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Port Braised Beef Cheek Cannelloni with Grain Mustard Creamed Spinach and Seared Foie Gras

Recipe by chef Randy Feltis Find the chef on his Instagram account: @chefrandyfeltis

2
20'

Ingredients

Beef:

  • 2 beef cheeks, cleaned

  • 2 cups port

  • 4 cups beef stock (1 L)

  • 3 cloves garlic halved

  • 2 shallots sliced

  • 1 kosher salt and pepper to taste

  • 1 splash extra virgin olive oil

Pasta:

  • 1 cup 00 pasta flour (132 g)

  • 4 egg yolks

  • 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil (15 ml)

  • 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt (1 g)

  • 1 egg wash

Spinach:

  • 2 cups spinach, cleaned and chopped (60 g)

  • 1/4 tsp chilli paste (1.25 ml)

  • 1/4 cup white wine (62.5 ml)

  • 1/2 cup heavy cream (125 ml)

  • 2 Tbsp Maille Old Style Mustard (30 ml)

  • 2 pearl onions halved

  • 1 splash Maille white wine vinegar

Foie Gras:

  • 1/2 lobe Foie Gras portioned into 4

Instructions

  1. Season and sear cheeks in a heavy medium size sauce pot.

  2. Deglaze with port, reduce by half. Toss in garlic and shallots. Add stock, cover and simmer for 2-3 hours. Turning every hour.

  3. Remove from sauce and let rest. Break up with your hands, it should fall apart with little pressure.

Pasta:

  1. Mix all ingredients and knead for 8 minutes or until smooth, wrap and let rest for 15 minutes.

  2. Put through the pasta bike until almost transparent.

  3. Place beef cheek across the width and roll into a beef cheek cannelloni, egg wash shut and cut. Repeat

  4. Place cannelloni back into pot with sauce and simmer with lid for 3 minutes

Spinach:

  1. Toast chilli paste and pearl onions. Add spinach, deglaze with white wine. Remove pearl onion, season, add cream, mustard and reduce.

  2. Re-season with a splash of white wine vinegar.

Foie Gras:

  1. Score and season the Foie Gras. Drop into a smoking hot cast iron and do not move until the fat turns a little dark. 1-1.5 minutes. Flip and repeat. Remove

Plate:

  1. Lay down creamed spinach. Top with two cannelloni, garnish with onion layers and crown with seared Foie Gras