A couple of weeks ago Miele invited some foodbloggers for a cooking class with Thomas Locus from Bistro Margaux to learn all about steaming in the kitchen. As you might know steaming is hot for the moment and a lot of people tend to invest in a nice steamer or combination oven. I have a Miele steamer at home and use it on a regular basis for steaming vegetables, mussels, fish fillets, dim sum and meatballs to add to soup. Also a quick steamed egg in the morning is a regular at our place.
When the invitation came I was quick to reply and together with Myriam from Hap en Tap, Stephanie from Koken op Hakken en Bart from Nullam Microwaveum we have had a great and delicious night. Special thanks to Bart for taking some nice pictures.
I was really interested in finding out more and getting to know Thomas Locus’ recipes.
We have prepared three superb dishes but all a lot of work for Must be Yummie standards (remember the adagio quick , healthy and easy). I must say that the recipe below was so good that I would like to share it with you. I will make a simplified version for Christmas dinner (no flan, no gelatin and bread crumbs).
Believe me once you taste the steamed crab legs, you won’t want anything else. Lobster will taste like a regular scampi.
The friendly people from Miele told me it is very easy to prepare stews, ragus and desserts in the steamer. It sounds all so easy so I have decided to try to make even more use of my steamer from now on. Check out their website for more information and recipes.
Do you often steam in your kitchen?
- FLAN
- 200 gr (zero lactose) milk
- 100 gr crustacean stock
- 8 gr horseradish paste
- 3 leaves of gelatin
- CREME OF AVOCADO
- 5 avocado’s
- Hand full of fresh spinach
- 20 gr of Chardonnay vinegar
- Pepper & salt
- Cayenne pepper
- 2 leaves of gelatin
- 100 gr (zero lactose) cream
- Pinch of sugar
- CRAB SALAD
- 120 gr fresh king crab – +/- 4 crab legs
- 20 gr mayonnaise
- 1 shallot, chopped
- 1 tsp chopped parsley
- Pepper & salt
- Lemon juice to your liking
- Scallop
- 8 bay scallops
- Pepper & salt
- Olive oil
- Lemon juice
- BREAD
- 400 gr (gf) brown bread
- Groundnut oil (arachide)
- Sea salt
- FINISHING
- 20 gr smoked eel
- 100 gr sour cream (or dairy free mascarpone)
- 3 gr horse radish paste
- FLAN
- Cook the milk with horse radish and crustacean stock and gelatin.
- Pour in a large baking tray and let cool down and stiffen.
- CREME OF AVOCADO
- Mix the avocado with the spinach and the chardonnay vinegar in your kitchen robot or mixer.
- Soak two leaves of gelatin in some cold water.
- Mix them with a tablespoon of cream.
- Add the rest of the cream and whisk the cream and gelatin.
- Add the cream to the avocado mixture until you have a smooth crème.
- Season with pepper, salt, cayenne and a little bit of sugar.
- CRAB SALAD
- Steam the crab legs for 10 minutes at 85°C.
- Let the crab legs cool down, take out the meat (120gr).
- Mix the crabmeat with mayonnaise and 20 gr of the crème of avocado.
- Add the chopped shallot and parsley.
- Season with lemon juice, pepper and salt.
- SCALLOP
- Cut the scallop in thin slices like carpaccio.
- Marinate them with olive oil, lemon juice, pepper and salt.
- BREAD
- Cut fine slices of the bread
- Cut out little rounds out of the bread with a garnish ring and sprinkle them with sea salt and groundnut oil.
- Place hem between two baking mats and put a baking tray on top of the bread slices so they don’t curl in the oven.
- Bake for 7 minutes at 190°C.
- You can skip this step and simply make croutons if you like.
- FINISHING
- Cut out rounds of 9cm from the horse radish flan.
- This is the base on your plate.
- Spoon some crab salad on top of the flan.
- Arrange the scallop Carpaccio on top of the crab salad.
- The crusty bread come next.
- Finish with little pieces of smoked eel.
- Mix the sour cream with horse radish and spray some of this mixture next to the eel.
- Finish with a little crème of avocado.
- You can add some salmon eggs, water cress and little pieces of radish.
A special and yummie thanks to Thomas Locus, the team of Miele and Ann from O’Sérieux.