from heat.
Add the katsuobushi and infuse for 15 min.
Strain the katsuobushi and when the mixture is cold, add the lemon juice. Finally,
thicken with the xanthan.
5 Grate the tomatoes and arrange them in a bowl. Add the rest of the
ingredients and blend with the blender until well integrated. Reserve.
1 With the help of a juicer, prepare the green mandarin juice (about 300 ml
of juice will be obtained). Next, strain it with absorbent paper, dropping the
clarified juice into a plastic container.
Add the rose water, mix and reserve in the fridge.
2 Peel the tangerine and separate the segments. Peel them and cut 5 mm cubes on
each side. Reserve in an airtight container with a little juice of the same fruit.
1 Peel and slice the shallot. Pour the wine into a saucepan, add the shallot and
reduce the liquid to a quarter. Strain and reserve.
2 Cut the butter into small pieces and place it in a saucepan together with
the wine reduction. Cook until the mixture is well dissolved.
Remove from the heat and add the water and yuzu juice. Rectify the salt and bind with the
xanthan base with the help of some rods.
1 With a damp paper, clean the earth mushrooms and other impurities that they may have
and cut them into 2 mm slices with a knife.
Reserve the slices in an airtight container and the leftover trimmings for the
next preparation.
2 Remove the rind from the cheese and cut it into small pieces of 5 mm on each side.
Heat the cream and, when it is about to boil, add the salt and cheese. Blend the whole in
the blender until obtaining a fine cream.
Put the cream in a bottle and leave it to cool in the fridge for 2 hours.
3 Confit the mushroom trimmings with the oil at 60ºC for 2 h. After this time,
strain and reserve the oil obtained.
For 4 people
1 For the basil macaron
(minimum amount to get a good result) 500 g
of basil water (watch P. 90) 5 g fine salt
15 g of agar agar
Mineral water
Ice
1 Bring 125 g of basil water to the boil together with the salt and agar agar. When it
starts boiling, remove from the heat and add the rest of the basil water. Mix well
with the help of some rods.
Pour the basil bath into a stainless steel tray and heat over an induction until it
reaches 55ºC. Keep the basil bath at this temperature, stirring with a spatula
with enveloping movements, to prevent it from cooling and forming lumps.
On the other hand, in another tray with the same characteristics, place a specific
utensil to make this preparation, the Macaroni Kit, and cover with water and ice.
Next, remove the fork to make macaroni from the ice water, dry with absorbent
paper and place completely in the basil bath for 5 seconds. Remove quickly and
drain in an upright position for 20 s. Then trim the top and bottom edges with a lace
trim and remove the cylinders by sliding them - without stretching - on a flat tray.
They will measure 20 cm high by 1 cm wide.
2 Grate the Parmesan and reserve. Put the cream and water in a saucepan and bring
to a boil. When it starts to boil, remove the saucepan from the heat, add the grated
Parmesan and stir with the help of a whisk. Finally, add the salt, stir and reserve in the
fridge.
3 Place the pine nuts on a tray on parchment paper. Bake for 10 min at 180 ºC
until toasted. After this time, remove the tray from the oven, let the pine nuts
cool and store them in an airtight container.
4 Put a small skillet to heat over medium heat. When hot, grate 10 g of Parmesan
over the entire surface of the pan. Brown evenly until it loses moisture and
begins to take color. At this time, remove with a spatula and allow to cool. Repeat
the operation until you finish with the cheese. Store the crispy Parmesan in an
airtight container.
3 With the help of a small brush, clean the remains of earth that the truffle may
have. With a laminator, cut 5mm thick discs. Reserve in a container between damp
absorbent papers and save the trimmings to prepare the vinaigrette.
4 Put all the ingredients in the blender jar and blend. Pass the mixture through the
vacuum machine to remove the air and reserve in a bottle in the fridge.
5 Clean the celery and then cut it into 6 cm long sticks at the thickest part. With
the help of a mandolin, cut the sticks into 2 mm thick slices. From these sheets,
cut 1 mm wide strips and put them in ice water so that they are smooth and
curly. Keep in the fridge until the moment of service.
1 Peel the asparagus from the bottom of the tip to the base.
Cut 3 cm from the tip to the bias and another piece of the same size. Reserve the excess of
each asparagus for the next preparation.
Place the pieces in a vacuum bag with olive oil and salt, and cook in the Roner for
8 min at 100ºC. Once the time has elapsed, cool in water and ice and reserve.
2 Cut the bases of the asparagus reserved in the previous preparation into thin slices
and sauté with the oil in a saucepan until they begin to brown.
Then, wet with the water and cook gently for 1 h. Reserve.
3 In a pot, fry the peeled garlic in the oil. When they start to take color,
pour in the rice vinegar and let it evaporate.
Then add the rest of the ingredients and bring to a boil. When it reaches a
boil, remove from the heat and let it infuse for 30 min.
After this time, strain and reserve the herbs and garlic to decorate the dish.
4 Put the cooked asparagus together with the marinade in a vacuum bag and
pack 100%.
Keep cold for 4 hours so that the asparagus is soaked in the marinade.
5 Peel and cut the garlic clove into 1 mm thin slices. Put them together with the oil in a
saucepan and fry from cold oil until the garlic begins to take color.
At this time, remove the saucepan from the heat, strain the garlic slices and put them to
dry on absorbent paper. Reserve in an airtight container.
To finish, season with the yolk around the asparagus, place ½ garlic chip per
piece and a few drops of olive oil.
Cherry tomatoes with homemade burrata
2014
For 4 people
2 In a bowl, arrange the blanched tomatoes from the previous step and add the rest of
the ingredients. Mix.
3 Preheat the oven to 90ºC. Place the marinated tomatoes on a baking sheet on a
silicone sheet. Place in the oven and allow to dehydrate for approximately 1 hour.
4 Place the tomatoes in an airtight container and cover with the oil. Add the fresh basil
and leave to rest for 12 hours in the fridge.
5 Grind the xanthan with 1/4 part of the stracciatella until well dissolved and
mix with the rest. Put a pinch of salt.
6 Place the algin base in a container that allows to obtain a height of about 5
cm. Completely fill a 100 ml ladle with the burrata base and pour the mixture
into the alginate base for 1 min, which will achieve the burrata shape.
At this time, remove the giant burrata with the scoop and wash it in water. Arrange it
in an airtight container covered with the serum and reserve in the fridge.
Fine salt
1 Wash the prawns, remove the whiskers and carefully peel the body. Make sure they are
well connected between the head and the body.
Pierce the prawns with fine wooden skewers from the tail to the head, so
that they are very rigid. Reserve in the fridge with a moistened absorbent
paper on top.
2 Place the garlic on a piece of aluminum foil, drizzle with olive oil and
wrap.
Preheat the oven to 200ºC. Roast the garlic until well caramelized, about 30
min approximately. After this time, remove it from the oven and let it cool. Once
cold, peel it and reserve in an airtight container.
3 Peel the avocado. Arrange it in the blender jar and add the rest of the ingredients -
minus the water from the blanching of the parsley - and blend.
Next, pour in the water from the blanching of the parsley and mix well (reserve 20 g of
this mixture for the green cream).
Pass through a fine strainer and reserve in the fridge in an airtight container.
4 Put the avocado in the blender glass and add the mojo sauce and a few drops of
lemon juice. Blend it until a very fine cream is left. Add salt to the touch and reserve in
a bottle in the fridge.
5 Mix the two ingredients in a bowl with your hands (wear gloves). Roll out the
preparation on a tray lined with parchment paper and dry in the oven at 120 ºC
for about 15 min, stirring every 5 min so that it browns evenly. After this time,
remove the parsley panko from the oven, let it cool and reserve in an airtight
container.
1 Blanch the peas in boiling water for 30 s and cool in ice water. Then drain them
and grind them in a food processor together with the mineral water. Pass the
preparation through a cheesecloth and rectify with salt.
2 Cut the bacon into cubes 1.2 cm on a side. Put a frying pan over a high heat and
fry the bacon in its own fat until they are evenly browned on all sides. Drain the
fat in a colander and reserve it; dry the rashers with absorbent paper. Reserve in
a container lined with greaseproof paper.
5 In a saucepan, dissolve the agar agar with half the fennel water and bring to a boil. When
the boil starts, remove the saucepan from the heat and add the rest of the water and the
previously hydrated gelatin.
Set the preparation in a container that gives it 1 cm in height and reserve cold.
Then cut into 1 cm cubes and reserve.
6 Choose the smallest peas for this preparation. Boil them for 2 min and cool.
Reserve in portions of 80 g.
1 Cut the mushrooms into slices with the slicer (do it perpendicular to the blades
and to the number 3.5). Square all the slices and reserve the cuttings for making
stock.
With a knife cut strips 12 cm long by 5 mm wide. Reserve in portions of 40 g
wrapped with moistened paper in an airtight container.
2 Remove the stem of the mushrooms and pass them through water three times until
they are very clean. Let them drain on absorbent paper and keep them in the fridge in
an airtight container, covered with moistened absorbent paper.
3 Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the clean morels and sauté them. Put to
point of salt.
Add the mineral water and cook for 10 min. After this time, remove from heat,
add the gorgonzola and bind with enveloping movements.
Add the xanthan base, mix and season with salt. Strain and reserve the juice on one side and
the stewed mushroom on the other.
4 Fry the hazelnuts with the sunflower oil starting from the cold and stirring
constantly so that they brown evenly. Once fried, place the still hot hazelnuts in the
blender jug and grind them together with the sunflower oil until obtaining a fine
praline. Strain, bring to a point of salt and place in a pipette.
5 Put the lemon thyme with the oil in a food processor and blend at 80
º C. Pass through a fine strainer and place the oil in a water bath with ice and water.
Let cool and reserve in a pipette.
1 With a damp absorbent paper, clean the surface of the strawberries to remove
any specks of dust or dirt. Reserve them in an airtight container in the fridge.
2 Hydrate the gelatin sheets. Dissolve them in a saucepan over the fire with 1/4 part
of the elderberry syrup at 40 ºC. Reserve the rest of the syrup in the freezer so that it
is close to 0 ºC.
With the help of an electric mixer, mix the water with the albumin for 2 min at
speed 4. Then, add the syrup with the gelatin in the form of a thread at speed 4
until everything is incorporated.
To finish, pour the remaining cooled syrup in the form of a string and beat for 2
more min at the same speed until it is blended. Leave riding at speed 2 until
serving time.
3 Roll out the kimchi on a silicone non-stick sheet leaving a thickness of 1 mm and
then dry in a dehydrator at 50ºC for 24 h. Once the time has passed, remove the
dehydrated kimchi and grind with a coffee grinder.
Keep in an airtight container.
1 Put all the ingredients in a container and grind them with a food processor until obtaining
a fine paste and freeze. Transfer the pasta to a Pacojet glass and freeze. Go through the
machine and freeze again. Repeat the operation 2 more times until there are no lumps.
2 Fill a silicone mold with acorn-shaped holes with the green pistachio paste,
ensuring that they are well filled. Smooth the surface of the acorns with a pastry
spatula and give the mold a couple of strokes on the table to remove any air
bubbles. Cover with plastic wrap and freeze.
Once frozen, unmold them and prick each acorn through the narrow part of the
acorn with a sewing needle.
In a saucepan over the fire, dilute the cocoa butter and bathe the whole acorn with
it. Immediately place the upper part in a container in which the mini puffed rice will
have been placed. Allow the rice to stick well and the butter to solidify. After this
time, remove the needle and store the acorns in an airtight container in the freezer.
For 4 people
1 For the pear nashi discs
2 nashi pears
Shichimi togarashi
1 Peel the pear. Cut it vertically as close to the heart as possible, obtaining 2
discs of each.
Arrange the pear on a cutting board and place 2 square metal guides 1.5 cm
high, so that the pear is held by them. Make a horizontal cut to remove the part
that protrudes from the guide.
Next, with a 5 cm diameter round mold, cut the pear into 2-3 discs. Reserve
them in a container with water in the fridge.
2 Mix all the ingredients well with the help of a few rods and reserve in the
fridge.
3 In a vacuum bag, place the cocktail together with the pear nashi discs. Pack in
the 100% vacuum machine and reserve in the fridge for 4 h.
4 In a saucepan, bring part of the fine to a boil together with the melon consommé.
Next, dilute the previously hydrated gelatin sheet. Add the rest of the liquid
and freeze in a round silicone mold 3 cm in diameter and 5 mm in
thickness.
For 4 people
1 For the black lyogrosella powder
30 g of freeze-dried currant (Lyo Grosella)
2 Mix the egg white together with the albumin and leave to hydrate for 12 hours. After this
time put in the kneading robot at speed 4. After 5 min, when it begins to be semi-
assembled, add the syrup in the form of a thread. Continue beating for 10 more minutes
and, once it is assembled, add the black lyogrosella powder, previously passed through the
sieve. Work 3 min more. At this time, turn off the machine and add the methyl base with a
spatula with wrapping movements.
Remove the meringue from the blender and place it in a pastry bag with a 16 mm
star-shaped nozzle. Line the tray of the dehydrator with a silicone sheet, and
spread the meringue in the shape of a 10 cm long churro with a pointed finish.
Sprinkle the yogurt powder on top with a strainer and let it dry for 12 hours at
65ºC. After this time, store the churros in airtight containers.
4 mint tips 4
mint flowers
1 Cut each of the canes by the rings that they have along the bark.
Remove the bark with a knife and discard. Cut the inner part of the cane
into 1 cm thick slices and then into 5 cm long and 2 cm side sticks.
2 Collect all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Put the mixture in the
refrigerator for 10 min and reserve it in an ice cream box.
Inflated pulpit
2015.
LEGACY
For 4 people
1 Put the mineral water with the purple corn in a pot. Bring to a boil and cook for
2 hours.
Let cool to room temperature and then strain through a fine mesh strainer. Save
the broth. Put the ears to dry in the dehydrator at 40ºC for 12 hours and reserve.
After this time, crush with the help of a food processor until you get a very
fine dough. Let cool and arrange in a sleeve.
3 Bring the water to boil in a saucepan. When boiling starts, add the tapioca and
cook for 16 min.
After this time, let the saucepan rest outside the fire for 4 min so that
tapioca has just finished cooking. Next, strain it through a Chinese and cool it with
cold water to stop cooking.
Let it rest for 3 hours in the cold water. After this resting time, drain it well and spread it
out on greaseproof paper at room temperature and reserve it for 12 hours until it is
completely dry.
4 Pour out the rice dough on greaseproof paper in lines 12 cm long, leaving
more thickness in the first part and less in the final part.
Place the cooked tapioca on top of the rice dough, doing the same process from
thicker to thinner.
Put to dry in the dehydrator at 40ºC for 24 h. After
this time, store in an airtight container.
5 Roll out the kimchi sauce on a silicone sheet. Let it dry in the dehydrator at
50ºC for 24 h.
Grind with the help of a grinder until obtaining a very fine powder.
Mix with the vinegar powder and store in an airtight container.
6 Heat the olive oil in a saucepan until it reaches 180ºC. Fry the
fake octopus legs in the oil until well puffed.
Drain well and dry with absorbent paper. Then sprinkle with kimchi powder.
Keep in an airtight container.
LEGACY
For 4 people
1 Cut 8.5 × 3.5 cm rectangles of nori seaweed with the help of a sharp knife.
Reserve in a hermetically covered container.
2 Heat the mineral water in a saucepan over the fire together with the isomalt until the
syrup is obtained. Let cool and store.
3 Bring the water to boil in a saucepan. When boiling starts, add the tapioca and
cook for 16 min.
After this time, let the saucepan rest outside the heat for 4 min so that the tapioca
finishes cooking. Next, strain it through a Chinese and cool it with cold water to
stop cooking.
Let it rest for 3 hours in the cold in the water. After this resting time, drain it well and spread
it out on greaseproof paper at room temperature and reserve it for 12 hours until it is
completely dry.
4 Grind the hondashi in a coffee grinder. Then mix with the vinegar powder and
reserve in a covered container.
5 Heat the sunflower oil in a saucepan at 180ºC. Fry the tapioca in a fine
strainer until well puffed and drain on absorbent paper. Season it with
the tapioca dressing and store it in an airtight container.
7 Remove the meat from the avocado and blend it together with the lime juice, the wasabi paste and the
mineral water.
Add the salt, mix well and reserve in the fridge.
1 Put the sour cream in a bowl and film. Place the mouthpiece of a smoking pipe
inside, fill well with smoke and cover for 45 min.
Once ready, mix with the help of a few rods with the cream cheese and season to
taste. Place in a pastry bag and reserve in the fridge.
2 Chill 300 g of the mineral water in the freezer until it reaches 0 ºC.
On the other hand, dilute the hondashi with the rest of the mineral water at 40 ºC in a saucepan
over the fire together with the gelatin sheets (previously hydrated in cold water) and let it cool
down to room temperature.
Once the mixture is tempered, mount it in the kneading robot. When it starts to
foam, add the 300 g of water reserved in the freezer in the form of a thread and
mix the mixture for 7 min.
When it is ready, spread the preparation on a board with a non-stick sheet on
top, leaving a thickness of 2 cm with the help of rectangular guides 2 cm high.
Set in the fridge for 20 min. Once ready, cut 2 cm wide strips and then 2 cm
side cubes.
Place the cubes on a parchment paper and put in the dehydrator at 35ºC
for 35 min.
After this time, turn the cubes over and let them dry for another 10 min. You have to
make sure that they are not too dry, for this you will have to monitor the process
frequently.
Finally, peel off the paper from the cubes and keep them at room temperature.
They should be dry on the outside and tender on the inside.
Finally, arrange on two of the ends a little lemon zest and raifort.
Bull ham with caviar
2015.
For 4 people
1 With a very sharp knife, remove the upper web of the belly and the skin, taking care
not to cut the part of white fat that is between the skin and the meat (this will give us
the appearance of the fat of the ham).
Next, extract the spines from the belly, following it well with a fine knife, so as
not to waste meat. Divide the belly: use the upper part in one piece for this
preparation and reserve the lower part for other dishes.
Square the selected piece into rectangular blocks about 6 cm high and 12 cm wide.
The length of the block will depend on the belly.
Cover the fish with plastic wrap and freeze.
2 Polish the ham fat from possible rancid parts and cut it into 1 cm cubes. Arrange
the fat in a saucepan and add the water and the mild olive oil. Cook over low heat
until the water has completely evaporated and the fat has melted, without frying.
Strain and store the fat in an airtight container in the fridge.
1 Pass the clean hedgehog through a fine strainer to obtain its juice with the help of
a silicone spatula.
Reserve the juice in a bottle in the fridge.
2 Put ¼ part of the melon consommé together with the gelatin previously hydrated in
water in a saucepan over the heat and dissolve at 40 ºC.
Once it is well dissolved, add the rest of the consommé. Let cool and reserve in an
airtight container in the fridge.
3 Peel the lemon and remove the segments with a lace. Cut them into 2 mm wide
pieces and reserve together with the lemon juice itself in an airtight container.
1 In a saucepan, bring the water to a boil. Remove the leaves from the basil and
reserve the smallest leaves for the completion of the dish. Blanch the rest for 10 s in
the boiling water. Strain and cool quickly in ice water.
Drain the basil well, weigh it and transfer it to the food processor together with the same weight of water
from the cooled one.
Blend for 3 min. Pass through a fine cheesecloth and reserve in the fridge.
2 Bring the basil water to a point of salt, add the lecithin and blend with the blender.
To achieve the foam, apply the electric arm on the surface of the preparation
incorporating as much air as possible. Keep in the fridge in an airtight container.
3 Pour the tangerine juice into a saucepan, add the liquid glucose and cook over
medium heat until a liquid caramel texture is obtained. The elaboration must be
about a quarter of the initial amount. Reserve in a pipette.
4 Remove the peduncle from the tomatoes and peel them. Reserve in an airtight container in
the fridge covered with a moistened absorbent paper.
5 Make a few cuts in the stracciatella to break it up a bit. Reserve in the fridge in an
airtight container and 30 min before serving remove it so that it is at room
temperature.
1 Cut the onion into thin julienne strips and arrange it in a bowl. Add the salt and mash
until the onion is translucent and soft. Clean and cut the habanero pepper into cubes as
small as possible, and also add it to the bowl along with the lime juice,
orange and oregano. Mix well and marinate for 3 hours cold.
After this time, keep in an airtight container in the fridge for about 12 hours.
Finally, drain and reserve only the liquid.
2 Peel the onion, salt it and place it in a vacuum bag together with the x-nipek sauce.
Pack at 100% vacuum and cook in the steam oven for 30 min at 100ºC. After this time,
remove from the oven and cool the bag in a container with ice and water. Reserve in the
fridge for 12 hours, and then cut the onion into quarters.
3 In a rectangle of aluminum foil, place the unpeeled onion and season with salt,
pepper and Worcestershire sauce. Cook it in the oven at 180 ºC for approximately
50 min.
After this time, remove it from the oven, let it cool to room temperature, peel it, cut it
into quarters and reserve.
4 Interspersing the white and purple petals so that it looks like a water lily.
Place the largest ones outside and the smallest ones inside. Reserve.
5 Peel and cut the onion into julienne strips, and sauté it in a saucepan with a
little olive oil until it is well poached.
Then add the water and cook for 30 min over low heat. After this time, remove the casserole
from the heat and let it cool down to room temperature. Then blend with the blender
together with the rest of the ingredients and, finally, strain the preparation.
6 Remove the leaves from the clean coriander and place it in the glass of the food processor together with the oil.
Grind at 80 ° C for 5 min. Pass through a fine strainer with absorbent paper
on top, let cool and reserve in a pipette.
7 Put the olive oil, the broken chilli and the salt in a saucepan and heat over low
heat for 30 min.
After this time, remove the saucepan from the heat. Transfer the preparation to a bottle and
reserve.
8 Hydrate the seeds in the water for a minimum of 2 hours and reserve in a hermetically closed
container.
1 With the help of precision tweezers, extract the mouth of the squid. Next, remove the
tentacles and remove the wings. Thoroughly clean the interior taking care that no sand
remains and that it does not break. Finally, leave each squid with its corresponding pair
of wings and tentacles, and reserve in the fridge.
2 Mix the spices with the salt in a bowl and smear the double chin with the mixture.
Pack the dewlap in a vacuum bag and steam for 12 hours at 82ºC. After this time,
remove from the oven and quickly cool the bag by immersing it in a bowl with
water and ice. Reserve in the fridge.
This preparation must be made at least 24 hours before continuing with the recipe.
3 Cut the double chin into 1 cm thick slices and then dice 1 cm on each side.
Fill each squid with 10 g of dewlap first and their wings and whole tentacles
later. Season with salt and reserve.
4 Cut the onion into julienne strips and crush the garlic. Arrange them in a saucepan with
the rest of the ingredients (except the stuffed squid) and fry over low heat. Once the onion
and garlic are well poached, leave the oil at a temperature between 54 and 59
º C.
Then, add the squid and cook for 4 min. During this short time, the saucepan
must be moved with enveloping movements so that the temperature is
uniform.
Once cooked, remove the cuttlefish from the saucepan and reserve at room temperature
in an airtight container and covered with the confit oil.
5 Remove the head from the pipe. Put it together with the juice in a food processor and
blend for 3 min together with the xanthan. Go through a cheesecloth and reserve.
Fine salt
1 With the help of a pestle, mash the citronella, ginger, coriander, kaffir
lime leaves and chilli in a bowl.
Put a saucepan on the fire with the rest of the ingredients, add the Thai mash and
bring to a boil. Once off the heat, let it infuse for 30 min. After this time, pass the
preparation through a fine strainer and reserve it in a bottle in the fridge.
2 With a lace, cut the shimeji just flush with the hat. In a saucepan over the fire with a
jet of oil, sauté the hats until golden brown; to Salt. Then add the Thai sauce and bring
to a boil. At this time, remove the saucepan from the heat and transfer the preparation
to another container.
Let the mushrooms cool in the sauce so that they are well impregnated and then
reserve in the fridge.
1 Pass the clean sea urchins through a fine sieve to obtain a cream. Reserve in a
bottle.
1 Wash the apple and cut it in half, core it and cut it into cubes of 1
cm. Wash the Chinese cabbage from the possible soil that it can contain and cut it into cubes of 2
cm.
Cut the ginger and spring onion into 5 mm cubes. Peel the potato and cut it into
1 cm cubes.
Mix the water with the panela sugar in a saucepan and put on a low heat until the
sugar is completely dissolved. Outside of the heat add the kimchi, rice vinegar, soy
sauce and sesame oil, and mix. Then add the apple, the Chinese cabbage, the ginger,
the spring onion and the potato, and leave to ferment in the fridge in an airtight
container for 1 week.
After the fermentation time, pass the preparation through a fine mesh strainer until
obtaining 200 g of juice (the rest will be reserved in the fridge to continue its
fermentation process).
1 Flake and fillet the sea bass, trying to leave the loin as whole as possible and
removing the skin. Next, cut the tenderloin in half lengthwise dividing it into two
parts and remove the central spine. Then cut each part into pieces 12 cm long by
5 cm wide, wrap them in greaseproof paper and freeze for 12 h. Once frozen,
with the help of a slicer, cut them into slices 5 mm thick at the narrowest part,
and superimpose each one on top of the next on a greaseproof paper. Reserve in
the fridge.
2 Remove the outer leaves of the chicory, lollo rosso and endive. With the help of
scissors cut the most beautiful tips and clean them in cold water. On the other hand,
clean the arugula along with the spinach in cold water.
Drain all the vegetables with a strainer and remove excess water with a
centrifuge.
Dry on absorbent paper and mix. Store in the fridge in an airtight
container covered with moistened absorbent paper.
3 With the help of a brush, paint the surface of the corvina sheet with olive
oil. Then place the mézclum in the center and roll it until it is in the shape of
a compact cannelloni. Store it in an airtight container.
4 Remove the peduncle from the pepper and grind it together with the lime juice, sparkling
water and salt for 2 min at maximum power.
In a bowl, arrange the coriander, the diced ginger and the Thai chilli. Add the
crushed pepper mixture and chill for 2 h.
After this time, rectify the acidity with the dashi broth and mix with the
xanthan base. Finally, put the preparation in a bottle and reserve in the fridge.
1 With a very sharp knife, remove the upper web of the belly and the skin, taking
care not to cut the part of white fat that is between the skin and the meat. Remove
the thorns from the belly, following it well with a fine knife, so as not to lose meat.
Cut the part with less fiber of the tuna in one piece, and save the lower part of the
belly for other dishes.
Finely chop into 0.5 cm cubes and reserve.
2 Mix all the ingredients in a bowl with the help of some rods and reserve in
a bottle.
Place the mixture in a can on crushed ice and arrange the sea urchins so that
they look like clockwise. Lightly salt each hedgehog yolk and place a string of
pasteurized yolk just above it.
Finally, lightly grate yuzu over the entire surface and place on the spider
structure. Serve very cold.
Codium bun with saffron smoked eel
2015.
LEGACY
For 4 people
8 g of salt
1 Wash the algae in the ice water to release all the grit and other
impurities. Drain well and reserve.
2 Bring water to the boil with salt (36 g of salt per liter of water) and blanch the seaweed
for 10 s until it changes from dark green to bright green.
Next, strain and cool in salted ice water (15 g of salt per liter). Grind the codium
with 100 g of the cooling water and pass the juice obtained through a coarse
sieve.
3 Put the butter at room temperature. Heat the milk to 37ºC and add the
yeast and sugar.
Arrange the flour in the mixer with the shovel. Start the appliance at speed 1
and add the codium juice. Once incorporated, add the butter little by little
and finally, the beaten egg, also little by little.
Increase the speed to 2, and, when the dough acquires a homogeneous texture, add the salt. Work
for 5 more minutes and remove the dough from the machine. Keep it wrapped in film and covered for
24 hours in the fridge.
5 Put the egg, the wasabi paste, the lemon juice and the salt in the blender glass, and
blend. Add the sunflower oil in the form of a thread until you get the mayonnaise.
6 Cut off the stem of the chives and discard the slimy or ugly part. Cut into thin julienne
strips and reserve between moistened absorbent paper until serving time.
7 Clean, peel and cut the eel into 15 g portions. Reserve between greaseproof
paper.
8 Roll the shiso sheet on itself and cut into 1mm chiffonade. Reserve between
moistened absorbent paper.
9 Dry the nori seaweed in the oven at 120ºC for 20 min and then 2 min at 180ºC.
Without cooling the nori seaweed, put all the ingredients in a coffee grinder and
grind everything to a fine powder. Store in a tightly closed bag.
LEGACY
For 4 people
1 Freeze the octopus and, 12 hours before preparing the recipe, defrost it in the
fridge.
Clean well with water and remove the eyes and mouth with the help of scissors. Prepare a
pot with water and 15 g of fine salt per liter. Put it on the fire and, when it starts to boil,
scare the octopus 3 times (put in and take out of the boiling water). When it boils again,
cook it for 30 min.
Once this time has elapsed, check the octopus for doneness by clicking on the
thickest part of the legs with a skewer.
When it is tender, turn off the heat and let it rest for 10 min in the water. Finally,
remove the octopus from the water and reserve it on a tray, at room
temperature, until it cools.
2 Mix all the ingredients with the help of some rods. Reserve in a
covered container.
3 Place the octopus leg in a bowl with the kimchi sauce and reserve in the
liquid until serving time.
Just before finishing the plate, thread the leg on a 30 cm steel skewer trying
to make it as straight as possible.
Reserve out of the fridge.
4 Crush the egg with the blender and add the oil in the form of a thread until obtaining a
mayonnaise.
Add the kimchi sauce, mix well and reserve in a container covered with skin film.
7 Cut the gherkin into 5 cm pieces on the bias and empty with a scoop, leaving a thin
layer on the bottom.
Soak together with the pickle base in the vacuum machine and reserve for 2 h.
8 Peel and blend the apple, and the celery separately. Pour each juice into a strainer
covered with absorbent paper.
Let it strain to obtain the clarified water of the two ingredients.
Once decanted, mix 420 g of apple water, 80 g of celery and the
ascorbic acid.
9 Heat ¼ part of the apple and celery water. Add the agar agar, bring to a boil
and stir with rods until well dissolved.
Remove the saucepan from the heat and add the rest of the apple water and
celery. Put the pickles on an egg cup so that they do not move and fill them. Let
gel in the fridge.
LEGACY
For 4 people
1 Peel and cut the garlic very finely and grate the ginger. Brown these two ingredients in a
saucepan with the oil. Once ready, add the sauce and fry for 1 min over low heat.
Then add the rest of the ingredients and bring to a boil. Once it boils,
remove from heat. Rectify with salt and reserve.
2 With the help of scissors, cut the wings at the part of the tendon that connects with the
lower part. For this recipe, only the wide upper part of the wing will be used (save the rest
for another preparation).
Burn the remains of feathers with a blowtorch. Season the wings and place them in a
vacuum bag together with the base sauce. Cook in the Roner for 4 h at 70 ºC. Once cooked,
remove the bone from the inside, ensuring that they do not break and that they remain
whole.
Reserve the cooking juice for the wing sauce.
3 Peel the onion and garlic, chop them and fry them in a saucepan with the oil until
the onion is transparent. Put on a high heat, add the whiskey and reduce until the
liquid has evaporated. Add the rest of the ingredients and boil for 5 min. Finally,
grind the whole in a food processor and strain. Return the preparation to the
casserole and bring to a boil. Continue cooking for another 5 min so that it takes on
a more intense color, and then smoke in the Josper oven with vine shoots for a
further 5 min. Reserve.
4 Mix the two ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a boil. At this point,
remove it from the heat and taste the sauce: it must have the right flavor of
both spicy and smoky. Reserve.
5 Peel and cut the yucca into pieces 4 cm wide, and each of these into 4 parts. Turn
them until they are bone-shaped at the end. Reserve in a container with water in the
fridge.
1 Blanch the peas in boiling water for 30 s and cool in ice water. Then drain them
and grind them in a food processor together with the mineral water. Pass the
preparation through a cheesecloth and rectify with salt.
2 Dissolve the agar agar with half the fennel water and bring to a boil in a saucepan. At this
time, remove the saucepan from the heat and add the rest of the water as well as the
previously hydrated gelatin. Pour the preparation into a tall container and allow to set.
At that time, blend with a blender until the gel is very fine and reserve in a
bottle.
3 In a saucepan, cook the cleaned pork belly together with the water for 4-5
hours until it is completely cooked and practically flakes.
Once done, remove the bacon from the pot, let it cool and fray it until fine threads are
obtained. Stretch the strands on trays lined with greaseproof paper and allow to dry at
room temperature for 24 hours.
5 Choose the smallest peas for this preparation and boil them for 2 min. Then
strain them and cool them in water and ice. Reserve in portions of 100 g.
6 Cut the sausage in half lengthwise and then into thin slices. Reserve.
1 With the help of fine scissors, cut the shell of the leg at the bottom (white),
trying not to cut the meat. With a spatula remove the meat and cut it into 8
pieces about 2 cm wide. Put the meat back into the shell and reserve.
LEGACY
For 4 people
1 Separate the two lobes of the foie and carefully devein them. Cut the foie into 3 pieces
and season them with the fine salt and sugar. Roll it into 5 cm diameter rollers with film,
ensuring that there is no air, for which each end will have to be tied in order to prevent
them from opening. Put them in the fridge until they are very cold. Then remove the
rollers from the refrigerator and wrap each one in two layers of sterile gauze.
Arrange a coarse salt base in a container, place the foie on top and finish covering with
more salt. Let it cure for 12 hours in the cold.
After this time, remove the gauze, film and freeze.
When they are going to be used, remove the plastic wrap, cover them with aluminum foil
and defrost in the fridge.
2 Dissolve the xanthan with the honey with the blender.
Let stand cold for 12 hours. After this time, store in a bottle.
3 Pour the flower honey into a saucepan and bring to 130ºC to caramelize. At this
time, add the mineral water and boil the whole for 30 seconds so that everything is
well dissolved. Reserve.
4 Mix the egg white together with the albumin and leave to hydrate for 12 hours.
After this time, put in the kneading robot at speed 4. After 5 min, when it begins to
be semi-assembled, add the mead in the form of a thread.
Continue beating for a further 10 min. At this time, turn off the machine and add the
methyl base with a spatula with wrapping movements.
Place the meringue in a pastry bag and pour over the silicone sheet of the
dehydrator. Dehydrate for 12 h at 60 ° C.
5 Place the dry meringues between two baking sheets. Place them in the hot
sandwich maker with 2.7 cm high metal stops so that they are not completely
ironed. Toast them on both sides.
When ready, let them cool and store in an airtight container.
1 Mix the egg white with the albumin and leave to hydrate for 12 hours. After this time
put in the kneading robot at speed 4. After 5 min, when it begins to be semi-assembled,
add the syrup in the form of a thread. Continue beating for another 10 min and, once it
is assembled, add the lyomaíz previously passed through the sieve. Work 3 min more. At
this time, turn off the machine and add the methyl base with a spatula with wrapping
movements.
Place the meringue in a piping bag with a number 3 nozzle.
1 Toast the sesame in a skillet over low heat until golden brown.
0.2 g xanthan
1 Peel the beet and cut it into small pieces. Pass them through the blender until
obtaining a juice and then strain it through a cheesecloth. Reserve in the fridge.
2 Put all the ingredients in the blender jar and blend. Let stand for 12
h.
Pour the preparation into the mixing bowl and mix at moderate speed, until
it has the consistency of a meringue.
Place the meringue in a number 8 curly nozzle sleeve.
Cover the dehydrator tray with a silicone sheet, and on it make 8 disks of 14
cm in diameter.
Put them in the dehydrator for 6 h at 55 ºC.
3 Mix the yogurt with the ice cream base, and add the mustard and salt. Mix again
and pass the preparation through the traditional refrigerator or freezer.
Once the ice cream texture is achieved, with the help of a circular mold, make
discs 14 cm in diameter and 3 mm thick. Reserve in the freezer.
1 With the help of a brush, paint the rough base of the dehydrated potato sheet
with the beaten egg white and join with the smooth part of the nori seaweed,
adjusting the edges. Using a paper guillotine, cut strips 3 cm wide. Line 4 stainless
steel molds 8 cm long by 2 cm high and 2 cm wide: you have to give the mold 1 and
a half turns as tightly as possible and leave the last fold at the edge of it. Preheat the
oven to 175 ºC, insert the molds and cook for approximately 5 min. The fold of the
sheet should be face down so that it remains well fixed.
Once this time has passed, take the molds out of the oven and remove the cooked
slices very carefully, sliding them until they are completely removed. Let cool and
reserve in an airtight container.
2 Toast the white sesame in a nonstick skillet over low heat.
Fix the crease side of the cube with paper clips and moisten with beaten egg
white. Place the toasted sesame inside the cubes and bake them at 180ºC for 1
min.
Let cool, remove the clip and reserve in an airtight container.
4 In a bowl, mix all the ingredients with the help of a few rods and reserve in
the fridge inside a bottle.
1 Put the flour and the fresh crumbled yeast in the dough mixer with the hook
and turn on speed 1.
Add the milk little by little, and mix for 6 min.
Add the salt and mix for a further 6 min, until the dough has a homogeneous
texture.
Store in a container covered with film in the refrigerator for 24 hours.
Cut the dough into rectangles 15 cm wide and 10 cm long, paint them liberally
with a brush with olive oil and fold from one side to the other, making sure that a
rectangle no more than 4 cm wide results. Press the ends with the
help of a fork to give it a jagged shape.
Place the cut dough on a refractory tray lined with greaseproof paper.
Cook in the combi oven at 240 ºC at 40% humidity, on a direct iron plate,
for about 3-4 min or until the regañás are evenly swollen and browned.
The central part has to rise slightly.
Let cool to room temperature and store in an airtight container.
3 Place the anchovy in a wide container and immerse it in the water for a minimum of 15
min.
After this time, with scissors cut the tail and outline the stomach. Separate the spine from
the meat and separate the two fillets. With tweezers remove all the spines from the belly.
Let the anchovy dry on absorbent paper. Finally, dip it in olive oil and reserve.
4 Clean the wagyu of nerve parts and, with a knife, chop into fine brunoise
without crushing the meat. Keep in the fridge.
1 With the help of a very sharp knife and a 15 × 4 cm pasta cutter, cut 8 perfect
rectangles from the brick pasta. Paint one side of one of the rectangles with the
olive oil and join it with another rectangle, ensuring that they are perfectly
adjusted. Repaint the second rectangle with olive oil, join the tip of each end of
the rectangle and fix with a metal clip. Next, place the rectangles on a rack and fill
them with a couple of balls made with aluminum foil so that the walls of the
pasta are fixed and they are left with an opening. Each one should look like a tray
with both ends pinched.
Bake the pieces at 150ºC for 7 min. When they are cooked, remove the clips and the
aluminum foil balls and reserve in an airtight container.
2 With the help of a knife, cut the two ends of the tomato until you see the inner seeds.
Cut the side of the meat without breaking the seed and remove it. Take out the whole
seeds and cut them in half (save the rest of the tomato for another preparation).
Reserve in a flat container in the fridge.
Dry the 4 anchovy fillets with absorbent paper and cover them on the skin side with
the powdered pesto, so that it is completely covered. Place on top of each "asks" and
serve.
Black olive cupcake with yogurt
2016
For 4 people
1 In a dough mixer, arrange all the ingredients, except for the oil and the egg, and
beat at medium speed with the paddle.
When everything is well incorporated, add the oil in the form of a string and
then add the liquid egg at room temperature little by little.
1 Grate the Parmesan with a fine grater and arrange it, along with the rest of the
ingredients, in a bowl.
Blend with a food processor, strain and introduce the preparation into a siphon with 3
gas charges. Shake vigorously and reserve in the refrigerator for 2 hours before using.
LEGACY
For 4 people
1 Heat the mineral water in a saucepan together with the sugar and salt until it
becomes a syrup. Let cool and store.
2 Mix the egg white together with the albumin and leave to hydrate for 12 hours. After
this time put in the kneading robot at speed 4. After 5 min, when it begins to be semi-
assembled, add the syrup in the form of a thread. Continue beating for a further 10 min
and, once it is assembled, add the lime juice. At this time, turn off the machine and add
the methyl base with a spatula with wrapping movements. Form 2.5 g nigiris with the
help of two pointed spoons and leave to dry in the dehydrator at 60ºC for 12 h.
After this time, remove the nigiris and store them in an airtight container.
3 Blend all the ingredients with the blender and let it rest for 24 hours in the cold to
facilitate the loss of air. A vacuum machine can be used to speed up the process.
4 Place the algin base in a container that allows to obtain a height of about 5
cm of liquid. Completely fill a 2.5 ml spherical spoon with the kimchi base
and pour it into the algin base. Cook the ball for 30 s.
With a hole spoon remove the algin sphere and clean in mineral water.
Arrange the kimchi balls (20 units come out) in a plastic container covered
with the sunflower oil and keep them in the fridge until the time the plate is
assembled.
5 Cook the tapioca in boiling water for 16 min and let it rest for another 4 min. Strain and
cool. Transfer to a container with the soy sauce and marinate for at least 12 hours.
About 20 tapioca pearls will be obtained.
6 In a saucepan, pour the mirin and sake, and cook until the alcohol evaporates. At this
time, add the mineral water and the soy sauce.
Then mix the sauce with the xanthan with the help of a blender. Store the
preparation in a container for 12 hours to allow it to lose air.
7 Polish and clean the tuna. Cut it into rectangles 2 cm long by 6 cm wide.
Next, cut 10 g slices with the help of a sashimi knife, and reserve between
two baking sheets to avoid oxidation.
8 Put all the ingredients in a coffee grinder and grind until a fine powder is
left. Keep in an airtight container.
9 Arrange the sour cream in a bowl and film. Place the mouthpiece of a smoking pipe
inside, fill it well with smoke and leave it covered for 45 min.
Once smoked, add the cream cheese and mix with the help of a few rods.
Season to taste. Reserve in the fridge.
10 Chill 300 g of the mineral water in the freezer until it reaches 0 ºC.
On the other hand, dilute the hondashi with the rest of the mineral water at 40 ºC in a saucepan
over the fire together with the gelatin sheets (previously hydrated in cold water) and let it cool
down to room temperature.
Once the mixture is tempered, mount it in the kneading robot. When it starts to
foam, add the 300 g of water reserved in the freezer in the form of a thread and mix
the mixture for 7 min.
Then spread the preparation on a board with a non-stick sheet on top,
leaving a thickness of 2 cm with the help of 2 cm high rectangular guides.
Set in the fridge for 20 min.
After this time, remove from the refrigerator and cut into 4 cm diameter cylinders with
the help of a wet steel mold so that the cloud does not stick. Next, coat the side of the
cylinders with the nori seaweed powder, ensuring that the upper part does not get
stained.
Place the cylinders on a parchment paper and dry them in the dehydrator at 35
º C for 35 min. After this time, turn the cylinders over and let them dry for another
10 min. They should be dry on the outside and tender on the inside. Finally, peel off
the paper and keep the cylinders (gunkans) at room temperature.
Finishing and presentation
To finish the nigiris, make a hole with a small 1 cm punch. Drain the balls on
absorbent paper with the help of a spoon with holes and place one in the
hole of each nigiri.
Put the tuna sheet painted with the nigiri sauce on the lime meringue. Decorate
the tip with 8 tapioca pearls, sprinkle toasted sesame and cover with 10 strips of
julienne nori.
To finish the gunkan, with the help of a spatula, arrange a thin layer of smoked
cream cheese on top of each piece and top with 3 g of trout roe.
Finally, decorate each gunkan with a sprout of purple shiso and grate the lime peel
on top with the help of a fine grater. Serve everything immediately.
Shrimp fossil with padrón juice
2016
For 4 people
5 For fossils
See step by step in P. 249
50 g fossil mass (see elaboration no. 4) 40 g
of cleaned shrimp (see elaboration no. 1)
1 Put the shrimp in a fine strainer and clean it under running water, stirring it
to remove the sand or any other impurities it may contain. Drain well, spread
on parchment paper in a container and reserve in the fridge.
2 Place the nori seaweed on a baking tray and bake for 20 min at 120 ºC.
Subsequently raise the temperature to 180 ºC and bake for 2 more minutes.
Blend the seaweed and the rest of the ingredients in a food processor for 2 min at
maximum power. Then grind for 20 s in a coffee grinder to obtain a very fine powder.
3 Blend the shrimp with the help of a food processor until you get a very fine paste.
4 With the help of a few rods, mix all the ingredients in a bowl until
you get a thick textured dough. Reserve in the fridge.
5 Place two baking sheets in the bikinera and heat to medium power.
Arrange 5 g of dough right in the center of the bikini top and between the two papers. Close it
and cook for 10 s.
Open and arrange 10 g of shrimp well separated over the entire surface. Close and cook for 20
more seconds.
Once crispy, cut with the help of a 9 cm diameter mold. Reserve in an airtight
container.
6 Remove the stone from the peppers and grind them together with the lime juice,
mineral water and salt for 2 min at maximum power.
In a bowl, put the coriander, the diced ginger and the Thai chilli. Pour the crushed
padrón mixture and leave it to rest in the fridge for 2 hours. Rectify the acidity
with the dashi broth and, finally, mix with the xanthan base. Put in a bottle and
keep in the fridge.
1 With the help of a filleting knife, open the eel in two on the spine side.
Discard the head and clean inside. With a pair of tweezers, extract the central
spines and those of the belly. Reserve half an eel for the preparation of another
dish. Finally, spread the eel on a perforated tray.
2 Lightly salt the entire surface of the eel and marinate for 30 min in the
fridge.
Once the time has passed, remove the excess salt from the eel with mineral water and
reserve.
3 Place the eel stalks in a fine rectangular strainer on a tray. Bring the water to
boil in a saucepan. Once the boil starts, pour the water over the entire surface of
the eel to extract the gelatin. Place the fish in a vacuum bag together with the oil
and put it to cook in the steam oven for 50 min at 85 ºC. After this time, let it cool
down and reserve.
4 Place the eel in a low tray on a plastic gridded mat. Place the vine in a
Josper oven and light.
Once the vine is lit, insert the tray with the eel and turn off the firewood.
Close the oven and leave to smoke for 20 min and reserve.
5 Save the head and belly of the eel for further processing. Separate the two
loins in the central part and cut rectangles with the help of a 5 × 3 cm plastic
mold. Reserve in the fridge.
6 Blend all the ingredients except the oil with the blender. Add
the oil in the form of a thread until obtaining a mayonnaise.
7 Chop the eel trimmings and mix with the umeboshi mayonnaise.
8 Peel the avocado and with the help of a peeler remove 7 cm long strips.
Arrange them on waxed paper previously painted with oil. With the help of a
long rectangular mold cut the strips so that they are 1 cm thick. On another oil-
painted waxed paper, place 4 avocado strips, cut in the shape
horizontally glued side by side.
Next, arrange 4 more strips vertically on the previous ones. Try to combine
those of different shades to make the grid more attractive. Braid the strips,
passing the verticals under the horizontals and vice versa. Place 10 g of ravioli
filling right in the center and close by folding all the sides alternating, up,
down, right and left. Flip to expose top of ravioli. Reserve in airtight container
in the fridge.
10 Freeze the bread previously. Cut 0.3 cm thick slices with the help of a
meat slicer.
With the help of a knife and a ruler, cut sheets 5 cm wide and 3 cm high.
Place the cut sheets between two oven racks. Bake at 150ºC for 6 min or until
golden brown on both sides.
Let cool and then store the sheets in an airtight container, wrapped with
greaseproof paper.
1 Brush the surface of a brick pasta wafer with mild olive oil and place the
other wafer on top. Repaint with oil. With the help of a 6 cm diameter round
mold and a sharp knife, cut 4 discs.
Arrange the discs on a tray lined with parchment paper and covered with a rack,
and bake them for 8 min at 165 ºC. Once ready, let cool and store in an airtight
container.
2 With the help of a brush, clean the truffle and cut it into slices 3 mm thick.
Next, with a pasta cutter, cut 16 discs of 2 cm in diameter. Reserve the
trimmings for the truffle fat (see elaboration no. 4). Keep them in the fridge.
3 Clean the foie gras of nerves and veins and arrange it on a tray.
Cut the foie into pieces of 120-150 g and then make 2 cm diameter rollers with plastic
wrap (about 4-5 rollers come out of each lobe). Arrange them in a blast chiller to cool.
Remove the plastic wrap and wrap them with sterile gauze. Cover them completely with the
coarse salt and sugar and marinate for 6 hours in the fridge.
Once this time has elapsed, remove them from the salt. Put them to smoke in the
Josper oven with a vine for 2 min.
Once smoked, wrap them with aluminum foil to prevent oxidation and
cool.
Then cut 16 2 mm thick foie discs with a wire cutter and reserve in the
fridge in a container, separated with greaseproof paper.
4 Put the fat in a saucepan and melt it until it reaches 50ºC. In the blender jug, mix
the truffle with the fat and blend with the electric mixer. Place the preparation in a
vacuum bag and cook it in the steam oven for 2 h at 63 ºC. After this time, remove
from the oven and reserve in an airtight container at room temperature.
5 Form a spiral placing the foie and truffle discs interleaved (4 for each per
serving) and arrange it on a 6 cm square piece of greaseproof paper. We must
ensure that they are all at the same level and distance, as it must have a
perfectly round shape. Reserve in the fridge.
2 Cut the kumquats in half and extract the seeds from inside. Blend them whole until a
light juice is obtained and then pass it through a fine sieve. About 400 g of juice will be
obtained. Reserve in the fridge.
3 Hydrate the gelatin sheet. Pour the water into a measuring glass together with the kumquat juice
from the previous step and the xanthan, and blend with the blender. Strain the mixture and pass
200 ml to a saucepan together with the hydrated gelatin and dissolve well at 40 ºC. Once
dissolved, add the rest of the preparation and mix.
Place the mixture in the Pacojet glass and freeze. When it is completely
frozen, pass through the Pacojet until you get a fine powder. Reserve in
the freezer.
4 Chop the ginger and chop the coriander. Arrange in a bowl and add the salt and
lime juice, and leave to marinate for 30 min.
After this time, strain and add the kumquat juice and the chili paste. Rectify
the salt and reserve in the fridge.
5 Remove the leaves from the coriander and place it in the Thermomix glass together with the
oil. Grind at 80 ° C for 5 min.
Pass through a fine strainer on absorbent paper, let cool and reserve in a
pipette.
6 Bring the salted water to a boil and cook the quinoa for 15 min. Drain,
cool in cold water to stop cooking and drain well again.
Roll out the cooked quinoa on baking sheets lined with greaseproof paper making sure
it is separated and not piled up. Dry the cooked quinoa in a warm, dry place for 24
hours until it is completely dehydrated.
Once dry, inflate it by frying it in the oil at 180 ºC.
Drain and arrange on absorbent paper to remove excess oil. Season with salt
while it is still hot and reserve in an airtight container.
Cover half of the bowl with the kumquat snow, resting it on one side and just on the
other side of the plate, arrange 25 ml of cold tiger's milk next to the melon balls.
1 In a bowl, mix all the ingredients except the gelatin and blend with the
blender.
Dissolve the previously hydrated gelatin in a saucepan together with a third of the
previous preparation. Once dissolved, add the rest and let it cool. Put in the glass
of the Pacojet and reserve in the freezer.
2 Put the olive oil, the broken chilli and the salt in a saucepan and heat over low heat
for 30 min. After this time, remove the saucepan from the heat, transfer the
preparation to a bottle and reserve.
2 Arrange all the ingredients in a saucepan except the katsuobushi, the lemon juice and the
xanthan. Bring to a boil and when it reaches a boil, remove the saucepan from the heat.
Then, add the katsuobushi and infuse for 15 min.
After this time, strain and, when the mixture is cold, add the lemon juice.
3 With the help of a knife, remove and discard the peduncle of the tomatoes and then
arrange them together with the ponzu sauce in the blender jar; Crush.
Next, clarify through a strainer lined with a clean cloth and placed on a bowl.
Reserve in an airtight container in the fridge.
4 In a saucepan over the fire, pour half the tomato and ponzu water, add the previously
hydrated gelatin and dissolve.
Once integrated, remove the saucepan from the heat and add the rest of the tomato ponzu.
Pour the preparation into an airtight container and leave to gel in the refrigerator for 2 h.
5 In a saucepan, heat the oil to 180 ºC and fry the padrón peppers until golden
brown. Drain and dry with absorbent paper.
When they can be manipulated with the hands, separate the meat from the bunch of
seeds, being careful not to break it. The pulp can be saved for other elaborations.
6 In a bowl, pour the rice vinegar, the mirin, the water and the Thai fish sauce and
mix with some rods. Then add the seeds to the pickle and leave to rest for at least 3
hours in the fridge.
7 Wash the algae in ice water to release the sand and other impurities that they
may have. Drain well and reserve.
Bring water to the boil with salt (36 g of salt per liter of water) and blanch the seaweed for 10
s. Immediately cool it in salted ice water (15 g of salt per liter). Weigh the algae and
blend with the same amount of cooling water. Pass the juice obtained through a
coarse strainer (100 g of juice should be achieved).
Next, thicken the codium juice with the xanthan, remove the air in the vacuum
machine and reserve in a bottle in the fridge.
8 Place the leafless huacatay in the blender jar with the oil, and blend at 80ºC for 5
min. Once ready, pass the preparation through a fine sieve, and put it in a water
bath of water and ice. When it is cold, reserve it in a pipette.
Finishing and presentation
About 30 min before serving, place 4 individual bowls in the fridge. In a bowl,
season the 8 tomato pieces and season with the olive oil. Place 40 g of broken
tomato ponzu jelly on each plate and, just on top, 2 pieces of tomato per
person. Arrange 1 sprout of huacatay in each piece of tomato. Finally, place 3
bouquets of padrón pepper seeds distributed around the plate, and make a
string of codium juice and a few points of huacatay oil. To serve.
Liquid salad with cockles
2016
For 4 people
1 Put the cockles to purge for 1 h in 1 kg of ice water and 20 g of salt. Once
purged, bring the rest of the water and salt to a boil. With a spider, introduce the
cockles into the water and remove just as they open. Reserve in the fridge in the
water released by the cockles themselves.
2 Choose the greenest leaves of the lettuce, and then wash and chop in a bowl. Add
the two types of vinegar and salt and mix well. Let marinate for 15 min. After this
time, drain the lettuce and then grind in a food processor together with the xanthan
and oil. Go through a fine Chinese and add salt and vinegar –del de Jerez– if
necessary. Reserve the preparation in a bottle in the fridge.
3 Peel the cucumber, remove the seeds and cut it into thin slices with a
mandolin. Next, cut the slices into strips 1 cm wide and 5 cm long. With the
help of tweezers, roll the strips into a spiral. Reserve in the fridge.
For 4 people
1 For the purple shiso water
1 kg of mineral water
50 g purple shiso leaf
2 Put the mineral water in a saucepan and bring to a boil. When it starts boiling,
add the tapioca and cook over medium heat for 17 min.
Once cooked, strain and cool well under running water.
Drain and put in an airtight container along with the shiso water.
Season with apple cider vinegar and add salt. Let stand cold for 12 hours.
5 Remove the pit from the plums and put the pulp in a measuring glass. With the help of
a blender, crush the plum together with the rice vinegar, the soy sauce and the water.
Once it is well crushed, add the oils and emulsify with the help of the blender. Reserve in
a bottle in the fridge.
1 Chop the onion and garlic, and in a frying pan with the oil, sauté until the onion is
transparent.
Put on a high heat, pour in the whiskey and reduce until all the liquid has
evaporated.
Add the rest of the ingredients (except the orange juice) and boil for 5
min.
After this time, blend in a food processor and strain.
Return the preparation to the heat and boil for a further 5 min so that it takes on
a more intense color. Finally, add the orange juice, mix, remove from heat, let
cool and reserve.
LEGACY
For 4 people
1 Mix the mineral water with the ascorbic acid in a container. Turn artichokes with
the help of a lace. Leave 1.5 cm of the part of the leaves.
Next, empty the center of the artichoke with the help of a scoop.
Make vertical cuts in the upper part of the vegetable leaving a 2 mm margin between them.
Leave 4 mm of margin in the part that joins the leaves and the heart to prevent them from
breaking. Incorporate the artichokes in the water with the acid to avoid oxidation.
2 Bring the water to a boil and cook the tapioca for 16 min without stopping
stirring. After this time, cool under the tap to lose all the starch and reserve. With
the help of a blender, extract the juice from the ginger and mix in equal parts with
the tapioca. The juice should cover the tapioca balls. Let infuse for 1 h. This
preparation must be done the same day as the ginger juice breaks the tapioca.
Reserve in the fridge.
Fry them until they are golden brown and they are not raw inside. Remove them
and let them rest on absorbent paper to release the excess oil. Tune up
salt the center of the artichokes. Open all the leaves carefully to shape it into a
sunflower.
Next, place a pinch of pickled lemon in the heart and the mint leaves cut into
squares.
Fill it completely with the tarama and cover with the well drained ginger
tapioca. Serve the 4 artichokes.
Marinated mackerel with yellow pepper kimchi,
persimmon and tremella
2016
For 4 people
18 g Chinese
chives 8 g chives
250 g of yellow chili paste (watch P. 255)
5 g ginger
8 g of fish sauce 5 g
of water
3g sugar
Fine salt
1 Fillet the mackerel. Immerse the cleaned fillets in mineral water with ice for 20
min. After this time, strain them, remove the thorn and remove the transparent skin
that is on top of the tabby.
Sprinkle the bottom of a tray with salt, arrange the mackerel fillets on top and
sprinkle with more salt. Let cure for 45 min.
After this time, clean the fillets in ice water to remove any remaining
Salt. Take them out of the water, dry them and arrange them on a tray with holes. Paint
them with olive oil.
Put a vine in the Josper oven, turn it on and let it burn well. Close the oven
and let the fire go out. Place the rack with the mackerels in the Josper oven
and smoke for 5 min.
After this time, remove the fillets from the oven and store them in a
container at room temperature until serving time.
When preparing the dish, make shallow cuts in the skin of the mackerel, so
that they run along the loin from head to tail. You have to be careful not to
pierce the meat.
2 Peel the persimmons and remove the astringent part from the center.
Heat a third of the persimmons with the gelatin leaves, previously hydrated in cold water,
and dissolve the mixture without reaching too high a temperature. Add the rest of the
persimmons and mix well. Divide the mixture into 200 g containers and reserve in the fridge.
At the moment of serving, stir the persimmon gelatin with the help of a spatula to
simulate a compote.
3 With the help of a mandolin, cut the radish into 1 mm thick slices.
Arrange them on trays, salt and leave to rest for 20 min.
After time, remove the sheets from the trays and reserve the water that they have released.
Chop the garlic, chives and chives. Arrange these three ingredients in a bowl together with
the radish and the yellow chili paste, and mix well.
Add the grated ginger, pour in the reserved radish water, the fish sauce, the
water. Mix well and add the sugar to rectify the acidity. Cover everything with a
clean cloth and leave to ferment for a week in a dry place at room temperature
and protected from light.
Stir the mixture every day and add mineral water if necessary.
4 Mix all the ingredients in a bowl with some rods. Keep in the fridge until
the moment of service.
5 Hydrate the mushroom in water for 2 min. Drain and dry well with absorbent paper.
Reserve in an airtight container with absorbent paper in the fridge.
Fine salt
Black pepper
1 On a metal tray lined with plastic wrap, clean the foie of nerves and veins. Then
spread the foie as much as possible with your hands, but without crushing it.
Reserve.
2 Cut the head of the eel and, with the help of a knife, separate the two backs.
Clean the belly part and remove the spines. Cut 2 supreme 16 cm long from the
central part and join them in the shape of a log (save the rest of the eel for other
preparations). Reserve.
4 In a Josper oven heat the grill until it is almost red hot. Introduce vine shoots
to achieve a smoky touch. Grease the grill surface with oil
olive and mark the foie so that the lines of the grill are marked, but without
over-roasting. Perform the same operation with all the sides of the stuffed
foie. Next, place the already marked foie log on a metal tray lined with
parchment paper and cook it in the oven at 120ºC for 8-10 min (the inside of
the foie must reach 58ºC).
Keep in the fridge for 12 hours.
1 Prepare 2 metal trays with ice and water and place one on top of the other. In the
upper one, arrange the prawns so that they stay fresh while they are being handled.
Cut the head of each shrimp through the first ring of the body. Peel the body,
leaving the tail with the shell. Make an incision in the upper part and remove
the intestine with the help of forceps. Save all the trimmings to prepare the
suquet (elaboration no. 2).
Reserve the shrimp bodies in a container with moistened fish paper.
Cut the whiskers with the help of scissors and reserve the heads in another
container with moistened fish paper.
2 In a pot put 50 g of olive oil to heat. Add the prawn trimmings and fry them.
Then pour the stock and bring to a boil. When it boils, remove from the heat
and let it infuse for 5 min. Strain and reserve.
In another pot, pour 10 g of oil and fry the sauce together with the grated ginger
on a fine grater. Once the sauce is dry, add the peeled and cascaded potato into
small pieces; fry the whole for 2 min.
Then add the infused broth and cook for 3 min. Strain and season with salt.
4 With the help of a lace, remove the outer layer that forms on the brioche during
fermentation, being very careful to keep its shape. By removing this layer, the entire
internal structure of the brioche will be visible, which together with the yellow color of the
saffron will give us the appearance of a sponge. Store in the fridge in an airtight container.
After this time, strain the broth and remove the garlic clove, keeping the liquid and the
bread separately.
Blend the broth together with half the bread with the help of a blender and strain. Add the
kimchi sauce and season with salt.
Finally bind with the help of a blender with the xanthan base. Reserve.
1 Dice the butter and put it in a saucepan to heat. Bring to 150 ºC and, at this
time, strain with a cheesecloth.
Arrange the butter on a Josper oven tray and smoke with vine shoots for 5
min.
In a bowl, beat the yolk and egg white, and add the smoked butter in the form of a
thread without exceeding 50 ºC. Beat well, add the ñoras paste and add salt. Pour the
resulting preparation into a siphon, fill with two gas charges and put it in a water bath at
65ºC.
2 With the help of tweezers, extract the intestines of the shrimp from the head. Separate
the head from the tail with a knife and cut with the scissors, and discard, the whiskers
and legs.
Cut the shrimp in half horizontally, taking care not to separate the two parts
of the body.
Reserve the heads and bodies in an airtight container in the fridge.
3 Roll out the anti-cream sauce on a silicone non-stick sheet leaving a thickness of
1 mm and then dry in a dehydrator at 50 ºC for 12 h.
Once the time has passed, remove the dehydrated sauce and blend with a
coffee.
4 Remove the leaves from the coriander, wash and arrange on absorbent
paper. Dehydrate for 6 min in the microwave at maximum power.
Dry, grind with a coffee grinder and store in an airtight container.
2 To clean the ox
1 cooked crab (see elaboration no. 1)
1 Bring water to boil in a pot with a proportion of 30 g of salt per liter of water.
Once boiling starts, cook the beef for 6 min. After this time, remove it and cool
in ice water that also has the same proportion of salt.
2 The entire process of removing the meat from the ox must be done on a tray, so
that none of the cooking water is lost, which must be strained and reserved. Remove
the legs and remove all the meat. Open the head and collect separately
the two corals: brown on one side and red on the other. With the blender, crush
each coral separately. Reserve. Reserve the clean head for presentation. Remove
the rest of the meat and mix it with that of the legs.
In a dark room with a black light, remove any bones or small ox shells
that may have been left. Reserve.
4 Wash the apples and cut them in half, remove the core and cut them into 1 cm
cubes. Wash the Chinese cabbage and cut it into 2 cm pieces. Cut the ginger and
spring onion into 0.5 cm pieces. Peel the potato and cut it into 1 cm cubes. In a
saucepan, mix the water with the panela sugar and put it over low heat until it has
completely dissolved.
Remove the saucepan from the heat and add the kimchi sauce, rice vinegar,
soy sauce, sesame oil and mix.
Then add the apple, bok choy, ginger, spring onion and potato and leave to
ferment in the fridge in an airtight container for 1 week. After the
fermentation time, pass the preparation through a fine mesh strainer until
obtaining 200 ml of juice. In a bowl, mix the fermentation juice with the yuzu
juice and reserve in a bottle in the fridge.
1 Cut the ginger into slices, peel the garlic and mash these two ingredients together with the
citronella so that during cooking they provide more aromatic intensity. Arrange the
preparation in an airtight container along with the soybeans and sriracha. Mix well and reserve.
2 Put the ribs to bleed in a bath with water and plenty of ice for 2 h. Dry it and
pack it in a 35 × 40 cm vacuum bag along with the marinade. Cook in the steam
oven at 82 ºC for 12 h. After this time, remove from the bag, strain the juice and
reserve it.
Cover your hands with gloves and completely bone the ribs, removing ribs
and backbone.
Place the meat between two baking papers and press between two flat trays with
a weight. Let cool cold for 8 h.
After this time, cut rectangles 1.5 cm wide by 5 cm long. Reserve in a
hermetically covered container.
3 Reduce the marinade where the ribs have been cooked in a saucepan on the grill until you
get three-quarters of the total. Reserve.
4 Put the plums, the mineral water, the red curry paste, the white miso, the sesame
oil, the soy sauce and the rice vinegar in the food processor and blend at maximum
speed until obtaining a very fine paste.
On the other hand, in a coffee grinder, grind the cinnamon, cardamom, anise and
Sichuan pepper until obtaining a fine powder. Add this spice powder to the previous
preparation and grind the whole in the robot
for 2 min.
Reserve in the fridge.
5 Mix the mayonnaise with the hoisin sauce with a few rods. Pour the mixture into a
bottle and keep in the fridge.
6 With the help of a 1.5 cm diameter steel cylinder, remove balls from the
cucumber, salt them slightly and let them drain for 15 min on a sieve.
Meanwhile, mix the rest of the ingredients in a bowl to prepare the pickle with
the help of a few rods.
After the purging time, wash the cucumber balls under the tap and place them in a
container together with the pickle. Introduce into the vacuum machine and
impregnate until reaching 100% vacuum twice. Reserve in the fridge.
7 Arrange all the ingredients except the mini cucumber in a container and stir well
with the help of a few rods.
Wash and cut the cucumber (unpeeled) into 5 mm thick slices and add them to the
previous mixture. Introduce the container in the vacuum machine and impregnate until
reaching 100% vacuum twice. Reserve in the fridge.
8 With the help of a die (9 cm in diameter) cut 4 pieces of nasturtium. Then, with
a cylinder (1.5 cm in diameter) remove two slices from each oyster leaf (in total,
4).
Reserve the two preparations between moistened absorbent paper in an airtight container
in the refrigerator.
1 With the help of scissors cut the lower back of the animal to leave a hole
about 3 cm wide.
Eviscerate carefully and clean with absorbent paper.
With the help of a scalpel, cut through the hole that has been made and remove the central
vertebra, the ribs and the sternum, taking care not to pierce the meat.
The head must be in perfect condition.
Reserve the viscera for other preparations and the carcasses to make the bottom.
Finally, stretch the quail on greaseproof paper in an airtight container and reserve in
the fridge.
2 Arrange the bones and other pieces of the quail on flat trays, as stretched out
as possible, and toast in the oven at 180ºC for 30 min.
On the other hand, cut the onions into large cubes and the head of garlic in half.
Sauté in a saucepan with the olive oil until the onion caramelizes. Once the quail
bones are toasted, put in the kettle along with the bresa. Deglaze the trays with
the red wine with a griddle spatula to recover the juices.
Bring the kettle to boil to evaporate the alcohols and soak with mineral water until the
bones and bresa are covered. Cook for 3 hours once the boil starts. Strain and chill in the
fridge for 24 hours.
The next day, the fat will have separated from the broth. Degrease and put on the fire to reduce
3/4 parts. Bind with the cornstarch and add salt to taste.
3 Mix all the ingredients with the help of a few rods and reserve in the fridge.
4 Put the aubergine directly on the fire for 10 min giving it a couple of turns so
that the skin is well burned. Then bake 20 min at 180 ºC. Once cooked, arrange
it in a covered container so that the heat makes the skin separate more easily.
Peel the eggplant, and cut the bottom and top. Brush the entire surface of the
aubergine with the crushed chili pepper and roast in the oven for 20 min at
120 ºC. Reserve at room temperature.
5 Mix the water with the salt and vinegar and bring to a boil.
When it boils, add the eggs and cook for 1 minute and 40 seconds.
Drain and cool quickly in ice water. Once cool, peel them without breaking them
and store covered with sunflower oil.
6 Salt the quail both outside and inside. Put the marinated aubergine, the crushed
coriander and the quail eggs through the bottom hole.
Fill the piece well.
Then paint with the help of a brush with the anticuchera sauce and reserve.
Place the quail on the grill and roast for 8 min, turning the 4
min.
Once this time has elapsed, check the point: you are looking for a touch of pink
inside.
Cut the piece into 6 slices as straight as possible and without disassembling it.
Finally, arrange on the presentation plate and sauce with the quail stock.
2017
The finest sandwich
2017.
For 4 people
1 With a meat slicer, cut thin 1 mm thick bacon slices. Cut the Iberian ham by
hand as finely as possible.
1 Put the flour and the crumbled yeast in a dough mixer with the hook and work
at speed 1. Add the milk little by little, and mix for 6 min. Add the salt and mix
for a further 6 min, until the texture of the dough is homogeneous. Store for 24
hours in the refrigerator in a covered and filmed container.
2 Make portions of the dough of about 75 g, roll them out in the pasta
machine until they are as thin as possible and place them on top of a silicone
non-stick sheet.
Cut the dough with a 16 cm diameter circular mold. Then paint the circles with
abundant olive oil, place an equal sheet on top, paint again and put another sheet
that must also be painted.
Next, cut into 4 quarters.
Place in a combi oven (with 40% humidity) at 240 ºC and on a direct iron
plate, until the quarters of dough are swollen and evenly browned. The
central part should rise slightly.
When they're done, let them cool to room temperature, then store them in an
airtight container.
3 Squash half of the botarga on a board with a spatula. Reserve. Cut the
rest of the botarga into 1 cm cubes and set aside.
5 Place the mulberry leaves in a food processor together with the oil, and crush for 30 min
at 80 ºC.
Pass the preparation through a cheesecloth and place it in a water bath with ice and
water to cool it. Keep in the fridge.
1 Wash the algae in ice water to release all the grit. Drain well and reserve
to make the juice.
2 Bring salted water to boil (36 g of salt per 1 kg of water) and blanch the seaweed for 10 s.
Refresh in salted ice water (15 g of salt per 1 kg of water). Weigh the
algae and grind them with the same weight of cooling water.
Pass the juice obtained through a coarse strainer and then through a finer one.
Reserve.
3 Cut the brick pasta into pieces and place in the glass of a food processor together with
codium juice, mineral water and xanthan base.
Grind at 60 ºC for 8 min at speed 7 until obtaining a fine paste.
5 Grate the lemon peel and extract the juice from the fruit.
Place the creamy butter, the grated raifort, and the lemon peel and juice in a
blender glass. Blend until obtaining a semi-whipped cream texture. Reserve in a
pastry bag at room temperature.
6 Remove the leaves from the coriander, wash and arrange on absorbent
paper. Dehydrate for 6 min in the microwave at maximum power.
Dry, grind with a coffee grinder and store in an airtight container.
1 Put the bread in the freezer for 2 h. After this time, cut it with the slicer
into 4 strips of 3 cm wide by 12 cm long and 1.5 mm wide.
Grease the square stainless steel molds 8 cm long by 2 cm wide with the spray
grease.
Paint the mold with the olive oil. Roll the bread sheet over the mold giving it 2
turns as tightly as possible and trying to get the edge hooked into one of the
corners.
Place the mold in the oven, with the fold upside down so that it is well fixed.
Bake at 175 ° C for 5 min.
Once this time has passed, remove the mold from the oven and when it can be handled without
burning, remove the coca very carefully.
Let cool and reserve in an airtight container.
2 In a saucepan, dissolve the Glice with the oil at 50ºC. Chill in a container in the
fridge.
3 With the help of a knife, cut the two ends of the tomato until the inner seeds
are visible. Next, cut the side of the vegetable without breaking the seed. Finally,
remove the whole seeds with the knife (you will need 1 seed per person).
Reserve them in a flat container in the fridge. Save the tomato leftovers for other
dishes.
1 Heat the mineral water with the sugar and salt in a saucepan until it becomes a
syrup. Let cool and reserve.
2 Mix the egg white with the albumin and leave to hydrate for 12 hours. After this time,
put in the kneading robot at speed 4. After 5 min, when it begins to be semi-assembled,
add the syrup in the form of a thread. Continue beating for a further 10 min and, once it
is assembled, add the lime juice. At this time, turn off the machine and add the methyl
base with a spatula with wrapping movements.
Form 2.5 g nigiris with the help of two pointed spoons and leave to dry in the
dehydrator at 60ºC for 12 h. After this time, remove the nigiris from the appliance and
store them in an airtight container.
3 Blend all the ingredients and let it rest for 24 hours in the cold so that the
preparation loses its air.
4 Arrange the alginate base in a container that allows to obtain a height of about 5
cm.
Completely fill a 2.5 ml spoon with the ball mixture and pour it into the
alginate base. Cook the ball for 30 s.
With a hole spoon remove the sphere and clean in mineral water.
Arrange the submissive balls in a plastic container with the sunflower oil and keep in
the fridge until the time of the show. 20 units will be obtained.
5 Cook the tapioca in boiling water for 16 min. Remove from the heat and let it rest for 4 more
minutes. Strain and chill.
Marinate the tapioca with the soy sauce in a container for 24 hours.
6 In a saucepan, pour the mirin and sake, and boil until the alcohol evaporates.
At this time, add the mineral water and the soy sauce. Then add the xanthan and
mix the sauce with a blender until well dissolved. Reserve the preparation in a
container for 12 hours so that it loses its air.
7 Put the aubergine to burn on the grill flame. Once the skin is burned
and the meat is cooked, place it in an airtight container and cover, and let
it rest for 30 min to finish cooking.
After this time, peel the eggplant, and section in half lengthwise. With the
help of a lace, extract the seeds and cut the meat into rectangles 3 cm wide
and 6 cm long.
Reserve in airtight container at room temperature.
1 Heat both ingredients in a saucepan until the isomalt dissolves. At this time, remove
the saucepan from the heat and let it cool down.
2 Lightly spray the nori sheet with the syrup and cut it into thin julienne strips
using a paper guillotine. The strips should be about 2mm wide and at least
10cm long.
3 Spray the nori julienne very lightly with the syrup and, with the help of an
oval silicone mold, form 4 skeins. They should be as airy as possible. Next, bake
the skeins for 40 min at 120ºC.
After this time, remove them from the oven and let them cool. Reserve in an airtight
container.
4 Remove the first layer of the roe and cut it into thin slices about 2-3 mm
thick. Reserve.
5 Peel the raifort and grate it. Add it to the Greek yogurt and mix well with the help
of a spatula. Reserve the preparation in the fridge in a pastry bag or in a bottle.
1 Place the anchovies in a wide container, add the mineral water and soak for a
minimum of 15 min.
After this time, with scissors cut the tail and outline the stomach. Separate the thorn
from the meat and reserve it for the next preparation. With tweezers remove all the
spines from the belly. Let the anchovies dry on absorbent paper. Reserve.
2 Arrange the spines in a bowl with ice and water and leave to bleed for 1 h. After this
time, strain them and dry them with absorbent paper. Next, with the help of a brush,
clean the possible impurities that they may have. Cut them in half 4 cm from the glue
and dehydrate them for 30 min at 60 ºC, leaving the glue wide open. Reserve.
3 Clean the chicken skin of excess fat and cut 4 pieces of 10 × 6 cm.
Season it.
Place 1 anchovy thorn in each piece of skin and, with the help of a roller,
press the fat so that the thorn is fixed to the skin.
Arrange the chicken skin on a rack, cover with greaseproof paper and another rack to
prevent it from bending.
Bake in the oven at 180 ºC for 20 min. After this time, lower the temperature to 160 ºC and
cook for 20 more minutes. Remove the rack and the parchment paper and cook for an
additional 10 minutes until crisp.
Remove from the oven and cut the skin with the help of scissors following the silhouette of
the thorn and leaving a 1 cm margin between the thorn and
the edge. Store in an airtight container in a cool, dry place.
4 At most 30 min before serving, place the anchovy in the blender jar and
blend. Then add the creamy butter and emulsify until the preparation has a
homogeneous texture.
Reserve in an airtight container at room temperature.
1 Wash the cauliflower and cut it. Arrange it in a saucepan and pour the water and milk.
Cook until tender, and strain.
At this time, transfer the cauliflower to a blender glass and mash it. Add little by
little the cold butter cut into cubes so that it is a well aerated emulsion. Once
crushed, strain and fill a silicone mold with 20 holes in the shape of a cauliflower
branch and about 5 cm high, ensuring that the spaces are well covered.
Reserve in the freezer for 2 hours, after this time, remove the mold.
Reserve in an airtight container in the freezer.
1 Semi-crush the almonds with the blender together with the water and reserve in the refrigerator for 12
hours to ensure that they hydrate well.
After this time, grind the mixture in a food processor until obtaining a thick and fine
textured paste. Leave to hydrate for a further 12 hours.
Pass it through a cheesecloth in small quantities and press with your hands to
obtain the almond milk.
3 Fill 8 cm long × 2 cm wide silicone lolly molds with the almond ice cream and
pierce each one with a flat wooden stick (about 6-8 units come out). In the
restaurant, on one of the sticks we put the Tickets logo, hidden by the ice cream.
The diner who has it will get the prize. Reserve in the freezer.
4 In a saucepan, dissolve the Glice with the oil at 50ºC. Reserve at room temperature in
a bottle.
1 In a saucepan, bring the water to a boil and when it starts to boil remove from the
heat. At this time, add the shiso leaves and let it infuse until the preparation cools.
Strain and reserve.
2 Cut the shiso leaves into julienne strips and arrange them in a bowl. Add the vinegar and leave in
the fridge for 24 hours.
3 Bring the mineral water to a boil and, when it starts to boil, add the tapioca
pearls. Cook for 9 min, then strain and cool under running cold tap water.
Then put them in the shiso water and leave to soak for 24 hours in the
fridge.
1 With the help of a knife, remove the base of the bud and the greener outer leaves. Cut
4 leaves from the central part that retain the greenery but are not too bitter. Cut the
bottom of each one about 2 cm from the stem and leave it clean; around here the diner
will take the sheet. Clean with cold water and dry with absorbent paper. Reserve the bud
in the refrigerator wrapped in moistened absorbent paper and in an airtight container.
2 Wash and chop the lettuce in a bowl (for this recipe it is better to use the greenest
leaves). Add the vinegar and salt and mix well. Let marinate for 15 min. After this time,
blend with a food processor together with the xanthan and add the olive oil in the form
of a thread. Go through a fine Chinese and rectify with salt and vinegar if necessary.
Reserve in a bottle.
3 With the help of a knife, cut the two ends of the tomato until you see the inner seeds.
Cut the side of the meat without breaking the seed and remove it. Scoop out the whole
seeds and cut them in half (save the rest of the tomato for another
elaboration). Reserve in a flat container and in the refrigerator.
1 In a bowl, mix the salt together with the tea and sugar.
With the help of scissors, cut the mustache and legs of the prawns and marinate
them in the previous preparation for 2 h and 45 min.
After this time, clean the prawns with water and dry with absorbent paper.
Keep in the fridge until the moment of service.
2 Put the seawater in a saucepan and bring to a boil. When the boil starts,
add the previously hydrated gelatin and dissolve well off the heat. Pour into
the Pacojet glass and freeze.
1 Place the pine nuts in a container and add 125 g of the mineral water. Leave to hydrate for 24
hours in the cold.
After this time, blend with the blender and a little salt until obtaining a fine cream. Let
it rest for 12 hours in the fridge.
Finally, pass the preparation through a fine cheesecloth (save the milk and discard the
pine nut paste). Reserve in the fridge.
2 With the help of scissors, cut the strands of the stracciatella. Mix it in a bowl
with the pine nut milk and add salt to it. Reserve in the fridge.
3 With the help of a knife, clean the stem of the mushroom and with a moistened absorbent
paper remove any possible remains of earth. Cut the perrechicos into 1 mm slices and
reserve in 12 g portions.
4 Strain the tangerine juice through a fine mesh strainer. Pour it into a
saucepan and reduce to obtain a third of the total.
Next, add the mandarin flowers and let it infuse off the heat and with the
saucepan covered until it is at room temperature.
Strain and store cold.
Finishing and presentation
On each plate, place 25 g of pine nut stracciatella in an elongated shape, well
centered and with volume. Arrange the perrechico slices vertically on one
side so that they stick well to the cheese and cover it.
Next, place on the right side of the stracciatella 1 point of mandarin nectar
and 4 points of pine nut oil on the other side.
Finally, finish each plate with 3 pine sprouts, 1 elderflower and 2 peeled tender
pine nuts, and serve.
Tomaco
2017.
For 4 people
1 Peel the tomato and cut it in half horizontally. With the help of a
corer, remove the peduncle.
Reserve them covered in the fridge until they are very cold.
2 Arrange the leafless basil in a food processor together with the oil and blend
at 80ºC for 5 min.
Next, pass the preparation through a fine strainer and place it in a bain-marie
of water and ice.
Let cool and reserve in an airtight container.
3 In a saucepan, dissolve the Glice with half the basil oil at 50ºC. Once
dissolved, add the other half of the oil and mix.
Reserve at room temperature.
4 With the help of a food processor, crush the tomato, salt it and strain it on
absorbent paper over a large strainer to obtain the clarified consommé. Keep
in the fridge until cool and then freeze it.
5 With the help of a knife, cut the two ends of the tomato until you see the inner
seeds.
Cut the side of the pulp without breaking the seed and remove the pulp and whole
seeds.
Crumble the tomato seeds so that they are loose and reserve them in the same juice
that they release.
Weigh the juice with the seeds and add a quarter of the weight with extra virgin olive oil. Season
with salt and pepper.
6 Place the cold tomatoes, cut in half, with the outside facing up, on a rack
with a tray underneath and bathe them with the basil oil at room
temperature. Put them back in the fridge in order to lower their temperature.
Once cool, bathe them again with the basil oil, let them set again and cut into
4 quarts. Reserve in an airtight container in the fridge.
7 Boil the quinoa in the water for 25 min. Drain, cool in cold water to stop
cooking and drain well again. Roll out the cooked quinoa on plates lined with
greaseproof paper, ensuring that the grains are separated and not piled up. Dry
it in a warm place for 24 hours. Once dry, heat the oil to 180 ºC and inflate the
quinoa in it. Drain, dry the excess oil on absorbent paper and add a hot salt to it.
Reserve in an airtight container.
1 In a saucepan, pour half the coriander water, add the salt and agar agar, and bring to a
boil. When it reaches 82 ºC, remove the saucepan from the heat and add the gelatin
previously hydrated along with the rest of the coriander water.
With the help of a few rods, mix well and pour the preparation on a 30 × 50
cm metal tray, previously heated in the salamander. Move the container until
the preparation is well spread over the entire surface. Reserve in the fridge.
2 With a brush, paint the surface of a piece of greaseproof paper (40 × 60 cm). Peel
the avocado and, with the help of a fine peeler, make strips, arrange them on the
parchment paper and paint them with olive oil to avoid oxidation. Next, with a lace
and a ruler, make vertical strips of the coriander veil and the avocado strips of 5 mm
wide. You get 12 strips of avocado, and 24 strips of coriander veil. Reserve in the
fridge. To obtain an optimal result, this elaboration should be carried out as close as
possible to the start of the service.
3 Paint with soft olive oil and a brush the surface of a greaseproof paper (15 × 8
cm). Place 3 avocado strips in the center of the paper. Then arrange the 6 strips
of coriander veil perpendicular to the avocado ones and braid them into a
rectangle.
Make sure that everything is well centered and that the straps are tight.
Repeat the operation with the other strips until 4 braided rectangles are obtained and reserve in the
fridge.
4 Bring half the water to a boil along with half the salt. When it starts to
boil, add the crab and cook it for 6 min.
After this time, remove it and cool it in a container with the rest of the water and salt. Once
very cold, remove the legs and tweezers.
Also remove the meat with the help of fine tongs. Open the head and collect the
coral (reserve separately). Remove the rest of the meat and arrange it together in
a bowl. In a dark room with ultraviolet light, discard any bones or shells that may
have been mixed into the meat of the crab. Reserve.
5 In a measuring glass, arrange the egg together with the salt and the oil and mix them with the
help of a blender until obtaining a mayonnaise.
Add the chipotle and blend well.
Reserve.
6 In a bowl, mix the beef together with the mayonnaise and add salt. Arrange 20 g
of the preparation in each bundle, and close them starting with the sides with
avocado and ending with those with coriander.
7 In a bowl, pour the liquids, mix and then add the chia seeds. Leave to hydrate
for 2 hours and reserve.
1 Separate the 2 lobes of the foie and carefully devein them. Cut the foie into small
pieces and season with the salt and pepper.
Arrange it in a food processor together with the chicken broth and cook at speed 8
for 5 min at 60 ° C.
After this time, crush, pass through a strainer and place 15 g in each of the
glasses or bowls that we use to plate. Reserve in the fridge.
2 Shelling the ears and passing the grains through the blender to extract all their juice
(approximately 500 g of liquid will be obtained). Arrange it in a saucepan over the fire and
reduce until obtaining 250 g. Once achieved, season with salt.
Dissolve the previously hydrated gelatin in the reduced corn juice and pour 5 g in the
form of a veil on top of the royal de foie, inside the glasses. Reserve in the fridge.
3 With the help of a knife cut 8 cm long sticks from the licorice branch. Next,
and with the help of a cutter, make a cavity at the end so that it resembles a
spoon.
Pour the tucupí into a pot avoiding the starch from the vegetables. Cook
for approximately 40 min.
Remove from the heat and reserve in an airtight container.
2 Put the tucupí base and the vegetable broth in a saucepan and heat.
Season with salt and reserve.
3 Heat the tucupí broth, add the agar agar, bring to a boil and stir with a few
rods until it is well dissolved.
Remove the saucepan from the heat, pour the mixture into a suitable container and leave to set in
the fridge.
4 With the help of a large fine grater, make filaments as long as possible with
the tucupí jelly. Reserve in portions of 15 g.
6 With the help of fine scissors, carefully cut the shell of the king crab at the bottom
of the white color, avoiding cutting the meat.
With the help of a spatula, remove the meat from the shell and cut into pieces about 3 cm
wide and reserve.
For 4 people
1 To clean and ration the razors
4 Galician razor clams (50 g each) 1
kg of mineral water
30 g fine salt
1 Place the blades in a container that allows them to stand upright and pressed together. Fill
the container with the cold salty water and purge them for 1 h.
With the help of a needle, open the valves of each mollusk, taking care not to
break the meat. Extract it and reserve the shells.
Cut the gut of the razors, but without losing their original shape, and the
mouth. Then cut them in half.
Insert a split razor into each reserved shell. Keep in the fridge.
2 Laminate the garlic. Put it together with the oil in a saucepan and brown over medium heat.
Once the garlic is fried, add the vinegar and the yellow pepper paste off the
heat. Mix and add salt. Reserve in the fridge.
1 Polish the fat from possible rancid parts and cut it into 1 cm pieces.
Arrange it in a saucepan and add the oil and water. Cook over low heat until the
water has completely evaporated and the fat has melted, without frying. Strain and
store in an airtight container in the fridge.
2 Remove all the fibrous parts of the belly and cut it into pieces of about 20 g.
3 Place the tuna belly pieces on a tray lined with greaseproof paper. Generously
salt each piece on all sides and place them in a vacuum bag together with the
ham fat. Close the bag in the vacuum machine and cook in the Roner at 54ºC for 9
min.
After this time, remove from the oven, remove the preparation from the vacuum bag
and transfer it to a container. The fat should cover the belly pieces.
4 Remove the stone from the cherries, being careful not to break them and place them in
the hot Josper oven together with some branches of vine shoots. Cook the cherries for 1
min and remove them from the oven. Reserve in an airtight container.
1 With the help of a sharp knife, trim the excess skin of the cocochas (reserve
it for other preparations) and let it rest in ice water for 15 min to bleed them.
After this time, drain them and dry them well with absorbent paper. Reserve in the
fridge.
2 Mix the xanthan with the olive juice in a measuring glass and blend with the blender.
Incorporate the oil in the form of a thread to emulsify the mixture. Reserve.
3 In a saucepan, heat ¼ part of the mint water and add the salt. Add the
agar agar, bring to a boil and stir with rods until well dissolved.
Remove the saucepan from the heat, add the rest of the basil water, transfer the mixture to a
flat-bottomed container and reserve in the fridge for 2 hours.
When it is gelled, blend with the blender until it becomes a thick cream without
lumps. Reserve.
4 Remove the leaves from the clean mint and place it in the glass of the food processor together with the
oil.
Grind at 80 ° C for 5 min. Pass through a fine strainer with absorbent paper
on top, let cool and reserve in a pipette.
1 Clean and cut the barbels of the mussels under running tap water. Cook them
for 10 s in boiling salted water (until they open), remove them from the pot and
reserve all the water.
Remove the mussels one by one from the shells and place them in a container. Boil the
shells, strain and reserve.
Cover the mussels with the cooking water and keep in the fridge until
serving time.
2 Dice the butter and put it in a saucepan to reduce. Bring to 150 ° C and, at this time,
remove from heat and strain through the cheesecloth. Reserve.
4 Add the two butters in a saucepan and melt without the preparation exceeding 50 °
C. In a bowl, beat the yolk and white and add the butter mixture in the form of a
thread without the preparation exceeding 50 ° C. Beat well and add salt.
Pour the preparation into a siphon, fill with two loads and reserve in a water bath at 65 °
C.
5 In a saucepan, arrange the tomato and honey and mix. Put on the fire and let
the preparation reduce to a quarter. Reserve.
Arrange 1 caramelized tomato tip on the rounded end of each mussel. Sauce
with the hot butter foam and sprinkle with the tarragon powder before
serving.
Espardeña and sobrasada with sea crusts
2017.
For 4 people
1 With the help of scissors, cut the mouth of the espadrilles and then stretch them
on a plate making sure they are straight. Freeze for 12 h.
Once frozen, make a wide and superficial incision on the skin and pull it until
the espardeña is peeled (reserve the skin for the next preparation). Reserve
the peeled espadrilles in the fridge in 15 g portions.
2 Place the skins in a medium vacuum bag and cook at 80 ºC in the Roner for 4
h.
After this time, strain, arrange them on top of a silicone sheet and dry
them in the dehydrator at 60ºC for 12 h.
Once dry, remove them and reserve them in an airtight container.
3 Stretch each portion of espardeña on a plastic wrap. Sprinkle them lightly with the
tranglutaminase and place a strip of sobrasada. Then roll the espadrille so that the
roller maintains the natural shape of the animal.
Reserve in the fridge.
4 In a saucepan, heat the oil to 180ºC, and fry the dried espardeña skins until they
are completely inflated, but without burning. Dry with absorbent paper and
sprinkle with black tea and a little fine salt.
Once cool, reserve in an airtight container.
Meanwhile, place a pickled lemon julienne inside the sea rind. On the same plate,
place the crust on one side and the stuffed espadrilles on the other. To serve.
Sea and mountain of razor clams, tapioca and shiitake
2017.
For 4 people
1 With the help of a knife, peel and cut the ginger into thin slices.
Then confit them in sunflower oil for 30 min.
Let stand for 24 hours, then strain them.
2 In a pot, sauté the sauce together with the grated ginger. Then add the
clean mini shiitake and sauté. Then add the rest of the ingredients and cook
over medium heat for 30 min. Reserve.
3 Cook the tapioca in the boiling mineral water for 9 min. Let
stand 4 more minutes off the heat, strain and cool.
1 Brown the tortillas on a griddle and leave to dry in the dehydrator for 12 h at 50 °
C. After time, remove from the dehydrator and reserve.
2 Remove the seeds from the chilies and reserve. Put the whole tortillas in a
pan and let them burn. Add the black chilhuacle seeds and continue to burn
until they are both completely black. Remove from the heat and soak in the
water for 15 min. Burn the chilies, tomatillo, garlic, onion, pepper, cloves and
avocado leaves in the same pan.
Drain the tortillas and the guajillo seeds and grind them in a food processor
together with the previous preparation until they form a paste. Heat the oil in
a saucepan until it smokes and then add the pasta all at once. Let it fry for 10
min. After time, add the beef stock little by little and cook over low heat for
12 hours, until it reaches the desired consistency.
3 Peel and mince the garlic and onion. Sauté them in a frying pan with the oil. Add the
chopped squid trimmings, sauté and moisten with the white wine. Pour 1 kg of water and
let it reduce to half. Repeat the operation with the rest of the water and simmer for 30 min
until a consistent and tasty background is achieved. Strain through the cheesecloth and
store in the fridge.
4 Peel and chop the onion, and put it to poach in a saucepan with the olive oil.
Sauté over a very low heat until caramelized and then add to the salt. When
ready, strain to remove excess oil. Grind the squid roast bottom with 100 g of
caramelized onion and squid ink in a food processor. Reserve.
5 With the help of tweezers, remove the mouth and eyes of the morralets, and clean
the legs well of the possible grit that they may contain. Thread them on a 25 cm steel
skewer and reserve.
1 Cut the ham into cubes of 3 cm on each side and place them in a saucepan with half the
water. Bring to a boil and strain once it boils. Add the rest of the water and cook over a
low heat for 40 min.
After this time, let it infuse for 20 min off the heat. Then
strain the broth through the cheesecloth.
Mix with the xanthan and add salt if necessary.
2 Cut the ends of the sausage and remove the skin. Chop until fine. Ball with
the help of your hands and form 12 balls of 1.5 g each (use a precision scale).
Reserve in the fridge.
3 Peel the beans and chop them finely, without crushing them. Mix with the
methyl base and add salt.
In a silicone mold with 12 holes in the shape of spherical chocolates of 2 cm in
diameter, make a first layer with the chopped inhabitant, and then arrange the
sausage core right in the center.
Finally, cover with more chopped bean following the curvature of the nucleus so that it is
completely spherical and covered. The total weight of the meatball should be between 4.5 and
5.5 g.
Keep in the fridge in an airtight container.
1 Eviscerate the mullet and allow to bleed in ice water for 30 min.
In a pot, put the oil to heat. Fry the mullet until golden brown. Add the
mineral water and cook for 30 min.
After this time, degrease, strain and salt the stock.
2 In a pot, put the oil to heat. Peel the potatoes and click. Sauté together
with the oil.
Once golden brown, add the grated tomato and sauté.
Next, add the sweet paprika, sauté and moisten with the stock. Cook for 40 min over
medium heat. 5 min before finishing cooking, add the saffron. Strain through a fine
sieve and add salt to taste. Reserve.
3 Put in a pot 4 kg of mineral water, 2 g of ascorbic acid, the flour and a pinch of
salt.
Remove the greenest outer leaves of the artichoke until you reach the whitest
leaves.
Cut the stem and 5 cm from the tip of the artichoke to leave only the heart. Turn it
until it is 4 cm in diameter and 2 cm in height with no points remaining and is
completely rounded.
With the help of a punch, make a hole in the upper part of the heart 2 cm wide
and 1 cm deep. Reserve in a bath made with 1 kg of mineral water and 0.5 g of
ascorbic acid until cooking.
Then simmer the artichokes for 50 min covered with parchment paper. Reserve
in the fridge with the cooking water.
5 Put half of the mineral water in a saucepan on the fire. When it comes to a boil,
add the tapioca and remove from the heat. Let stand 12 h.
After this time, cook again with the rest of the water for 25 min. Cool in ice water,
strain and reserve in the fridge.
6 Put the yolk, Gluco and salt in a blender glass and blend. With the help of a
vacuum machine extract all the air to stabilize the dough.
Arrange the algin base in a container that allows us to obtain a height of about 5
cm.
Completely fill a 5 ml spherical spoon with the yolk mixture and pour it into
the algin base. Leave inside the algin base for 1 min. Then scoop out the ball
with a hole spoon and clean in softened water. Arrange the balls in a plastic
container covered with the olive oil and reserve in the fridge.
1 Clean and peel the carrot, daikon turnip, white onion and leek. Cut
all the vegetables in mirepoix, together with the celery already cleaned.
Remove the outer leaves of the kale if they are wilted and dry. Extract 50 g of
cabbage leaves and cut into mirepoix. Arrange all the cut vegetables in a pot, add
the water and salt and bring to a boil. Afterwards, keep simmering on the fire for 2
hours –foam if necessary–. Once the time has passed, add salt to the touch and let
cool. Then reserve in the fridge. Pass the broth first through a strainer and then
through a cheesecloth to make it as clean as possible.
3 Make a 1 cm square incision on the top of the passion fruit, extract the
piece and reserve it.
Extract the seeds from the passion fruit and reserve the pulp for the passion fruit
broth. Reserve the passion fruit shells with their corresponding lid.
4 In a saucepan, mix the vegetable broth, the chicken juice and the passion fruit pulp with
the help of a few rods.
Then put the saucepan over low heat, add the butter and emulsify while
beating with the rods.
Add salt and black pepper to the touch.
Give it the desired point of thickness by adding the xanthan base while continuing to
emulsify.
Reserve the passion fruit in a saucepan covered with skin film, to prevent it from
drying out, in the fridge to prevent fermentation.
6 With the help of a spoon, fill each passion fruit with 15 g of seared pea and
season.
Place 2 pecan halves on each passion fruit and 2 fresh mint tips.
Reserve.
Fine salt
Black pepper
2 With the help of a lace, remove the meat from the ribs until the ribs are
completely cleaned and reserve it for the marinade.
Next, with a butcher machete, cut the ribs to 4 cm long and boil until the
bone is clean to remove any impurities that may remain. Strain, dry and
reserve.
3 With the help of a fine knife remove the remains of nerve and cartilage that the
sirloin may have.
From the central part of the piece, cut 20 g fillets. Reserve the tips for the
marinade.
4 Peel the onion and carrot and cut them into small regular pieces. Wash and
cut the celery into small pieces.
Put the vegetables in a large bowl together with the hare pieces and trimmings and the rest of
the ingredients. Marinate in the fridge for 24 hours.
5 Strain the hare marinade and separate the hare pieces from the vegetables and
aromatic herbs. Discard half of the celery pieces.
Store the liquid from the marinade
separately. Dry the hare pieces on a cloth.
Then roast the hare in a pan with a little oil over medium heat until it is
cooked evenly.
In a separate saucepan, sauté the vegetables from the marinade. Once done, add the
roasted hare. Cook for 1 min and dip with the marinade liquid. Cook over medium heat
for 30 min until obtaining a consistent and tasty juice. Strain through a fine sieve, then
through a cheesecloth and reserve.
Soak the hare with the water and cook over medium heat for 30 min, until obtaining a
tasty review broth, the hare juice that we will use in the next step. Strain, degrease, go
through cheesecloth and store in the fridge.
6 Warm the juice in a saucepan and add the chocolate until completely melted. Season
with salt and reserve.
7 Peel and cut the onion into fine brunoise and fry in a frying pan with the olive oil
smooth until we have 25% of the onion.
In another pan, sauté the well-seasoned livers and the poached onion with a little oil
until they are well marked and the blood is cooked. Next, add the cut stick and
reduce until it loses all the alcohol. Pour into a measuring glass and blend with the
blender until a fine puree is obtained. Rectify with salt and reserve.
8 In a tall glass, put the water, the xanthan base, the sugar and the cocoa, and mix with
a few rods. Put in a saucepan and boil until the mixture is well homogeneous. Then
pour hot into a food processor, introduce the chopped brick pasta and blend for 5 min
at maximum speed.
Strain and reserve. Spread a thin layer of cocoa paste on a non-stick silicone
sheet with the help of a spatula. Cook in the oven for 10 min at 180
º C.
Once the pasta is well dry, break the crunchy into small pieces about 3 cm
wide and 3 cm long by hand. Reserve in an airtight container.
1 Peel the beet and cut it into small pieces. Blend with the help of a
blender.
Pass through a fine sieve and put in a saucepan to reduce until obtaining ¾ parts of juice.
Reserve.
2 Peel the apple and cut it into small pieces. Blend with the help of a blender to
obtain 350 ml of juice.
Pour into a strainer covered with absorbent paper. Let it strain to obtain the
clarified apple water.
Then add the citric acid and mix with a few rods so that it is well diluted.
Then dilute the gelatin, previously hydrated in water, in ¾ parts of the apple water in a
saucepan over the fire and mix with the rest of the water.
Put in a Pacojet glass and freeze. Once frozen, go through the Pacojet to get
the apple snow.
1 Cut the ham into cubes of 3 cm on each side and place them in a saucepan with
half the water. Bring to a boil and strain once it boils. Add the rest of the water and
cook over a low heat for 40 min. After this time, let it infuse for 20 min off the heat.
Then strain the broth through the cheesecloth. Mix with the xanthan and add
salt if necessary.
2 Put the cooking broth in the presentation bottle and reserve in the fridge.
Puffed rice
Pistachio, or rather, green pistachio and its derived cream are one of elBarri's
favorite preparations, both sweet and salty. In theGreen pistachio acorn (
watch P. 70) we used for the first time the pressure-inflated rice flour balls that
Joan Solé had brought us for us to taste. They are the perfect excuse to add the
finishing touch to the acorn.
Classic tartlets
I always say that we cling to the roots of tradition to seek innovation. ThisFoie
gras and black truffle cake (watch P. 140) is an example of tradition and
innovation, as it is a version of that of Joël Robuchon. We combine the finest brick
pasta dough to make it very crispy, duck fat and the black truffle and foie gras
circles from Mitteault. Simply unsurpassed.
The finest
In Tenerife, we ate a very fine and particular bread that had a perfect balance between
lightness and crunchy texture. We quickly got the contact of the producer and turning it
into a sandwich of the future was a matter of hours: on the one hand, we applied the
same technique as with the steam humification Sardinian bread to be able to cut it and,
later, we toast it again. OnThe finest sandwich (watch P. 175) we wink at the diner, as
we play with two flavors: we start with ham and end with marinated bacon.
Iced salt
To prepare the Prawn with frozen salt (watch P. 196) we cure the whole crustacean
with coarse salt and a little sugar for 2 h and 45 min. In this way, a texture and flavor
of great purity is obtained. We finish the presentation with a fake frozen salt made
with frozen seawater powder, which gives rise to a fun trompe l'oeil that also leaves
the shrimp meat firm.
Tapioca as a texture
Tapioca pearls are very much in vogue in Asian drink bars, where these gummy balls are
used as an accompaniment. We have become fond of their texture: we have used them
in dishes such asShiso oyster (watch P. 193) and the Razor clams with umeboshi
vinaigrette and shiso pearls (watch P. 150). In this last dish, a stew, the tapioca is
soaked with the broth, which gives the razors the unctuousness they lack. The unique
texture of the pearls undoubtedly combines perfectly with that of this shellfish.
Product treatment
We set ourselves the challenge of working the crab as a product and
analyzing its interior we found three different corals: red, pink and brown. To
prepareThe three crab corals (watch P. 166), first we boil the crab, remove
the corals separately and put them back into the head in an orderly manner.
Finally, we regenerate it in steam with a controlled temperature. One hundred
percent product kitchen.
Mimetics?
After the book Natura and at the closing of 41º it was obvious to change the register and we
promised ourselves to do the minimum possible mimesis. Opinion changes before dishes like
Cauliflower and caviar (watch P. 188), when we understand that it is one thing to be mimetic
and another hyperrealistic, where the wink of the imitated or similar disappears and you do not
see the cauliflower puree until it is in your mouth. In this recipe we use a pastry technique
when combining the cream and the mousse but in a salty way, which results in a creamy and
stable emulsion.
Cubes
A priori, before the Tomato bread cube (watch P. 180) and the Potato and nori cube
with spicy tuna belly (watch P. 125), it seems that we are facing an aesthetic flash that
does not go beyond the beautiful photo. It is not quite like that: the cubic shape, when
crushed, gives a texture to the palate and makes the mixture of ingredients in the mouth
evolve in an interesting way.
Liquid salad
During the delivery of the three soles of the Repsol guide to Tickets we met our admired
Nacho Manzano, from Casa Marcial. He cooked a hake with lettuce emulsion, which we
found sensational: the freshness of the vegetables combined with the acidity of the
vinegar and the EVOO emulsion, was the starting point for making theLiquid salad with
cockles (watch P. 149) where this mollusk combines perfectly.
Vegetarian ceviche
The vegetarian demand continues to increase and every night we have several tables of
diners who ask us for this type of cuisine. The need to offer them a wide
range led us to use melon to treat it like a ceviche -Cantaloup melon ceviche (
watch P. 142). The tiger milk that it carries has a kumquat smoothie base,
undoubtedly one of our favorite recipes and a good vegetarian resource
wherever we go.
Mullet soup
Another resource that we are using in all the restaurants is a great red mullet
broth, a stock made with fried whole fish, which we barely cover with water and
let infuse for a few minutes. Sometimes we use cod tripe so that the broth
develops more collagen, potency and delicacy in equal parts. We use it, for
example, in theRed mullet, artichoke and giant tapioca suquet (watch P. 225).
As a curiosity to say that I am allergic to prawns: I have never been able to taste
them and this broth is the closest to its flavor (and the closest I will be to eating
one).
Bread soup
As we know, memory is one of the greatest resources when creating dishes. But not
always drawing inspiration from tradition works when adapting a dish, sometimes you
have to innovate first and then build a bridge towards tradition. It is the case of the
Saffron sponge with bread soup (watch P. 162): first we made the saffron brioche,
then we peeled its top layer and then let the traditional slightly spicy bread soup
penetrate. Another example of tradition and innovation that shows that they can go
perfectly hand in hand.
Salty cracker
Creativity under pressure is something that I personally think works for us. We were in
London in 2016 with the 50 days pop up at Café Royal and we needed alternative snacks for
people with an intolerance or allergy. In my case, when I don't know what to do, I usually go
to the warehouse and get inspired by looking at the products I have. In the case of
Strawberry sesame curry cookie (watch P. 120), the freeze-dried strawberry (Lyo
Strawberry Crispy), along with the curry and sesame are mixed and compacted with the help
of a minimum of cocoa butter. The result: a salty cookie, different and suitable for celiacs.
Thai prawn à la presse
Our concern to serve or finish dishes on the table led us to squeeze, in the case of the
Thai prawn à la presse (see p. 160), the heads of crustaceans, in order to avoid the
rapid oxidation of their juices. It is accompanied by a suquet with aromatic herbs
(galangal, citronella, etc.) to achieve a very fresh "Americana" with all the Thai aroma.
Impregnation
The resource of fruit impregnation reaches a new level with the Nashi pear with
cantaloup melon ice cube (watch P. 72): the pear is impregnated and accompanied
and combined with a compact of frozen ice.
Cannibal chicken
Humor in the kitchen was one of Ferran's favorite resources at elBulli, always understanding
it very seriously on our part, of course. The use of chicken wings as a tapa is tremendously
obvious and it is certain that in the 2018 Tickets they would not have room, but we could not
contain ourselves the desire to imitate the bone of the chicken with fried yucca in the
Cannibal chicken with cassava bone (watch P. 108).
Almond lolly
In tickets we strive not to fall into the routine and entertain the diner. Once again the
memory takes you back to childhood, when you were lucky enough to buy a polo shirt and
you got the prize, which consisted of another polo as a gift. In ourTender almond polo
with prize (watch P. 191) the stick engraved with the name of Tickets gives as a prize a
tablespoon of caviar. Deep down we want to continue being children.
The anchovy that wanted to be anchovy
On a trip to Japan to cook in a food contest called Cook It Raw, I decided to prepare a
dish with mackerel. In an act of generosity I gave this fish to another cook and I made
the mistake of making it with sardines. Mainly, the size of the fish and the size of the
plate, which was huge, mutilated my idea and I was not very happy. I called it "the
sardine that wanted to be mackerel." Years later, we took up the idea with an anchovy
cured in salt, and we got a hybrid that has the juiciness of the anchovy and the iodized
memory of the anchovy -Anchovy toast with salt, anchovy, chicken and tarama (
watch P. 41).
Rolled fish
How bad it sounds! We once saw "rolled fish" advertised in a Japanese bar in New
York, where we had some fish nigiris with white truffle. The peculiarity was that
the rice had been replaced by sprouts and the fish rested on them. We picked up
that idea in theSea bass rolled with padrón tiger milk
(watch P. 100). We roll thin slices of this fish with a mix of herbs, which is
accompanied by a sauce made from padrón peppers.
Giant burrata
That elBulli is our greatest source of inspiration should come as no surprise. To prepare the
Cherry tomatoes with homemade burrata (watch P. 58) We collected the reconstructed
mozarella from elBulli and modified the recipe using burrata sphericals (we used a saucepan
as the base for spherification). All accompanied with marinated cherry tomatoes.
Ventresca confit in Iberian ham
One of the first dishes at Tickets was a plate of belly painted with Iberian ham,
which he drank directly from elBulli sources but which, like so many others, was
made for a short period of time. Six years after this dish, we evolved the recipe by
vacuum-confining the belly in the ham fat at 54ºC for 9 min. It is then
accompanied by a cherry drowned in the Josper oven with charcoal for 1 min. And
that's where ourBelly confit in Iberian ham fat and charcoal cherry (watch P.
210).
2 Cut the mushroom into 3.5 mm slices with the help of a meat slicer.
3 Put all the slices together and cut with a 2 mm wide spaghetti knife.
Meringue popcorn (watch P. 118)
1 Cleaning a dry ear of corn.
2 Fold the central strip and place a strip of coriander jelly perpendicular.
Unfold the central avocado strip over the coriander.
3 Fold the side avocado strips and place another coriander strip
perpendicular. Unfold the side strips of avocado on top of the coriander.
Repeat the same operation 6 times, inserting the central avocado strip and
the outer strips.
2 Grease the mold well and roll up, pressing the potato and nori strip well.
3 Bake at 175ºC for 5 min. Then carefully remove the mold.
4 Lightly paint the inside of the cube and sprinkle with a little toasted
sesame. Bake for 1 min at 175ºC.
Nori strudel (watch P. 82)
1 Cut 8.5 × 3.5 cm rectangles of nori and lightly paint with isomalt syrup.
Beetroot tart and yogurt and mustard ice cream (watch P. 122)
1 Place the circular template on the silicone sheet and pour out the beet
meringue with a star nozzle.
2 Complete the template with the meringue so that it is as uniform as
possible. Dehydrate at 50ºC for 12 h.
3 Place the yogurt and mustard ice cream disk on one of the parts.
4 Cover with the other part.
2 Make a small slit in the dough and introduce the sausage filling. Finish
3 Roll up with the help of film and leave with the natural shape of the liver.
Shrimp fossil (watch P. 136)
1 Place the fossil mass on top of the bikini top.
4 Iron for 20 s.
5 Remove from the bikini top.
Basil aerial waffle with scarmoza and pine nuts (watch P. 81)
1 Heat the machine to 200 ºC, grease it with sunflower oil and fill the surface
of the waffle iron with the dough.
2 Add the pine nuts, the basil leaves and the smoked scamorza cheese.
5 Dry for 35 min at 35 ºC in the dehydrator, turn and leave for a further 10 min.
Black olive cupcake with yogurt (watch P. 130)
1 Heat the plate of spheres to 180 ºC.
2 Grease the griddle with sunflower oil and fill with the olive mass just up to 5 mm
from the edge of the sphere.
3 Fill the center of the dough with yogurt.
4 Introduce the kimchi ball into the hole at the moment of passing.
BASE RECIPES
Garlic oil
1 clove garlic
20 g of sunflower oil
Peel the garlic, slice it very thinly and fry it in a saucepan in the sunflower oil until it starts to brown.
Remove from heat and let cool.
Strain and reserve.
Coriander oil
300 g of fresh coriander
125 g of sunflower oil
Remove the leaves from the coriander and place it in the glass of a food processor together with
the oil. Grind at 80 ° C for 5 min.
Pass through a fine strainer with absorbent paper inside, let cool and reserve in a pipette.
Coriander water
250 g of fresh coriander 1
kg of mineral water
Pour the water into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove the leaves from the coriander, blanch the leaves for 10 s in
boiling water and cool rapidly in ice water.
Drain well, weigh and put in a food processor with the same weight of water as cooled. Blend for
approximately 3 min.
Strain with a cheesecloth and reserve in the fridge.
Fennel water
1 bunch of fennel 1 kg
of mineral water Fine
salt
In a saucepan, put the water and bring to a boil. Remove the stalk from the fennel, blanch it for 10 s in the boiling
water and cool rapidly in ice water.
Weigh it and add double the amount of mineral water. Crush the mixture in the food processor and pass it through the
cheesecloth. Rectify with salt.
Mint water
250 g of fresh mint 1
kg of mineral water
In a saucepan, put the water and bring to a boil. Remove the leaves from the mint, blanch the leaves for 10 s in boiling
water and cool rapidly in ice water. Drain well, weigh and put in the food processor with the same weight of water as
cooled. Blend for approximately 3 min, strain the preparation through a cheesecloth and reserve in the fridge.
Syrup tpt
100g sugar
100 g of mineral water
Put the water and sugar in a saucepan and bring to a boil. At this time, remove the casserole from the heat and reserve in
the fridge.
Algin base
500 g of mineral water
2.5 g algin
With the help of a blender, mix the water with the algin until it is completely dissolved. Then strain. Let rest
in a container for 24 h in the refrigerator to lose the accumulated air or remove the air with the vacuum machine. Reserve
in the fridge.
Arrange all the ingredients in a saucepan and heat while stirring with a few rods until the mixture
reaches 85 ° C. At this time, remove the saucepan from the heat and reserve.
Methyl base
1 kg of mineral water
30 g of methyl
Mix the two ingredients with the help of a blender. Let stand 24 hours before use.
Sofrito base
75 g garlic
200 g of mild olive oil 2
kg of onion
½ branch of thyme
½ branch of
rosemary 1 bay leaf
400 g of tomatoes
100 g of crushed tomato
Fine salt
Peel and mince the garlic and onion in brunoise. Sauté the garlic over low heat in a saucepan with the olive oil without
turning any color. Add the onion, thyme, rosemary and bay leaf and leave for 30 min over low heat until the onion turns a
golden color.
Peel the tomatoes, remove the peduncle and cut them into 1 cm cubes, and add to the sauce. Leave on the fire
until it begins to fall apart. Then pour in the crushed tomato and cook the whole for 30 min. After this time, remove
from heat, rectify with salt and reserve.
Sorbet base
130 g sugar
8 g of milk powder 0% mg 5 g
of stabilizer for sorbets 150 g
of water
40 g of invert sugar
190 g of liquid glucose
Xanthan base
16 g xanthan
1 kg of mineral water
Grind half the water with the xanthan until it is well dissolved. Extract
the air in the vacuum machine and add the rest of the water. Let
stand a minimum of 12 hours for the base to stabilize.
Dashi broth
5 g of kombu seaweed
500 g of mineral water 10
g of katsuobushi
Wash the kombu seaweed to remove the outer dust. Hydrate it with the mineral water in a pot at room temperature for
12 h.
After this time, put the pot on low heat until the water reaches 90 ° C. At this time, remove the kombu and
add the katsuobushi, cover with plastic wrap and let it rest for 20 min.
Then pass the preparation through a fine sieve with absorbent paper to avoid remaining katsuobushi and
reserve.
Fry the wings in the oil until they are golden brown. Once fried, remove them and leave them on a
colander to lose excess fat.
Next, in the same pan add the onion, previously peeled and diced, and fry. Once it is well fried, add the wings
again and moisten with the white wine. Reduce until caramelized and moisten with the water. Cook over low
heat for approximately 4 hours.
After this time, strain and let it rest in the chamber. Finally, degrease with the help of a slotted spoon and reduce in a
saucepan until obtaining a concentrated juice.
Fish soup
700 g of fish bones 1 kg
of water
Fine salt
Put the thorns in plenty of ice water and leave for 1 h to release all the impurities and blood that
could contain.
After this time, drain and put the fish bones and water to simmer. When it starts to boil, leave for 20 min
and then remove from heat. Pass the broth through a cheesecloth, add to the salt and reserve.
Chicken soup
3 kg of chicken
3 kg of chicken
500 g of onion
250 g of carrot
200 g of leek
10 kg of mineral water
50 g of fine salt
Beef broth
2 heads of garlic (80 g each)
100 g olive oil
5 kg of veal bones
600 g of onion
500 g of red wine
20 kg of water
30 g fine salt
Cut the head of garlic in half and brown lightly in a saucepan with the oil over high heat. Lower
the heat and add the veal bones and let them brown gently.
Peel and cut the onion into large cubes, and place it in the pan together with the bones. Cook
until golden brown.
Then raise the heat and add the red wine. Let it reduce by half and cover with the
water. Salt and cook for 6 hours until the liquid has reduced by half.
Pass through a fine mesh strainer and cool. Once it is at the right temperature, store in the refrigerator
for 12 hours so that the fat decants and rises to the top of the container. Then remove the fat and
reserve.
Vegetables soup
1 cabbage
1 kg of carrot
1 kg of leek
1 kg of onion
2 sticks of celery
5 kg of water
Cut the melon into cubes of 18 mm on each side and mark them in a pan over high heat on both sides (they should be golden
brown, but not very cooked).
Crush them, arrange the resulting preparation on a tray and freeze. Once frozen, break it into
irregular pieces and defrost in a colander on absorbent paper.
Drop it drop by drop until you get about 700 g of clarified melon juice. Reserve the melon consommé in the fridge.
Xanthan
Star anise stars
Cinnamon stick
Clean the hen and chicken and chop them. Peel and cut the onion, carrot and leek into 1 cm cubes. Peel the
garlic.
Arrange all the vegetables in a pot, along with the hock and the veal bones, and pour in the chicken broth. Add the
salt and bring to a boil. When it comes to a boil, lower the heat and simmer for 4 hours.
After this time, strain through the cheesecloth and thicken with 0.2 g of xanthan per liter of resulting consommé.
To finish the consommé, heat the consommé that is needed and, once it is off the heat, add the star anise and
cinnamon. For 1.5 l, 2 star anise stars and ½ cinnamon stick are required.
Let infuse for 30 min. It is important to carry out this operation the day it is to be used.
In a saucepan, bring the water, sugar and hondashi to a boil. Remove from the heat and add the soy sauce and seaweed
kombu and leave to infuse in the fridge for 24 hours. After this time, strain and bind the soy base with the xanthan.
Remove the air in the vacuum machine and spread a 1 mm thick layer in the dehydrator with a spatula. Allow to
dry at 45 ° C for 24 h.
Once dry, cut into 5mm pieces and store in an airtight container.
Drain the olives from the pot and discard any spices from the marinade that it may contain.
Crush the pulp of the olives in the blender until obtaining a puree, and pass it through a cheesecloth. In this way the
olive juice will be obtained.
Put this juice in the blender glass and add the xanthan. Blend and transfer the preparation to an airtight container.
Reserve in the fridge.
Pickled lemon
1 lemon
100 g of coarse sea salt
25 g of lemon juice
Put the whole lemon in a container, cover with the salt and add the lemon juice. Let it rest for 1 month in the fridge. After this
time, remove the lemon from the fridge and wash it. Peel it with a knife, without removing the white layer.
In a wide container place the anchovies and pour the water. Let them soak for a minimum of 15 min. After this time,
remove them from the water and, with scissors, cut the tail and outline the stomach.
Also separate the spine from the meat and, with tweezers, remove all the spines from the belly.
Let the anchovies dry on absorbent paper.
Finally, once dry, dip them in olive oil and reserve.
Place the blades in a container that allows them to stand upright and pressed together. Fill the container with
the cold salty water and purge the blades for 1 h. Once purged, classify by size, place in well stretched bags
and vacuum pack at 95%. Cook the razor clams in boiling water for 50 s (cooking time may vary according to
size). Once cooked, cool them in water and ice.
Open the bags, remove the blades from the bag and remove them from the shell. Remove the casing from the knives without
losing their original shape, the mouth and then cut in half. Finally, place on top of parchment paper in an airtight container in the
fridge.
Cut the upper end and the lower end, and section vertically to be able to devein and gin them
easily.
Blanch with water for 5 min, and cool rapidly in ice water.
Repeat the same operation three times. Cook the chili for 20 min, until it is tender. After this time,
drain and dry well with absorbent paper. Arrange it in the blender jar and blend until you get a very
fine paste. You get about 150 g of chili paste. Pass through a fine sieve and reserve.
Blanched parsley
100 g of parsley
500 g of mineral water
Place the parsley in boiling water for 10 s and cool in a container with plenty of ice and water.
Soy base
280 g mineral water
5 g hondashi
5 g of kombu seaweed
100 g of soy sauce 20
g of sugar
In a saucepan, bring the water, hondashi, and kombu to a boil. Remove from heat, add soy sauce, sugar and bring to a
boil. When it reaches a boil, remove the saucepan from the heat, strain and reserve.
Spread the bread slices between two oven racks. Steam bake at 100ºC for 5 min to soften. With the help
of a knife and a ruler, cut sheets according to the measurements indicated in each recipe.
Replace the cut sheets between the two oven racks. Bake at 150ºC for 8 min until golden brown
on both sides.
After this time, remove from the oven and let cool. Store the Sardinian bread toasts in an airtight container, between
parchment paper.
Hedgehog buds
400 g of sea urchin (25 g of clean urchin) 100
g of mineral water
3 g fine salt
The idea of carrying out this project called elBarri was never on the table. In fact, if we
were asked how it was created, we would not know what to answer. However, we did
realize with 41 ° and Tickets that their coexistence represented a great advantage in many
aspects: synergies, purchase, personnel, effort savings and the one I like the most:
competitiveness. We clarify to the ill-thought-out, that there are, that the name of elBarri
is a recognition of the fact that we are in a neighborhood and that we like to be people
from the neighborhood. Final point. The project consists of six different concepts in just
one block and are the following proposals ...
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