Seasonal salad of local produce
The Culinary Institute of America · 10 min video
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Ingredients
Method
Techniques
- plant-based mayonnaise
- saffron
Spread a base of saffron plant-based mayonnaise and set a pastry ring on it for structure and height.
Saffron mayonnaise base and the ring
- wild asparagus
- cucumbers
- French breakfast radish
- turnip
Start with the heavier ingredients: wild asparagus, then Thumbelina cucumber, diced breakfast radish and turnip matchsticks salted overnight.
- white asparagus
- radicchio
- white chicory
- tops of the raw beans
Add lacto-fermented white asparagus, fermented radicchio, and raw white chicory compressed in ice water to make it crisp; then the bean tops.
- smoked hazelnuts
- smoked rapeseed oil
- sherry vinegar
Add a light touch of dressing: lightly toasted smoked hazelnuts with smoked rapeseed oil and sherry vinegar. No salt, since the fermented elements season it.
- purple frills
- rocket
- kohlrabi
- fennel
- asparagus shoots
- red vein sorrel
- yarrow
- fig leaf
Add purple frills, rocket and kohlrabi, then fennel tops, asparagus shoots, red vein sorrel, a little yarrow and fig leaf.
Garden leaves and herbs
- chive
- nagella
Finish with chive and nigella flower petals, rocket and sage flower.
Flowers and finishing
- sage flower
Lift off the ring, tidy loose bits and finish with a little more hazelnut and smoked oil dressing.