Recipes By Michel Richard
4 recipes found
Champagne Melon Soup With Raspberry Ice Balls
Melon with port is a traditional combination in France, the wine served in half a Cavaillon melon, but I always though it could be improved. The beautiful pastel shades of the melons are lost in the deep red-purple of the wine, and port overwhelms the taste of the fruit. In this recipe, the raspberry ice cubes add color and another flavor dimension to the soup, which is quite intense: they make it taste like a kir royale. I keep raspberry cubes in the freezer for more than just this soup. You can also drop them into a glass of Champagne or a martini.
Summer Tomato Terrine
Some people might call my tomato terrine a tomato pudding, but it is more a salad, with very thin layers of highly seasoned tomato slices and bread. It's the perfect first course in summer. For this salad, the tomatoes have to be skinned. You can do this with a blowtorch, charring the skin until it can be slipped off, as we sometimes do, or you can blanch them in boiling water until the skins loosen and will easily slide off. Just don't put in more than two at a time, or the tomatoes will remain in the water so long that they will cook and turn mushy.
Pineapple-Rhubarb 'Salad' With Basil Cream
This dish is more like a compote than a soup, but unlike most compotes, the fruit is cooked as little as possible so the flavors and textures remain distinct. The rhubarb must be cut very small to retain some of the crunch, but cook all the way through. Don't be tempted to cook the pineapple at all as the dessert would lose its fresh flavor if you did.
Lamb Loin With Basil Crust and Fennel
In July and August I use a lot of fresh basil. I love to use it as a coating on a roasted loin of lamb. When the meat is sliced, there is the beautiful green of the crust and the gorgeous pink of rare lamb, the colors arranged on a pale creamy bed of quickly cooked fennel. There are three steps to cooking the loin, a cut you can get by asking your butcher to debone a rack of lamb. I sauté the meat to brown and caramelize the outside, then I roast it a bit, coat it with the basil crust and roast it again.