

Don’t do this in advance or the resulting batter may thicken too much as it sits. Right before you’re ready to fry the chicken, whisk the vodka mixture into the cornflour mixture.In a small bowl, whisk together the vodka, chilli paste and 240ml water. In a large bowl, whisk together the cornflour, matzo meal, flour, chilli flakes, salt, garlic powder, onion powder and baking powder. While the oil is heating, prepare the batter.Shortly before cooking, in a large, wide, heavy-based pot at least 13cm deep, heat 5cm in of vegetable oil over a medium-high heat until it reaches 180☌.Set aside the sauce is best warm or at room temperature.

If you prefer the latter, remove it from the heat on the early side so it’s a little thinner. The sauce can be either served with the chicken or drizzled over it. In a small saucepan, combine all the ingredients and simmer for 3–5 minutes until slightly thickened. Leave, uncovered, at room temperature for about an hour. Transfer the chicken to a wire rack, shaking each piece to remove any excess coating. Stir together the cornflour, salt, baking powder and a generous amount of pepper in a large bowl. If you would like, grate fresh black truffle over the top of the dish. Season the dish with the cep powder and dress with the green oil. Add 50g of limes and dates and then hide the ingredients with the celeriac sheets.

Add any remaining celeriac once the quantity has reduced and continue to blend until fine. Blitz for a couple of seconds at a time, until it looks quite fine. Fill a blender halfway with celeriac and cover with water. For the celeriac crumb, peel the celeriac and roughly chop.For the truffle cream cheese, mix ingredients together.Gently remove the egg white from the yolk. For the egg yolk, boil the eggs for 4 minutes, then chill the in ice water.Rest in the crust for 30 minutes, then open and chill. Use a temperature probe to ensure the centre of the celeriac reaches 65☌. For the salt-baked celeriac, wrap celeriac in salt crust and cook for 40-60 minutes, depending on the size of the celeriac, at 180☌.For the salt crust, mix all ingredients together.Sometimes they speak to a working relationship, or something more personal still. Sometimes, such dishes reveal a bit about where the chef is from, or the culture they’ve found themselves at home in. It can be a call back to childhood, or to the early days in kitchens. In fact, every now and then, it’s the opposite: these are the dishes that hark back to a certain sense of who the chef is, or who he or she thinks they are. Though they can be, quite often these dishes aren’t the trickiest in a chef’s back catalogue. Other times still, it’s about getting across the ethos of their restaurant. Other times, it’s a dish that the chef has worked over and over, slowly refining the idea, intent on getting it just so, intent on sharing their taste with the world. Sometimes these dishes reveal themselves through the diners one particular plate flies out of the kitchen at such speed that it can never be taken off the menu. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTĪ chef’s signature dish is a powerful thing: it says something about them, about their tastes and intentions, and sometimes something of their hits and misses.
