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Brick pastry, egg and cauliflower

Brick pastry, egg and cauliflower

4/11/24, 8:30 AM

In his recipe, Breton chef Romain Le Cordroch garnishes sheets of brick pastry with a cold-cooked egg, and a kiwi sorrel coulis with cauliflower.

This recipe from Romain Le Cordroch, chef at Bvañ restaurant in Vannes, is taken from the 2024 edition ofBook 109: The new blood of French gastronomy. Discover the ingredients and preparation steps to make it a breeze.

  • Serves 4
  • Preparation time: 45 min
  • Cooking time: 55 min
  • Freezing time: 12 h

Ingredients forbrick pastry, egg and cauliflower

For the brick pastrycompression

  • 3 sheets of brick pastry
  • 50 g hazelnut butter
  • Salt, freshly ground pepper

For the cold-cooked free-range eggs

  • 4 organic eggs
  • Flower of salt, freshly ground pepper

For the kiwi sorrel coulis

  • 3 green kiwis
  • 1 bunch sorrel
  • 1 bunch agastache
  • 10 cl lime juice
  • 7 cl olive oil

For the cauliflower texture

  • 1 large white cauliflower
  • 50 g lemon wakame
  • 50 g sea beans
  • 50 cl milk
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 20 cl fermented milk
  • 20 cl whipping cream
  • 5 cl fish sauce
  • 10 cl herb oil

For finishing and garnishing

  • A few grams of caviar (or other fish roe)
  • Aromatic shoots and flowers (lamier pourpre, oseille sauvage, achillée millefeuille, nombril de Vénus...)
  • olive oil
  • Salt, freshly ground pepper
  • Specific equipment
  • Steam oven (alternatively, conventional steam cooking )

Steps for brick pastry, egg and cauliflower

  1. Cold-cooked eggs (the day before): place the eggs in the freezer overnight. Defrost for about 3 h. Separate the yolks from the whites, keeping only the yolks. Season and chill.
  2. Compress brick pastry sheets: melt the beurre noisette and brush over the brick pastry sheets. Layer them on top of each other and cut out circles to fit the size of the fluted molds. Place the sheets glued with butter at the bottom of the mold, adding another mold on top to give them their shape. Bake for 10 min at 160°C until amber-colored. Remove from the moulds.
  3. Kiwi sorrel coulis: blend all ingredients in a blender, adjusting the seasoning. Reserve by pipette.
  4. Creamy cauliflower with fermented milk: cook half the cauliflower (reserve one head) in milk with the bay leaf and garlic. Blend with the fermented milk, cream and fish sauce.
  5. Cauliflower stew with seaweed: cook the remaining half of the cauliflower in a steamer (keep it slightly crunchy). Refresh and chop. Mix with chopped wakame and sea beans, herb oil, salt and pepper.
  6. Finishing touches: pour kiwi coulis over the bottom of the plate, top with a little cauliflower cream with fermented milk, then cauliflower stew. Place an egg yolk on top and season with a dash of olive oil. Top with grated raw cauliflower. Finally, arrange the caviar (or fish roe) and aromatic herbs.

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