Seafood » Oysters Escabeche
Ingredients
For the Oysters
- 12 oysters
- ½ cup Brut Cava dry sparkling wine
- ½ cup cava vinegar
- ½ cup grapeseed oil
- ½ oz rooibus tea with bergamot
- sea salt to taste
Tabasco Emulsion
- 1 large egg or 2 small eggs
- 1 cup canola oil
- 1 lemon, juiced
- pinch of saffron
- ¼ cup dry white wine
- 1 garlic clove, halved
- 2 tbsp water
- kosher salt to taste
- Tabasco sauce to taste
Garnish
- sliced chives
- cracked grains of paradise
- esplette chili
- herb flowers (arugula, chive, nasturtium, kale, borage, or Sicily)
How-to
Prepare Oysters & Make Escabeche liquid
- Shuck oysters into a bowl over ice and allow them to sit for 20 minutes, reserve shells
- Lift the oysters out, remove adductor muscle, strain the oyster liquid over the oysters. Repeat 3 times waiting 20 minutes in between strains to clean any dirt or shell pieces. Place into a 2 quart plastic container
- In a small sauce pot add cava vinegar, cava wine, and grapeseed oil. Bring to a simmer. Add the tea, and remove from the heat. Allow the liquid to steep with the tea for 10 minutes
- Strain the liquid over the oysters. Let cool. Store in the liquid overnight in the refrigerator
Make Wine Reduction, Poach Eggs & Prepare Aioli
- Put garlic and dry white wine, and grains of paradise into a pot. Heat and reduce by half
- While reducing, poach the egg(s) for 3 minutes, remove from water and put into a blender
- Add the wine reduction and a little sea salt and blend on medium speed for 1 minute while adding some of the oil in a thin stream
- Add saffron, tabasco, and lemon, then add the remainder of the oil while blending. Keep warm
To Plate
- Either use wet salt or ice on the plates to hold the shells. Place 3 shells per person on a plate. Put 1 oyster in each shell
- Put a small amount of the escabeche liquid in with the oysters. Top with some saffron emulsion, chives, grains of paradise, esplette, fried garlic, sea salt and/or lovage
- Garnish each one with a different flower, of mix of flowers
Jamie Bissonnette
As Executive Chef of Toro, Jamie Bissonnette collaborates with acclaimed Chef/owner Ken Oringer, on a truly authentic Barcelona inspired tapas menu. The Improper Bostonian named Bissonnette “Rising Star Chef” and KO Prime “Best New Restaurant” in 2007. An early bloomer in the kitchen, Bissonnette gravitated towards The Discovery Channel’s cooking shows rather than cartoons. By the age of 19, he had already earned his Culinary Arts degree from The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and he spent his early 20s “eating and working” in Paris, San Francisco, New York and Phoenix. These experiences fed his culinary drive and are conveyed in Bissonnette’s menus everyday. At Toro he enjoys creating unique charcuteries and unparalleled Spanish cuisine. When not in the kitchen, Bissonnette enjoys spending time with his wife Courtney.
Toro
Oysters and their luscious liquor are treated to a tea-infused marinade. A warm saffron sauce and colorful edible flowers make for a gorgeous presentation. In an exercise in culinary creativity, Chef Jamie Bissonnette of Toro creates a masterpiece.
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