- 150g soft matured goat’s cheese, sliced into 12 pieces
- 3 green apples, cut into spheres with a melon baller
- 2 black figs, sliced into 6 pieces
- 1 handful black olives, pitted
- sourdough bread cut into cubes
- chopped rosemary
- dill
- edible flowers, optional
- For the salted caramel:
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon of golden syrup
- 100ml double cream
- 15g butter
- 1 tablespoon water
Jean-Didier Gouges
7th August 2018
Burnt goat’s curd cheese with apple purée and salted caramel by Jean-Didier Gouges
Burnt goat’s curd cheese with apple purée and salted caramel by Jean-Didier Gouges
Ingredients
Method
1. For the black olive powder, wash the black olives and pre-heat the oven to 120 degrees centigrade. Place them on parchment paper on a baking tray and cook in the oven for approximately 40 minutes until hard and dry. Once cool, use a blender to blitz the dry olives into a fine powder and set aside.
2. To create the salted caramel, place the brown sugar, golden syrup and water into a small pan and simmer. When melted, add the butter and double cream with a pinch of sea salt. Fold everything together until smooth before putting aside.
3. Cut the remaining apple from the core into small pieces and sprinkle with sugar. Cook in a pan until soft, then blitz together in a blender to make a purée.
4. Mix the sourdough bread cubes with olive oil, chopped rosemary and salt and pepper and toast in a pan until the oil is soaked up and the cubes are crunchy like croutons.
5. Preheat the grill. Remove the goat’s cheese from the fridge and dust with a little icing sugar. When the grill is hot enough, place the cheese underneath it and heat until it is has browned a warm golden colour.
6. Remove the apple balls from the lemon water. Plate the burnt cheese, apple balls, fig pieces, a handful of croutons and the dill together with the edible flowers, if you are using them. Dot the apple purée and salted caramel either side of the cheese to taste.
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