Roe Deer Tartare with Charcoal and Worcestershire Sauce
Folly Restaurant

Ingredients
- 200g diced Venison shoulder
30g chopped shallots (rinsed in cold water)
- Curing Salt:
500g Salt
500g Sugar
70g 5 Spice
- Worcestershire Sauce Gel:
650g Worcestershire Sauce
350g Mineral Water
15g Agar Agar
- Egg Yolk Confit:
15x Egg Yolks
2g Salt
- Cornichons:
500g Cucumber
130g Salt
450g Water
3x Cloves
2x Bay Leaves
1x Garlic Clove
20x Black Peppercorns
- Shallot Rings:
2x Medium banana shallots
Plain flour
Table Salt
- Charcoal vinaigrette:
250g Pomace charcoal oil (pomace olive oil infused with hot charcoal)
50g White Vinegar
Directions
Curing Salt:
- Combine salt, sugar, and spice together in a bowl, set aside.
- Remove all sinew from the shoulders of the meat
- Cover completely with cure mixture and leave in the fridge for 4 hours.
- Remove salt and rinse in cold water. Leave on drying rack for another 4 hours.
- Dice the meat into 1/2 cm sized cubes, allowing 50g for each serving. Keep in a bowl in the fridge.
Worcestershire Sauce gel
- Whisk all ingredients together and bring to a boil.
- Blend in a bar blender then pour into a tray to set.
- Once firm, break into pieces and blend again until a smooth gel being careful not to over blend and make
warm as, this will ruin the end result.
- Pass through a fine sieve and keep in a squeezy bottle until needed.
Egg Yolk Confit:
- Place whole eggs in the water bath for 17 minutes at 75 degrees Celsius, then remove the yolks add salt.
- Pass through a fine sieve to give you a gel like appearance.
- Chill and keep in a piping bag.
Cornichons:
- Place cucumbers in a bowl, bring all other ingredients to the boil.
- Pour over cucumbers and
marinate for 4 weeks.
- To serve dice into 1 cm cubes and serve 5/7 per person.
Charcoal Vinaigrette:
- Blend the oil and vinegar together to emulsify, keep in a squeezy bottle leaving 3cm gap at the top as you need to shake to emulsify again just before using.
To assemble the tartare:
- In a small mixing bowl add the shoulder, shallots and a good dressingof the vinaigrette.
- Taste the seasoning and adjust if needed (but due to curing all should be perfect).
- Using a stainless steel ring or cutter, place equal amounts of the mix in and push flat to make a nice shape without squashing too hard.
- Remove the rings and squeeze 5 evenly spaced dots of Worcestershire gel on the surface.
- Do the same with the egg yolk, wherever there is space then place the cornichon dice, garnish with baby rocket cress and crispy shallot rings.
Information
- Category
- Appetizers
- Cuisine
- Other
- Yield
- 4