Peach, blackberry, egg shell and Sechuan Buttons
Ingredients
Blackberry - yolk:
- 100g blackberries
- 10g sugar
- 1 sheet gelatine
- 1 package of Sechuan Buttons
Peach mousse:
- 150g peach puree
- 3 mint leaves
- squeeze of ½ lemon
- 3 spoons of apricot compote
- 120ml double creme
- 3 tbsp greek yoghurt
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 2½ sheets of gelatine
Coating:
- 1 cup white chocolate
- 1 tbsp cocoa butter
- powdered chocolate
- red food colouring
Streusel (all in cup measurement):
- ⅓ light brown sugar
- ⅓ sugar
- ½ plain flour
- ⅓ butter
- ⅓ teaspoon of cinnamon
Custard:
- 100 ml cream
- 100ml milk
- 50g sugar
- ½ tablespoon of cornflour
- 2 egg yolks
- 2 vanilla beans
Garnish:
- chocolate shards
- cherry
- peach
- mint leaves or edible flowers
Method
Blackberry - yolk:
- Cook berries and sugar until it's a little thicker.
- Add gelatine, blitz and pass through sieve, add all yellow part of the Sechuan Buttons and blitz again.
- Transfer in semi sphere molds and freeze overnight until you need them.
- Put 2 semi spheres together and secure with a toothpick. Put back into the freezer.
Peach mousse:
- Blanch 4 peaches, peel them and put them in blitzer with mint leaves, apricot compote, lemon juice, sugar and blitz to smooth puree.
- Pass it through a sieve into a saucepan, warm up mixture and mix in gelatine softened in water.
- Whisk cream to soft peak, add yogurt and incorporate, fold together cold peach mixture and cream mixture.
- Fill the silicon egg shape mold half way with mixture and put in freezer for 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes pull out of freezer, place blackberry sphere in middle of mold and fill up with remaining peach mousse.
- Freeze overnight.
Coating:
- Melt chocolate and cocoa butter over bain marie and let cool to 30°C.
- Unmold eggs and dip them in chocolate mixture and swirl them so they are coated all equally.
- Immediately dust them with chocolate powder to achieve real egg shell look.
- Option 2: swirl a little bit of red food colouring in the chocolate mixture to make it look like marble. Immediately dip egg in to it and swirl to achieve marble effect - you can use any colour not just red.
Streusel (all in cup measurement):
- Mix all ingredients together to achieve crumble spread it on silicone mat and bake at 180°C for about 10 minutes.
- Let it cool down and break crumble by hand.
Custard:
- Scrape vanilla seeds to milk and cream mixture and heat on stove.
- In the meantime, whisk egg yolks sugar and corn flour until increase little volume.
- Pour over milk mixture and whisk.
- Put it back on stove and cook until thickness do not pass 80°C.
Recipe: Peter Zemla
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