Rack of Lamb with Lamb Pâté & Sea Herb Coulis

This sophisticated lamb recipe was provided by Chef Deni Srdoč, Croatia’s youngest Michelin-Star Chef. He is the Head Chef of Draga di Lovrana located in the beautiful Kvarner region of Croatia.

Ingredients · Servings 4

2 lbs French lamb rack
1 ¾ oz butter
1/3 tsp salt
1 tbsp sunflower oil
1 tsp pepper
2 bay leafs
1 sprig thyme
1 sprig rosemary
3 ½ oz lamb liver
2 oz butter
1/2 oz chopped onions
1/2 tsp pepper
1/3 tsp dried garlic
1 tsp dried thyme
10 tsp dried marjoram
1/5 tsp dried juniper berries
1/2 tsp dried allspice
2 ⅓ tbsp vermouth
2 ⅓ tbsp sweet wine
1 ⅔ oz eggs
2 ⅓ tbsp heavy cream
2 tbsp flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 ½ tsp flour
2/5 tsp butter
1/8 tsp salt
1/3 tsp powdered sugar
1 tsp egg whites
9 oz sea kale
3 ½ oz potatoes
1 oz butter
1 ½ tbsp olive oil
1 ⅕ tsp salt
2 tsp pepper
2/3 tsp garlic
1 tsp rock samphire
1/2 tbsp sea beet
1 tsp salicornia
0.08 tsp salt
1 tsp olive ol

Method · 1 h 30 min

Clean and trim the lamb back of the French rack. The bones and trimmings will be used for the sauce.
Wrap the meat in foil and vacuum it.
Cook it sous vide at 54°C/ 130°F for 30 minutes.
Before serving, heat the pan with oil and put the lamb back, skin side down, to get a golden crust. Then, flip it and add butter and the herbs, after which you baste it for a minute.
Let it rest for 5 minutes and then cut off the outer parts.
Put all the ingredients together in a thermomix and then mix them at the highest speed until they form a homogeneous mixture.
Put the mixture through the chinois strainer.
Vacuum it and cook it sous vide at 96 °C/200°F until the temperature of the mixture is at 80 °C/ 175° F.
When it is cooked, put it in ice water and then in a mixer. Mix it until you get a creamy paté.
Before the serving, put it in a pastry bag and then, squeeze it out in the length of the crisp. Decorate the liver pate with the wild herbs and flowers. Set it on the crisp.
Put all the ingredients together in a bowl and mix them until you get a smooth texture.
Use a little pastry spatula to spread it on a silpat using a form.
Bake it at 190 °C/ 375° F until it turns a golden color.
Cut the sea kale into small pieces and cook it in water until it is soft.
Peel and cut the potatoes into small pieces and cook them until they are cooked.
Put the aluminum pan at high heat and add olive oil and garlic. After 10 seconds, add the sea kale and potatoes, and mash them together.
Add butter, salt and pepper, and cook until you get a beautiful side dish.
For the serving of the sea kale when it is hot, make a ball shape and toss it in the dried pulverized sea kale leaves.
Put all the ingredients together in the thermomix and blend them at the highest speed until you get a smooth coulis.
Before serving, keep it refrigerated.
Mix the eggs and anchovies with a stick hand blender until you receive a smooth texture.
Add, little by little, the oil until you get a mayonnaise texture.
Keep refrigerated until serving.
Roast the trimmings and the bones together with the vegetables which are cut into small pieces, until you get a golden brown color.
Take it out of the oven and put it on the stove at the highest heat and deglaze it with white wine.
When the alcohol has evaporated, put all the bones and the sauce in a pot.
Add water so that the bones are covered and cook for two hours.
After that, strain and reduce it until you get a nice and thick sauce.
Before serving, add butter, salt and pepper.
First, put the liver paté in a small and high plate. Beneath the paté is the crisp and on top of the pate are beautiful wild herbs and flowers.

This recipe is one of his signature dishes that celebrates his Krk Island roots. Recipe published with the help of the Croatian National Tourist Board.

Island kirk lamb:

Lamb liver pate:

Crisp:

Sea kale "Na Pandelu":

Sea herb coulis:

1 ⅓ tbsp water
1/2 tsp vegetable emulsifier

Salted anchovy mayonnaise:

10 pieces salted anchovies fillets
1 ⅓ tbsp eggs
1/2 cup sunflower oil

Lamb sauce:

lamb bones
lamb trimmings
3/4 oz onions
1 ½ oz carrot
1 ⅔ tsp garlic
1 ½ oz celery root
2 ½ tbsp butter
4/5 cup white wine

Plating and presentation:

sea kale leaves
a handful wild herbs and flowers
fermented sea kale leaf in wine marc
salted anchovy fillet
blanched sea herbs

How to Cook Island Krk Lamb:

How to Cook Lamb Liver Paté:

How to Make the Crisp:

How to Cook Sea Kale “Na Padelu”:

How to Make Sea Herb Coulis:

How to Make Salted Anchovy Mayonnaise:

How to Make the Lamb Sauce:

For the main plate, take the fermented sea kale and put it on the right side of the plate. On top of it, we put the sea kale ball. On the left side, we plate the lamb with its skin side up and parallel to the sea kale.
Between those two, we make a beautiful dot of salted anchovies mayonnaise and on top of it, we put a small fillet.
Between the salted anchovies mayonnaise and the lamb back we put the lamb sauce, and between the salted anchovies mayonnaise and the sea kale we put the sea herbs coulis.
We decorate the plate a little with blanched sea herbs.