With just a small touch, you can turn everyday food into beautiful and perfect dishes worthy to be part of your SNS thread. Arisa Shirai continues to teach us her cuisine! With just a few ideas, an ordinary recipe can be shaped up to produce a photogenic masterpiece! Today we’ll be looking at her savoury parfait recipe that offers a new wonderful sensation — Potato salads parfait, the “Shopparfait”
■ Ingredients
・Macaroni 20g
・Potatoes 3
・Tomato pasta sauce 20g
・Ketchup 10g
・Fresh cream 20g
・Consommé 1g
・Basil sauce 20g
・Salt (to your tasting)
・Powdered parmesan cheese 5g
・Cherry tomatoes 8
・Cream cheese 25g
・Preboiled and peeled shrimp 3
・Baguette/ crackers 2
・Mint A small amount
・Bubu arare (If you can get your hands on some) 2g
■How to make
➀ Bring a pot of water to the boil and cook the macaroni. Once drained, add half the basil sauce (10g) to the macaroni.
② Remove the skin of the potatoes and after boiling, crush them and add salt, the consommé and fresh cream. Mix well.
③ Pack 1/3 of the mash potato made in step ② into a piping bag.
④ Mix the remaining 2/3 of the mashed potato with the ketchup but do not mix too much — mix lightly until a marble pattern of ketchup appears.
⑤ Now you are ready to layer the parfait into the glass! First lay down the basil sauce at the bottom, then macaroni from step ①, followed by 6 cherry tomatoes, cream cheese, the tomato sauce and then the slices of baguette/ crackers in that order. Make sure the layers are distinct.
⑥ Using a scoop, take a ball of the mashed potato ketchup made in ④ to top off the parfait!
⑦ Add the shrimp and the remaining 2 cherry tomatoes to the top of the parfait and squeeze out the remaining mash potato from the piping bag for decoration.
⑧ Finally, garnish the parfait with parmesan cheese, bubu arare and mint!
When it’s cold outside, you have the perfect opportunity to enjoy making these wonderful party foods ♪
■Arisa Shirai
Visual food creator & colourful bento researcher. Arisa Shirai shows how fun it is to make and eat your own homemade food.
Instagram: arigohan
Blog: http://ameblo.jp/arinko0917/
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