Apricot "Croustillant" Recipe
Flavors of Luxembourg
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: Under 30 minutes
Total time: 30 to 60 minutes
Preheat the oven to 200° C (400° F)Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: Under 30 minutes
Difficulty: Average
Ingredients
Ingredients for 4 servings
- 200 g (7 oz.) puff pastry
- 50 g (2 oz.) icing sugar
- 200 ml (3/4 cup) apricot sorbet
- 100 g (3 1/2 oz.) granulated sugar
- 200 ml (3/4 cup) coffee (mocha) ice cream
- 50 g (2 oz.) butter
- 200 g (3/4 cup) pastry cream
- 20 Apricots
- 100 g (6 tbsp.) light cream
- A few drops of coffee essence
- A few drops of lemon juice, to taste
Method
To make the "Arlettes"
- Roll out the puff pastry as thinly as possible with the icing sugar to form 20 rectangles of 10 g (1/3 oz.) each.
- Bake in a 200° C (400° F) oven for 5 to 10 minutes.
Apricot coulis
- Cook 8 apricots with 50 g (1/4 cup) granulated sugar and the lemon juice until softened and put through a fine mesh strainer.
Coffee cream
- Whip the cream; add in the pastry cream and the coffee flavouring.
Finishing
- Cut the remaining apricots into 6 and sauté them in the butter with 50 g (1/4 cup) granulated sugar until caramelized.
- Arrange the fruit on 4 serving plates with the puff pastry "arlettes" and the coffee cream.
- Garnish with a scoop of mocha ice cream, the apricot sorbet and the apricot coulis.
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