INGREDIENTS
4 x 120g snapper fillets
100g black bean paste
100g chives, finely chopped
Mushrooms
50ml grapeseed oil
80g shitake mushrooms, sliced
80g woodear mushrooms, trimmed
100ml chicken stock
80g honeycomb mushrooms, trimmed
40g mung bean sprouts
200ml tamari dressing
60g baby oyster mushrooms
Tamari dressing
60ml rice vinegar
¼ cup rice syrup
2 tablespoons tamari
125ml grapeseed oil
1 tablespoon water
1 teaspoon fresh ginger, finely grated
1 orange, juiced
Black bean paste
2 tablespoons minced ginger
2 tablespoons Shaoxing wine
1 teaspoon caster sugar
1 teaspoon tamari
3 tablespoons fermented Chinese black
beans, soaked in water and mashed
5 cloves fermented black garlic, finely
chopped
2 tablespoons peanut oil
Truffle oil to taste
METHOD
Bean paste
1. Heat oil in a saucepan on medium heat, Induction setting 7.
2. Add ginger and cook until fragrant and soft then add the wine, sugar
and tamari
3. Cook for a minute, then add the black beans and black garlic.
4. Stir into a paste consistency and add truffle oil to slightly flavour the
paste. The consistency should be easy to spread.
Tamari dressing
1. Combine all ingredients to make a dressing.
Mushrooms
1. In a frying pan, heat grapeseed oil on medium heat, Induction setting 7.
2. Add shitake mushrooms and cook for 2 minutes followed by the
woodear mushrooms.
3. Pour over chicken stock and reduce quickly, add honeycomb
mushroom and mung beans and stir well to combine.
4. Deglaze the frying pan with the tamari dressing and check the
seasoning.
5. Place the mushroom mixture into a bowl and mix through the raw oyster
mushrooms.
Snapper
1. Spread the bean paste over the fish and cover with chopped chives.
2. Place the fish in a perforated steam tray and Steam at 90°C for 4-5
minutes.
To serve
1. Portion the mushrooms into 4 bowls and place steamed fish on top.
2. Finish with the tamari dressing drizzled around the plate and serve.
Notes
1. The bean paste can be made ahead of time and frozen.
2. The tamari drressing can be kept for 1 week in an airtight container.
APPLIANCE / FUNCTION
Michael Meredith
Michael Meredith is one of New Zealand’s most creative chefs, and owner of elite-degustation restaurant Merediths. Michael, who is Samoan born, has earned his stellar reputation following the award of a scholarship to the Culinary Institute of America-spending time in New York, Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland’s best and ultimately by opening his own restaurant Merediths in 2007. A slew of awards for the sophisticated and intimate Mt Eden restaurant followed including the 2008 Metro Best New Restaurant Award and 2009 Metro Audi Restaurant “Supreme Winner” Award, 2011 Cuisine NZ Restaurant of the Year Award, Outstanding Chef of the Year Awards
