Caviar with Crushed Fingerling Potatoes and Lemon Sour Cream

INGREDIENTS

3 ½ ounces white Pacific sturgeon
2 ¾ cups fingerling/baby potatoes
1 cup butter
¾ teaspoon Fleur de sel de Guerande sea salt, to taste
1 ¾ ounces fresh chives, cut into sticks
Finely ground black pepper, to taste
1 ¼ cups sour cream
1 lemon, fresh

GUIDE / INSTRUCTIONS

Caviar with Crushed Fingerling Potatoes and Lemon Sour Cream

Cook the potato (skin on) in salted water. Drain from water and peel them while still warm. Crush potatoes with a fork. Add the butter with a spatula (no whisk). Then, at the last minute, add the chopped chives to keep the color. Season to taste with fleur de sel and pepper.
Mix the sour cream and juice from the lemon and add it into a squeeze bottle.
Spoon the warm potato mixture into a 2 ¾ inch small ring and top with the paddlefish caviar quenelle.
Dot or drizzle the lemon sour cream over the top of the caviar to your liking.

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