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Fresh crab aspic with grapefruit mousse

Online Culinary School · 10 min video

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Ingredients
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Techniques
  • fresh crab
Break the crab leg meat into pieces; mix with chopped cilantro.
Picking the crab and making the crab salad
  • chopped cilantro
  • grapefruit juice
Boil the grapefruit juice in a saucepan and reduce it to a quarter cup.
Heat the fish stock in another saucepan and whisk in the agar-agar until totally dissolved.
  • fish stock
  • agar-agar
Fill clean verrines with the crab salad.
Season the stock, pour it into a jug and divide it among the verrines to cover the crab.
Refrigerate about an hour, until the aspic is firm.
Melting the mousse base over steam
  • gelatine
  • cream cheese
In a bowl over a pot of boiling water, mix the reduced grapefruit juice, gelatine and cream cheese until smooth and liquid.
  • lime juice
  • kefir or homogenized milk
  • creme fraiche
  • fresh cheese
Whisk in lime juice, kefir or milk if wanted, creme fraiche and fresh cheese until free of lumps; taste and add a pinch of salt, no pepper.
Lime, kefir, creme fraiche and fresh cheese
  • salt
Transfer to the siphon, close tightly, charge with a nitrous oxide cartridge, shake and refrigerate an hour.
  • avocado
Halve the avocado, twist, cut into wedges, peel, and cut half of each wedge into small triangles.
  • lemon juice
Shake the siphon again and fill the verrines over the set aspic; top with avocado, tossed or brushed with lemon juice if serving an hour later.
Filling the verrines
  • ½ tsp wasabi powder
  • cold water
Mix about half a teaspoon of wasabi powder with a dash of cold water; use only a trace.
A trace of wasabi