In the continuing series from the Disney Cruise Line Summer Recipe, Stephen Walker, Fleet Culinary Standards and Consistency Chef, Disney Cruise Line brings us a new dish.
The recipe I’m sharing today is for our Tomato Cake, the perfect appetizer for a light, summer meal. Chances are you already have most of the ingredients in your kitchen, so why not try it tonight? Eating like you’re on a Disney cruise is definitely the best remedy for those days when you’re wishing you could be at sea with us.
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Check out the full recipe below and download our keepsake recipe card here. Enjoy!
Tomato Cake
Serves: 4
Skill Level: Moderate
Time: 6 hours
Ingredients
Tomato Cake
- 12 plum tomatoes
- 1/3 cup tomato ketchup
- 1 tsp. ground cardamom
- 1/2 tsp. ground black pepper
Dressing
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1 tsp. dijon mustard
- ½ lemon, juice
Goat Cheese
- ½ cup goat cheese
- ¹/³ cup whipping cream
- ¼ lemon, juiced
Garnish
- 3 shallots, sliced into rings and halved
- 1 tbsp. picked curly parsley
- ½ tsp. ground black pepper
For the Tomato Cake
- Make an incision in the top and base of each tomato. Blanch in boiling salted water for 2 minutes until the skin starts to loosen. Then submerge in salted ice water. Then peel the skin off each tomato, cut into quarters and remove the seeds.
- Season the tomato quarters with salt and pepper.
- Layer ¼ of the tomatoes in a 2-inch ring, adding a half teaspoon of tomato ketchup mixed with the ground cardamom between each layer. Work your way to the top of the ring and layer 2 cm over the top; cover with plastic wrap and place onto a plate.
- Add another plate on top, placing a couple cans over the top plate to add weight to the “press.”
- Refrigerate at least 5 hours.
For the Dressing
- Place all the ingredients into a bowl and whisk together.
For the Goat Cheese
- Mix all the ingredients together.
Assembly
- Remove any of the tomato that has been pressed out over the side of the ring with a knife. Press the tomato cake into the center of the plate, layer the shallots around, spoon the dressing onto the shallots and garnish with the picked parsley. Top the cake with a quenelle of goat cheese and sprinkle with ground black pepper.
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