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Seafood Gumbo Aspic

This chic tapas creation features a decadent seafood gumbo that’s packed with fresh prawns, mussels, squid and clams. Pickled daikon adds a touch of sweet-sour flavour to the appetiser, while viola flowers bump up the presentation to a 10.

Seafood Gumbo Aspic

Ingredients

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Gumbo

Pickled Daikon

  • White Balsamic Vinegar 100.0 ml
  • Water 100.0 ml
  • Sugar 100.0 ml
  • Daikon, diced 15.0 pc

Plating & Assembly

  • Viola Flowers 5.0 g
  • Caviar 30.0 g
  • Affilla Cress 10.0 g

Preparation

  1. Gumbo

    • Bake shrimp shells at 195°C until it is dried and it starts to brown at the edges.
    • In an 8-quart pot, add Knorr Concentrated Chicken Stock, water, carrots, onions, celery, bay leaves, garlic, parsley, cloves, pepper, basil, thyme and shrimp shells and bring to boil.
    • Reduce heat and simmer for 2 hours.
    • Remove stock from heat and strain.
    • Press all liquid from the shells and vegetables before discarding them.
    • Return liquid to heat and reduce to 500 ml of stock.
    • Bloom gelatine and add it to gumbo.
    • Transfer to a mould and add seafood in.
    • Allow to set before unmoulding.

  2. Pickled Daikon

    • In a pot, bring all ingredients to boil and cool down.
    • Pickle daikon for 2 hours.
    • Pat dry daikon and set aside.

  3. Plating & Assembly

    • Garnish with pickled daikon radish and viola flowers.
    • Place aspic on the daikon and serve.
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