
Millefeuille Cress
Ingredients and method
Inverted puff pastry
Dough
- Water: 200 g
- Salt: 12 g
- Butter: 50 g
- Flour: 375 g
Butter mixture
- Butter: 325 g
- Flour: 125 g
Tangelo and Kaffir Lime suzette sauce jelly
- Tangelo purée: 250 g
- Fish gelatin mixture: 15 g
- Caster sugar: 25 g
- Kaffir Lime: 20 g
Pesto
- Cress: 50 g
- Pine nuts: 50 g
- Grape seed oil: 25 g
- Caster sugar: 10 g
Yka Cress mousse
- Liquid cream: 600 g
- Caster sugar: 10 g
- Fish gelatin mixture: 40 g
- Ivory chocolate: 120 g
- Yka Cress: 150 g
Zallotti Blossom sorbet
- Mineral water: 1000 g
- Glucose syrup: 120 g
- Caster sugar: 220 g
- Lemon juice: 120 g
- Stab 2000: 6 g
- Zallotti Blossom: 200 g
Wild strawberry & Zallotti Blossom cream
- Wild strawberry purée: 500 g
- Caster sugar: 67 g
- Stab 200: 3 g
- Egg yolks: 67 g
- NH pectin: 9 g
- Butter: 105 g
Method
Inverted puff pastry
- Weigh 150 g of water in the mixer bowl. The rest is used for the final adjustment.
- Add the salt, softened butter, and flour.
- Mix with a dough hook for about 1 minute.
- Adjust the consistency with the remaining water if necessary.
- Form the dough into a 20 cm square.
- Place the flour in the mixer bowl.
- Add the cold butter, cut into small cubes.
- Using a flat beater, mix the flour and butter.
- Form the kneaded butter into a 20 cm square.
- Place the dough and kneaded butter in the refrigerator for about 20 minutes.
- Roll out the dough into a 20 x 40 cm rectangle.
- Roll out the kneaded butter into a 20 x 60 cm rectangle.
- Place the dough on top of the kneaded butter, edge to edge.
- Fold the free edge of the kneaded butter over the dough.
- Fold again.
- Rotate the dough a quarter turn.
- Roll out and give a double turn.
- Leave to rest in a very cold place for about 5 minutes, then 20 minutes.
- Roll out and give a double turn.
- Leave to rest in a very cold place for about 5 minutes, then 20 minutes in the refrigerator.
- Roll out and give a single turn 30 minutes before use.
Tangelo & Kaffir Lime Suzette sauce jelly
- Make a caramel with the caster sugar.
- Deglaze the caramel with the tangelo purée.
- Melt the gelatin mixture and kaffir lime powder with the Suzette sauce.
- Cool and store.
Pesto
- Place the dill leaves in a food processor and pulse once.
- Add the pine nuts and finish by adding the grapeseed oil to loosen the mixture.
Yka Cress mousse
- Heat the liquid cream with the sugar and Yka Cress Leaves.
- Add the gelatin mixture and pour over the ivory chocolate.
- Blend.
- Set aside in the refrigerator. Make this cream at least 6 hours in advance.
- When ready to assemble, whip like whipped cream.
Zallotti Blossom sorbet
- Mix the sugar with the binding agent (Stab2000), add to the water and Zallotti Blossom, which has been infused for 20 minutes.
- Add the glucose syrup.
- Bring the mixture to a boil while stirring, allow to cool slightly, and add the yuzu juice.
- Pour everything into a pacosser® bowl.
- Cover and freeze at -20°C for at least 24 hours.
- If necessary, pacosser® at normal pressure.
Wild strawberry & Zallotti Blossom cream
- Mix the sugar, pectin, and ice cream stabilizer.
- Heat the purée, egg yolks (and water if necessary) to 45°C.
- Sprinkle in the powder mixture.
- Cook at 85°C.
- Cool to 35°-40°C.
- For best results, allow the mixture to mature for at least 30 minutes before adding the softened butter.
Recipe: Mathias Narcissot

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