RECIPES: Cooking with Michael Anthony

Gramercy Tavern head chef Michael Anthony believes that sometimes "by removing ingredients from a dish, the dish itself becomes more powerful." His hot smoked brook trout is a product of that philosophy, and according to Anthony it is "as simple as a dish can be conceived.'

HOT SMOKED BROOK TROUT ON SUNCHOKE PUREE AND PICKLED CIPOLLINI ONIONS

Recipe courtesy Michael Anthony

Serves four

For the Sunchoke Puree

2 cups sunchokes, peeled and sliced
1 shallot, minced
1 garlic clove, minced
1 Tbsp water
1 Tbsp brown butter
salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions:

Sweat sunchokes, shallots and garlic on medium heat. Add 1 Tbsp of water and cook until tender. Place in blender and puree with brown butter. Add salt and pepper to taste.

For the Pickled Onions

4 cipollini onions, sliced into rings
1 star anise
2 beets
2 Tbsp red verjus
1 cup white wine vinegar
½ cup water
1 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt

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Instructions:

Toast star anise in a medium saucepan. Once toasted, add beets, red verjus, white wine vinegar, water, sugar and salt. Bring to a simmer, then strain. Throw away the solids and keep only the liquid. Add cipollini onions and let chill. This preparation preserves the onions and will hold for several weeks at a refrigerated temperature.

For the Pickled Onion Vinaigrette

1 onion, medium, minced
1Tbsp beet juice
1Tbsp raspberry vinegar
1Tbsp red wine vinegar
1Tbsp red wine reduction
1Tbsp Port
½ cup olive oil
lemon juice, to taste

Instructions

Combine all ingredients in a saucepan, reserving the olive oil and lemon juice for later use. Simmer and reduce until ingredients are tender. Finish vinaigrette by whisking in olive oil and a drop of lemon juice.

For the Brook Trout

4, 6-oz fillets

Instructions:

Smoke trout fillets for 7 minutes over low heat using apple wood chips.

Assembling the dish

Spoon the sunchoke puree onto the center of the dish. Streak one side of the plate with pickled cipollini onions and the other side of the plate with the onion vinaigrette. place smoked trout fillet on top of the sun choke puree.