Home Recipes Top Chef Selection ~Pioneers~ Walnut tofu, stuffing urchin, crab meat, delicious broth, wasabi, chestnuts boiled in their skins, beef loin pickled in miso, smoked egg, shishito pepper, foie gras and daikon mochi, truffle wine sauce with yuba, enoki mushroom, spinach, persimmon, tempura salmon roe

Recipes Top Chef Selection ~Pioneers~

Walnut tofu, stuffing urchin, crab meat, delicious broth, wasabi, chestnuts boiled in their skins, beef loin pickled in miso, smoked egg, shishito pepper, foie gras and daikon mochi, truffle wine sauce with yuba, enoki mushroom, spinach, persimmon, tempura salmon roe

COOKING INGREDIENTS

Recipes Top Chef Selection ~Pioneers~

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Ingredients

  • For 1 Persons
  • Cost: 1,550yen
  • Cooking time: 1時間
  • Number of cooks: 1 Persons
Walnut tofu
  • Walnut paste

    1 cup

  • Yoshino Kuzu starch

    1 cup

  • Kelp stock

    6 cups

  • Sake

    1/2 cup

  • Light soy sauce, mirin, sugar

    A little of each

  • Fresh sea urchin

    3–4 g

  • Crab meat

    5g

  • Umami soup stock

    Appropriate amount

  • Wasabi

    Appropriate amount

Boiled chestnuts with their skins
  • chestnut

    1

Beef loin marinated in miso
  • Beef Sirloin

    20g

Miso paste (15-20 sheets)
  • Saikyo miso

    1㎏

  • Red soup miso

    200g

  • Koji miso

    200g

  • Sake lees

    250g

  • Sake

    100㏄

  • Mirin

    200㏄

  • sugar

    450g

  • Akazake red sake

    50㏄

  • *Add garlic, ginger, shichimi spices to taste

Smoked egg
  • Quail egg

    1

Needle-threaded lion pepper
  • green pepper

    One

Foie gras and radish mochi
  • Foie gras

    10g

  • Grated daikon radish

    100g

  • Rice flour

    5g

  • Mochiko

    10g

  • Egg white

    a little

  • salt

    a little

  • Usukuchi light soy sauce

    1 teaspoon

  • Mirin

    1/2 teaspoon

  • Dried scallop water

    Appropriate amount

  • Truffle

    Appropriate amount

  • Raspberry sauce

    Appropriate amount

Tofu skin tossed in sauce
  • Fresh yuba

    100g (drain with paper towel)

  • Mascarpone cheese

    20g

  • Cream cheese

    10g

  • cottage cheese

    10g

  • Light soy sauce, sugar, salt, Saikyo miso

    A little of each

  • Shiitake mushroom

    Appropriate amount

  • Spinach

    5g

  • persimmon

    1/12 pieces

  • salmon roe

    Appropriate amount

[For those who want to know the golden ratio of seasonings]

COMMENT

We are conscious of the surprise that our guests will feel when the dish is first served, and have devised a color scheme that is pleasing to the eye. We also use ingredients for each appetizer, such as foie gras, truffles, and beef loin, which are quite striking for an appetizer, and we put a lot of thought into the details of the combination and cooking to ensure that the dish leaves a strong impression on our guests. For example, in our "Walnut Tofu stuffing Sea Urchin," walnuts are high in oil, so preparing them the day before gives them a chewy elasticity that makes them even more delicious.

How to cook

How to cook

  1. ① For the sea urchin stuffing walnut tofu, knead the walnut tofu with light soy sauce, mirin, and a little sugar until it is smooth. Pour it into the pot to cool, then cast in the sea urchin.

  2. ②To boil chestnuts in their skins, peel them carefully without damaging the skin, add baking soda and boil until drained, then rinse in water and remove with a bamboo skewer, being careful not to damage the skin (2-3 times, do not add baking soda this time).
    3) Soak it in a little syrup (increase the concentration by dividing it into three batches at about one-third the strength), let it sit overnight, then increase the concentration again and let it sit, repeating the process, and finish by adding a little brandy.

  3. ④ For the miso-marinated beef loin, clean the sirloin and lightly season it with salt, soy sauce koji, and shichimi. Mix 5 parts Saikyo miso, 1 part red miso, 1 part koji miso, 20% sake lees, sake, mirin, and sugar, cover the meat with gauze, and marinate, then vacuum pack (to make it marinate faster).
    ⑤To make the smoked eggs, make cold eggs using quail eggs (at around 65℃ for 10 minutes, then place in cold water), soak just the yolks in soy sauce for 2 hours, and then smoke (cold smoking: 10 to 15 minutes).
    ⑥To make needle-pierced lion peppers, deep fry the lion peppers, remove the seeds, open them up and then insert needles.
    ⑦For the foie gras daikon mochi, cut the foie gras into pieces, season with salt and sansho pepper, and vacuum cook (at 48℃, cool at 45℃ core temperature). When ready to use, coat with all-purpose flour and fry quickly on both sides in a frying pan. Drizzle with Koikuchi dark soy sauce on top.
    ⑧ Peel the daikon radish and grate it. Squeeze it until it is slightly moist, and adjust the firmness with water used to soak the scallops. Combine 100g grated daikon radish, 5g joshinko, 10g mochiko, and a little egg white, add a little salt, 1 teaspoon light soy sauce, 1/2 teaspoon mirin, and soak and loosen the dried scallops in water, mix well with the grated daikon, pour into a draining can, and cook in a steam convection oven at 80℃ on steam mode for 20 to 25 minutes.
    9. To make the wine sauce, put red wine in a frying pan and simmer, then add Koikuchi dark soy sauce and mirin to reduce the flavor and make the sauce.
    10. To make the yuba dressing, peel the persimmon and cut it into bite-sized pieces.
    ⑪ Quickly roast the shiitake mushrooms, chop them into pieces, and soak them in the all-purpose dashi stock.
    12. Cut out only the stems of the spinach, bring out the color, and soak them in all-purpose stock.
    ⑬ Mix 100g of raw yuba (drain with paper towels), 20g of mascarpone cheese, 10g of cream cheese, 10g of cottage cheese, a little each of light soy sauce, sugar, salt, and Saikyo miso to form a dough.

[For those who want to check the seasoning mixture before cooking]

大窪公也

  • Ginza Okubo
  • Owner chef and "master" AAJ(The Association for the Advancement of the Japanese Culinary Art)