WILDLACHS MIT LAUCHPUREE, (WILD SALMON WITH LEEK PUREE)
For 4 Persons

For the Potato leek puree:   

50 grams peeled potatoes, salt
20 grams butter, ground nutmeg
100 grams hot milk
2-3 tablespoons leek paste
1-2 tablespoons heavy cream

Cut the potatoes into quarters and boil in lightly salted water until soft. Strain the water and pass the potatoes through a mill or ricer. Add butter, ground nutmeg, hot milk and salt to puree. Finish with the leek paste and heavy cream, and blend thoroughly.

For the salmon:   

4 wild salmon filets, salt
150 grams butter, lemon juice
|4 teaspoons caviar

While the potatoes are cooking, place the salmon next to each other and coat with melted butter. Cover the fish with foil and place on a lower rack in the oven, cook in a hot oven for about 10-12 minutes; depending on the thickness of the filets, you might need to cook them a few minutes more. Remove from the salmon from the oven and set aside.

Heat the remaining butter until is foaming, then add salt, pepper, and lemon juice and whisk together.

Presentation: 

Place the salmon filets on four plates with the potato leek puree next to the salmon. Pour a little brown butter on the salmon, and top the potato leek puree with the caviar.

GESCHMORTE KALBSBACKERL, (BRAISED VEAL CHEEKS)
For approximately 6 Persons

For the Veal Cheeks:   

1½ kilograms veal cheeks, trimmed and cut
Salt, and fresh ground white pepper from a pepper mill
Oil to coat
250 grams onion, coarsely chopped
300 grams carrots cut lengthwise, and then coarsely chopped
250 grams celery stalk, coarsely chopped widthwise
2 garlic cloves, sliced to add to 2 artichokes that have been washed and cut in half
½ liter dry white wine
juice of 1 orange and 1 lemon
1 box peeled tomatoes (about 1 kilo)
5 ripe tomatoes, diced
2-3 liters water or stock
1 branch of rosemary and thyme
2 bay leaves
1 potato, grated (a meatier potato like an Idaho, not a softer potato)

Preparation:  

½ leek cut in circles
1 teaspoon butter, salt

Season the veal cheeks with salt and white pepper, put in a large roasting pan, and braise the veal in the hot oil. Add onions, carrots, celery and garlic and roast briefly along with the veal. Add the wine, juice, peeled tomatoes and diced tomatoes, artichokes and scantily cover with water or stock. Add the thyme, rosemary, bay leaves, salt, salt and pepper and slowly bring to a simmer. Add the grated potato and cook with the veal cheeks for about 1½ hours depending on the oven and the quality of the meat), until the meat is tender. When the meat is tender, remove the branches of thyme and rosemary, and remove the bay leaves. Remove the veal cheeks, and the pieces of carrots, celery and artichokes. Pass the remaining vegetables through a fine sieve. The potato and vegetable sauce will have a smooth consistency. Put the meat and vegetables back into the sauce and season to taste. Briefly sauté the leeks with the butter and salt.

Presentation:  

Serve the braised veal cheeks and the vegetables over a puree, noodles or dumplings and garnish with the sautéed leeks.

ZITRONEN-CRÊPES MIT WALDERDBEEREN (LEMON CRÊPES WITH WILD STRAWBERRIES)
For 8 Persons

For the Crêpes:   

200 ml milk
2 egg yolks
65 grams milk
1 package vanilla sugar
50 grams brown butter
butter for cooking
For the lemon cream
1¾ sheets of unflavored gelatin
juice of 1½ lemons
50 ml white wine
3 egg yolks
zest of 1 lemon
5 grams sugar
200 grams heavy cream, whipped
250 grams whole wild strawberries,
To serve
250 grams whole wild strawberries
powdered sugar mixed with a little Grand Marnier
100 grams whipped cream
small mint leaves

For the crêpes: Take the milk out of the refrigerator at least 1 hour before preparing the crêpes. Sift the flour with the milk and egg yolks and mix until smooth. Add the vanilla sugar and brown butter, beat, cover and then let it rest for 30 minutes. Add a little butter to the crêpe pan and the batter to form 8 crêpes.

For the lemon cream: Soak the gelatin in cold water in a saucepan. Add the lemon juice and white wine, egg yolk, lemon zest and sugar. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. To quick set the gelatin, remove the pan from the heat, and plunge into a bowl filled with cold water and ice. Whisk the mixture to cool it. When cool and it begins to gel, carefully fold in the whipped cream. End by mixing in the whole wild strawberries.

Fill a pastry bag with the lemon berry cream, and pipe one thick strip (about 3 cm) along one side of the crepe. Roll the crêpe. Continue this process with each of the crêpes, and then roll each crêpe individually in cling film or plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 1-2 hours.

Take the wild strawberries and dust them generously with powdered sugar. Press to release their juice, puree and pass through a fine sieve. Add a few drops of Grand Marnier to the wild strawberry puree. Add the rest of the wild strawberries to the puree.

Remove the crêpes from the refrigerator, remove plastic wrap, and slice each crêpe twice diagonally. Spoon the strawberries and puree over the crêpes. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and garnish with mint leaves.

Chef Michael Rieg of BistroRestaurant at the Kempinski Vier Jahreszeiten Munich four-course Bavarian Menu:

CARPACCIO OF VEAL FILET WITH ARTICHOKES AND RAW MARINATED CEP

1 veal filet, about 600 grams
2 artichokes
8 cepes, small, so-called Champagne mushrooms
1 bunch of parsley
2 branches of thyme
1 lemon
1 garlic clove
olive oil, salt, pepper

Remove the fat and tendons from the veal filet and carefully cut into it lengthwise, but do not cut all the way through. Softly pound the meat between cling film. Pick, wash, and dry the parsley. Process the parsley in a mixer with some olive oil and fine lemon gratings to create a purée and spread this onto the veal filet. Roll up the meat and wrap it securely in cling film (plastic wrap). Place in a freezer for two hours to make it easier to cut the meat. Clean the artichokes and cut them crosswise into very thin slices. Add the seasoning to these and fry them in a liberal amount of olive oil with some thyme and garlic, constantly turning them until crispy and golden yellow in color. Add chopped parsley and lemon juice to taste. Carefully clean the small mushrooms with a moist towel and cut them lengthwise into very thin slices, and then marinate them in olive oil, salt, pepper, and lemons. Retrieve the chilled veal filet and preferably use a meat-slicer to cut them into wafer-thin slices and arrange them uniformly on a plate. Add seasoning. Spread the artichokes and mushrooms on top. Sprinkle with finely grated Parmesan if desired.

SEAWOLF (WOLF FISH) BAKED IN SALT CRUST WITH FENNEL, TOMATOES, AND OLIVES

1 wolf fish about 1½ kilograms
2-3 fennel bulbs
1 lemon
3 branches of thyme
2 cloves of garlic
½ bunch of basil
½ bunch of dill
2½ kilograms of coarse, moist sea salt (Sel de Guerande)
approximately 100 grams egg whites
6 bunches of tomatoes
150 grams black olives
50 ml olive oil
4 cl Pernod
50 ml fish juices

Gut the Seawolf through the belly and clean thoroughly. Remove the gills. Do not scale the fish!!! Fill the belly cavity with one slice of lemon, the outer layer of the fennel, the garlic cloves, thyme, and dill branch. Mix the coarse salt with the whipped egg white and create on a baking tray an approximately 1-cm thick layer in the size and shape of the fish. Place the fish on the sheet and coat it uniformly with the rest of the salt. Preheat the oven to 180 °C and bake the fish for about 25 minutes. Wash the fennel bulbs and cut them lengthwise into sections, slowly brown them in olive oil, add spices, Pernod and cook down. Pour in the fish juices. Remove skin from tomatoes, cut them into quarters, and remove seeds. Slightly steam the fennel in the pot and fold in the tomato pieces shortly before serving. Cut the olives into slices and add. Finely chop the basil and dill and add to the fennel-tomato mixture. Carefully knock the baked seawolf from the salt crust, making sure that no skin remains on the fish.

PUMPKIN RISOTTO WITH SALCICCIA AND GLAZED PEARL ONIONS

500 grams Muscat pumpkin
½ tablespoon of tomato purée
½ tablespoon of mild ground red pepper
1 dash of caraway, ground
parsley, thyme
1 Salsiccia or another smoked salami
300 grams pearl onions
50 grams sugar
100 ml cider vinegar
100 ml chicken jus
50 grams butter
120 grams risotto rice
1 shallot
100 ml Prosecco
1 liter chicken or vegetable broth
100 grams finely ground Parmesan
100 grams butter
olive oil, lemon, salt, pepper

Finely grate the pumpkin on a grater, then slowly brown in a pot with a small amount of olive oil, add spices, tomato purée, ground red pepper, and caraway. Cover with a lid, place in oven and allow it to stew slightly for about 30 minutes at 160 °C. Then pass the pumpkin purée through a sieve in order to obtain a fine purée. Place the pearl onions in warm water for 15 minutes so that they can be more easily pealed. Cook the sugar with a few drops of water to create a golden yellow caramel, add cider vinegar, and reduce. Glaze to creamy consistency with some butter and add the pealed small onions. Pour in the chicken jus. Allow it to stew in the oven for about 15 minutes. Cut the shallot into fine cubes and slowly brown in a pot with olive oil. Add the risotto rice, salt, and brown quickly with other ingredients. Add Prosecco and cook into mash. Occasionally add hot broth and allow it to thicken. Shortly before the risotto grain is done (after about 18-20 minutes), add the pumpkin purée and the pearl onions. When the grain is “al dente”, glaze the risotto with cold butter and the Parmesan; season to taste, and at the very end fold in the Salsiccia (cut into thin slices). Finish with chopped parsley and thyme.

FILLED CHOCOLATE SESAME SHEETS WITH MANGO GINGER SAUCE

200 grams dark chocolate coating
50 grams sesame seeds

For the chocolate sheets, heat the chocolate coating to 32 °C and spread a thin layer onto a sheet of baking paper. Before the chocolate hardens, sprinkle on the sesame seeds. Use a round cutter to cut out the sheets (diameter about 6-7 cm). Allow the chocolate coating to cool for another 30 minutes, then remove the sheets from the baking paper and set them aside.

140 grams dark chocolate coating
100 grams milk chocolate coating
3 egg yolks
35 ml chocolate liqueur (or mint or coffee liqueur)
330 grams whipped cream
4 egg whites
30 grams sugar

Allow both chocolate coatings together to melt in a water bath at about 35 °C. Beat the egg yolks and the liqueur together until fluffy. Fold in the whipped cream. Carefully fold this mixture very gently into the chocolate coating at 35 °C. Beat the egg whites and the sugar to snow and fold under the mousse. Allow the finished mass to stand for about 3 hours to cool.

3 fresh, ripe mangos
80 grams Gomme sugar
1 ginger bulb

Peel the mangos and ginger and cut into small pieces. Together with the Gomme sugar, boil up once briefly, mix, and push through a fine sieve. Allow to cool.