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Apricot "Croustillant" Recipe
 
 
Apricot "Croustillant"
Thierry Phal, La Bergerie, Luxembourg
Thierry Phal, La Bergerie, Luxembourg
Flavors of Luxembourg
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"
  1. Roll out the puff pastry as thinly as possible with the icing sugar to form 20 rectangles of 10 g (1/3 oz.) each.
  2. 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

  1. Cut the remaining apricots into 6 and sauté them in the butter with 50 g (1/4 cup) granulated sugar until caramelized.
  2. Arrange the fruit on 4 serving plates with the puff pastry "arlettes" and the coffee cream.
  3. Garnish with a scoop of mocha ice cream, the apricot sorbet and the apricot coulis.
 
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