Ingredients

  • 12 x large scallops
  • Celeriac puree
  • Seaweed butter sauce
  • Basil oil
  • Saffron strands
  • Pepper dolce seaweed
  • Nori seaweed powder
  • Chopped chives
  • Lemon
  • Olive oil
  • Unsalted butter
  • Wood sorrels
  • Exmoor Caviar (Optional)
Celeriac puree
  • 250g x celeriac chopped
  • 25ml x milk
  • 25ml x cream
  • Salt & pepper
Sweet butter sauce
  • 25g Butter
  • 50g Sliced shallots
  • 150g Sliced button mushrooms
  • 100ml Noilly prat
  • 200ml Fish stock
To finish
  • Double cream
  • 150gr Unsalted butter
  • Pepper dolce seaweed finely chopped
  • Nori seaweed powder
  • Chopped chives
Basil oil
  • 20g Basil
  • 200g Extra virgin olive oil

Method

  1. Celeriac puree; Place all ingredients in a C.V cook bag. Cook for 10 -15 minutes until soft. Remove from bag into vita prep and blitz for 5 minutes. Pass through a fine sieve and place into a plastic bottle reserve for later.
  2. Basil oil; place the basil into the olive oil and heat until 80˚C, pour into a blender and blend for 4 minutes, remove and pass the oil through damp muslin cloth, chill over ice, reserve for later use. 
  3. Seaweed sauce; Sweet the sliced shallots in the butter until transparent and soft, but no colour.
  4. Add now the sliced button mushrooms and sweet for a further 2 minutes until slippery in look.
  5. Now add the Noilly prat and reduce by half, add the fish stock and reduce to 2/3.
  6. To finish the sauce; add a dash of cream and monte au beurre, season with salt and pepper and a dash of lemon juice. Pass through a fines sieve.
  7. Now add a pinch of saffron, chopped pepper, dolce seaweed, pinch of nori powder and leave to infuse for a couple of minutes. Season with salt, pepper and a dash of lemon juice.
  8. Scallops; season the scallops with salt and white pepper. In a non stick frying pan, heat and add some olive oil, place the scallops into the pan, now add a knob of butter and leave to caramelise until golden brown.
  9. Turn over and repeat on the other side, add a squeeze of lemon juice and remove from the pan and place onto a tray. Top each scallop with some celeriac puree or caviar (optional) the dress with wood sorrels

To dress; place 3 dots of celeriac puree on the plate, not place on top a scallop on each. Sauce in between and then finish with the basil oil.

Ingredients

  • 12 x large scallops
  • Celeriac puree
  • Seaweed butter sauce
  • Basil oil
  • Saffron strands
  • Pepper dolce seaweed
  • Nori seaweed powder
  • Chopped chives
  • Lemon
  • Olive oil
  • Unsalted butter
  • Wood sorrels
  • Exmoor Caviar (Optional)
Celeriac puree
  • 250g x celeriac chopped
  • 25ml x milk
  • 25ml x cream
  • Salt & pepper
Sweet butter sauce
  • 25g Butter
  • 50g Sliced shallots
  • 150g Sliced button mushrooms
  • 100ml Noilly prat
  • 200ml Fish stock
To finish
  • Double cream
  • 150gr Unsalted butter
  • Pepper dolce seaweed finely chopped
  • Nori seaweed powder
  • Chopped chives
Basil oil
  • 20g Basil
  • 200g Extra virgin olive oil

Method

  1. Celeriac puree; Place all ingredients in a C.V cook bag. Cook for 10 -15 minutes until soft. Remove from bag into vita prep and blitz for 5 minutes. Pass through a fine sieve and place into a plastic bottle reserve for later.
  2. Basil oil; place the basil into the olive oil and heat until 80˚C, pour into a blender and blend for 4 minutes, remove and pass the oil through damp muslin cloth, chill over ice, reserve for later use. 
  3. Seaweed sauce; Sweet the sliced shallots in the butter until transparent and soft, but no colour.
  4. Add now the sliced button mushrooms and sweet for a further 2 minutes until slippery in look.
  5. Now add the Noilly prat and reduce by half, add the fish stock and reduce to 2/3.
  6. To finish the sauce; add a dash of cream and monte au beurre, season with salt and pepper and a dash of lemon juice. Pass through a fines sieve.
  7. Now add a pinch of saffron, chopped pepper, dolce seaweed, pinch of nori powder and leave to infuse for a couple of minutes. Season with salt, pepper and a dash of lemon juice.
  8. Scallops; season the scallops with salt and white pepper. In a non stick frying pan, heat and add some olive oil, place the scallops into the pan, now add a knob of butter and leave to caramelise until golden brown.
  9. Turn over and repeat on the other side, add a squeeze of lemon juice and remove from the pan and place onto a tray. Top each scallop with some celeriac puree or caviar (optional) the dress with wood sorrels

To dress; place 3 dots of celeriac puree on the plate, not place on top a scallop on each. Sauce in between and then finish with the basil oil.