Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, tapa mediterraneo. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Tapa Mediterraneo is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Tapa Mediterraneo is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have tapa mediterraneo using 46 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Tapa Mediterraneo:
Get For the pickled veg:
Get 30 g shallot, sliced thin
Make ready 30 g garlic, sliced thin
Take 100 g water
Get 100 g sugar
Make ready 200 g champagne vinegar, or white wine vinegar
Make ready 10 g coriander seed in a sachet
Prepare 10 g peppercorn in a sachet
Get 10 g basil in a sachet
Prepare 5 g thyme in a sachet
Get For the pepper curls
Take 2 ea fresno chili peppers as needed
Prepare ice water
Make ready Saffron rice chip
Make ready 300 g white rice, arborio or bomba preferred
Get 450 g water
Take 30 g saffron
Take 10 g salt
Make ready Separately, for the end: As needed boiling water
Prepare Mussel escabeche
Get 1 lb mussels, cleaned and de-bearded
Take 100 g white wine for steaming
Prepare Scallop sofrito
Get 500 g scallop trim, fresh sweet scallops are best
Prepare 50 g shallots sliced thin
Make ready 50 g garlic, sliced thin
Prepare 50 g extra virgin olive oil from Spain
Prepare As needed salt
Make ready Escabeche brine
Get Set 1:
Get 650 g water
Take 170 g sugar
Prepare 125 g champagne or white wine vinegar
Take 75 g fennel, sliced thinly
Prepare 75 g onion, sliced thinly
Prepare 15 g parsley stems
Prepare 5 g thai chili
Prepare 10 g orange zest
Take 5 g salt
Get Set 2:
Make ready 19 g garlic, chopped thin
Take 1 g saffron
Get 70 g lemon, sliced thin
Get 30 g salt
Get 5 g fennel sliced thin
Get As needed, extra virgin olive oil from Spain
Steps to make Tapa Mediterraneo:
Pickled vegetables, and red pepper curls: For the sachet, wrap all ingredients in cheesecloth and tie with twine
Heat the water, sugar, and vinegar to a boil and then pour over the rest of the ingredients. Store overnight. Then separate the sachet and discard. Reserve the pickles for service.
Cut the peppers in half length wise, and de-seed. With skin side down, trim the peppers by shaving off as much of the pepper as possible from the seed side/inside. Discarding all the ‘juicy’ part, and leaving a thin, mostly skin pepper. Slice the peppers very thin, as thin as possible. Place them in ice water and allow to chill for one hour. They should curl very tightly into nice shapes. Reserve for service, as garnish.
Saffron rice chip: Rinse the rice, and then bring to a boil in the measured amount of water. Reduce to medium heat then cook in a pot with the saffron and salt, covered for 30 minutes or until fully tender.
Transfer in small batches to a vitamix or high speed blender, a thermomix would work very well. Add a small amount of boiling water just enough to help the rice mix, and blend on high for 3 minutes each batch, until the rice is fully smooth and pureed. Transfer all the finished rice puree to a non-stick sautee pan.
Cook on low heat for 20-30 minutes, stirring frequently with a rubber spatula until very thick and dry. Do not allow it to get on the edges of the pan or it will dry and you will get solids in your rice puree. Once you have thickened the puree, spread on to a silpat or silicone mat. Acetate paper would work as well. Then dehydrate in an oven or commercial dehydrator at 120 degrees Fahrenheit for 2-3 hours, until fully dry and crispy. Fry at 350 degrees F until puffed and crispy, then dry on a p
Scallop sofrito: Sweat garlic and shallots in the olive oil from Spain, then add the scallop trim. Cook on low heat, slowly caramelizing. Cook for 8 hours, on a diffuser or very low heat, adding water as necessary to ensure it doesn’t burn but just slowly caramelizes. Once it is dark, and rich in flavor and color, puree completely smooth in a vitamix blender. Once smooth, pop the air out of the puree in a cryovac machine.
Transfer to a squeeze bottle or piping bag. Fill all your cleaned, brined mussels escabeche with the sofrito and reserve
Mussel escabeche: Steam the mussels.
Heat wine to a boil, then add cleaned mussels into the pot and cover with a lid. Cook until all mussels are cooked and opened fully. Drain into a perforated pan and cool in the refrigerator. Once cool, open the mussels and trim all of the gills and excess anatomy out to make room for the sofrito filling.
Escabeche brine: For preparation, add all ingredients of set 1 to a container, other than the water. Separately heat the water to a full boil and pour over the ingredients of set 1 and let it steep tasting frequently for about 5 minutes, making sure it doesn’t get too spicy. Then strain through a fine mesh sieve.
Pour the liquid from set 1, previously steeped, over the ingredients of set 2 and let steep in the refrigerator overnight. Then take this liquid and pour over your cleaned, shucked, steamed mussels. Then topping with Spanish extra virgin olive oil to cover, and reserve in the refrigerator overnight to marinade.
Building the tapa, and cilantro leaf garnish: As needed cilantro leaves, the small, perfect leaves, picked from the bunch.
To build the tapa, have all ingredients from the included recipes completed to perfection and ready for service.
Start with the saffron chip, as your base. Next add your mussels escabeche, that are stuffed with the scallop sofrito. About two per tapa are good, depending on size.
Then, add your pickled shallots and garlic, in a ratio of about 2 shallot and 1 garlic per mussel, depending on size. Next garnish with your beautiful red fresno pepper curls. Finally garnish with the fresh cilantro leaves, adding a beautiful green to our tapa. Serve on a bowl or dish of your choosing, I recommend something with a rice or grain as the base to help stabilize the tapa.
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