WARM SALAD OF SPROUTING BROCCOLI, MORELS AND DUCK EGG WITH CASHEW MILK AND ALMONDS
Ingredients
- 150g/5½oz cashews
- 4 duck eggs
- 50g/1¾oz butter
- 8 large morels
- chopped
- 300g/10½oz sprouting broccoli
- 2 tbsp fresh breadcrumbs
- 1 eryngii (king oyster) mushroom
- cut into thin slices
- 1 tsp roasted and salted almonds
- chopped
- to garnish
- 1 tsp mustard powder
- 1 tsp demerara sugar
- 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
- ½ clove of garlic
- minced
- 150ml/5fl oz vegetable oil
Directions
- To make the cashew milk
- preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4 and place the cashews onto a lined baking sheet. Bake for 10 minutes or until golden-brown. Place the nuts in 300ml/10fl oz water and soak for 2 hours. Blend the nuts and water in a liquidiser until you have a velvety dressing.
- Bring a pan of water to simmering and stir until it is circling. Crack an egg into the water and cook for 4½ minutes. Remove from the water and set aside. Repeat to cook the other eggs.
- Heat half the butter in a frying pan and cook the morels for 2 minutes. Set aside. Heat the remaining butter and cook the breadcrumbs until golden. Set aside.
- To make the vinaigrette
- whisk together all the ingredients in a small bowl.
- Blanch the broccoli in a pan of boiling water for 3 minutes then drain.
- To serve
- lay the broccoli on the serving plates. Dress with a little vinaigrette. Coat with the cashew cream. Place the egg
- morels and eryngii on top. Garnish with the breadcrumbs and almonds.

