Steemit Iron Chef 2017 #01 : Tomatoes Extravaganza - Stuffed, Tartar and Crispy Skin!

Hello my lovely Steemit Foodies!

As promised, here is my non-validate entry for this week's Steemit Iron Chef! One of the main reasons I am posting this entry is mainly to give everyone who wishes to participate in Steemit Iron Chef an idea of how to present yours in the future. Your post don't need to be same to same, but at least you can get some inspiration from this post!

We are in the first week of the contest and the first product that we have to transform is one of the most commonly used product in all kitchens of the world :

TOMATOES

So let's check out how I sublimated/transformed/elevated this wonderful product!

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Tomatoes Extravaganza - Stuffed, Tartar and Crispy Skin!

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To make this dish, I used the below ingredients :

Cherry tomatoes / Yellow tomatoes / Cucumber / Pear / Onion / Pumpkin
Coriander / Mint / Honey / Olive oil / Chives / Lemon confit / Lettuces
Oxalis flower / Pistachio / Salt& Pepper

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I started by boiling the cherry tomatoes for 10 seconds, to be able to peel the skins which later on were deep fried to be crispy!

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Cut the cucumber and onion in brunoise, finely cut the chives and mint leaves and scoop out all the seeds and part of flesh of the cherry tomatoes as you can see below!

Mix all the cut ingredients together with the seeds and juice of the cherry tomatoes.
Season with olive oil, salt and pepper.
Stuff the cherry tomatoes with this mixture and reserve!

As I mentioned above, deep fry the cherry tomatoes skin till crispy!

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Next step was to make the tomato, pumpkin and pear tartar!
I simply cut the pear, yellow tomato, pumpkin, lemon confit and onion in small dice.
Finely cut the coriander leaves.

Mix them all together in a bowl, add the honey and olive oil!
Season with salt and pepper.

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Now that all the preparations were ready, I just had to dress the plate and make it look sexy!

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I started by putting the tartar in the middle of the plate in a round shape.

And I delicately put the rest of the preparations and garnishes to reach the below result!
How do you find it?

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As mentioned in the rules, we need at least one photo with the tag and here it is!

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The plate came out so beautiful that I can't hold myself to share some more shots for you to enjoy!

A closer one! Look how tempting those sexy little stuffed tomatoes are...

And that tartar was just heavenly! Sweet and lemony topped up with some crispy pistachio and tomato skins!
The mild acidity brought by the oxalis flowers match so well in this dish!

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So here with are my dear friend, if I was eligible in this contest, this would have been my entry!

How did you find the dish?

As I mentioned, you are not forced to follow the way I made it. You can as well skip the prep steps.
Be creative and surprise me!

IMPORTANT NOTE

The SBD made on all my posts moving forward will be used for sponsoring the Steemit Iron Chef 2017!

Anyone wishing to grow the prizes and be a sponsor of this unique contest, please do let me know! You are most welcomed!

You wish to join and participate?
Check out @steemit-ironchef or follow this link to send your entry!

Thank you!
@progressivechef