Serves 4
Ingredients
White Port jelly
1.5L Sandeman white port
3g agar agar
Madeira jelly
1.5l Madeira
3g agar-agar
Jerusalem artichokes
3 Jerusalem artichokes
600ml veal stock
Star anise
Salt
Duck foie gras
460g foie gras escalopes
100g almonds
Salt of Cervia
Pigeon and pigeon sauce
2 pigeons
70g celery
70g carrot
70g onion
3 cloves garlic
15g tomato concentrate
100ml red wine
100ml Madeira
1l water
To serve
Chervil
Apple blossoms
Method
White Porto and Madeira jellies
Bring the white port to the boil and reduce to obtain 200ml of liquid. Add agar-agar and bring to the boil again. Remove from heat, pour on a baking tray and once cooled, cut into small cubes. Repeat the same operation to prepare the jelly of Madeira.
Jerusalem artichokes
Peel the Jerusalem artichokes and with a round-shape mould into 2cm diameter circles. Cook for 15 minutes at low heat in the veal stock flavored with star anise. Season with salt.
Medallions of duck foie gras
Cook the escalopes in a steam oven at 63C for 15 minutes. Remove from oven, cut with a round-shape mould (2cm diameter) to obtain 8 medallions. Grill for few moments on both sides. Roast and chop the almonds. Roll the medallions in the chopped almonds, taking care to make them adhere to foie gras very well. Season with salt of Cervia.
Pigeon sauce
Put the carcasses of pigeons in a pot and brown with extra virgin olive oil. Add the vegetables previously cleaned, washed and diced. Let them dry and add the herbs. After 5 minutes, sprinkle the vegetables with red wine first then Madeira and allow the liquid to evaporate each time. Add water and bring to the boil over a low heat, reducing to 2⁄3. Pass the sauce through a fine strainer and reduce down further until the sauce is thick and dark.
Pigeon
Clean the pigeon breasts and put them together in pairs, wrapping them in plastic wrap to form a cylinder with a diameter of 2cm. Cook in a steam oven at 63C for 20 minutes. Let the meat rest for 3 minutes then glaze it with the pigeon sauce. Season with salt then cut the meat into slices 1cm thick.
To serve
Place the medallions in the middle of the plate, alternating them with a slice of Jerusalem artichoke and a slice of pigeon. Decorate with small cubes of jelly previously prepared. Garnish the dish with apple blossoms, chervil and a few drops of pigeon sauce.
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