Recipes
Crab meat balls poached in white wine and garlic sauce with rigatoni
20 minutes Preparation time
10-15 minutes Cooking time
8-10 servings Serves
Ingredients
500 g raw, white fish, trimmed
250 g cream
70 g egg whites
500 g raw spanner crab meat
¼ bunch chives, finely chopped
25 g Murray River Salt Flakes
1 lemon, zested and juiced
3 tbs extra virgin olive oil
3 tbs butter
4 cloves garlic, peeled, crushed
500 ml white wine
4 cups, rigatoni, cooked
1 tsp dried chilli flakes
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Method
- Using a food processor, quickly pulse the raw, cold fish. Add the cream and blend for 10 seconds.
- Add the egg whites and salt, blend for another 10 seconds.
- Pass the mixture through a drum sieve, and then fold through the crab and chives, season with lemon juice.
- Shape into balls using 2 teaspoons, and place into a paper lined unperforated steam container.
- In a small saucepan over medium heat, Induction setting 6, add the olive oil, one tablespoon of butter and the crushed garlic and cook for 2 minutes, or until the garlic is soft and aromatic.
- Add the white wine, bring to the boil then turn the heat to a simmer.
- Place the cooked rigatoni into a perforated steam container and place in the Steam Oven.
- Once the white wine has reduced by a third, pour over the seafood balls and place into the Steam Oven, along with the pasta at 85°C for 2 minutes.
- Once the seafood balls are cooked and the pasta re-heated, mix together in a large mixing bowl. Season well with black pepper, salt, lemon juice and zest. Serve immediately.
Applicance Functions
Shannon Bennett
Shannon Bennett is a Melbourne-born chef, restaurateur, television personality and cookbook author. Best known as the founder and former owner of Vue de monde (Vue Group), which he sold in 2017, Bennett now resides in Byron Bay where he founded The Belongil — a multi-venue dining destination comprising Belongil Bistro, fine dining restaurant Feu, The Belongil Kiosk, and the hidden members’ bar Blind Tiger. Feu was recognised in Condé Nast’s Hot 50 as one of the world’s top new restaurants. Beyond hospitality, Bennett is passionate about the intersection of technology and dining, and has founded several successful ventures including Culinary Wonderland and OntheMonee.