Chicken liver parfait
- Season the chicken livers with the soy sauce, place in a sous vide bag and cook at 65 degrees c for 20 minutes.
- Hydrate the gelatine in ice cold water.
- Bring the chicken stock to a simmer.
- Add the gelatine, remove from the stove and cool a little.
- Add the cooked chicken livers.
- Blend until smooth.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Pass through a chinoise.
- Whisk into liquid nitrogen and store in the freezer.
For the apricot puree and the pickled cranberries
- Bring white wine vinegar, water and sugar to the boil
- Pour the pickling juice over the cranberries to cover and leave to hydrate.
- Pour the remainder of the pickling juice over the apricots and gently cook until soft.
- Transfer to a blender and blend until smooth.
- Season with a little salt and citric acid if needed.
- Pass through a chinoise, cool and transfer to bottles or piping bags.
Shallots
- Finely brunoise 2 shallots and cover with white wine.
- Gently cook until the wine has evaporated.
Granola
- Mix the maple syrup with the sunflower oil and the porridge oats.
- Season with a little salt and leave to hydrate for 30 minutes.
- Bake at 160 degrees c until golden brown.
Fine beans
- Cook the beans for 3-4 minutes in salted boiling water.
Vinaigrette
- Make a simple vinaigrette with olive oil, white wine vinegar, lemon juice and salt.
Chicken skin
- Remove the layer of fat from the skin
- Blowtorch to remove any stray hairs etc
- Season with fine salt
- Bake at 160 degrees c until golden brown and crispy
- Place onto kitchen paper
- Chop and mix into the cooked porridge oats
Banyuls syrup
- Bring to the boil and reduce to a syrup.
- Place in a squeezy bottle and reserve until needed.
To plate
- Chop the fine beans and season with the shallots and vinaigrette.
- Place the puree in the bottom of a bowl.
- Add a few pickled cranberries.
- Add the fine bean salad.
- Spoon over the chicken liver parfait.
- Scatter over the granola.
- Add a few drops of banyuls syrup and serve.