
Leg of hare bonbon with beetroot and coffee
A leg of hare crème dipped in a beetroot and coffee jelly. Creation by Thijs Punte, De Swarte Ruijter restaurant, Holten, the Netherlands.
Ingredients
| 1500 g | leg of hare |
| 10 g | vadouvan |
| 1100 g | butter |
| 200 g | medium sherry |
| 750 ml | game stock |
| 170 g | shallots |
| 6 cloves | garlic |
| 100 g | whipping cream |
| 50 g | Procrema |
| 10 | beetroot |
| 100 g | coffee beans |
| 2 g | Kappa |
Instructions
Preparation method:
- Place the garlic, shallots, and vadouvan in a hot pan with a little olive oil.
- Add the legs of hare and fry together with the vegetables until seared.
- Deglaze the pan with the sherry and add enough game stock to cover the hare. Braise the hare until done.
- Leave to cool and remove the flesh from the bone.
- Blend the meat and butter together in a blender until smooth.
- Freeze 400g of this mixture in a Pacojet cup.
- Churn the mixture three times.
- Place the mixture in a pot and add the whipping cream and the Procrema.
- Churn once more with the blade of the Pacojet.
- Pipe the mixture in a Flexipan spherical mould and freeze.
- Run the beetroot through the juicer and pull vacuum the juice with the coffee beans.
- Allow to infuse in a hot water bath at 90°C for two hours.
- Bring 250g of this juice to the boil together with the Kappa.
- Use a toothpick to dip the balls in the jelly.
- Remove the toothpicks using a twisting movement and allow to defrost before serving.
Serving suggestions:
- Can be served slightly warm or at room temperature.
- Serve as an amuse-bouche with a celeriac crème.
- As a side dish for a main course with several preparations of hare.