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Splat Recipe

Course Salad

Ingredients

Lemon confit

  • Peels and juice of 4 Meyer lemons
  • 200 g granulated sugar
  • 1.5 g salt

Beet purée

  • 2 medium red beets peeled and quartered
  • 100 g unsalted butter cut into 4 pieces
  • Salt

Shallots

  • 1 shallot thinly sliced crosswise

Yellow beets

  • 1 yellow beet sliced paper thin using a mandoline
  • 5 g yuzu juice
  • 5 g freshly squeezed lemon juice

Assembly

  • 1 Lebanese cucumber
  • Cherry tomatoes sliced
  • Breakfast radish thinly sliced
  • Feta cheese cut into 3/8-inch cubes
  • Calendula petals
  • Corn flowers
  • Cucumber flowers
  • Dill flowers
  • Micro garden radishes leaves attached
  • Nasturtium leaves
  • Small Swiss chard leaves
  • Sprigs of fennel fronds
  • Sprigs of wood sorrel
  • Purple basil

Instructions

Lemon confit

  • Bring a small saucepan of water to a boil over high heat. Add lemon peels and boil for 1 minute, then drain.
  • Repeat process twice with a pan of fresh boiling water each time. Pat peels dry with paper towels.
  • Set a large stainless-steel bowl securely on top of an overturned Styrofoam container (to protect the work surface). Put on thermal-insulated gloves and goggles. Fill the bowl halfway with liquid nitrogen and add peels. Keep immersed for 10 seconds or until frozen.
  • Using a metal slotted spoon, transfer peels to a Thermomix and grind at speed 9 for 15 seconds to coarsely chop. (Do not grind to a powder.)
  • Transfer chopped peels to a saucepan and add strained lemon juice, sugar, and salt. Simmer over medium-low heat for 30 minutes or until reduced by half. Store mixture in an airtight container in the refrigerator. (It will turn syrupy.)

Beet purée

  • Bring a saucepan of water to a simmer over medium-low heat.
  • Put beets into a vacuum bag, add 1 tablespoon water, and seal the bag at full pressure. Cook beets in the water bath for 30 minutes or until just cooked through.
  • Transfer beets to a Vita-Prep, add 1 piece of butter, and blend until butter has melted. Repeat until all butter has been used. Season with salt.

Shallots

  • Put shallots in a bowl of ice water and let sit for 20 minutes. Drain.

Yellow beets

  • Using a 1-inch ring cutter, cut beets into disks.
  • Transfer to a bowl, add yuzu and lemon juices, and toss well. Set aside.

Assembly

  • Using a vegetable peeler, shave cucumber lengthwise into ribbons. Roll up ribbons tightly like scrolls. Cut each in half crosswise and set cut side down, with peel facing upward.
  • Using a spoon, flick beet purée all over each plate.
  • Randomly dab 1 teaspoon lemon confit all over.
  • Arrange 3 yellow beet disks and 8 slices of cherry tomato on the plate. Add 2 to 3 pieces of shallots, cucumbers, and remaining garnishes to decorate each plate, avoiding any overlap. Serve.