MELON AND LAVENDER VERRINE

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Recipe for 15 verrines

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MELON AND LAVENDER VERRINE
Gael Etrillard

Gael Etrillard

Pastry Chef
Area Pastry Chef at les vergers Boiron. From 2009 to 2013, was executive pastry chef at Raffles Hotel Singapore and have been working in Asia for more than 13 years. Gael is also involved in training ...
  1. Gelatine Mixture

    Ingredients

    • Gelatine 200 bloom (powder) - 100 g
    • Water - 500 g

    Soak the gelatin in water for 30mn. Keep in the fridge overnight before use.

  2. Lavender Panna Cotta

    Ingredients

    • Cream 35% fat - 380 g
    • Milk - 40 g
    • Lavender - 5 g
    • Sugar - 35 g
    • Gelatin Mixture - 25 g

    Heat up milk with cream to 25°C and add lavender.
    Cover and infuse 12h.
    Strain and weight 400g of this infusion in a saucepan.
    Warm and add sugar.
    Once the sugar is melted, remove from the stove and add gelatin. Cool down on ice.

  3. Marinated Melon in Lavender

    Ingredients

    • Frozen fruit purée 100% : Melon - 50 g
    • Water - 20 g
    • Sugar - 5 g
    • Lavender - 1 g
    • Cantaloup melon - 1 pc

    Melt sugar in water and cool down.
    Add puree and lavender.
    Make melon balls with pomme Parisienne scoop and place in vacuum bag.
    Add puree in the bag and seal at maximum pressure.
    Keep in the fridge for 6h.

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  4. Melon Foam

    Ingredients

    • Frozen fruit purée 100% : Melon - 400 g
    • Frozen fruit purée 100% : PGI Siracusa Lemon - 40 g
    • Frozen vegetable purée 100% : Pumpkin - 40 g
    • Sugar - 40 g
    • Inulin - 30 g
    • Gelatin Mixture - 78 g

    Heat up pumpkin puree with gelatin, inulin and sugar.
    Remove from the stove and add the rest of the purees.
    Stir and pour in mixing bowl.
    Place in the fridge until it starts to set.
    Whipped up the foam until fluffy and pipe into sphere silicon molds. Freeze.

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  5. Clear Melon Jelly

    Ingredients

    • Frozen fruit purée 100% : Melon - 280 g
    • Gelatin Mixture - 15 g

    Place the puree overnight in a cheese clothes and weight 200g.
    Warm a bit of this melon juice to melt the gelatin.
    Add remaining juice.

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  6. Glaze

    Ingredients

    • Frozen fruit purée 100% : Melon - 125 g
    • Water - 125 g
    • Sugar - 25 g
    • vegetable gelatin - 15 g

    Combine sugar with vegetables gelatin and pour over water.
    Heat up to 80°C and add melon puree.

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  7. Assembly

    Place 2pcs of marinated melon in each glass and pour the lavender panna cotta.
    Let it set in the fridge.
    Unmould the frozen melon foam and dip in the glaze.
    Place the ball in the middle of the glass and keep in the fridge.
    Pour the clear melon jelly around and let it set in the fridge.

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