CORSICAN FRUITS

Pastry recipe

10 desserts.

 

This dessert combines the acid touch of the clementine, the almond and the sweetness of milk chocolate. The saffron gives the sorbet a delightful and very interesting touch.

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CORSICAN FRUITS
Marc Balaguer Fabra

Marc Balaguer Fabra

Pastry Chef, Ice-cream Vice World Champion 2018, Barcelona
He worked with some of the best Spanish chefs, such as Carles Mampel and Oriol Balaguer, and attended many training courses, more particularly at the Paris International Pastry School. Then, he became...
  1. Almond pain de Gênes

    Ingredients

    • Almond paste - 200g
    • Egg - 190g
    • Flour - 40g
    • Chemical yeast - 2g
    • Clarified butter - 20g
    • Sugar - 75g

    Heat the almond paste until lukewarm, i.e. about 30°C. Bring the eggs to the same temperature.
    Mix half of the almond paste with eggs and whip. Add the sugar gradually. When almost whipped, add the remaining almond paste and keep beating until fully whipped.
    Melt the clarified butter, mix with a bit of the whipped mixture and fold it in.
    Finally, add the sifted flour and baking powder. Bake at 180°C. Coat the cakes in clementine jelly.

  2. Clementine jelly

    Ingredients

    • Frozen fruit purée 100% : PGI Corsican Clementine - 600g
    • Water - 250g
    • Sugar - 200g
    • Liquid glucose - 312g
    • Pectin NH - 6g

    Mix the sugar with the pectin. Add the mixture to the water and blend. Heat. Add the glucose and boil for 2 minutes. Leave to cool. Once cold, add the purée and blend.

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  3. Milk chocolate crémeux

    Ingredients

    • Milk - 200g
    • Cream - 400g
    • Milk chocolate 40% - 350g
    • Gelatin (powder) - 5g
    • Water - 25g

    Hydrate the gelatine in water. Once hydrated, melt in the microwave. Heat the milk to 80°C approximately. Half melt the chocolate. Add the gelatine to the warm milk then add the milk to the chocolate making a nice emulsion with a blender or by hand.
    Finally add the cold cream.
    Leave to rest in the fridge for 12 hours at least.

  4. Clementine and saffron sorbet

    Ingredients

    • Frozen fruit purée 100% : PGI Corsican Clementine - 700g
    • Saffron - 0,5g
    • Sucrose - 166g
    • Dextrose - 30g
    • Invert sugar - 9g
    • Water - 80g
    • Stabilizer - 20g

    Heat the water with the saffron. Leave to infuse for a few minutes. Add the sugars, the clementine purée and the stabiliser. Blend, leave to rest for 12h and make the sorbet.

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  5. Finishing and garnish

    Ingredients

    • Basil
    • Pistachios

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