Shrimp Noodles, Smoked Yogurt, Nori Powder

Recipe courtesy Wylie Dufresne of wd-50

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Total Time:
25 min
Prep
20 min
Cook
5 min
Yield:
4 servings
Level:
Difficult
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Ingredients

  • 1 pound peeled, deveined shrimp
  • 1/3 ounce Activa-TG (a kind of meat glue)
  • 1/2 ounce salt
  • Ground cayenne pepper
  • Smoked Yogurt Paprika, recipe follows
  • Prawn Crackers, recipe follows

Directions

Puree everything in a food processor, then pass through a very fine sieve or tamis. Place into a piping bag and pipe into a noodle maker (or extrusion machine). Arrange an immersion circulator (a water bath with a heating element that heats and circulates water) in a water bath set to 165 degrees F. Extrude all of the shrimp force into the bath. Using scissors, cut to desired noodle length. Place noodles in ice bath. Drain and separate. Store on parchment paper lightly coated with cooking spray.

Presentation: Reheat noodles in shrimp stock and olive oil. Paint the yogurt onto the plate and top with warm noodles and prawn crackers. Dust plate with nori powder and serve.

Cook's Notes: This dish illustrates well our work with the enzyme transglutaminase, an enzyme that has a wide range of culinary applications, one of which is restructured muscle food products. In the instance of this dish, the enzyme has been mixed with some shrimp meat and allowed to react in the desired shape under refrigerated conditions. Once set the restructured shrimp is then cooked and portioned. The applications become endless. We have been able to stick scallops together end to end, taken tail pieces from fish and combined them, shaped steaks into desired forms, etc. The ability of the enzyme to react with protein has given us tremendous possibilities.

This recipe was provided by professional chefs and may require tools and ingredients not normally available to the home cook. The Food Network Kitchens has not tested this recipe.

Smoked Yogurt Paprika:

1 cup yogurt smoked for 3 minutes*

3/4 teaspoon sweet paprika

Salt

Mix everything together and allow flavors to infuse for one hour.

*To smoke yogurt: spread it onto a heat proof plate, place it in a stove top smoker, and smoke as usual.

Yield: 1 cup

Prawn Crackers:

Vegetable oil for deep frying

5 pieces prawn crackers, crushed

Tomato powder

Salt

Heat vegetable oil in a deep fryer to 350 degrees F. Deep fry crackers until they puff. Drain from oil and dust with tomato powder and salt.

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  • on December 30, 2012

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    I was skeptical at first but it worked far better than I expected. The noodles were perfectly formed, did not stick, and were super tasty (our 4 year old daughter prefers them to the real thing. We didn't make the smoked yogurt or nori powder. My wife makes an awesome Maltese tomato sauce so we just served it with that. Only difference was that she underseasoned the sauce a bit so that the shrimp flavor in the noodle could shine through (and it did.

    To Rainier, I indeed extruded it directly into a 165F water bath (held constant in my water oven which I use for sous-vide applications. Other than pureeing and straining the shrimp, I did not "allow them to react" or refrigerate them in any way. Only change I will make next time (and there *will* be a next time soon is to buy a proper tamis to strain the puree. Otherwise, two thumbs up!

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  • on March 09, 2009

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    The recipe says to make the puree and extrude it directly into the 165F water bath. The Notes, on the other hand, say that the shrimp and Activa are allowed to react in the desired shape under refrigeration, and *then* cooked.

    Since the recipe instructions and the notes are so wildly at odds with each other, I have no idea how to proceed, and cannot make this extremely poorly-written recipe. Sorry, Wylie.

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