
Fertility of the season
Macédoine of mushrooms, apple and pear, vegetable jus and glazed vegetables.Jonathan Zandbergen Restaurant Merlet*Ingredients
20gFleur de sel
750gporcini mushrooms
100gButter
25mlPicudo olive oil
5units.itemswhite pearl onions
250gpeeled Elstar apple
150gpeeled pear
5g1001 night spices
250gchestnuts
5gFennel seed
250gFennel
fennel seeds
Lemon oil
Fleur de sel
pumpkin purée
variety of seasonal vegetables
Red chicory
orange sweet potato
0.5fenugreek
2Turmeric
4ground ginger powder
1chamomile
2Cinnamon powder
2espelette pepper
3Ground cumin
1Sumac
0.5hibiscus
2roses
3units.itemsCinnamon stick
10units.itemsBay leaf
2Coriander seed
2Allspice
1Clove
3Crushed black pepper
0.5cardamom
Preparation
- Cut everything into a fine brunoise of 4 mm.
- Sauté the onion and fennel in the oil, add salt, and let stew for 10 minutes.
- Then add the rest of the ingredients and let stew for another 20 minutes (covered with a cartouche).
- For the 1001 nights spices, see step 5.
- Use a variety of vegetables such as: red beet, chioggia beet, yellow beet, celeriac, black radish, carrot. You can also vary with these.
- Cut the vegetables into slices of 2 mm and cut out with a 3 cm cutter.
- Halve the slices and glaze all the vegetable slices separately with broth and butter. Season well.
- Layer them alternately, overlapping like roof tiles. Freeze the tray and cut out large slices of 9 cm. Store in the freezer.
- Make a broth from all the vegetable trimmings. Do not use red beet and use a maximum of 5% chioggia beet.
- Season the broth with chardonnay vinegar and thicken with xantana.
- Braise the vegetables and place them in the center of a deep plate using a ring mold.
- Place the vegetable slices on top and let them thaw under the pass.
- Brush with lemon oil, sprinkle a few fennel seeds and fleur de sel on top, and pour some vegetable jus around.
- Cut the vegetables into equal pieces of about 3 cm (bite size) and glaze them separately.
- Fry thin slices of sweet potato into chips.
- Cut the red chicory into pennants and marinate with oil and salt.
- Build the dish by starting with a quenelle of pumpkin puree in the center of the plate. Arrange the vegetables around it.
- Mix the spices into a spice blend.



