Scallops, Civiche/Grapefruit Salad, Grapefruit Mascarpone
Mike Kowbel
Makes 4 servings
Ingredients
Grapefruit Marscapone
1 large Florida grapefruit, peeled and evenly sliced
2 tbsp white sugar
1 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp cardamom
¼ tsp pepper
½ tsp salt
Mascarpone, enough to reach desired consistency and flavour
Grapefruit juice to taste and fix consistency
Ceviche/Grapefruit salad
½ cup lime juice, use zest as well
¼ cup light soy sauce
1/8 cup rive wine vinegar
1/8 cup mirin
1/8 cup honey
¼ cup olive oil
1/8 cup sesame oil
3 cloves garlic, finely brunoise
3 shallots, finely brunoise
1 small red chilli, finely brunoise
1 tsp ginger, finely brunoise
½ cup diakon, parsienned
½ cup carrot, parsienned
½ cup fennel, thinly sliced
1 large grapefruit, segmented and halved on a bias
½ bunch coriander, chopped
Mix for service
1 avocado, diced
1 cup arugula
1 cup mache
Scallops
12-16 bay scallops (depending on size, 3 if larger, 4 if smaller)
Duck fat
Salt
Directions
Grapefruit Marscapone
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Combine grapefruit with sugar, lemon juice, pepper, salt and broil until sugars caramelize and flavours infuse. Blend and pass through a fine chinoise.
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Mix in enough mascarpone with resulting liquid to reach a thick consistency similar to yogurt.
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Add additional grapefruit juice for flavouring purposes (if needed)
Ceviche/Grapefruit salad
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Combine wet ingredients and emulsify oils and then add honey.
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Mix in dry ingredients.
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For the parisienne, use a small melon baller, about the size of a marble.
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Marinate dry ingredients with wet for about 4 hours.
Salad
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Cut avocado and mix with other ingredients in the civiche dressing.
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When ready to plate, lightly coat greens with civiche liquid and a bit of salt.
Scallops
- Preheat pan and enough duck fat to cover bottom of pan until extremely hot, dry scallops with paper towel and season both sides with salt.
- Cook both sides of scallop until a nice brown sear is achieved (about 30 seconds to 1 minute on each side depending on size and how hot fat is)
Plating
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On rectangular plate, streak mascarpone along length of plate.
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Place scallops in an inordinate fashion along length of plate and strategically and neatly place salad ingredients around and slightly overtop the scallops.