Serves 4
Ingredients
Roasted fennel
1 large fennel bulb
4 fennel roots
Fennel Juice
Fennel Leaves
Fennel oil
50g fennel stems
50g white onion puree
15g fresh fennel leaves
50g olive oil
Coal oil
100 incandescent charcoal (glowing)
100ml sunflower oil
Potato puree
200g Russet potato (roasted in the skins)
3 cloves garlic, pureed
25ml olive oil
25ml hot milk
Salt
Method
Roasted fennel bulb & roots
Roast the fennel bulb in the oven at180°c with olive oil, salt and sugar, wrapped in foil.Reserve and allow to cool.Roast fennel roots with olive oil, salt and sugar. Reserve and allow to cool.
Fennel oil
Blanch the stems and leaves, then blitz with puree and oil.Pass through a fine sieve and place in a squeezy bottle.
Potato puree
Remove the potato from the skins, pass through a drum sieve add the roast garlic, hot milk and beat until light and smooth, reserve.Add to a blender the incandescent charcoal and sunflower oil. Perfectly triturate without any sediments. Reserve until needed.
To Serve
Take the fennel bulb, trim and cut in half and half again.Reheat with the fennel root in a hot oven.In the centre of the plate spoon on the potato puree.Place on the fennel and root, dress with the fennel juice and coal oil and garnish with the fennel leaves.
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