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

Mark Donald
Langoustine, Buttermilk, Sturia Caviar
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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