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Cauliflower Cheese Beignet, Fennel, Rhubarb, Peashooter Salad

Preparation: 5 minutes
Cooking: 5
Serves: 10

Salad

Ingredients

  • 1 head of fennel shaved
  • 1 stick rhubarb peeled into strips
  • ¼ punnet pea shoots

Method

Beignet

Ingredients

  • 80g mature Cheddar
  • 50g butter
  • 150ml water
  • 1tsp sugar
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 75g plain flour
  • 2 eggs
  • 100ml cauliflower juice

Method

Reduce the cauliflower juice by ¾
In a saucepan bring to the boil the sugar, water, salt, butter
Add the flour and beat into a dough and cookout for a minute on a low heat
Remove from the heat and stir in the cheese, add the reduced cauliflower stock and blend using a stick blender
Add the eggs one at a time blending the mix well,
Fry the beignets with a raw piece of cauliflower in the middle at 180c until golden.
Keep the fennel in ice water until needed then drain well and mix with the rhubarb and pea shoots, dress with a little extra virgin olive oil and salt. Serve the beignets on top.