Asparagus Chartreuse with Smoked Sturgeon Mousse and Osietra Caviar Recipe
Flavors of Switzerland
Total time: 1hr to 2hr
Oven temperature: 180° C (350° F)
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Waiting time: About 1 hour
Cooking time About 30 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
For 4 servings
Mousse
- 1 shallot
- butter
- 200 g (7 oz.) smoked sturgeon fillet
- 2 tbsp. white wine
- 2 tbsp. Noilly Prat vermouth
- 100 ml (6 tbsp.) fish stock
- 100 g (6 tbsp.) cream
- Juice of half a lemon
- 4 sheets of gelatin
- 2 tbsp. whipped cream
- A pinch of salt
- 4 Lobsters
- Butter
- 10 Asparagus spears
- Salt and sugar
Finishing
- 18 g (1/2 oz.) osietra Caviar
- 18 g (1/2 oz.) trout caviar
- A few leaves of purslane and curly endives
- Dill
Method
- To make the mousse, melt some butter in a pan and sauté the diced shallot. Add half of the sturgeon fillet.
- Add the white wine and Noilly Prat, then the fish stock and reduce. Add the cream and reduce again. Add the juice of half a lemon and salt to taste.
- Remove the sturgeon from the pan and press through a sieve with the liquid. Mix in the gelatin, which has been softened in water, and let cool.
- Fold in the whipped cream.
- Boil the Florida lobster in salted water for 3 minutes and remove from the shells.
- Peel the asparagus and cook with some sugar in salted water for 8-10 minutes until done. Cut the
- spears in half lengthwise and into 5 cm (2") long pieces.
- Divide the asparagus among 4 metal rings. Chop the remaining sturgeon, combine with the mousse and pour into the rings. Refrigerate for 2 hours.
- Sauté the Florida lobster in butter.
Finishing
- Remove the chartreuse from the ring and cut in half with a knife.
- Arrange on a plate and garnish with Osietra and trout caviar.
- Lay a lobster tail in front and garnish as desired with purslane leaves, frisée and dill.
Sommelier
2000 Sauvignon Lehenhof, Alois Lageder Vineyard, Southern Tyrol
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