1- In a large pot pour your chicken stock, add your carrots cut into large dice, your sliced leek, your diced potatoes, the lemongrass batons, your diced ginger, salt, cook gently for 25 minutes.
2- Remove your lemongrass batons then blend for quite a long time and test the seasoning then keep in a bain-marie.
3- Place your foie gras escalopes in the freezer for 5 minutes then pan-sear them without fat, seasoned in a very hot pan and remove onto absorbent paper.
Plating
In nice deep plates the carrot cream then the foie gras escalope placed on top, add a little espuma on top and finish by creating your "spider" decoration.
Thank you to my friend Chef Jean Luc Buscaylet member like me of the talented National Academy of Cuisine for sending this excellent and original recipe.
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