Fried Abalone with Smoked Mayonnaise and Sprite^®

Fried Abalone with Smoked Mayonnaise and Sprite®

Recipe by Chef Richard Blais

• 1 abalone and shell
• 3 cans Sprite Green™ (reduced to 1 can)
• A good dash of Krystal® Hot Sauce
• 1 cup crème fraîche
• 2 teaspoons silver leaf
• 1 teaspoon lemon zest
• 1 tablespoon smoked mayonnaise
• 1 quart liquid nitrogen
• 1 cup Sprite tempura batter
• 1 tablespoon rice flour
• 2 tiny leaves micro purslane

Trim the black of the abalone. Dredge in flour and dip in Sprite tempura. Fry at 350 degrees until crisp. Salt immediately out of the frier.

For the Sprite pearls, mix the creme fraiche, silver leaf, hot sauce and reduced Sprite to a heavy cream consistency. Drip with a squeeze bottle the silver Sprite cream into the nitrogen to form pearls.

To assemble the dish, place a spoon of the smoked mayo in the shell. Then top with fried abalone and top with the pearls and purslane leaves.