Description
Hilton Athen’s has a star in the kitchen whose way with fish is stellar. Meet Executive Chef Kostas Athanasiou and make his delicate Sea Bream Carpaccio from Galaxy Restaurant .
Ingredients
- Ingredients (for 4 portions:)
- • 1 sea bream of 600g (net weight: approximately 80-90g per portion or 22 ounces)
- • 1 grapefruit
- • 1 lime
- • 1 orange
- • 1 radish in thin slices
- • 1 green apple julienne
- • 1 lemon
- • 200 ml vegetable broth or approx. 7 ounces
- • 50 ml soy sauce or approx.1.69 ounces
- • ¼ bunch chopped chives
- • 1 chopped chili pepper
- • 1 tea spoon roasted white sesame
- • 4 table spoons olive oil
- • Fleur de sel and ground pepper
- Ingredients for the vegetables broth:
- • 1 diced carrot
- • 1 quarter-sliced onion
- • 1 thin sliced twig of celery
- • 1/2 thin sliced leek
- • 1 quarter-sliced tomato
- • 100g white mushrooms cut in half or just over a cup (96 grams to a cup of sliced mushrooms)
- • 2 twigs of thyme
- • 2 laurel leaves
- • 1 tea spoon coriander seeds
- • 2 pieces of star anise
- • 1/5 bunch of parsley
- • Olive oil
- • 50ml white wine or 1.69 ounces
- • 2 teabags of green tea
Instructions
- Preparation method:
- For sea bream carpaccio:
- Remove the scales and guts from the sea bream, rinse well and wipe with kitchen towel.
- Remove the fish bones with a knife and a fish tweezer and cut the fillets.
- Remove the skin and cut the fish in thin slices at a slight angle.
- Place the fish slices in a deep plate.
- For the lemon powder:
- Put lemon shavings in a pan with grease-proof kitchen paper.
- Lemon must dry out for 4-5 hours in the oven in a 122 degree Fahrenheit without fan.
- Lemon should retain its color.
- For vegetable broth:
- Put all ingredients in a pot with water and boil for 30 minutes.
- Strain and add soy sauce.
- For garnishing:
- Cut the lime, the orange and the grapefruit in thin slices and place them on the fish.
- Add the sesame, the chili pepper, the radish and the green apple.
- Garnish with the chopped chives and add the fleur de sel and ground pepper on top.
- Serve with some flavored broth (poured on via the side of plate), and a few drops of olive oil.
- Category: Appetizer
- Cuisine: Mediterranean/Greek