Sunday, May 20, 2012

Coconut milk and vanilla panna cotta

Ingredients for 4 people

Coconut milk and vanilla panna cotta
1.5 gelatin sheets Dr. Oetker 
(3 g)
20 cl coconut milk
25 cl heavy whipping cream
1 vanilla bean
50 g granulated sugar

Method

Coconut milk and vanilla panna cotta
- Boil together milk, cream, sugar and the scraped vanilla bean, cover it and let it infuse for 20 min.
- Hydrate the gelatin on cold water.
- Pour the cream through a strainer into a bowl and add the gelatin.
- Pour in the container of your choosing and refrigerate for a minimum of 4 hours.

You can serve your panna cotta with fruit, chocolate or caramel coulis.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Strawberry and white-chocolate mousse pie

Light and crunchy. A real treat!

Ingredients for 6 people

500 to 800 g fresh charlotte strawberries

Chocolate shortcrust pastry
180 g all-purpose flour
120 g butter
60 g granulated sugar
20 g eggyolk
20 g unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon heavy whipping cream
1 pinch of salt

White-chocolate mousse
200 g white chocolate
200 g cold heavy whipping cream
1 teaspoon heavy whipping cream
1 gelatin sheet Dr. Oetker (2 g)

Method

Chocolate shortcrust pastry
- In a stand mixer or between your hands, rub the butter into the flour.
- Add the sugar, the salt, the yolk, the cream and the chocolate and knead the dough until homogeneous.
- Put the dough 30 min in the fridge.
- Preheat the oven to 356°F.
- Roll out the dough to a round shape.
- Put it in a pie mold, cover it with wax paper and ceramic beads to prevent the crust from swelling.
- Bake for 15 min, remove the wax paper and the beads and bake for another 10 min.
- Let it cool down.

White-chocolate mousse
- Melt your chocolate in a bain-marie.
- Whip the cream.
- Melt the gelatin with the teaspoon of cream.
- Mix into the chocolate then fold the whipped cream into the chocolate.
- Pour over your shortcrust pastry and add your fresh strawberries.
- Put in the fridge.

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Pastry cream mousse like a crème brûlée, red berries

Ingredients for 6 ramekins

250 g fresh red berries
Brown sugar

Pastry cream mousse
470 g whole milk
2 vanilla beans
110 g egg yolk
110 g sugar
47 g cornstarch
47 g butter
33 cl cold heavy whipping cream
2 gelatin sheets Dr. Oetker (4 g)

Method

Pastry cream mousse
- Split the vanilla bean in two and scrape the seeds into the milk. Bring to a boil and let it infuse 20 min or more.
- Hydrate the gelatin in cold water.
- Meanwhile, beat together the yolks, the sugar and the cornstarch without whitening or frothing.
- Boil the milk again and pour 1/3 into the eggs, blend, add in the rest and blend.
- Put it back into the pan by pouring it through a strainer and beat over high heat until it thickens.
- Remove the pan and add the butter.
- Cool it rapidly stirring the whole time so as to prevent the cream from drying.
- Once it is cool, whip the cream and fold it gently in the pastry cream.
-Put your berries in your ramekins.
- Pour some mousse and put in the fridge.
- Before serving, sprinkle some brown sugar over each crème and caramelize with a blowtorch.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Strawberry and basil soup

Simple and refreshing for the arrival of strawberries.

Ingredients for 6 people

500 g fresh strawberries
100 g mineral water
80 g sugar
Juice of a quarter of a lemon
Between 10 and 20 basil leaves
Cold heavy whipping cream

Method

- Wash the strawberries and cut the peduncle (not the other way around).
- Wash the basil leaves.
- Bring water and sugar to a boil for 1 minute.
- Blend everything together and put it in the fridge.
- Serve cold with a few drops of heavy cream and small leaves of basil.