Perfume of Sicily

Pastry recipe

10 serves

 

We want a very fresh degustation, feeling all the purée flavors wit some other notes as the basil or pistachio and matcha tea. The olive oil provides the aromatic complexity to the dessert and gives us, with the sable, some fat to feel all the flavors in the degustation.

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Perfume of Sicily
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. Basil infusion

    Ingredients

    • Basil - 60g
    • Water - 300g

    Clean the basil leaves. Boil some water. Blanch the basil leaves for few seconds. Remove the leaves and quickly preserve in water and ice.
    Dry the leaves with some paper and mix them with the 300g of water using a blender to obtain a basil water. Strain and reserve in fridge.

  2. Basil meringue

    Ingredients

    • Basil water - 200g
    • Albumin - 20g
    • Sugar - 275g
    • Water - 70g

    Introduce the albumin to the basil water using a blender. Let it at room temperature around 20 minutes. Beat it in the mixer with the wire whip until obtain a soft meringue texture. While whipping the meringue heat the water and sugar to 120ºC.
    Add the syrup to the meringue and let it cold while beating.

  3. Lemon cream

    Ingredients

    • Frozen fruit purée 100% : PGI Siracusa Lemon - 220g
    • Egg - 160g
    • Sugar - 155g
    • Maizena® - 55g
    • Water - 220g
    • Syrup - 140g

    Combine eggs and sugar with a hand blender, add water previously mixed with corn flour. Mix well.
    Weigh the rest of ingredients in a saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat and cook whisking vigorously until glossy, smooth and fine. Remove from heat.
    Pour immediately into an appropriate container.
    Cover with cling film touching the surface and leave to cool at 4ºC for 12 hours approximately.
    Remove the cream from the refrigerator and pour directly into a mixing bowl. With a wire whip mix at medium speed in order to get a smooth and glossy texture.

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  4. Lemon sorbet

    Ingredients

    • Frozen fruit purée 100% : PGI Siracusa Lemon - 370g
    • Water - 357g
    • Sugar - 211g
    • Dextrose - 30g
    • Sorbet stabiliser - 3g

    Mix the solids together. Add this mix to the water, moving with a Wisk to integrate everything well. If it is necessary, mix it with the hand blender. Heat until 82ºC, let it cold in fridge for 12h. Add the lemon purée and introduce it in the ice cream machine.

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  5. Sablé

    Ingredients

    • Brown sugar - 140g
    • Butter - 340g
    • Milk - 100g
    • praline almonds - 50g
    • Milk chocolate 40% - 100g
    • Flour - 460g

    In the mixer with the flat beater mix the sugar with the butter.
    Melt the chocolate and mix it with the milk and the almond praliné. Add it to the butter. Mix it well and add the flour.
    Stretch wit a roller between two oven papers. Around 2mm. Cook it at 140ºC.
    Let it cold and crash it until obtain a powder. Set aside.

  6. Matcha microwave cake

    Ingredients

    • Egg white - 120g
    • Egg yolk - 80g
    • Almond paste - 80g
    • Sugar - 80g
    • Flour - 20g
    • Matcha green tea - 18g

    Mix all the ingredients using a blender. Strain it and introduce it in a siphon with 2 charges. Reserve it in fridge around 2h before using.
    To cook the cake introduce it in a plastic glass, fill ¾ parts. Cook it for 1 minute at maximum power.

  7. Finishing and garnish

    Ingredients

    • Pistachios
    • Basil
    • Olive oil caviar
    • edible flowers
    • Raspberries

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