Jero'S Eye-Opener Lettuce-Free Salad
- INGREDIENTS FOR ONE SERVING:
- 1 quail egg
- 1/2 pitted Manzanilla olive (You will need the one half with the larger, round hole. The diameter of this hole should approximately equal the diameter of your plastic straw)
- 1 slice of pumpernickel (you are going to use just a fraction of it)
- some drops of olive oil (extra virgin)
- a pinch of Spanish sweet "pimenton" (Sweet paprika will do)
- some Balsamico vinegar
- a pinch of sea salt. (If you don't count the salt, this recipe can be considered as a "five-or-less-ingredients-recipe" -So, let's please do NOT count the salt as a full ingredient!)
- Some preliminary notes: rn- You will need a small dish and a a spoon.rn- You will also need a sharp knife, a small tea spoon and a plastic straw.rn- You are going to sculpt an eye out of your ingredients.rn- DID YOU KNOW...? the German word "Ei" -pronounced "eye"- means "egg")rn- Good luck...rnrn-INSTRUCTIONS FOR ONE SERVING:
- Boil the quail egg for 5 minutes.
- With the help of the plastic straw, use a sharp knife to cut some circular portions out of the pumpernickel slice. Cut out as many pumpernickel circles as needed to fill the inner void of the 1/2 olive completely with pumpernickel.
- Peel the hard-boiled quail egg and bring it to a lying position (on its side) on top of a cutting board.rnYour goal now is to cut out a lateral slice or "cap" of approximately 25% of the thickness of the egg. (This slice or "cap" is of no use for purposes of this dish.)
- Through the resulting opening, take out very carefully all of the egg yolk, using the knife and the small tea spoon.
- Now insert the pumpernickel-filled 1/2 olive in place of the extracted egg yolk. Yours is the choice regarding which end of the pumpernickel-filled 1/2 olive will face outwards (the flat endor the rounded end)... But, by all means, the three round(-ish) cuts (the cut in the egg white, the cut in the olive and the cut around the pumpernickel) should be aligned all visibly and concentrically.
- What you got now should resemble a human(?) eye.
- Mash the egg yolk with some olive oil and sweet Pimenton (or sweet paprika) powder and some sea salt to your liking. rnPut this mixture on a spoon
- Place the arranged egg on top of the egg yolk mixture on the spoon.
- Place the loaded spoon on a small dish, in order to keep it from falling/spilling.
- Draw a quick "Zorro" mark over the "eye" with balsamico vinegar (to simbolize some eyelashes).
- Cover your work with a lettuce leaf
- Now, please... don't forget the previously discussed serving ritual.
- Enjoy shared tears of enlightenment, as lettuce veils fall from everyone's eyes!
ingredients, egg, manzanilla olive, pumpernickel, drops of olive oil, pimentufn, vinegar, salt
Taken from food52.com/recipes/35840-jero-s-eye-opener-lettuce-free-salad (may not work)