Ratatouille [2 of 5] – Sous Vide Salmon Roulade with Asparagus Salad, Filet Mignon served on Sweet Potatoes and French Lentils with pan-seared onion and mushrooms, Bundt cake with Lemon Glaze and Raspberries

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Week 2 of Ratatouille! We’re getting into some good French food this week. I got to cook sous vide for the first time! It was great! Lots of these recipes come from inside Gusteau’s restaurant. There are actually just a handful of actual food dishes shown in the restaurant. There are just a lot of instances of the few dishes. I guess they are the most popular. So hold onto your rat-tails! It’s time for some more Ratatouille!
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Foods Shown

 

Sous Vide Salmon Roulade with Asparagus Salad

We see a dish of a round pink thing served with veggies a few times.

At first I had no idea what that could be. A chef friend suggested that it was Salmon Roulade. Sure enough, that seems to be right because they do mention salmon amidst the background kitchen nois. Now the most common way to cook roulade is with a sous vide cooker. Sous vide is a method of cooking sealed food in a water bath to a precise temperature. Usually when you cook food in an oven or pan, you have the oven or pan really hot and you cook the food until the internal temperature reaches a certain temp. With sous vide, you keep the surrounding atmosphere of the food a certain temp and the food is done when that temperature has permeated through all the food.  Sous vide is a lot easier to cook with an actual cooker, but cookers go for at least $100, and that’s for the cheapest of cheap. But there are ways to do it without a sous vide cooker. Thats what I did. It is a LOT harder… and you have to constantly monitor the food and it isn’t as precise. But it can work…and boy does it make it tasty!

Sous Vide Salmon Roulada
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Prep Time
1 hr
Cook Time
1 hr
Total Time
2 hr
Prep Time
1 hr
Cook Time
1 hr
Total Time
2 hr
Ingredients
  1. 2 6oz Salmon Fillets
  2. 5 cups very cold water
  3. 2/3 cups sugar
  4. 1 cup salt
  5. 2 tbs cooking oil
  6. 1 tbs butter
  7. 1/2 tsp garlic
  8. Sous Vide Cooker
Sauce
  1. 2/3 cup white wine
  2. 1 tsp minced garlic
  3. 2 tbs butter
  4. 2 tbs olive oil
  5. 1 tbs fresh parsley leaves
  6. 1 1/2 cup spinach
  7. 2 tbs lemon juice
  8. Salt and Pepper to taste
Instructions
  1. To make brine, combine water sugar and salt. Whisk until it becomes clear.
  2. Remove skin from salmon if necessary
  3. Cut each salmon filet in half
  4. Place the salmon in brine, place in fridge and let sit for 20-40 minutes.
  5. Take salmon out of brine and pat dry
  6. Spread a ~18in long sheet of plastic wrap on a flat surface.
  7. Place the salmon on one end and start rolling it in the plastic rap until it forms a cylinder. Make sure to roll tight. Do the same for each salmon piece
  8. Roll the ends of the plastic wrap so the salmon inside becomes air tight. Secure the ends with twine or clothes pins
  9. Set your sous vide cooker for 45ºC. Cook for 45 mins. (Note, if you don't have a sous vide cooker, you can follow instructions from this site: http://food-hacks.wonderhowto.com/how-to/cook-food-perfectly-home-with-super-cheap-diy-sous-vide-machine-0148452/ )
  10. While the salmon is cooking, prepare sauce by adding the white wine and garlic into a sauce pan over a medium-high heat.
  11. Reduce the wine to a little over half
  12. Add the butter in until melted, then add in the olive oil. Whisk until it emulsifies.
  13. Add lemon juice
  14. Add parsley leaves and salt and pepper
  15. Cook for 1 minute and remove from heat
  16. Add spinach. Mix.
  17. Once the salmon is done, cut each cylinder in half.
  18. Set the pan to a medium-high heat
  19. Melt 1tbs butter and 1/2 tsp garlic
  20. Place each halved salmon roll in the pan, cut side down.
  21. Sear until carmelized
  22. Serve on top of the sauce mixture.
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Asparagus Salad Compossee
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Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
20 min
Total Time
30 min
Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
20 min
Total Time
30 min
Ingredients
  1. 6 asparagus stalks, heads only
  2. 2 cups heirloom baby carrots
  3. 5 shallots
  4. 1/4 cup white wine
  5. 2 tbs butter
  6. Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
  1. Melt the butter over medium high heat
  2. Add the shallots and cook until browned
  3. Reduce heat to medium
  4. Add the carrots and wine, cook for ~7 minutes
  5. Add the asparagus and salt and pepper
  6. Cover and let simmer for ~10 mins
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Filet Mignon served on Sweet Potatoes and French Lentils with pan-seared onion and mushrooms

Another popular dish in the restaurant is this beef served on Sweet Potatoes and French Lentils.

In the background kitchen noise, filet mignon is mentioned.  Filet mignon is a great and expensive cut of meat. But it is super tasty

Filet Mignon and Bordelaise Sauce
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Prep Time
5 min
Cook Time
45 min
Total Time
50 min
Prep Time
5 min
Cook Time
45 min
Total Time
50 min
Steak
  1. 2 6oz filet mignot cuts
  2. 2 tbs butter
Sauce
  1. 1 teaspoon butter
  2. 4 large shallots, peeled and sliced
  3. 1 pinch salt
  4. 1 cup red wine
  5. 2 cups veal stock
  6. salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
  1. Place butter and shallots into a saucepan with pinch of salt; cook and stir shallots over medium-low heat until caramelized and browned, about 20 minutes.
  2. Stir occasionally.
  3. Add red wine and bring to a simmer.
  4. Reduce heat to low; cook until wine is nearly evaporated and pan juices are thick and slightly syrupy.
  5. Watch carefully, mixture burns easily.
  6. Add veal stock, return to a simmer, and cook until reduced by half and sauce is slightly thickened, about 10 minutes.
  7. Pour sauce through a fine mesh strainer set over a container.
  8. Tap the strainer with a spoon while straining and squeeze out the last remaining drops of sauce from the residue.
  9. Season sauce to taste with salt and black pepper.
  10. Reserve the shallots
  11. Set sauce aside and cook filet mignon
  12. Melt the butter over medium high heat
  13. Cook each side of the filet mignon for about 6 minutes while spooning the butter over the top
  14. Flip and cook the other side the same way
Shallot side (optional)
  1. Melt 1tbs butter
  2. Place the shallots in the pan and re-brown with some portobello mushrooms
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Sweet Potatoes and French Lentils
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Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
50 min
Total Time
1 hr
Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
50 min
Total Time
1 hr
Ingredients
  1. 1/2 C french lentils
  2. 1 sweet potato (peeled and cubed)
  3. 1 red onion (finely chopped)
  4. 5 cloves garlic
  5. 2oz feta cheese
  6. 6oz chantrelle mushrooms (roughly chopped)
  7. 1 tbs balsamic vinegar
  8. 1 tsp honey
  9. 1 beef bouillon cube
  10. fresh rosemary basil and thyme
  11. 2 Tbs + 2 tsp olive oil
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 425ºF.
  2. In a bowl whisk together 1 tbs olive oil with honey and rosemary
  3. add the sweet potatoes and garlic.
  4. Toss and season with salt and pepper
  5. Spread potatoes and garlic on baking sheet and roast for 20 minutes, turning halfway.
  6. Meanwhile, heat 1tsp olive oil over medium heat
  7. Add the onion and season with salt and pepper
  8. cook until the onion starts bleeding
  9. Add the lentils, the bouillon cube, and cover the mixture with water so that it covers everything by 2 inches
  10. Bring to boil, then reduce to simmer
  11. cook for 20 minutes or until the lentils are tender
  12. Strain and set aside.
  13. Heat 1 tsp olive oil in a pan and add the mushrooms
  14. Cook until the mushrooms start to brown (5 mins)
  15. In a bowl, combine the garlic, potatoes, lentil mixture and mushrooms.
  16. Add balsamic vinegar and salt and pepper if needed
  17. Drizzle in 1tbs olive oil
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Bundt cake with Lemon Glaze and Raspberries

This comes from a picture in the Anyone Can Cook Cookbook.

It looks like a bundt cake with a glaze and raspberries. Mine didn’t turn out as pretty, but it still was good.
 

French Bundt Cake
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Prep Time
15 min
Cook Time
35 min
Total Time
50 min
Prep Time
15 min
Cook Time
35 min
Total Time
50 min
Cake
  1. 2 c flour
  2. 1 tsp baking powder
  3. 4 tbsp. unsalted butter, softened
  4. ¾ c. sugar
  5. 2 eggs
  6. ¼ c. oil
  7. 2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
  8. ¾ c. buttermilk
  9. 1 tsp lemon rind
Glaze
  1. 1 c. powdered sugar, sifted
  2. 2-3 tbsp. milk
  3. 1/2 tsp lemon rind
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 F.
  2. Spray your bundt pan with cooking spray or butter and flour the pan to prevent sticking.
  3. In a large bowl, cream the softened butter, lemon and sugar until fluffy, about 2-3 minutes.
  4. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing for about 1 minute after each addition.
  5. Add the oil and vanilla extract.
  6. Working directly over the bowl, sift the flour into the wet ingredients.
  7. Add the buttermilk and mix gently on low speed until incorporated. Do not over mix; the cake will be tough.
  8. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
  9. Bake in the center of the oven for about 30-35 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean
Glaze
  1. While cake is cooking, In a pan over low heat, add the powdered sugar.
  2. Add milk 1tbs at a time
  3. Add lemon rind
  4. Cook for 5 minutes. Don't bring to a boil.
  5. Chill and drizzle over warm cake.
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Will it Help you Detect some Nuttiness?

Man, this might be my favorite week. The salmon was the best salmon I’ve ever had. The filet mignon would have been great, but I overcooked it a bit…we can’t always be perfect.

Verdict:

Salmon – 10/10

Asparagus Salad – 8/10

Filet Mignon – 8.5/10

Sweet Potatoes – 9/10

Onions and Mushrooms – 9.5/10

Bundt Cake – 9/10

 

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