
Octopus with black garlic and corn
This dish with crispy octopus and black garlic has a Japanese touch thanks to the aspic based on kombu dashi.Ingredients
1units.itemsoctopus
1lKombu dashi
5Kombu dashi
4units.itemsgelatin sheet
10gagar +
cooked corn kernels
Salt
Spring onion
baby corn
black garlic puree
fried octopus
chickpea and corn pépites
aspic of dashi and corn
Olive oil
Preparation
- Octopus: Cut the tentacles from the octopus.
- Place the tentacles together with the kombu dashi in a vacuum bag and cook sous-vide for 14 hours at 71°C.
- Fry the octopus tentacles in a pan until nice and crispy.
- Deglaze the pan with a little of the octopus liquid left over from the sous-vide cooking.
- Put the cold kombu dashi in a small pan.
- Stir the agar+ into the kombu dashi and heat to 80°C.
- Remove from the heat and stir in the soaked gelatin.
- Place a piece of shrink wrap on a flat tray.
- Dip a ring cutter into the kombu dashi and then place it on the tray with the shrink wrap.
- Spread a layer of corn kernels inside and chill.
- Spoon the kombu dashi into the mold over the corn when it is just starting to set and chill again.
- Blanch the baby corn in salted water.
- Drizzle with olive oil and finish with a blowtorch.
- Cut the spring onion into pieces and fry in olive oil.
- Season with salt.
- Use a brush to make a streak of black garlic puree on the plate.
- Place the fried octopus in the center.
- Place the aspic of kombu dashi and corn next to the octopus.
- Blanch the chickpea and corn pépites and place on the plate.
- Finally, place the fried spring onion and baby corn between the octopus.




