{"id":1203,"date":"2013-10-09T10:24:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T09:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ginnyang.com\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2013-11-25T22:06:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T22:06:28","slug":"white-gazpacho-martini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginnyang.com\/?p=1203","title":{"rendered":"White Gazpacho Martini"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course three of my tasting menu; a white gazpacho Martini with vanilla oil. \u00a0This recipe is borrowed from Hubert Keller, I saw him produce this as a dish on Top Chef Masters a year or two ago. \u00a0I like gazpacho, I did one for a picnic awhile ago and it went down really well. \u00a0Gazpacho is a summer dish so doing one in Autumn is a bit of a risk. \u00a0But rather than the typical chunky, summer tomato gazpacho I am doing a smooth white cucumber and grape gazpacho and that is in season! \u00a0Rather than thicken this gazpacho with bread (as is traditional) Hubert had the excellent idea of using almond flour. \u00a0It produces a smooth velvety soup that doesn’t have the stickiness of bread and helps enhance the sweetness of the grapes. \u00a0That sweetness is balanced by the cool, refreshing cucumber with a hint of garlic and shallot and the addition of some acidity from the sherry vinegar. I find sherry vinegar is perfect for cold dishes like gazpacho, it really comes through.<\/p>\n

I decided to jazz up the dish by making it into a Martini. \u00a0A frozen grape on a cocktail stick to represent a cocktail olive. \u00a0I also wanted to add a little substance and texture to the dish. \u00a0I decided on a tomato and grape salad with a few croutons to add some crunch. \u00a0I went out and bought croutons – I didn’t have time or the stale bread to make them myself. \u00a0It is the one of the few things I went out and bought!<\/p>\n

To round off this dish we add a few drops of vanilla oil. \u00a0You can easily make vanilla oil yourself by flavouring a neutral oil, we use grapeseed oil in this recipe but others will work. \u00a0Any leftover oil can be used on chicken or fish dishes.<\/p>\n

If you have a Thermomix you can grind your own almond flour and then add in the rest of the ingredients as per the rest of the recipe.<\/p>\n

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Ingredients (Serves 8):<\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Cucumbers<\/p>\n

200g Green Grapes (+ 8 extra for garnish)<\/p>\n

120g Almond Flour<\/p>\n

3 Tablespoons Sherry Vinegar<\/p>\n

2 Cloves Garlic<\/p>\n

1 Shallot<\/p>\n

125ml Extra Virgin Olive Oil<\/p>\n

200ml Whole milk yoghurt<\/p>\n

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Vanilla Oil:<\/strong><\/p>\n

250ml Grape seed Oil<\/p>\n

2 Vanilla Beans<\/p>\n

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Tomato and Grape Salad:<\/strong><\/p>\n

12 Plum Tomatoes<\/p>\n

150g Grapes<\/p>\n

1 Red Onion<\/p>\n

2 Tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil<\/p>\n

1 Tbsp Red Wine Vinegar<\/p>\n

Handful Fresh Basil<\/p>\n

24 Croutons<\/p>\n

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Method:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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White Gazpacho:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. \u00a0Peel the cucumbers, then cut in half (lengthwise) and scrape out all the seeds. \u00a0Dice into chunks.<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0Combine all the ingredients in Thermomix with 50ml water and blitz until smooth – SP6 \/ 2mins.<\/p>\n

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3. \u00a0Pour the gazpacho through a sieve to strain off any lumps.<\/p>\n

4. \u00a0Chill in fridge.<\/p>\n

5. \u00a0Skewer 8 grapes and place in freezer.<\/p>\n

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Vanilla Oil:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. \u00a0Cut the vanilla beans in half and scrape out the pods.<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0Add the pods to the oil and give it a shake. \u00a0Leave it for 3-4 days (shaking at least once a day) before straining.<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0Pour a small amount of the oil into a dropper bottle or pipette in order to use as a dressing.<\/p>\n

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Tomato and Grape Salad:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. \u00a0Cut the tomatoes in half and remove the cores.<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0Strain the cores through a sieve, discard the seeds.<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0Dice the onion and marinate with the red wine vinegar for a few minutes.<\/p>\n

4. \u00a0Dice the tomatoes into small chunks and add some chopped basil.<\/p>\n

5. \u00a0Mix the tomatoes and onion together with the extra virgin olive oil and sprinkle with some salt.<\/p>\n

6. \u00a0Dice the grapes into similar sized chunks.<\/p>\n

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Plating:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. \u00a0Pour the white gazpacho into chilled martini glasses.<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0Fill half of a chefs ring with the diced grapes, then add\u00a0the tomato and onion salad mix and press down gently.<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0Scatter three croutons on each plate.<\/p>\n

4. \u00a0Lay the skewered frozen grape on top of the white gazpacho.<\/p>\n

5. \u00a0Dress the gazpacho with a few drops of vanilla oil and serve.<\/p>\n

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Tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– \u00a0I prefer not to strain the gazpacho with a chinois as I feel a little bit of the almond flour adds some texture and weight to the soup.<\/p>\n

– \u00a0A couple drops of the vanilla oil is all that is required. \u00a0Don’t over do it.<\/p>\n

– \u00a0Use vanilla beans not vanilla extract or paste to make the vanilla oil, it won’t work otherwise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Course three of my tasting menu; a white gazpacho Martini with vanilla oil. \u00a0This recipe is borrowed from Hubert Keller, I saw him produce this as a dish on Top Chef Masters a year or two ago. \u00a0I like gazpacho, I did one for a picnic awhile ago and it went down really well. \u00a0Gazpacho is a summer dish so doing one in Autumn is a bit of a risk. \u00a0But rather than the typical[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"White Gazpacho Martini with Vanilla oil http:\/\/wp.me\/p1PTCG-jp","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[34,5,38,19],"tags":[49,95,45],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gluten","category-recipes","category-starter","category-west","tag-creamy","tag-soup","tag-sweet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ginnyang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/GnY_WGazpacho2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1PTCG-jp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginnyang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginnyang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginnyang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginnyang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginnyang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ginnyang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/ginnyang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginnyang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginnyang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginnyang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginnyang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}