Snapper

Snapper

Potato and leek soup

I remembered talking with my chef in the walk-in few days about changing the set of our snapper at work and one idea was potato and leek soup. Even though we ended up choosing different set after all but I was a little interested about trying it out. When I saw snapper at fish section of local international grocery store, I just had to get it to try it out.

Creamy potato puree on the bottom, olive oil poached snapper, butter, cruton, freshly ground black pepper and last but not least different types of leek.

I was looking at really close look at leek today. It's a very common ingredient here but in Japan, you don't see it very often. We have scallions and some of them are looking somewhat like baby leek but definitely not as big as leeks. Anyway, I was looking at it from different angles. I cut a little slit on from top to bottom and I started taking a layer at a time so that I can get these square sheet of leek. I sticked a large sheet into a fryer first, since I was looking

for an idea. Why not right? Deep frying sounds like a pretty good place to start. I pulled it out a couple times to see what's going on and all the sudden it started to puff up like traditional pomme souffle which I thought was very interesting. After that I started cutting strips, squares circles, etc. I also noticed on the inner side of each layer, there is a very thin film like substance and so I started to carefully peeling these films and ..... deep fried it to see what happens. As a result, I got this thin transparent and crispy film.

It was pretty fun and interesting to take a look again at these common everyday ingredients in a different angle to see what else is hidden.