Kiko Moya

L’Escaleta (Cocentaina, Alicante)

Flower

With saffron

Preparation

For the zabaione:

  • Put the butter and saffron together to steep for 4 hours at 55 ºC.
  • Mix the egg yolks, rose water and wine together.
  • Whip the mixture in a bain-marie. Next, add the butter with saffron and continue whipping until the mixture begins to firm up. Drain and put in a siphon bottle with a double charge.

For the pickled roses:

  • Bring the honey, vinegar and rose water to a boil. Afterwords, pour the hot mixture over the rose petals and, over heat, close the container in order to pasteurise the pickled roses.
  • Let it marinate for at least a week. At the end of that time, triturate the pickling liquid until homogeneous.

Presentation

On the plate, place a dot of pickled rose and then the zabaione, pollen, the lyophilised raspberry and the flowers.

Meaning

The humble, delicate origin of the saffron contrasts both with its economic value and its flavour, which permeates thousands of such important recipes in our culture.
This dish tries to showcase precisely its origin: a flower It is important for the texture and flavour of the fresh pollen of aromatic plants of Montcabrer that the bees gather in their hives.

A hundred years of cooking with spices

Ingredients for 4 people

For the saffron zabaione:
50 g of pasteurised egg yolk
100 g of white wine
100 g of butter
20 g of rose water
0.5 g of Carmencita saffron
Fresh pollen
Lyophilised raspberry
Fresh flowers
Flower of Sichuan pepper

Pickled roses:
180 g of honey
140 g of rose water
140 g of vinegar
2 g of xanthan gum
Rose petals

A hundred years of cooking with spices

Kiko Moyaeeee

L’Escaleta (Cocentaina, Alicante)

Flower

With saffron

Ingredients for 4 people

For the saffron zabaione:
50 g of pasteurised egg yolk
100 g of white wine
100 g of butter
20 g of rose water
0.5 g of Carmencita saffron
Fresh pollen
Lyophilised raspberry
Fresh flowers
Flower of Sichuan pepper

Pickled roses:
180 g of honey
140 g of rose water
140 g of vinegar
2 g of xanthan
Rose petals

Preparation

For the zabaione:

  • Put the butter and saffron together to steep for 4 hours at 55 ºC.
  • Mix the egg yolks, rose water and wine together.
  • Whip the mixture in a bain-marie. Next, add the butter with saffron and continue whipping until the mixture begins to firm up. Drain and put in a siphon bottle with a double charge.

For the pickled roses:

  • Bring the honey, vinegar and rose water to a boil. Afterwords, pour the hot mixture over the rose petals and, over heat, close the container in order to pasteurise the pickled roses.
  • Let it marinate for at least a week. At the end of that time, triturate the pickling liquid until homogeneous.

Presentation

On the plate, place a dot of pickled rose and then the zabaione, pollen, the lyophilised raspberry and the flowers.

Meaning

The humble, delicate origin of the saffron contrasts both with its economic value and its flavour, which permeates thousands of such important recipes in our culture.
This dish tries to showcase precisely its origin: a flower It is important for the texture and flavour of the fresh pollen of aromatic plants of Montcabrer that the bees gather in their hives.