Ryan and Liam Simpson-Trotman served up a tasty salt baked celeriac with apple puree, pecan nuts, brown butter, cheese and truffle on James Martin’s Saturday Morning.
The ingredients are: 1 whole celeriac skin on and washed 300g plain flour, 300g table salt and Water to bind the dough.
For the Pecans: 100gr pecan nuts, Pinch of table salt to taste, Pinch of seaweed powder to taste and 1 tablespoon cold press rapeseed oil.
For the Caramelised Apple Puree, 1 Braeburn apple, 1 granny smith apple, 1 bramley apple, 100g sugar, Maldon salt to taste, Pinch of malic acid and 30-50ml of cold press rapeseed oil to emulsify.
For the compressed Granny Smith Apple: 1 granny smith apple diced & compressed under vacuum with a squeeze of lemon juice, you could also not compress and just dress in the juice.
For the Brown Butter Solids: 150gr butter, unsalted, 50gr milk powder and Pinch of Maldon salt.
For the truffle: 1 fresh truffle or sliced chestnut mushrooms, Marigold Flowers and Leaves, Fresh selection of leaves and flower, an alternative would be lovage or even parsley.
For the Tunworth: Fresh Tunworth Cheese but freeze a little to grate on the dish, you can use any cheese that you can grate from frozen to go with this dish.
To Season: Moscatel Vinegar and Cold Press Rapeseed Oil Maldon Sea Salt.
See recipes by James in his book titled: Home Comforts available from Amazon now.
i made this recipe after watching james martins show, i wouldn’t normally entertain making anything fussy but this is an amazing dish to make and all the tastes make it a real treat, something to make for friends that only think veggies eat rabbit food. id say these two are destined to become huge stars on tv.