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Today's recipe, "Hot Potato Cold Potato", is a perfect example. To call this dish a soup would be much more than just an understatement. As served at Alinea, a custom-made paraffin wax bowl is pierced with a pin on which a truffle topped potato and parmesan cheese hover over the hot potato soup. To eat, one pulls the pin through the wax releasing the truffle, potato and cheese into the hot soup thereby completing the creation and perfectly intertwining the hot soup and cold portions. This process creates, as Gourmet magazine says, "an astonishingly intense experience that engages all your senses". But don't just take their, or our, word for it - try it out for yourself….
Hot Potato Cold Potato - black truffle, parmesan Chef Grant Achatz, Alinea Yields: eight servings
Prep Time: 40 minutes, plus chilling time
For the Potato Soup:
- 3 Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled, medium dice
- 2 c. black truffle juice
- 4 c. heavy cream
- 3 T. salt
- Combine all ingredients in a medium pot. Bring to simmer, and simmer over medium heat until potatoes are tender.
- Puree ingredients in a blender until smooth and strain through a fine chinois.
- Season to taste, and chill until very cold.
For the Garnishes: Potato - 2 Yukon Gold potatoes
- ½ lb. butter
- 3 T. water
- 1 T. salt
- Scoop the potatoes with a melon baller.
- Cook the potatoes in the remaining ingredients until tender.
Cheese
- 4 oz. Parmesan cheese broken into small pieces
Butter
- 2 oz. butter cut into 1/8" cubes
Chive
- 4 ea. chives cut into 1" lengths
Truffle
- 1 black truffle sliced into 8 slices.
Assembly at Alinea, this is served in a custom-made paraffin wax bowl.
- Pierce the stainless pin through the wax bowl.
- Pour 2oz. chilled soup into the bowl.
- Skewer the parmesan, chive, and butter onto the pin.
- While the potato ball is still hot skewer it on the pin as well.
- Serve immediately.
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Alinea is open for dinner only, Wednesday through Sunday.
Reservations are required and can be made by calling 312-867-0110. Alinea 1723 North Halsted Chicago, Illinois 60614 312-867-0110
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