Step-by-Step Guide to Make Award-winning Tapa Mediterraneo

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, tapa mediterraneo. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Tapa Mediterraneo is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Tapa Mediterraneo is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have tapa mediterraneo using 46 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Tapa Mediterraneo:

1. Get For the pickled veg:
2. Get 30 g shallot, sliced thin
3. Take 30 g garlic, sliced thin
4. Get 100 g water
5. Make ready 100 g sugar
6. Get 200 g champagne vinegar, or white wine vinegar
7. Take 10 g coriander seed in a sachet
8. Take 10 g peppercorn in a sachet
9. Make ready 10 g basil in a sachet
10. Take 5 g thyme in a sachet
11. Prepare For the pepper curls
12. Prepare 2 ea fresno chili peppers as needed
13. Take ice water
14. Make ready Saffron rice chip
15. Make ready 300 g white rice, arborio or bomba preferred
16. Make ready 450 g water
17. Get 30 g saffron
18. Take 10 g salt
19. Take Separately, for the end: As needed boiling water
20. Make ready Mussel escabeche
21. Get 1 lb mussels, cleaned and de-bearded
22. Take 100 g white wine for steaming
23. Get Scallop sofrito
24. Get 500 g scallop trim, fresh sweet scallops are best
25. Prepare 50 g shallots sliced thin
26. Take 50 g garlic, sliced thin
27. Take 50 g extra virgin olive oil from Spain
28. Take As needed salt
29. Prepare Escabeche brine
30. Get Set 1:
31. Make ready 650 g water
32. Take 170 g sugar
33. Make ready 125 g champagne or white wine vinegar
34. Make ready 75 g fennel, sliced thinly
35. Take 75 g onion, sliced thinly
36. Make ready 15 g parsley stems
37. Make ready 5 g thai chili
38. Take 10 g orange zest
39. Get 5 g salt
40. Make ready Set 2:
41. Take 19 g garlic, chopped thin
42. Take 1 g saffron
43. Prepare 70 g lemon, sliced thin
44. Make ready 30 g salt
45. Prepare 5 g fennel sliced thin
46. Make ready As needed, extra virgin olive oil from Spain

Instructions to make Tapa Mediterraneo:

1. Pickled vegetables, and red pepper curls: For the sachet, wrap all ingredients in cheesecloth and tie with twine
2. Heat the water, sugar, and vinegar to a boil and then pour over the rest of the ingredients. Store overnight. Then separate the sachet and discard. Reserve the pickles for service.
3. Cut the peppers in half length wise, and de-seed. With skin side down, trim the peppers by shaving off as much of the pepper as possible from the seed side/inside. Discarding all the ‘juicy’ part, and leaving a thin, mostly skin pepper. Slice the peppers very thin, as thin as possible. Place them in ice water and allow to chill for one hour. They should curl very tightly into nice shapes. Reserve for service, as garnish.
4. Saffron rice chip: Rinse the rice, and then bring to a boil in the measured amount of water. Reduce to medium heat then cook in a pot with the saffron and salt, covered for 30 minutes or until fully tender.
5. Transfer in small batches to a vitamix or high speed blender, a thermomix would work very well. Add a small amount of boiling water just enough to help the rice mix, and blend on high for 3 minutes each batch, until the rice is fully smooth and pureed. Transfer all the finished rice puree to a non-stick sautee pan.
6. Cook on low heat for 20-30 minutes, stirring frequently with a rubber spatula until very thick and dry. Do not allow it to get on the edges of the pan or it will dry and you will get solids in your rice puree. Once you have thickened the puree, spread on to a silpat or silicone mat. Acetate paper would work as well. Then dehydrate in an oven or commercial dehydrator at 120 degrees Fahrenheit for 2-3 hours, until fully dry and crispy. Fry at 350 degrees F until puffed and crispy, then dry on a p
7. Scallop sofrito: Sweat garlic and shallots in the olive oil from Spain, then add the scallop trim. Cook on low heat, slowly caramelizing. Cook for 8 hours, on a diffuser or very low heat, adding water as necessary to ensure it doesn’t burn but just slowly caramelizes. Once it is dark, and rich in flavor and color, puree completely smooth in a vitamix blender. Once smooth, pop the air out of the puree in a cryovac machine.
8. Transfer to a squeeze bottle or piping bag. Fill all your cleaned, brined mussels escabeche with the sofrito and reserve
9. Mussel escabeche: Steam the mussels.
10. Heat wine to a boil, then add cleaned mussels into the pot and cover with a lid. Cook until all mussels are cooked and opened fully. Drain into a perforated pan and cool in the refrigerator. Once cool, open the mussels and trim all of the gills and excess anatomy out to make room for the sofrito filling.
11. Escabeche brine: For preparation, add all ingredients of set 1 to a container, other than the water. Separately heat the water to a full boil and pour over the ingredients of set 1 and let it steep tasting frequently for about 5 minutes, making sure it doesn’t get too spicy. Then strain through a fine mesh sieve.
12. Pour the liquid from set 1, previously steeped, over the ingredients of set 2 and let steep in the refrigerator overnight. Then take this liquid and pour over your cleaned, shucked, steamed mussels. Then topping with Spanish extra virgin olive oil to cover, and reserve in the refrigerator overnight to marinade.
13. Building the tapa, and cilantro leaf garnish: As needed cilantro leaves, the small, perfect leaves, picked from the bunch.
14. To build the tapa, have all ingredients from the included recipes completed to perfection and ready for service.
15. Start with the saffron chip, as your base. Next add your mussels escabeche, that are stuffed with the scallop sofrito. About two per tapa are good, depending on size.
16. Then, add your pickled shallots and garlic, in a ratio of about 2 shallot and 1 garlic per mussel, depending on size. Next garnish with your beautiful red fresno pepper curls. Finally garnish with the fresh cilantro leaves, adding a beautiful green to our tapa. Serve on a bowl or dish of your choosing, I recommend something with a rice or grain as the base to help stabilize the tapa.

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