Top Chef ™
Baker:
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Fried Pickled Mushrooms, Steak Tartare and Duonnaise
Tristen asks: "Shuai, how're you feeling about the cornichons?"
Shuai: "Probably my fourth favorite pickle. We want to start the menu on the lighter side, so I'll be making fried pickled mushrooms with steak tartare and Dijonnaise."
Presenting to Judges
Shuai: "I'm starting our team's progression with a little hors d'oeuvre here of fried pickled mushroom, tartare and dijonnaise. And the pickled fried mushroom is more the main thing. The tartare kind of adds more richness to the pickle. Looking for, like, a trashy, fancy feel. You get, like, the fried chicken with the caviar on top. So this should give you that same kind of vibe."
Kristen Kish: "Your mushroom inside was fried in pickle juice?"
Shuai: "I took the pickle liquid in the cornichon containers, and I hot pickled the mushrooms in that."
Danny Garcia (winner of Top Chef Season 21 ™): "Shuai, I think your pickle fried mushroom had enormous pickled flavor. The tipping point for me was just the tartare could have just been presented in a slightly tighter way."
