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Chef Briffard recipe

Executive Chef and Culinary Arts Director - One of the Best Craftsmen in France

May 2019 – Le Cordon Bleu Paris Chefs have performed successively on the stages of the Taste of Paris 2019 festival, which took place from May 9 to 12 at the Grand Palais. Chef Briffard came to host a gourmet demonstration at the Théâtre Laurent-Perrier. He shares his recipe with you:

FREE-RANGE EGG AND GREEN ASPARAGUS WITH OVEN-DRIED TOMATOES, AGRIA POTATO GNOCCHI WITH LEMON, GOAT CHEESE CURDS, FRIED BLACK OLIVES

Ingredients

Serves 4

Perfect egg
4 organic free-range eggs

Asperges vertes étuvées à la tomate confite
20 green asparagus

1 garlic clove, chopped
1 pinch salt
100 ml mineral water
50 g butter
30 g oven-dried tomatoes cut into cubes
a few chives
20 g pitted black olives, sliced into rings
30 ml Saké – Minowamon Daishichi

Agria potato gnocchi with lemon
400 g Agria potatoes (200 g cooked flesh)
300 g coarse salt (to cook the potatoes)
30 g candied lemon, chopped
50 g flour
1 egg yolk
1 tbsp olive oil
fine sea salt

Fried black olives
20 pitted black olives
20 g cornstarch (corn flour)

Decoration
20 g baby rocket leaves
40 g farm goat cheese curds – La Ferme du Chatain
garlic flowers (optional)

Method

Perfect egg: Cook the eggs at 64°C in a steam oven for 1 hour. Carefully remove shells and keep warm.

Green asparagus: Remove ‘scales’ from the spear, make a small circular incision 6 cm away from the tip of the asparagus. Peel with a vegetable peeler and rinse. Trim spears to 12 to 14 cm long and set aside.

Agria potato gnocchi with lemon: Place washed potatoes on a bed of coarse salt. Bake in the oven heated to 180°C. Remove the skin, push the flesh through a fine sieve while hot (for 200 g pulp). Cool. Add the chopped candied lemon and flour, mix with a wooden spoon, add the egg yolk. Mix until combined and smooth; roll out to form regular rolls 1.5 to 2 cm in diameter. Cut into 6 to 8 g even pieces. Form small balls and shape on a gnocchi board.
Refrigerate. Cook in a large quantity of boiling salted water 2 to 3 minutes, drain and set aside.

Fried black olives: Combien the ingredients. Deep fry until lightly coloured, in the oil heated to 160°C. Drain.

Cook the asparagus: Sweat asparagus in the olive oil, garlic and salt. Add mineral water, bring to the boil, and cook for about 5 to 6 minutes. Remove the asparagus and keep warm. Increase heat and reduce the cooking liquid with the sake by half; whisk in the cold butter to form a liaison. Add oven-dried tomatoes cubes, chives and black olive slices. Check seasoning for salt and pepper.

To serve: Colour the gnocchi in a pan with olive oil. Arrange 4 asparagus per plate, place a shelled egg in the center, coat with cooking liquid, add a few gnocchi, baby salad leaves, goat cheese curds and fried black olives. Decorate with garlic flowers.

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