Iced Vacherin with Roasted Provençal Peaches and Berries Recipe
Flavors of Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur
Total time: 30 to 60 minutes
Prep. time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: Under 30 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
For 15 servings
French meringue
- 300 g (10 oz.) egg whites (about 10)
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 125 g (1 cup) icing sugar
- 125 g (1/2 cup) granulated sugar
Tahitian vanilla ice cream
- 500 ml (2 cups) milk
- 2 Tahitian vanilla beans (split and scraped)
- 5 egg yolks
- 125 g (1/2 cup) sugar
- Peaches
Method
Preparing the meringue
- Beat the egg whites with the lemon juice until stiff.
- Gently fold in the icing sugar and the berry sugar. Using a pastry bag, pipe the meringue out in 15 tear-drop shapes on parchment paper.
- Sprinkle with sliced almonds, dust twice with icing sugar, and bake in a 120° C oven for 40 minutes. Keep warm.
Preparing the ice cream
- Bring the milk and the vanilla beans to a boil, cover, remove from heat and let infuse for one hour.
- Beat the egg yolks with the sugar until pale. Strain the infused milk into the egg yolks. Cook the mixture to a temperature of 84° C, stirring constantly. Let cool and turn in an ice cream maker until thick.
- Place the ice cream in individual conical moulds and place in the freezer.
Assembly and presentation
- In the middle of each dessert plate, place half a peach that has been sautéd in butter with a little black pepper, and flamed with peach liqueur or brandy.
- Unmould one of the cones of vanilla ice cream on top, and using a pastry bag, cover it with whipped cream. Lay one of the meringues alongside.
- Arrange an assortment of red berries around the plate, and drizzle with a thickened berry coulis flavoured with lemon juice.
- Sprinkle the whole plate with icing sugar.
- Garnish with mint sprigs and julienned lemon zest.
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Saussignac Clos d'Yvigne 1996 - Patricia Atkinson
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