
Crab and Watermelon
Challenging. Serves 4, 60 minutes.
🍳 Cook: 60 min
Ingredients
| 200 g | white crab meat | |
| 50 g | mayonnaise | |
| — | salt | |
| — | pepper | |
| 10 g | chives | |
| 1 | small ripe melon (watermelon) | |
| 2 | cucumbers, juiced | |
| 2 g | gellan gum type F | |
| 1 g | gellan LT100 | |
| 1 tbsp | 15 ml | cider vinegar |
| 1 tsp | 5 ml | sugar |
| 400 ml | chicken stock | |
| 4 g | gellan gum type F (lovage gel) | |
| 1 g | gellan LT100 (lovage gel) | |
| 1 handful | fresh lovage | |
| 1 drop | green food colouring | |
| 1 handful | edible flower |
Instructions
- Infuse the lovage with the stock and simmer over a medium heat. Pass through a sieve and add a touch of green food colouring.
- Place the stock in Thermomix and bring to 100°C, add the gellans at speed 4 and mix at 95°C for a further 2 minutes. Pour onto a flat metal tray to cover a thickness of about 1mm.
- Leave to cool. Once cool, cut into squares of approximately 10cm.
- For the watermelon, peel and trim the fruit and slice into pieces approximately 1cm thick, choosing the best pip free areas. Cut into rectangles approximately 4 x 7cm.
- Put the pieces in a vac pac bag and vacuum. Then release from the bags; this compresses the juices and makes the watermelon transparent but bright red.
- For the crab, use fresh white crab meat. Check for shells and cartilage. Add the mayonnaise to bind, then add the seasoning and chives.
- For the cucumber ketchup, bring the cucumber juice up to 100°C in the Thermomix. Add the gellans and blend for a further 2 minutes.
- Pour into a deep bowl. As it cools, use a stick blender to break up the setting gel. Continue this until the gel is cold and fluid.
- Add the vinegar and sugar whilst still blending. Pass through a fine sieve; you should have a thick fluid gel. Spoon into a piping bag.
- To serve, place the watermelon on the plate. Fill the lovage gel with the crab mix and roll over, ensuring it is tightly wrapped.
- Place on top of the watermelon, garnish with flowers.
- Pipe dots of cucumber ketchup and serve.
From http://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/crab-and-watermelon-recipe