Amber of anchovies

ingredients

4 people

For the red anchovy

1 tin piquillo peppers

salt

sugar

For the anchovies

12 anchovies

salt

olive oil

For the orange sauce

25 g olive oil

25 g orange, without membrane, finely chopped

2 g fried garlic, well chopped

5 g pickled gherkins, chopped

3 g rice vinegar

salt

sugar

powdered ginger

For the spiced cellulose

1 vanilla pod

2 g aniseed

fennel leaves

5 g starch

400 g water

For the fatty sauce

100 g tocino (pork fatback)

3 drops balsamic vinegar

chopped parsley

salt

method

For the red anchovy

Chop the peppers thoroughly. Season with salt and sugar. Spread the mixture between two sheets of paper and leave to dry at 60°C. Once dry, cut into slices the size of anchovy fillets.

For the anchovies

Clean the anchovies, leaving them in two fillets. Cover with salt for 30 minutes. Remove the salt and place them in olive oil.

For the orange sauce

Mix all the ingredients well and add salt. Reserve the mixture.

For the spiced cellulose

Open the vanilla pod in half and cook it in the water with the aniseed for 5 minutes. Blend with the starch and add fennel leaves. Leave to cook for a minute. Remove the vanilla pod and spread the mixture thinly between two sheets of paper. Leave to dry at 60°C. Set aside.

For the fatty sauce

Sauté the tocino and leave to cool. Chop with a knife to form a paste. Add the chopped parsley and vinegar. Season.

Cover the anchovies on the skin side with the dried pepper.

Put four coffee spoons of fatty sauce on the bottom of a shallow dish; arrange three red anchovies on this and another wrapped in on itself in the form of a package. Wrap the spiced cellulose over this last one. Drizzle the dish with orange sauce.

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