Hi, does anyone have a solid recipe of a vegetable pave? One of the best I've had was at the Willard Intercon in D.C. It was basically an assortment of bell peppers and root veggies. Thanks in advance!

Noble rot:
I've been a chef for the past 10 years..there's many a pave recepie. I think the fundamental aspect is you really don't need any fat(butter/oil) to make it.You can make it any size you want, but use a nonstick cake round, 8 or 9 inch or 8x4 loaf pan. I prefer it to be about 2-3 inches in height. My recepie would be as follows: I generally use all root veges but you can add roasted peppers if you like.(not to many..you don't want it to watery)

The key here is to let the vegetables speak for themselves. They slow cook together in there own juices.

veges as needed sliced extremely thin on a mandoline:

celery root
parsnip
sweet potato
turnip
potato
carrot
roasted peppers

fresh thyme
s and p



spray bottom of pan w/ non stick spray or oil. layer veges(tightly) in pan sprinkling w/ fresh thyme and salt and pepper every layer (a little extra virgin olive may be lightly sprinled in as well but is not needed.) Go as high as you like..I would go about 2-3 inches high. Cut a piece of parchment or foil to cover and butter the top. cover the pave w/ the parchment, butter side down. It's nice to Weight the top of the pave w/ a similar size pan w/ some weight in it...I generally have 2 of the exact size pans and use one to top the pave...I then put my grill pan on top of that for some additional weight.
Into the oven at about 300-325 for about 2 hours...nice and slow..it's done when a knife slides in nice and easy.
You can eat right out of the oven. Or I usually let it cool..invert the pan on a large cutting board and make some funky designs(circles /squares). You can reheat in the oven at 350 for 12 minutes OR I prefer to melt some butter and thyme or sage and sear the pieces of pave to get them nice and carmelized on the outside AND THEN finish in the oven for a few minutes.

You can also stud the pave w/ fresh truffle or drizzle right at the end w/ truffle oil. You can cut the pave in circles..top it w/ a piece of goat chesse and broil it nice and brown..

good luck!!

Adam, this is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!