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Chef Hubert's Elegant Scallop Tart with Crab Puff Pastry Salad, Beetroot Caramel & Orange Coulis

Ingredients (Serves 4)
  • 150 g cooked red beetroot
  • 2 tablespoons honey
  • 2 tablespoons sherry vinegar
  • 5 cl + 5 cl + 3 cl olive oil
  • 50 cl orange juice
  • 1 + 1 lemon (juice)
  • 150 g crab meat
  • 20 g chives
  • 2 tablespoons reduced cream
  • 320 g puff pastry
  • 12 scallops
  • Lightly crushed Sichuan pepper
  • 1 mango
  • 1 lime (juice + zest)
  • 4 sprigs chopped cilantro
  • 120 g mesclun
  • 6 petals chopped candied tomatoes
  • Espelette pepper
  • Flower of salt
Preparation
  • Preparation time: 40 minutes
  • Cooking time: 25 minutes

For the scallop tart, cut 4 rounds of puff pastry using a cookie cutter. Bake for 15 minutes at 200°C between two baking sheets to keep the dough flat.

Prepare the beetroot caramel: Heat the honey in a saucepan until it caramelizes, then add chopped beetroot. Stew briefly, add sherry vinegar, and cook for 5-10 minutes. Blend and emulsify with 5 cl olive oil.

For the orange coulis, reduce orange juice in a saucepan to a syrupy consistency. Add lightly crushed Sichuan pepper, cool, then blend with 3 cl olive oil and lemon juice.

Crab salad: Heat cream in a saucepan, add cilantro and crab meat. Stew, incorporate chopped candied tomatoes, season, and reduce until thickened.

Slice scallops thinly. Arrange in rosettes on an oiled plate inside a ring mold, remove mold, brush with olive oil, and season with flower salt and Sichuan pepper.

Mango tartare: Dice mango flesh, mix with lime juice, a touch of olive oil, salt, and chopped cilantro.

To finish scallops: Bake rosettes for 2 minutes, reseason with salt, brush with olive oil, and add finely grated lime zest.

Stir chives into the crab mixture just before serving for freshness.

Place a puff pastry round in the center of each plate. Add a quenelle of firm crab stuffing to avoid sogginess.

Top with scallop rosette, a spoonful of mango tartare, and mesclun leaves.

Garnish with dots of beetroot caramel and lines of orange coulis.

This sophisticated dish is a signature creation by Chef Hubert.