I came across this technique via one of my daily food site reads – Ideas in Food. Now this post deals with a technique that was explained on another site I follow – Cooking Issues , I just hadn’t got to it yet for the day. The technique deals with using an iSi whipper and N2O to quickly infuse different ingredients in under a minute which normally would take a few days to weeks. Alex & Aki of Ideas in Food have been very inspirational and informative in my cooking processes and this idea led me to create something a little different with our dinner tonight.
For dinner I really did not feel like cooking tonight so I got a store bought pre-made (not frozen) raw cheese pizza. I picked up some roma tomatoes as well to slice and top the pizza with. Now here is where things differ a bit. I like basil,okay love it but Ann hates fresh basil – the texture of it anyway. Normally I add fresh basil once the pizza is out of the oven and drizzle with olive oil and leave Ann’s side sans basil. After seeing this technique on IIF I figured that I could slice and salt the tomatoes,add to the iSi with copious amounts of Basil from the garden and charge with two N2O charges. Therefore we would have tomatoes with he flavor of basil but without actually having the basil leaf on the pizza.
After letting it sit for about a minute, I released the pressure and strained out the tomatoes. The tomatoes had a faint taste of the basil but not as much as I had hoped for. I added the tomatoes and basil back to the iSi and charged it again with one N2O charge and let it sit for about two minutes. After reading through the comments on the original post I released the pressure again and instead let them sit in the canister for about 5 minutes before straining. This worked even better, the tomatoes had a more pronounced basil flavor and they actually had a more “cooked like” texture but still had the taste of a fresh tomato.
The possibilities are endless with this technique and glad that both sites shared their success and failures with us.
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Love the new site! And the tomatoes look absolutely delicious;-)
I need to get one of those iSi whippers! I wanted one for liquid infusions, that’s extra awesome that you can also stuff more solid foods in there, could be a lot of fun!