Serves 4
INGREDIENTS
1lb Fresh
white Crab Meat
20g fresh
chopped chives
1 fresh beetroot (for carpaccio)
2tbsp Mayonnaise
8 Tiger
Prawns
Mixed Salad Leaves
Salt and Pepper
METHOD
Take the white Crab meat and pick through it
to make sure there is no shell in it. Mix the Mayonnaise, chopped chives in and
season to taste. Place in fridge till ready to use.
TO COOK THE BEETROOT
Wrap the fresh beetroot, with a little salt
in tin foil and cook in in the oven at 170c for 1 hour. Once cooked, take out
of oven and allow to cool. When cool, peel off the skin, slice very thinly and
using a 4cm cutter, cut rounds from the slices and place in fridge till ready
to use.
FOR THE APPLE JELLY
4 Granny
Smiths Apples (or 200ml good quality apple juice)
2 Leaves
Gelatine
1tsp Lemon
Juice
Salt & Pepper
METHODCore the apples and extract the
juice in a juicer. Squeeze the lemon juice into the extracted juice. Soak the
gelatin in ice cold water for 5 minutes. Warm 5 tablespoons of the apple juice, take the gelatine and
squeeze out any excess water then add gelatine to apple juice and allow to
dissolve, add the warm juice to the remaining juice and pass through a
strainer. Place in to a container and allow to set in fridge for at least two
hours.
FOR THE TEMPURA BATTER
200g Plain
Flour
1tbsp Baking
Powder
100g Corn
flour
200ml Sparkling
water
Salt & Pepper to taste
METHOD
Mix all the ingredients together and whisk
until smooth.
TO SERVE
On each of the 4 plates place the beetroot
rounds in the centre to form a flower pattern. Take a 6cm mould ring and place
the crab mixture about half-way up the ring, pushing the crab out to the sides
to create a well. Chop the jelly into small cubes and place in to the well,
then just top a little more crab over so that the jelly will be covered and in
the centre of the mix. Position the mould in the middle of the beetroot flower
and carefully lift of the ring.
Dip the prawns in the Tempura batter and fry at 180c in a deep
fat fryer for 2 minutes. Whilst these are cooking, dress the salad and arrange
on top of the crab. Arrange the cooked prawns on either side of the crab. Serve
