Recipes
Bavarian Cake with Pecorino Toscano PDO on Sablè (French biscuits) with coffee, Livornese ponce sauce, candied lemon, frosted coffee beans, acacia honey, crispy nuts, and Pecorino petals
Ingredients for 6 pieces – parallel-piped molds measuring 1in x 1in x 2.75in (2,5×2,5×7)
Bavarian
- 1 cup (120 g) unaged Pecorino Toscano PDO (without crust),
- 1 teaspoon (2 g) gelatin,
- ¼ cup (60 g) liquid cream,
- 1/3 cup (80 g) whipped cream,
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Brazilian arabic coffee-flavored sablé
- 1 cup (100 g) unbleached flour,
- ¼ cup (50 g) butter,
- 1 (15 g) egg yolk,
- 1/8 cup (30 g) light brown sugar,
- 2 tablespoons Arabica Brazilian ground coffee (varieties taste very intense and fresh),
- a pinch of salt
Crunchy Sorrento walnuts
- ¼ cup (30 g) Sorrento walnuts,
- ¼ cup (60 g) light brown sugar,
- 1 teaspoon (5 g) butter,
- 1 tablespoon water,
- a pinch of salt
Livornese ponce sauce
- 1/3 cup (100 ml) strong espresso blend
- 2 teaspoons brown sugar
- 1/8 (50 ml) dark rum
- 10 ml mastic or anise liqueur,
- 2 untreated lemon peels,
- a pinch (0.5 g) of powdered xanthan gum
Candied lemon:
- 1 untreated lemon,
- water and sugar to taste,
Coffee beans glazed with honey:
- a handful of coffee beans to taste,
- acacia honey to taste
Pecorino flakes:
- 1 thick slice of aged Pecorino Toscano PDO
Directions
First let’s make the candied fruit. Peel the lemon zest keeping a small part of the white peel.
Cut the peel into ¼- ½ inch cubes (6-7 mm). Parboil in the water three times and change the water every time.
Drain.
Finally put in the diced candied lemon in a syrup of sugar and water 2 parts: 1 part until the syrup starts to foam.
Do not caramelize. Remove the diced one by one with forceps and put them on a sheet of aluminum to cool.
Keep them in the fridge so they remain soft.
Chop up the pecorino with a mixer.
Bring the cream to a boil liquid and, once you take it off the heat, add the gelatin, combine the mixture with pecorino cheese and mix everything together. Finally, gently add even the whipped cream and pour the mixture into molds silicone .
Put them in the refrigerator to harden for a few hours. Mix the flour with the coffee powder, sugar and a pinch of salt. Knead it on a work surface with the tip of your fingers, adding in the butter and the egg yolk.
Shape into a ball, cover it with plastic wrap and put it in the fridge for approximately half an hour.
After being in the refrigerator, roll out the dough with a rolling pin and cut out rectangles measuring the crest of the molds.
Harden them in the pre-heated oven to 350-375°F (180-200°C) for 10-12 minutes max.
Chop the walnuts so that some are coarse and others are fine. Put them in a pan with sugar, butter, water and salt.
Cook until the mixturebegins to caramelize and turn golden.
Spread it out while it’s hot with a spatula on a Silpat pan in a thin layer and let it cool and coagulate.
The Livorno ponce sauce:
put both types of alcohol and sugar in a cup. Heat them with the steam vapor from the espresso maker, add the espresso coffee (2-3 cups ca), finish off with lemon peel and let cool.
Dilute xanthan powder with a little cold punch, from which we took out the lemon rind, and then slowly, with no lumps, add the rest, mixing well.
They will meld together quickly.
Glazed coffee beans:
simply dip the coffee beans in acacia honey, remove them with tongs and decorate the plate.
Put a slice of cheese wrapped in foil in the freezer for a few hours, and when the dish is ready to serve, grate the cheese through the largest holes of the grater to make flakes.
Cristina Galliti del blog Insalata mista
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