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How to make easy Grilled turbot & stuffed zucchini flowers recipe

From starred restaurant tables to embassies, the chef of the Berceau des Sens, Cédric Bourassin, has acquired a unique expertise that he shares with students and clients in our Michelin Star gastronomic restaurant.


Today we share one of these recipes published on the Gault & Millau website:

Ingredients

  • 4 kg Wild raw turbot or 1.5kg of fillets

Tomato crust

  • 130g hazelnut butter

  • 90gr fried bread

  • 60g tomato "rob" puree

  • 2g fleur de sel

Fennel purée

  • 3kg fennel

  • 2 pieces candied orange

  • Thyme and olive oil

Courgette flower stuffing

  • 30g shallots

  • 20g chives

  • 50g diced raw ham

  • 30g soaked bread

  • 32g cream

  • 6 pieces of langoustine tails cut into cubes

  • Reduced vinegar

  • Espelette chilli pepper




Courgette pickles

  • 200g sugar

  • 200g water

  • 100g Xeres vinegar

  • 100g rice vinegar

  • 10g ginger powder

  • 10g coriander seed

  • 2 star anise

  • 2 cloves

  • 2 orange and lemon zest

Trimmings

  • 2 pieces zucchini 12cm

  • 10 mini courgettes

  • 10 pieces courgette flowers

Decorative elements

  • 30 Thai basil heads

  • 30 "common" basil buds

  • 30 purple basil buds

Preparation

FLOWER STUFFING

  • Soak the bread in milk and add all the ingredients.

  • Stuff the flowers and cook them for 3 minutes at 80°c in a steam oven.

TURBOT

  • Grill the fillets and cook them in butter in a frying pan.

TOMATO CRUST

  • Mix all the ingredients, spread flat between 2 cooking sheets and cut into rectangles the size of the fish.

PUREE

  • Cut the fennel and wash well.

  • Rinse the candied oranges well and cut them into 8ths.

  • Cook togther in aluminium foil (papillote) with olive oil, thyme, pepper and salt for 2 hours at 140°C and then mix well.

PICKLES

  • Cut the mini courgettes into bevelled sections.

  • Mix all the ingredients of the marinade and heat to melt.

  • At each serving, marinade the sections of mini courgettes in this mixture for 3 hours.

COURGETTES

  • Cut the courgettes into strips and blanch them.

  • Cool them quickly.

  • Roll them as in the picture.

Picture & content: Gault & Millau

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