Dry Madeira Wine 10 YO or Sercial

Harmony of limpet, mackerel and swordfish fillet with boiled sweet corn and vegetable puree served as tapas

Limpet

Method:

Steam cook the limpets for 4 minutes, separate them from the shells, roughly chop them and leave to stand.

Steam cook the cauliflower too, make a very fine puree and heat it in a small pan just to evaporate the excess water; season with salt and pepper. Leave to stand, then heat up a frying pan with a bit of olive oil and add the ginger (to taste). Put the limpets in and sautée them quickly.

Presentation:

Place a small amount of cauliflower puree in a limpet shell and put a drop of olive oil onto the limpets with the ginger.

Mackerel

Ingredients:

1 Fresh filleted mackerel without bones

100g of frozen peas

1 small sweet potato

Method:

Cook the peas, then mush and strain them. Make a fine puree seasoned only with salt. Leave to stand.

Cut the sweet potato into fine strips and make chips in oil at 180ºc. Leave to stand.

Season the mackerel with salt, pepper, crushed coriander seeds and olive oil.

Sautée them quickly

Completion:

Place some pea puree onto the sweet potato chips and place a small mackerel fillet on top.

 

Swordfish

Ingredients:

Swordfish

Small onions

White corn flour cooked traditionally Madeiran way

Salt and pepper

Paprika

Olive oil

 

Method:

Bake small unpeeled onions for 15 minutes. Cut off the top, remove the middle of the onion in order to stuff them, then season with salt and pepper and a dash of olive oil. Leave to stand.

Cook 100g of white corn flour in traditional Madeiran fashion, finishing off with sautéed, caramelized onion to be added once cooked. Put the quantity of corn desired inside the onion and leave to stand.

Cut a swordfish fillet into very fine, small strips, season them with paprika, salt, wrap in flour and deep fry until they are crunchy. Put the swordfish onto the sweet corn and serve.

Chef João Espírito Santo
FN Hotelaria