Hot smoked artichoke with sour apple, celeriac and salted gooseberry

  • medium
  • 4
  • 3 hours plus 1 week for fermenting gooseberries
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This intricate smoked artichoke dish from Kirk Haworth is served with a simple sour apple purée, creamy celeriac remoulade and two different types of wakame. It's dressed in a sticky and sweet dressing of seasn DARK bitters, maple syrup and apple balsamic vinegar.

First published in 2024

Ingredients

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Lacto-fermented gooseberries

Wakame sherbet

Dressed wakame

  • 1 tbsp of dried wakame, rehydrated in water
  • olive oil, for dressing

Sour apple purée

Celeriac remoulade

Vanilla mayonnaise

Roasted artichoke

Artichoke dressing

Garnish

Equipment

  • Smoker
  • Japanese turning slicer

Method

1

Mix the salt into the gooseberries and leave at room temperature for one week

2

Use a sharp knife to finely chop the fermented gooseberries, then set aside

3

Blend together all the ingredients for the wakame sherbert on full speed in a high-powered blender until you have a fine powder

4

Dress the rehydrated wakame with some olive oil, then set aside

  • 1 tbsp of dried wakame, rehydrated in water
  • olive oil, for dressing
5

For the sour apple purée, first peel and dice the apples

6

Add them to a pan with the apple juice and cook until soft

7

Blend the apple until super smooth, slowly drizzle in the olive oil, then add citric acid to taste

  • 25ml of olive oil
  • 1 pinch of citric acid
8

Pass the purée through a fine sieve and set aside

9

For the celeriac remoulade, first peel the celeriac. Use a rotating mandolin to peel a few layers of the celeriac into long strips, enough to garnish each artichoke. Cut these in half lengthways

10

Place the thin strips of celeriac on a steamer tray and steam for 2 minutes

11

Add the celeriac to a bowl with olive oil and pinch of salt, mix together then set aside

  • 100ml of olive oil
12

Add the chickpea brine to a blender, and then turn it up to medium speed. Add the apple vinegar then slowly start to pour the oil into the brine until it emulsifies into a mayonnaise. This will take most of the oil, but you might not need quite all of it

13

Add the rest of the ingredients and blend for a further minute

14

Check the seasoning and place in a container until needed

15

Preheat the oven to 180°C

16

Cut a thin piece off the bottom of each artichoke so that it sits upright. Use a sharp knife to score the artichoke in a criss-cross pattern

17

Place the artichokes in a bowl then add the olive oil and a good pinch of salt. Gently massage the oil and salt into the artichoke

  • 50g of olive oil
  • salt
18

Transfer the artichokes to a tray and bake for 40 minutes until crispy on the outside and soft in the inside

19

Smoke over hay for 10 minutes

  • hay, for smoking
20

Whisk together all the ingredients for the artichoke dressing with 10g chopped fermented gooseberries

21

Baste the artichokes in the dressing

22

For assembling this dish, mix the celeriac with some of the vanilla mayonnaise. Spoon some sour apple purée onto each plate, then add the artichoke and more gooseberries. Arrange over some of the dressed celeriac, then the rehydrated wakame. Grate over the fresh horseradish and then dust with wakame sherbert

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Kirk Haworth is Executive Chef at Plates in London, a plant-based restaurant in London which he runs with his sister Keeley Haworth. Kirk was the first plant-based chef to compete on Great British Menu (he was named series 19 Champion of Champions in 2024), and has previously worked at The French Laundry, Restaurant Sat Bains, The Square, The Quay and Northcote.

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