Langoustine, Buttermilk, Sturia Caviar

Mark Donald

Mark Donald

1st September 2025
Mark Donald

Langoustine, Buttermilk, Sturia Caviar

60 min

Langoustine, Buttermilk, Sturia Caviar

Ingredients

Langoustine Tuille

  • 100g plain flour
  • 100g cooked potato flesh
  • 35g icing sugar
  • 25g isomalt
  • 3g salt
  • 100g egg white
  • 20g lobster coral
  • 100g lango butter
  • 20g trisol
  • 150g pecorino

Langoustine cream

  • 150g Langoustine reduction
  • 200g cream
  • 75g creme fraiche
  • 2 sheets gelatine-gold
  • 20g cornflour
  • 150g shellfish butter
  • Minus8 veget8 and lemon juice to taste
  • cayenne pepper

Yoghurt wasabi gel

  • 150g skyr whey
  • 350g yoghurt
  • 50g buttermilk
  • 10g agar
  • 2.5g salt
  • 9g wasabi

Buttermilk sheet

  • 175g buttermilk
  • 50g vegetarian dashi
  • 6 gelatine leaf gold
  • 2g agar
  • 3g titanium dioxide
  • 2g salt

Method

Langoustine Tuille

Blend all of the ingredients together.

Spread into a shape on guided tuille mat.

Bake at 135 celsius for 12 minutes.

Place onto a tray and spray with red and then gold aerosol.

Dust with prawn cocktail powder.

Langoustine cream

Soak the gelatine and set aside.

Warm the remaining ingredients (except the creme fraiche) together until simmering, whilst blending with a small stick blender.

Blend in the gelatine.

Blend in the creme fraiche.
Season with Minus8 veget8 and cayenne pepper (to taste / eye)

Put into piping bags and chill

Yoghurt wasabi gel

Set the whey with agar

Blend the rest of the ingredients in and make as a normal gel.

Keep refrigerated until service.

Buttermilk sheet

Dissolve agar, titanium and salt in the dashi and heat to above 85C until the agar is activated.

Add the soaked gelatine and stir to dissolve.

Add buttermilk and pass through a sieve onto a nonstick gastro tray.
Refrigerate for 20 minutes until set.

Cut the sheets with a 6 cm round cutter and carefully lift onto baking paper.

Tartare

Season the tartare with the reduced bisque.

Take 20g the of seasoned tartare and quenelle onto one half of a buttermilk sheet.

Fold the buttermilk sheet in half to make a half-moon and place it on the right-hand side of the plate.
Arrange individual beads of caviar on top of the buttermilk sheet

Pipe small beads of dashi vinegar gel in the spaces between the caviar.

Next to the buttermilk sheet, spoon a small rocher of the wasabi yoghurt gel.
Sauce the dish with the chilled green juice.

Bisque

Take 2 langoustine tuilles and make a sandwich with the langoustine cream.

Place on a stand.

Serve the “bisque-it” and tartare together as a two-part dish.

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