This beautiful non-alcoholic drink from James Knappett is made with two different pink peppercorn infusions: one is made in a sous vide and the other is foamed up in a cream whipper. The blood orange juice gives it a beautiful deep red colour which contrasts with the pale pink foam.
Juice and zest the blood oranges, straining the any solids from the juice
Mix together 300ml of blood orange juice with the sugar, citric acid and malic acid
Stir until all the solids have dissolved and store in the fridge
For the sous vide infusion, coarsely crush the pink peppercorns and coriander seeds in a mortar
Pour 400ml of water into the vacuum pack bag along with the crushed pink peppercorns and coriander seeds, Sichuan peppercorns, sugar and blood orange zest
Fully vacuum seal and cook in a water bath for 1 hour at 90°C
Strain all the solids and store in the fridge
Chill four coupette glasses
For the quick infusion, coarsely crush the pink peppercorns and coriander seeds in a mortar
Add the Sichuan peppercorns, crushed coriander seeds and crushed pink peppercorns into the ISI Cream Syphon with 300ml water
Charge with one N2O charge and shake for 1 minute, then let it rest for one minute, and add a second N20 Charge and shake for another minute
After that, let it rest for one minute and rapidly depressurise the syphon
Strain all the solids and store in the fridge
Mix 150ml of the pink peppercorn sous vide infusion with 100ml of pink peppercorn quick infusion
Give it a stir and store in the fridge
In a shaker mix together 75ml of pink peppercorn mixer, 30ml of blood orange cordial and 5 drops of Ms. Betters Bitters Miraculous Foamer. Shake with ice and strain into a chilled coupette glass
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