Tart of Cured Beef, Mushroom and Oyster

Tom De Keyser

Tom De Keyser

3rd January 2025
Tom De Keyser

Tart of Cured Beef, Mushroom and Oyster

150 min

On the menu at two Michelin-starred pub The Hand & Flowers

Ingredients

pastry

  • flour
  • butter
  • salt
  • cayenne
  • cheddar cheese

mushroom purée

  • King oyster mushroom
  • butter
  • shallots
  • Madeira
  • milk
  • cream

seaweed pickled cucumber

  • seaweed
  • sugar
  • white wine vinegar
  • white peppercorns
  • star anise
  • cinnamon sticks
  • coriander seeds
  • fennel seeds
  • diced cucumber

jerky short rib

  • beef short rib
  • soy sauce
  • garlic
  • cracked black pepper
  • all spice
  • salt
  • smoked paprika
  • Guinness

mushrooms

  • diced King oyster mushrooms

jerky sauce

  • short rib sauce

chestnut fan

  • sliced chestnut mushrooms
  • olive oil

Marmite rarebit

  • butter
  • flour
  • milk
  • cheddar cheese
  • Marmite
  • egg yolk
  • salt

tempura oyster

  • oyster
  • water
  • xanthan gum
  • salt
  • rice flour
  • corn flour
  • Maldon salt
  • tabasco

oyster ketchup

  • oysters
  • Guinness
  • agar agar
  • soy sauce
  • brown sugar
  • Cabernet Sauvignon vinegar

Method

pastry

Flour and butter is mixed together. Salt and cayenne is mixed in and then cheddar cheese is added.
The dough is left to rest for 24 hours and then rolled out. The tarts are blind baked for 18 minutes at 170 degrees.

mushroom purée

King oyster mushrooms are sliced and dry roasted, the pan is de-glazed with butter and shallots, it is then cooked down with madeira, milk and cream then blended.

seaweed pickled cucumber

Seaweed is blended through our pickling liquor (sugar, white wine vinegar, white peppercorns, star anise, cinnamon sticks, coriander seeds and fennel seeds) then diced cucumber is vac packed with this liquor.

jerky short rib

Beef short rib is cooked in a jerky stock which has soy sauce, garlic, cracked black pepper, allspice, salt, smoked paprika and Guinness in it. It is then pressed and diced.

mushroom

Diced King oyster mushrooms are then added to the above, mixed together and placed inside the tart case.

jerky sauce

The sauce left over from cooking the short rib is reduced down.

chestnut fan

Sliced chestnut mushrooms are compressed in olive oil in a fan.

Marmite rarebit

Butter, flour, milk, cheddar cheese is cooked to form a rarebit and it is seasoned with marmite, egg yolk and salt.

tempura oyster

An oyster is fried in tempura batter (water, xanthan gum, salt, rice flour and corn flour) then seasoned with tabasco salt (Maldon salt mixed with tabasco)

oyster ketchup

Oysters are cooked in Guinness, set with agar agar then blended with soy sauce, brown sugar and Cabernet Sauvignon vinegar then set with agar agar.

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