Confit quail with morels and portobello, red cabbage jelly and foamy velouté
Confit quail with morels and portobello, topped with a red cabbage jelly and cream with star anise.Served with a foamy velouté and thyme oil.
Tip: this dish is delicious paired with a Pinot Grigio.
Ingredients
confit quail
15units.itemssoaked morels
15gShallots
30mlMadeira
10gButter
500mlchicken fond
150mlMalaga wine
0.5units.itemsLeek
0.5units.itemsGarlic clove
1units.itemsShallot
50gPancetta
0.5lchicken fond
100mlMilk
1units.itemsThyme sprig
100mlCream 35%
200gCeleriac
beurre noisette
Salt
milk powder (optional)
1units.itemsbunch thyme
500mlGrapeseed oil
400mlWater
Star anise
1units.itemspack of red cabbage
4gKappa
300gCream 35%
24gDashi
Salt
Portobello
Grapeseed oil
Preparation
- Warm the confit quail, reheating in sunflower oil at 70°C.
- Wash the morels according to the instructions on the package.
- Sauté the shallot and morels in the butter.
- Deglaze with the Malaga and Madeira wine.
- Add the chicken fond and let it reduce.
- Remove the morels and serve them separately.
- Reserve the jus.
- Finely chop the garlic and shallots and dice the celeriac.
- Sauté the garlic, leek, shallots, pancetta, thyme, and celeriac in the butter.
- Deglaze with the chicken stock and reduce.
- Add the cream and milk and let the mixture infuse.
- Blend everything until smooth and pass through a sieve.
- Finish with butter and foam with an immersion blender, optionally adding a little milk powder.
- Wash the thyme.
- Blanch the thyme and cool in ice water.
- Blend the thyme in a thermoblender with grapeseed oil at 70°C for 4 minutes.
- Let the oil stand in the fridge overnight and strain the next day with a fine sieve or cheesecloth.
- Heat the red cabbage with water and dashi.
- Heat the cream with star anise (to taste) in another pan.
- Blend the red cabbage, water, and dashi and strain through a sieve.
- Add 3 grams of kappa to the cream and 4 grams to the red cabbage.
- Stir well and pour onto a tray, cut out when set.
- Base: soft gel 2 grams per liter, hard gel up to 15 grams per liter. Use: dissolve cold in liquids, preferably thinner than yogurt consistency. Then bring to a boil while stirring. Kappa sets between 30°C and 60°C and melts between 70°C and 80°C.
- Clean the portobello.
- Place in a vacuum bag with the oil and salt to taste.
- Cook sous-vide for about 60 minutes at 62°C.








