Sous vide grouse with beetroot
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- 4
- 50 minutes
This sous vide grouse recipe from Adam Stokes is a remarkable symphony of flavours, combining the excellent flavour of game with sweet beetroot and beautiful spring onions. Because the beetroot and the grouse are cooked in a water bath, this recipe requires some preparation.
First published in 2015
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Ingredients
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Grouse
- 4 grouse
- 1 sprig of fresh thyme
- 1 knob of butter
- 1 pinch of salt
- olive oil
- 1 garlic clove
Beetroot water
- 100ml of water
- 40g of honey
- 30ml of Chardonnay vinegar
- 2 star anise
- 1 cardamom pod
- 1 pinch of salt
Beetroot and vegetables
- 1 red beetroot
- 4 golden beetroots
- 4 young garden turnips
- 20ml of grapeseed oil
- 1 pinch of salt
Grouse sauce
- 100ml of red wine
- 60ml of port
- 60ml of veal glace
- 50ml of chicken stock
- 50g of shallots, chopped
- 30ml of red wine vinegar
- 15ml of cream
- 1 punnet of blackberries, fresh
- 1 juniper berry
- 1/4 lemon, juiced
- salt
Spring onion milk froth
- 8 spring onions
- 200ml of whole milk
- 2g of lecithin
- 1 pinch of salt
To garnish
- 8 cobnuts
- 12 girolles
- 1 knob of butter
- 1 sprig of thyme
- 1 garlic clove
- 12 brambles of wood sorrel
SAVE RECIPE
Equipment
- Blender
- Water bath
Method
1
Mix all ingredients from the beetroot water list together in a jug. Thoroughly wash the baby golden beetroots and put them into a vacuum packing bag with half of the beetroot water
- 4 golden beetroots
- 100ml of water
- 40g of honey
- 30ml of Chardonnay vinegar
- 2 star anise
- 1 cardamom pod
- 1 pinch of salt
2
Place the sealed bag into a water bath at 85°C for 3 hours. After 3 hours, remove from the bath and open the top of the bag, being careful not to discard any of the beetroot water
3
Peel and quarter the golden beetroot and return them to the bag. The bag can be refrigerated and then the contents can be warmed through in the unsealed bag when ready to serve
4
Peel the red beetroot and keep the trimmings to one side. Using a Japanese Mandolin, slice the beetroot into 1mm cross sectional slices
5
Place the remaining half of the beetroot water and the beetroot trimmings in a pan, bring to the boil and simmer until the liquor turns red
6
Remove the trimmings. Place the slices along with enough liquor to cover into a vacuum bag, seal and place in a water bath at 90°C for 40 minutes
7
Cool in the bag and reheat in the water bath when ready to plate the soused beetroot slices
8
Meanwhile, prepare the grouses and roast the neck and legs of each in a pan over a medium heat in a little oil for approximately 10 minutes or until golden brown - place these to one side for use in the grouse sauce
- 4 grouse
- olive oil
9
The remaining part of the grouse is referred to as the crown. Seal the crown in a vacuum
packing bag with a pinch of salt, butter, thyme and garlic. Place in the water bath for one hour at 57°C
- 1 sprig of fresh thyme
- 1 knob of butter
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 garlic clove
10
Remove the grouse crowns from the bag, seal the crown skin until nicely roasted and crisp
11
Thoroughly wash the young garden turnips and using a small knife, scrape the edges around
the leaves to remove all soil. Once again, use a Japanese mandolin to cut each turnip vertically into
three
12
Sauté the turnip slices in grapeseed oil until golden and season with salt
- 20ml of grapeseed oil
13
Sweat the shallots and juniper in the bottom of a big pan until golden. Deglaze the pan with red wine vinegar
- 50g of shallots
- 1 juniper berry
- 30ml of red wine vinegar
14
Add the port, veal glace, chicken stock, cream, lemon and blackberries and bring to the
boil. Continue to boil the mixture until the liquid is reduced by half
- 60ml of port
- 60ml of veal glace
- 50ml of chicken stock
- 15ml of cream
- 1/4 lemon
- 1 punnet of blackberries
15
Add the roasted grouse bones used earlier in the recipe and infuse for 20 minutes. Strain and add salt to taste
16
Wash and roughly chop the spring onions, place in a pan with the whole milk and bring to the boil
- 8 spring onions
- 200ml of whole milk
17
Simmer for 5 minutes and cool in a bowl over ice. Blitz and pass the mixture, add the lecithin and salt to taste
- 2g of lecithin
- 1 pinch of salt
18
Refrigerate and when ready to serve froth with a hand processor so a foam appears on top of the
milk
19
Peel the girolles and blanch in an emulsion of garlic, thyme, butter and water. Use the bottom of a heavy saucepan to crack the cobnut shell. Peel off the nut membrane and cut the nut in two
- 12 girolles
- 1 knob of butter
- 1 sprig of thyme
- 1 garlic clove
20
Warm the grouse sauce and coat each bramble in the sauce before assembling on the plate with the grouse crowns. Finish the dish with wood sorrel and the foam from the top of the spring onion milk
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