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Mustard Tart with B&B Pickle Curd and Dill Pickle Ice Cream
Cesar: "I was assigned bread and butter pickles. I'm making a citrus tart and cucumber sherbet. Bread and butter pickles are much higher in sugar content. There's also, you know, the use of turmeric to give it nice little yellow color. And that's why I thought of a curd. Very tart, very pungent."
Henry: "Cesar, how are you gonna balance the sourness in your ice cream?"
Cesar: "Just a good amount of sugar. I'm using a little bit of maple, but the bread and butter pickles are already pretty sweet to begin with. I'm making a bread and butter pickle curd, mustard seed tart, dill ice cream, and some fresh cucumber."
Cesar: "I'm just going to let my ice cream steep overnight, and then tomorrow I'll freeze the base."
Presenting to Judges
Cesar: "So I did dessert. I have a curd made out of the pickling liquid from the bread and butter pickles, and then a dill ice cream drizzled with a bread and butter pickle gastrique. And then the tart has mustard batter. So kind of taking the components that go into the pickling spice of the bread and butter pickles and then spreading them around."
Gail Simmons: "Have you ever made anything like this before, Cesar?"
Cesar: "Not really, no."
Tom Colicchio: "Has anybody ever made anything like this?"
Judges:
"With a clean sweep. Cesar, congratulations. Bravo. Hats off to you. This felt risky. And that dill ice cream was absolutely delicious."
"Bailey, yours is a good dish, but what Cesar made is out of this world. That curd is beautifully made, really smooth, and it has just the right amount of sugar, but the pickle still comes through."
"This one is my favorite for the day, the pickle ice cream."
Tom Colicchio: "There were two dishes that were probably some of the best dishes I've ever had on the show. Tristan and Cesar, your two dishes were exceptional. Yeah, they're just stunning."
