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Spanish Cod & Tortilla Salad
Saffron, honey and mandarin flavoured cod with a Spanish tortilla coated in purple airbrushed mornay sauce and topped with a beetroot rose, with boiled eggs, olives, spinach and romaine lettuce leaves and an avocado mustard dressing.
Michael: "My good friend Indigo and his lovely wife Maria, they're Spanish, so it's romance Andaluz — cod and oranges. And then with that, Spanish tortilla with avocado oil and then a manchego mornay sauce."
Anna: "Michael is cooking his cod in the water bath. It should just flake really nicely. He's going to make a manchego bechamel sauce, a traditional cheese found in Spain. He's going to cover his tortilla with that and then place a beetroot rose on top."
Anna: "Michael, your cod is under-seasoned and it's overcooked. Your vinaigrette is really tart, really bitter and under-seasoned."
Grace: "There's maybe four or five too many ideas on this plate. I'm not quite sure if the egg goes with the mandarin and it's my first time eating a lilac tortilla. It was quite difficult to get past that when I went to eat it because egg and lilac are quite off-putting. The beetroot rose is really very lovely. It's earthy and prettily arranged."
Jay Rayner: "I think more work went into the narrative than into thinking about how these things were going to balance up, because on the plate, they don't work."
Michael was eliminated.
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