Inspired by "Iron Chef" April 7th, 2001

  The Iron Chef Challenge: try to duplicate the Iron Chef’s and Challenger’s      

  menu by the time the judging starts to get an idea of what the judges are  

  tasting.

  Main Ingredient: Stingray

  Cooking Style: French

  Iron Chef: Hiroyuki Sakai Challenger: Koga Yoshide

Challenger offers:

1. Half boiled Egg with Truffles

softened ray meat mixed with egg

truffles added for flavor

2. Stingray ala Maria Callas

topped ray fin meat with a mixture of minced shrimp, etc.

wrapped in a pie top

baked in the oven

3. Tomato Farci with Ray

tomato hollowed out and filled with crispy fried cartilage of ray.

tomato put on a bed of shrimp flavored risotto.

4. Stingray Stew with Red Wine sauce

Ray cooked for an hour in red wine and port.

Iron Chef offers:

1. Stingray Carpaccio

made tropical sauce from papaya, mango, truffles, and vinegar.

2. Liver Royale with Syungiku sauce

cooked ray liver

added cheek meat for texture

made a green sauce from chrysanthemum.

3. Roasted Ray Fin

fin meat and short necked clams roasted in the oven.

put eggplant on to absorb the juice, and other vegetables.

4. Soup of Steamed Ray

steamed ray and made soup.

added slightly burned rice for flavor

5. Stingray Summer Dessert