Variation on the cauliflower
Ingredients
2 white cauliflowers1 green cauliflower
800ml almond milk
1/4 brown onion
85 gr toasted piedmond hazelnuts
50gr white sesame seeds
7 gr flower of salt
1 orange
150gr Taggiasca olive without pit
40gr of pantelleria capers
1/2 lemon skimon
sea salt
extra virgin olive oil
Method:
5/6 hours before the execution desalinate the capers.
Slice the white cauliflower in thin slice and make a carpaccio, then put rhe slice in cold water.
Chop the onion, and the stew it in a pan with a bit of olive oil and water;
add 450 gr of white cauliflower cut in small peaces and cover with almond milk, and cook together.
Method.
Drain and blend, to obtain a cream. If necessary add cooking liquid. Add salt and sift. Keep warm.
Cut the green and white cauliflower in small peaces and the steam in vacuum at 95 °C for 20'. If you haven't a vacuum machine you can use a cooking bag and a steamer. Chope the olive and the capers with a knife; chop finely the lemon skin and add to capers and olive; add olive oil.
For the gomasio, toast in a pan the sesame seeds and flower of salt, then grind in a mortar.
Grind the hazelnut with a knife, then add to the sesame seeds.
Peel the orange, and skin the slice, then cut in small peaces.
Roast on a fryin pan (or a lyonnaise) the cauliflowers steamed in vacuum, add salt if necessary.
Drain the cauliflower carpaccio.
Put a spoon of warm cailiflower cream in the middle of the plate; then over 4/5 peaces of cauliflower alternating green and white.
Season with a teaspoon of capers and olive pesto and the gomasio; Cover with 3 or 4 slice of cauliflower carpaccio.