2 Sandwiches From El Bulli - Ferran Adria 🌞

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MINI-BAGUETTES WITH JAMON IBERICO

*FERRAN ADRIA(EL BULLI)



In 1997 Girona-based El Bulli became one of three restaurants
in Spain with three Michelin stars.
Chef Ferran Adria and his team regard cooking as a language
that is used to express harmony, creativity, happiness, beauty,
poetry, complexity, enchantment, humour, challenge and culture.

Wine suggestion
La Panesa de Emilio Hidalgo

Ingredients

For the mini-baguette dough:
320 grams of bread flour
10 grams of fresh yeast
190 grams of milk
4 grams of salt
15 grams of ‘sourdough starter’ (you
can make this at home -search
online for more information)
For the mini-baguettes:
400 grams of the mini-baguette dough
(previously prepared)
12 slices of Jamén Ibérico (Spanish cured ham)
extra virgin olive oil


***This recipe also requires a bread machine

1_ Place all the ingredients except the salt in the bread machine.
Knead the mixture for 9 minutes at half speed. Add the salt and
knead in the machine for another 2 minutes. Knead the dough by
hand for another minute and put it in a well-covered bowl in the
refrigerator. Allow the dough to rise for 4 hours.

2___ Set the machine to maximum rolling thickness and roll out the
dough. Let the dough rest for another minute under a damp tea towel.
Roll out the dough two more times, to a thickness of 0.5 centimetres.
Cut into oval shapes of 25 x 3 centimetres. Bake the ovals in the oven
for 2 minutes at 240°C, turn them over and bake them for another
minute until they are nice and full and golden brown. Remove the
mini-baguettes from the oven and let them cool; save in an airtight
dish in a cool, dry place.

3__ Lightly spread the mini-baguettes with extra virgin olive oil. Fill with
three loosely rolled slices of ham.

from "Master Chefs No.3" *FERRAN ADRIA

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Cheeseburger & Potato Chips

To make it even easier, you could use
good-quality store-bought burger patties.
If making your own, look for good-quality
beef chuck with about 10% fat.
You can add any other toppings you like,
such as onion, tomato, pickles, mustard,
ketchup, and mayonnaise. To make a
caramelized onion topping, thinly slice
some onions and cook very gently with
a little oil for about 1 hour, until
soft and golden.









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from "The Family Meal" Ferran Adria
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11955187-the-family-meal

More Chef Adria to come!! Enjoy!

*Ferran Adria

El Bulli (Catalan pronunciation: [əl ˈβuʎi]) was a restaurant near the town of Roses, Spain, run by chef Ferran Adrià, later joined by Albert Adrià, and renowned for its modernist cuisine. Established in 1964, the restaurant overlooked Cala Montjoi, a bay on the Costa Brava of Catalonia. El Bulli held three Michelin stars and was described as "the most imaginative generator of haute cuisine on the planet" in 2006.[1] The restaurant closed 30 July 2011 and relaunched as El Bulli Foundation, a center for culinary creativity.[2][3]

Restaurant
The restaurant had a limited season: the PIXA season, for example, ran from 15 June to 20 December.[4] Bookings for the next year were taken on a single day after the closing of the current season. It accommodated only 8,000 diners a season, but got more than two million requests. The average cost of a meal was €250 (US$325).[5] The restaurant itself had operated at a loss since 2000, with operating profit coming from El Bulli-related books and lectures by Adrià.[1][6] As of April 2008, the restaurant employed 42 chefs.[7]

Restaurant magazine judged El Bulli to be No. 1 on its Top 50 list of the world's best restaurants for a record five times—in 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, and No. 2 in 2010.[7][8][9]



Chef and writer Anthony Bourdain described Albert Adrià's contributions thus: "His book is a shockingly beautiful catalog of his latest accomplishments here ... Pastry chefs everywhere—when they see this—will gape in fear, and awe, and wonder. I feel for them; like Eric Clapton seeing Jimi Hendrix for the first time, one imagines they will ask themselves 'What do I do now?'."[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Bulli