Biscuits and Gravy Benedicts

Biscuits and Gravy Benedicts

Recipe by William Colsher

Yield: 2 servings

Calories per serving: Half of 'em
Fat per serving: HaHaHaHa

Ingredients

• 300 grams Milk
• 1 Dried Ancho Chili


• 4 Large Eggs - 2 per serving


• 185 grams AP Flour
• 185 grams Cake Flour
• 12 grams Baking Powder
• 12.5 grams Sugar
• 3.25 grams Salt
• 113 grams (1 stick) Cold Butter, cut into half inch chunks
• 165 grams Milk or Butter Milk


• 160 grams Bulk Breakfast Sausage
• 40 grams Rendered Bacon Fat
• 15 grams AP Flour


• 250 grams Bulk Breakfast Sausage

Cooking Directions

Ancho Milk





1. Cut the ancho chili in half and remove the stem and seeds.
2. In a small sauce pan combine the milk and chili and bring to a simmer over medium heat.
3. Allow the mixture to cool, then transfer it to an airtight container.
4. Seal the container and place it in the refrigerator overnight. Place the bowl of the food processor and the metal blade in the freezer.

63° Eggs - Part 1

5. Preheat a water bath to 63° C. Preheat your oven to 425° F
6. Place the eggs in a bowl so they do not bang around and lower it into the water bath.



Into the pool with the 72 Hour Short Ribs

7. Cook for 50 minutes. If the eggs are not to be served immediately they may be chilled in an ice bath and refrigerated for 2 or 3 days and re-warmed at 55° C prior to service.

Biscuits




8. Combine the dry ingredients and sift them into the chilled bowl of the food processor fitted with the chilled metal blade.
9. Add the butter and pulse the mixture until it is well combined.





10. Add the milk in a stream and continue to pulse just until a ball begins to form.





11. On a floured surface roll the dough out to about a half inch thickness. 





12. Cut 3 inch circles and place them on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.
13. Bake the biscuits in the 425° F oven for 15 minutes or until puffed and golden brown.

Sausage Gravy

14. Bring the Ancho milk to a simmer in a small sauce pan.





15. Melt the rendered bacon fat in a saucepan over medium and add the crumbled sausage. Cook until the sausage is well browned.
16. Sprinkle the flour over the sausage and mix well. Cook, stirring, for a minute without browning the flour.
17. Slowly add the Ancho milk, whisking constantly. 
18. Continue cooking, whisking until the mixture thickens. Add more milk if the mixture is too thick or beurre manie if too thin.





19. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Sausage Patties





20. Make 2 sausage patties per serving and fry over medium heat until done to taste. They should be as wide as the biscuits and as thick as you like them.
21. Cover and keep warm.

63° Eggs Part 2

22. Bring a sauce pan of water deep enough for the eggs to be completely submerged to a simmer.
23. Crack the large end of a 63° egg and carefully trim away the shell and membrane back to the widest part of the egg shell.





Ready for a quick poach



24. Bloop the egg out into a small bowl and carefully lift it out with a slotted spoon. Discard the loose white bits.
25. Carefully transfer the egg to the simmering water and gently give it a spin. Let it cook for 30 seconds. Just long enough to firm up the white. Gently set the egg on paper towels to drain and repeat for each egg.

Assembly





26. Halve a biscuit horizontally and place the halves on a plate.





27. Place a sausage patty on each biscuit half.





28. Carefully place a 63° egg on each sausage patty.
29. Cover the whole thing with sausage gravy.
30. Serve immediately.

Notes:

Biscuits - I'm the worst biscuit maker on the planet. Feel free to ignore that recipe and use your favorite.

63° Eggs: If you don't have an immersion circulator (why not?) poach 'em the old fashioned way. Once you make 63° Eggs you'll never go back to the old way.

Short Rib Eggs Benedict

Short Rib Eggs Benedict

Recipe by William Colsher

When I'm not cooking stuff from elBulli 2005-2011 I've been on a sort of Eggs Benedict trip lately. This week I decided to go with super tender sous vide short rib for the meat and replaced the English muffin with potato pancakes.

Yield: 2 servings

Calories per serving: Don't ask
Fat per serving: Plenty

Ingredients

• 7 Large Eggs
• 3 Meaty Short Rib Chunks
• 2 Medium Russet Potatoes
• 1/2 Large Onion
• 1/4 lb Butter
• 1 Lemon
• Salt
• Pepper
• Olive oil
• Cayenne

Cooking Directions

Short Ribs:



1. Seal the short ribs in a vacuum cooking bag and cook in a water bath at 185 F for 12 hours.
2. Remove them from the bath, chill in an ice bath and then refrigerate until you're ready to serve.

Potato Pancakes:


3. Preheat your oven at the lowest temperature available - about 170F
4. Peel the Potatoes and onion.

5. Grate both onto a clean kitchen towel, then squeeze out as much water as possible.

6. In a bowl large enough to hold the potatoes and onion beat one egg, then add the potatoes and onions, season to taste and mix well.
7. Warm a large skillet over medium high heat and film with olive oil.

8. Form the potato mixture into four pancakes and fry the slowly until golden on one side, then flip and repeat.
9. Place the pancakes, covered, in a warm oven.

Finish the Short Ribs:


10. Remove the short ribs from the cooking bag and clean them of excess fat, and connective tissue. Remove the bones if necessary.
11. Heat a small non-stick skillet on high and film with olive oil.

12. Brown the short ribs well on all sides, then place them covered in the oven to heat through.

Make the Hollandaise:


13. Melt 1/4 pound of butter.
14. Place two eggs yolks, the juice of the lemon and a pinch of cayenne pepper in a small pan set over simmering water.
15. Slowly add the hot melted butter, whisking constantly.
16. Continue whisking until the Hollandaise thickens.
17. Set the Hollandaise aside covered.

Make the Poached Eggs:


18. In a pan of simmering water poach the remaining 4 eggs.
19. Set them aside on a clean kitchen towel to drain.

Assemble the Benedicts:


20. Remove the short ribs from the oven and gently shred the meat. You want it sort of chunky. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

21. Place 2 potato pancakes on each serving plate.

22. Top the pancakes with the short rib meat.

23. Top the short rib meat the poached eggs,
24. Pour a couple tablespoons of Hollandaise over each Benedict.
25. Serve immediately.