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Scallops, Civiche/Grapefruit Salad, Grapefruit Mascarpone
Scallops, Civiche/Grapefruit Salad, Grapefruit Mascarpone_pic
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

  1. Combine grapefruit with sugar, lemon juice, pepper, salt and broil until sugars caramelize and flavours infuse. Blend and pass through a fine chinoise.
  2. Mix in enough mascarpone with resulting liquid to reach a thick consistency similar to yogurt.
  3. Add additional grapefruit juice for flavouring purposes (if needed)
Ceviche/Grapefruit salad
  1. Combine wet ingredients and emulsify oils and then add honey.
  2. Mix in dry ingredients.
  3. For the parisienne, use a small melon baller, about the size of a marble.
  4. Marinate dry ingredients with wet for about 4 hours.
Salad
  1. Cut avocado and mix with other ingredients in the civiche dressing.
  2. When ready to plate, lightly coat greens with civiche liquid and a bit of salt.
Scallops
  1. 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.
  2. 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
  1. On rectangular plate, streak mascarpone along length of plate.
  2. Place scallops in an inordinate fashion along length of plate and strategically and neatly place salad ingredients around and slightly overtop the scallops.