Lychee Yuzu

Instructions

Shake with ice everything except the foam. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Top with Passion fruit foam. The garnish is optional - serve the tea caviar in a small Chinese spoon.

Lemongrass Pink Peppercorn syrup - more syrup recipes

1/4 cup black, lightly cracked peppercorns

16 gr – 2 lemongrass stalks -approx. - cut on 1/2 inch pieces

1 cup of boiling water

1 cup sugar. Stir until sugar is dissolved.

Steep for 8-10 hours before straining out the peppercorns.

Passion fruit foam

350 ml Passion fruit juice.

0.5% Xanthan gum - of the total amount

Blend using an immersion blender. Let it sit in the fridge for several hours to eliminate the air bubbles. Pour it into the ISI canister and charge it with one N20 cartridge for a 0.5L canister.

Shake the Cream Whipper a few times and put it into the refrigerator for at least two hours. If you need the foam immediately, getting proper foam will take at least 10-15 minutes.

Tea caviar - I used the Basic Spherification method

Make the tea by steeping 3-4 tea bags in hot water for 10-15 minutes. Strain it and let it cool down.

Sodium Alginate Solution

Dissolve Sodium Citrate into the liquid.

Blend the mixture with 2 g of sodium alginate.

Let it rest to get rid of the air bubbles.

You can keep it overnight in the fridge for the bubbles to dissipate or slowly fine-strain it to eliminate as many bubbles as possible.

Another option is to mix the SA with a third of the mixture.

Please bring it to a boil and let it cool down to room temperature. Add the rest and blend again.

Calcium Chloride Bath

Dissolve 2.5 g of calcium chloride into 500 mL of cold water in another vessel.

Use a catheter syringe with a broader tip opening or a squeegee bottle.

Squeeze the liquid slowly - drop by drop from about an inch and a half to 2 inches from the Calcium Chloride bath.

Use a slotted spoon to remove the caviar from the Calcium Chloride bath and rinse it into another vessel filled with cold, clean water. Strain and store it in the fridge. The liquid inside the spheres starts to jellify slowly in about 20-30 minutes.