Smoked Sturgeon Salad With Leeks Haricots Verts And Frisee Recipes

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• Make green peppercorn dressing: in a small bowl, combine lemon zest, parsley, shallots and peppercorns. Add lemon juice and gradually whisk in olive oil. Season to taste with salt.
• In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine sugar with 2 tablespoons water. Stir until sugar is dissolved. In a medium bowl combine sugar water and turmeric. Whisk in the vinegar, then the grape-seed oil. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Add sturgeon to mixture, stirring to coat. Season to taste with salt and pepper, and set aside.
• In a small pan over high heat, combine 2 quarts of water with 1/2 teaspoon salt. Bring to a boil, add diced potatoes and cook until tender. Drain, rinse with cold water, and drain again. In the same pan, again combine 2 quarts of water with 1/2 teaspoon salt, and bring to a boil. Add haricots verts, and cook until tender, but still slightly crisp. Drain, transfer to a bowl of ice water, and drain again. In a large bowl, combine potatoes and haricots verts, and set aside.
• In a medium saucepan, combine leeks with enough water to cover. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Bring to a boil, cover, and cook until tender, about 3 minutes. Drain, cool and add to the bowl of potatoes and haricots verts.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brush bread sticks with melted butter, and bake until golden brown, about 10 minutes. Remove, and season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Add frisee to vegetables. Add vinaigrette a little at a time, tossing to mix well and reserving about 2 tablespoons for drizzling over the finished salad. On each of 4 plates, place 1/4 of the sturgeon. Top with a mound of vegetables, and drizzle with vinaigrette. Garnish with bread sticks.

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• Mixed the cook beans with the shallots, the mustard and the olive oil, make sure that the dressing just coats the beans but that it is not runny. Season the shiitake caps and grill them, until tender. Mix 1/2 of the sturgeon with some of the bean salad and add the parsley, toss well. Mound salad on plates and top with mushrooms and remaining sturgeon.

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• Special Equipment: Microwave safe dish
• Place haricots verts in microwave-safe dish and drizzle with water. Microwave on high for 3 to 4 minutes and chill haricots verts in refrigerator for 10 to 15 minutes. In a small bowl, combine sour cream, cream, truffle oil, salt, and lemon juice and mix thoroughly. Add chilled haricots verts to sour cream mixture and toss to coat. Serve chilled.

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• Mix all ingredients together in a bowl to combine.

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• Preheat oven to 300°F.
• Trim leeks and halve lengthwise. Rinse leeks well and in an ovenproof skillet arrange, cut sides down. Cut onions into 1/2-inch-thick slices and arrange over leeks. Add water and bring to a boil over high heat. Braise leeks and onions, covered, in middle of oven until very tender, about 1‚ hours. Cool leeks and onions to room temperature. Leeks and onions may be braised 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Bring leeks and onions to room temperature before proceeding.
• Have ready a bowl of ice and cold water. Trim haricots verts and in a saucepan of heavily salted boiling water cook until completely tender, about 5 minutes. With a slotted spoon transfer beans to ice water to stop cooking and drain well, patting dry. Beans may be cooked 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Bring beans to room temperature before serving.
• In a small bowl combine shallot and vinegar. Let mixture stand 20 minutes. Whisk in veal stock, mustard, and salt and pepper to taste and whisk in oil in a slow stream until emulsified.
• Arrange vegetables on a platter and drizzle with vinaigrette.

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• Heat oil and garlic in a small skillet over medium heat; cook 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat; cool slightly.
• Combine garlic mixture, 1 tablespoon nuts, vinegar, 1/4 teaspoon salt, pepper, and basil in a food processor; pulse until well combined.
• Cook beans in boiling water 4 minutes or until crisp-tender; drain. Rinse under cold water; drain.
• Place in a large bowl. Add basil mixture and remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt; toss to coat. Sprinkle with 2 tablespoons nuts and tomatoes.

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• In a small bowl, whisk the vinegar, shallots, and 1 1/2 tablespoons canola oil together into a vinaigrette.
• In a medium bowl, toss to combine the arugula and 2 tablespoons vinaigrette.
• Heat remaining 1 tablespoon of canola oil in large non-stick skillet over medium heat. Dip scallops in seasoned instant flour. Add to skillet and cook 3 minutes; turn over and cook until almost opaque in center, about 2 minutes or longer.
• Place 3 scallops around border of each plate. Using half of haricots verts for each plate, place 3 small bundles of haricots verts between scallops. Mound half of arugula mixture in center of each plate. Drizzle remaining vinaigrette over haricots verts and scallops. Drizzle 2 teaspoons truffle oil on each salad. Sprinkle salads with chives.