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Hector Playuk

Jack's Bar and Grill

www.JacksDC.net  

(202) 332-6767

Hector Playuk is the newly appointed executive chef of Jack’s Restaurant & Bar located in the heart of Dupont Circle at 1527 17th Street, NW. His extensive culinary experience includes being the executive chef for the National Academy of Sciences in-house catering provider Sodexho, which is the leading provider of food and facilities management in the United States. Chef Playuk has also worked as executive chef in other notable Washington kitchens including 14K in the Hamilton Crowne Plaza Hotel; the Hilton Arlington Hotel; The Ritz Carlton Tysons Corner, as well as Café Milano. He began his culinary career in Buenos Aires; apprenticed under renowned Chef Gato Dumas at the Dumas Culinary School of Argentina, and graduated in 1992 from the esteemed Le Cordon Blue in Paris, France.

Lobster Linguini with Spicy Brandy Sauce

Hi! How are you? My name is Hector Playuk, the Executive Chef at Jacks Bar & Restaurant, Washington D.

C.

I graduated from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris.

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Lobster Linguini with Spicy Brandy Sauce

Ingredients

1 lobster
3 ounces of asparagus
5 or 6 cherry tomatoes cut in four
Unsalted butter
Fresh basil
2 pinches of sugar
2 ounces of fennel
Garlic
1 ounce shallots
Black pepper
2 pinches of salt
1 jalapeno
5 ounces of whipped cream
2 ounces of brandy
7-8 ounces of linguini

Instructions

1. Cut fresh fennel in four and place it in boiling water. Place the live lobster in the boiling water for 10 minutes. Take it out and place it in a bath with ice.


2. To cut the lobster, start from the half till the end in the back and cut it in half. Remove the shell and cut the tail into 6 or 7 pieces.


3. Cut the tomatoes, fennel and asparagus. Place the butter and sugar in a pan. Let them melt together, then add the fennel. Saute the fennel for 7-8 minutes to carmelize them.


4. Put water into a pot, add salt and place it on medium heat. Let it come to a boil. Add the linguini pasta slowly into the water and start stirring. Let the pasta cook for 9-10 minutes.


5. Place a pan on high heat. Place one ounce of unsalted butter, one ounce of shallots and garlic mixed together, two ounces of asaparagus, two ounces of tomatoes, one ounce of caramelized fennel, a pinch of salt and pepper and a jalapeno cut in half in the pan. Saute for a couple of seconds and then add the brandy and whipped cream. When the brandy disappears from the pan, add the lobster. Mix the pasta in with the other ingredients. Plate and serve.

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Hi! How are you? My name is Hector Playuk, the Executive Chef at Jacks Bar & Restaurant, Washington D.

C.

I graduated from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. I am working in Washington D.

C. for many years, such as Ritz Carlton Hotel, Crowne Plaza, 14K, and Caf Milano. Today, I will show you how to make a Linguini Lobster with a spicy, little bit of spicy brandy sauce. Heres the ingredients what we need. We need lobster, fresh lobster, also we need fresh asparagus, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes cut in four, unsalted butter, fresh basil, sugar, fennel, garlic and shallots, black pepper, salt, jalapeno, whipped cream, brandy and linguini. Here are some safe tips to make this dish. It is very important, you got to use sharp knife to cut the lobster and also boiling water. So just be careful, you stay alert with the kids when you do this dish at home. Let's start it.

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