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Baked Cod with BBQ Pork Consommé

Baked Cod with BBQ Pork Consommé
Cook Time
2h 21 min
Yields
4 servings

Recipe by Dale MacKay from Top Chef Canada Episode 13.

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ingredients

Spice Mix

1
tsp cinnamon, ground
2
Tbsp cumin, ground
1 ½
Tbsp fennel seed, ground
1
Tbsp black pepper, ground
2
Tbsp mustard seed
2
tsp smoked paprika
1 ½
tsp coffee
salt

BBQ Pork Broth

2
lb(s) pork butt, cut into 1inch pieces
2
Tbsp vegetable oil
2
green apples, peeled and sliced
2
onions, sliced
½
cup tomato paste
¼
cup sherry vinegar
2
cup beer (lager)
4
cup water
½
cup BBQ Sauce
4
cup chicken stock
salt

Clarifying BBQ Pork Broth

¾
lb(s) pork, ground
3
sprig parsley
1
cup egg whites
BBQ Pork Broth

Baked Cod

4 3-4
oz portions of Alaskan Black Cod
1
Tbsp olive oil
salt
pepper

Smoked Tomato

6
Roma tomatoes, quartered with flesh and seeds removed
2
cup wood chips
1
Tbsp olive oil
salt
white pepper

Corn Garnish

1
tsp vegetable oil
2
cobs of corn, boiled and kernels removed
4
slices crispy bacon, diced
½
bunch kale, blanched in salted water and patted dry
salt
pepper

Assembly

Baked Cod
Smoked Tomato
BBQ Pork Consommé
Corn Garnish
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directions

Step 1

Season pork with salt and coat with BBQ Spice Mix.

Step 2

Heat oil in a sauté pan over medium-high heat. Sear pork on all sides until golden brown, approximately, 10 minutes. Remove from pan and set aside.

Step 3

Add apples and onions to pan. Sauté until tender and caramelized, approximately 5 minutes.

Step 4

Add tomato paste, stir and cook until dark, approximately 10 minutes.

Step 5

Deglaze with sherry vinegar. Add 1/3 of beer and reduce until evaporated. Repeat process with remaining beer, approximately 10 minutes.

Step 6

Add water, BBQ sauce and chicken stock, adjust seasoning if necessary.

Step 7

Place seared pork and BBQ Pork Broth in pressure cooker. Cook on high until pork is tender, approximately, 40 minutes.

Step 8

Remove pork, discard. Strain BBQ Pork Broth into a separate pot and cool.

Step 9

Mix clarifying ingredients together in a bowl.

Step 10

Place mixture in the pot with cooled BBQ Pork Broth. Bring to a simmer, stirring bottom of pot occasionally, until raft begins to form. Reduce heat to low, simmer for 1 hour.

Step 11

In a separate pot, ladle liquid through a sieve lined with cheesecloth. Simmer over low heat until serving BBQ Pork Consommé.

Step 12

Preheat oven to 325F.

Step 13

Place cod on a parchment lined baking tray. Brush with olive oil, season with salt and pepper.

Step 14

Bake in the oven until cod is cooked and tender, approximately 6-8 minutes. Set aside for assembly.

Step 15

Preheat oven to 200F.

Step 16

Place ½ of cleaned tomato quarters on a cooling rack.

Step 17

Soak 1 cup of wood chips in water for 10 minutes.

Step 18

Place 1 cup of dry wood chips in a foil packet. Place directly over the flame of a stove (or over the hot coals of a barbeque).

Step 19

Once wood chips begin to smoke, add soaked wood chips to foil packet. Poke holes in packet, place in a roasting pan and immediately place in oven to retain smoke.

Step 20

Place cooling rack with tomato pieces over roasting pan in oven.

Step 21

Smoke in the oven until tender, approximately 3 minutes.

Step 22

Finley dice smoked and un-smoked tomatoes.

Step 23

Heat oil in a sauté pan, add tomatoes, sweat until moisture has evaporated, approximately 3 minutes.

Step 24

Season with salt and white pepper, set aside for assembly.

Step 25

Heat oil in a Le Creuset Iron Handle Skillet over medium to high heat. Add corn kernels, toss and pan roast until brown, approximately 2 minutes.

Step 26

Add Crispy Bacon and Blanched Kale, toss and adjust seasoning if necessary.

Step 27

Set aside for assembly.

Step 28

Place 3 tablespoons of Corn Garnish on bottom of bowls.

Step 29

Place Baked Cod on top.

Step 30

Spoon a quenelle of Smoked Tomato on Baked Cod.

Step 31

Pour BBQ Pork Consommé around Baked Cod.

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