Shitake and filo mille feuille with red pepper pesto

Recipe for 2 pax

Time – 45 minutes

Ingredients
Shitake mushroom 60 gm
Red wine 100 ml
Rosemary a bit
Filo pastry a few
Red pepper 40 gm
Pine nuts 30 gm
Olive oil 40 ml
Fresh bread 20 gm
Shallots 20 gm
Garlic 10 gm
Butter 20 gm

Process

1. Take shitake mushroom. use fresh if there otherwise dry is fine ..
2. Soak it in warm water for 1 hr till it gets soft.
3. Cook It with red wine , chopped shallots , and garlic .
4. chill it in a refrigeration or under an ice bath .
5. cut the filo sheets in a neat square .
6. Line them and brush with butter.
7. Layer the glazed shitake neatly on top of the lined filo pastry
8. fold it from all the sides and make like a parcel
9 . freeze the parcels in a freezer .
10 . in the meanwhile roast the red pepper in a moderate oven (temp about 180 degree centigrade ) for 20 minutes , till it gets charred .
11.keep it in a covered container for 10 minutes
12. take the and pith   out of the peppers .
13. blend it with Pinenuts , parmesan cheese , olive oil and fresh bread . season and keep it cold .
14. bake the filo parcels at 200 degree centigrade for almost 15 minutes .
15 . cut and plate it with red pepper pesto and black olive .

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Chef Nishant Choubey
Executive Sous Chef
Dusit Devrana
Rinku Madan

Rinku Madan, an acclaimed Gourmand in India, recently completed her studies in Global Journalism at the Harvard University, Massachusetts (Grade A Honors) with the objective to pursue her writing skills in the area of Global Luxury. She had earlier studied at the French Culinary Institute in New York (an affiliate of Culinary Institute of America) to certify in the arena of Food Writing.