Using Jamón ibérico Fat - Zero Waste
Chef Andre Uribe shows how to use the fat from a Jamón ibérico to cook greens.
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Hi, my name is Andre.
I'm a private chef in Oregon and the Willamette Valley.
And my favorite thing about being a chef is that I get to use
the best ingredients available.
A lot of them come from local farms.
There's actually three places really close to where I live that I like to use.
And sometimes I get to use really exotic ingredients
like this jamón ibérico, black label.
So it's the highest grade that you can possibly get.
And today we're going to use this and a combination of a Japanese
For our dish today, we want to use the fat from the ibérico.
It's actually a monounsaturated oil, so it resembles an olive oil
more than a saturated fat from an animal.
So we're going to trim it up a little bit
and we're going to use it to cook our greens.
And we have these really beautiful kinder veggies.
So they're kind of baby veggies, but a little bit older.
We have baby cabbage, the kale and baby beets.
We're going to use the rendered ibérico fat to cook the veggies just lightly.
It's just a little sear.
That way, it captures a little bit of the flavor of the nuttiness of the pork.
So the nice things about these veggies is that they have way more texture
than microgreens.
You can actually cook them lightly and they don't fall apart
and they look beautiful on the plate.
And for the beef, we're going to use A5 Japanese Wagyu beef tenderloin,
which is considered to be the highest grade beef that you can get on the planet.
And all we're going to do with this is we're going to sear it lightly on each side,
leave it perfectly medium rare, slice it up and serve it on a bed of leeks
that resemble a nest.
We fried the leeks and we're using them as the base for this dish.
To make this plate look really beautiful, we've done the fried leeks as a bed.
We've put the beef right on top of it and carefully place the charred
kinder veggies around it and finished with our local Durand olive oil.
Thanks for watching.
If you guys want to see more of me cooking and going to local farms
and playing around with really beautiful, fresh food, check out my channel.