Grosse langoustine juste tiède, mousseline de carotte et consommé de crevettes bouquet
Serves 8
Ingredients
8 largelangoustines
8 redgrapefruitsegments
Lemon olive oil
Almond oil
Salt
Pepper
Fleur de sel
Butter
Shrimp consommé
750g shrimps
300g carrot juice
400g water
20g ginger
Sea salt
Carrot mousse
350g shredded carrots
40g butter
150g chicken stock
Dried orange
Carrot rolls
2 carrots
To serve
24 shrimps
Method
Place the grapefruit segments on a plate; warm when serving.
Seperate the heads and tails of the langoustines. Cut the legs offunder the tails off with scissors (and set aside), take the tails off and remove the intestines. Season the tails and pincers with salt, pepper and lemon olive oil. Cover in film and reserve.
Shrimp consommé
Remove the antenna, eyes and the legs from the shrimps, and crush. Put the shrimp paste in a pan and add the carrot juice, water and ginger. Heat until it is a light stock, and add the salt. Cook for 30 minutes, and filter.
Carrot mousse
Sweat the shredded carrots with butter on a low heat. Wet the pan with the chicken stock until the liquid has completely evaporated. Mix with the cold butter. Season with salt, pepper and dried orange.
Carrot rolls
Remove the skin of the carrots and slice length ways. Cook in salt water. Heat with almond oil when serving, and season with fleur de sel and pepper and roll.
To cook
Cook the langoustines at 55°C.
To serve
In a plate place a quenelle of carrot mousse, two carrot rolls and the grapefruit segments. Add three shelled shrimps and add a langoustine tail. Season with grapefruit powder and fleur de sel, and add a pincer.
On the side, serve the shrimpconsommé.
Wine suggestion
Saint-Pourçain – «Quarteron» 2011 – Domaine Grosbot-Barbara.
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