For the “Sand”

Name: For the “Sand”
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 200 g (7 oz.) crispy fried panko bread crumbs, fried in grapeseed oil until golden brown and then lightly ground; 640 g (21 oz.) N-Zorbit tapioca maltodextrin; 7 g salt; 890 g (30 oz.) miso oil; 108.5 g (3½ oz.) blue shimmer powder; 45 g (1½ oz.) shirasu (baby Japanese anchovies), fried in grapeseed oil until golden brown; 20 g cod liver oil; 7.5 g bonito furikake per 100 g sand; 35 g (1 oz.) chopped Grape-Nuts, fried

Preparation info

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

Umami

By Thomas Keller , Harold McGee , Michael Anthony , Heston Blumenthal , Alexandre Bourdas , David Kinch , Virgilio Martinez , Nobu Matsuhisa , Yoshihiro Murata and Pedro Miguel Schiaffino

Published 2014

About

Ingredients

640 g (21 oz.) N-Zorbit tapioca maltodextrin
108.5 g (3½

Europe
United Kingdom
Starter
Pescatarian

Method

Combine the tapioca maltodextrin with the blue shimmer powder and mix well, add the miso oil gradually while whisking until the mix resembles sand. Season with sea salt, add panko, fold in well, and then the Grape-Nuts. Add the shirasu and cod liver oil and reserve in an airtight container. Just before serving, mix in 7.5