Avocado-beetroot-blood orange-goat ricotta-maple/apple cider dressing – micro greens?😬…​

Your dressing is eviscerated. Add all ingredients except for oil into a blender (pinch of xantham if you have it), turn blender on high and slowly stream in oil until thick and creamy. Toss your ingredients in that using just enough to coat, or just get it thick and put two small dots next to each dot of goat cheese.

The orange supremes are great. Try to cut the avocado and beet the same size and shape. Or go the other direction and do half an avocado sliced thin and fanned, and beets roasted sliced in half then thin sliced and fanned. Make them look the same or different, close but not quite is worse than intentionally different.

The goat ricotta looks well made. Stick to an odd number of dots spread relatively equidistant but haphazard across the plate like you have here. Focus on getting the same size and shape on each dot. It should be done in one motion, the stacked and double squeezed dollops look terrible. Figure out the technique that creates the dollop you want, and replicate that motion 5 times.

Lose the micros. If they must stay, put a single micro cilantro on top of each ricotta dot.

If you must add protein, shrimp ceviche or chilled poached lobster would slap on this dish. But this dish doesn’t need more added. Sell it as a main to vegetarians or a starter to people who don’t want something fried but don’t want a salad.

This dish is cool, if I am not too busy tomorrow I’ll make it for a special and send you a pic of some of the things I was talking about. But I’m always too busy 🤷 what is the venue? Who are you selling this to? And why do you have so many rules about what you can’t and must do but also free rein over plating? And what is a symbolic seafood or beef element? 😆

As a customer, the random sizes of the different items on the plate is a bit off putting. I love the idea of the flavors and honestly would order it. If this is how it was served, I would be disappointed as a customer. The dressing is a bit messy looking and a bit much – personally I don’t like a heavily dressed salad ever. The colors are beautiful and the goat cheese could be a little more uniform throughout the plate to give you pops in the eating experience – I love the fact that they aren’t huge and that they won’t overpower a mouthful. Overall, well done some improvements to be made but well done!