Banana, peanut & caramel staircase

Josh Angus

Josh Angus

27th May 2025
Josh Angus

Banana, peanut & caramel staircase

120 min

Signature dessert at HIDE

Ingredients

Caramelised peanuts

  • 1kg roasted peanuts
  • 400g caster sugar
  • 200g water

Peanut feuilletine

  • 140g Bahibe
  • 140g peanut butter
  • 70g caramelised peanuts (chopped)
  • 70g feuilletine

Caramel

  • 200g caster sugar
  • 220g cold diced butter
  • 250g UHT
  • 9g Maldon
  • 45g soft butter

Banana mousse

  • 990g banana puree (biron)
  • 60g sugar
  • 18g bronze halal gelatine
  • 900g semi whipped UHT cream

Spray

  • 600g cocoa butter
  • 400g 70% chocolate
  • 100g 100% chocolate

Banana leaf & Genmaicha sauce

  • 525g water
  • 24g lemon juice
  • 54g caster sugar
  • 0.5g ascorbic acid
  • 30g banana leaf (crushed)
  • 5g Genmaicha tea
  • 25g ultratex per litre

Method

Caramelised peanuts

Bring the water and sugar to a boil
Add the peanuts and continuously mix till crystalised and then caramelised
Spread on to a sil-pat to cool

Peanut feuilletine

Melt the chocolate add the peanut butter
Add the peanuts and feuilletine

Caramel

Boil the UHT cream
Caramelise the sugar till a medium amber colour, add the cold diced butter counting to stir bit by bit till fully emulsified
Add the cream to the caramel and leave to cool for 40c
Blitz in the soft butter and Maldon salt
Leave to set in fridge overnight

Banana mousse

Soak the gelatine in ice water
Warm 1/3rd of the puree with the sugar and add the gelatine
Cool to 30c
Fold in the semi whipped cream
Pipe 5g of caramel onto the feuilletine
Pipe mousse into the mould place the caramel and feuilletine into the moulds and freeze

Banana leaf & Genmaicha sauce

Bring the water, lemon juice, sugar and ascorbic acid to the boil
Add the banana leaves and cover leave to infuse for 30 minutes
Bring the liquid back to up to 80c
Add the tea of leave to infuse for another 2 minutes and pass through a super bag
Weigh liquid and add 25g of ultratex per litre whisk

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