Pear, blueberry & white chocolate

Mark Abbott

Mark Abbott

17th March 2016
Mark Abbott

Pear, blueberry & white chocolate

• Frozen aerated pear foam
• White chocolate & coco butter lined dome mould
• Pear & white chocolate cremeux
• Fresh blueberry
• Blueberry espuma
• Blueberry sherbet
• Pear gel
• Compressed pear dice
• Dried pear slice

Ingredients

  • White chocolate lined dome mould
  • 1200g white chocolate
  • 850g coco butter
  • Frozen aerated pear foam
  • 400g pear juice reduced to 250g
  • 2 gelatine
  • 5g citric
  • 15 g pro espuma
  • 13g pear compound
  • Pear & white chocolate cremeux
  • 80g pear compound
  • 2 gelatine
  • 210g white chocolate
  • 150ml milk
  • 120g UHT cream
  • Blueberry espuma
  • 200 blueberry puree
  • 60ml water
  • 20g sugar
  • 16g pro espuma
  • 2g citric acid
  • Blueberry sherbet
  • Pear gel
  • 300g pear juice
  • 30g sugar
  • 2g citric acid
  • 4g agar
  • Compressed pear dice
  • 200ml water
  • 100g sugar
  • 1g citric acid

Method

White chocolate lined dome mould

Melt both together. Fill a frozen 12cm metal dome mould (full) with the chocolate and allow to stand in the mould for 10 seconds to start to set. Pour out the excess chocolate leaving a thin layer. Scrap of with a clean pallet knife. Place back in freezer.

Frozen aerated pear foam

reduce the pear juice then dissolve the soaked gelatine, blend in the rest of the ingredient, pour into a espuma gun, gas twice and shake well. Fill the chocolate lined moulds, using a pallet knife flatten off, freeze in the -85°. Once set move into a standard freezer, then scoop out the middle of the foam leaving a 2 cm ring of frozen dome.

Pear & white chocolate cremeux

bring the milk and cream to the boil , dissolve the gelatine, whisk in the compound, then pour over the chocolate. Stir until all is dissolved and pour into a container and leave to set. Then place into piping bag.

Blueberry espuma

warm the water and sugar together then blend with all the other ingredients. Pour into a espuma gun, gas once and shake well.

Pear gel

Place all ingredients except the acid, in a pan, and boil for 20 seconds. Pour into a one – sprayed container, and chill. Once the jelly

Compressed pear dice

Place all ingredients into a pan and bring to the boil to make a stock syrup. Dice a firm pear into 2 mm dice. Place into a vac pac bag. Add 50 ml of the cold syrup and compress.

Dried pear slice

Compress the slices in the same stock syrup as the dice, then drain well, lay flat on cling film lined, de-hydrator trays. Dry at 70° for 4- 6 hours until crisp.

To finish

Place a spoon of the compressed pear into a 12cm round ring and lay flat. Place a small bulb of the gel in the middle of the pears. Just before you want to serve take the dome out of the freezer. Pipe a small bulb of cremeux into the hole. Add one whole blueberry into the cremeux. Fill the rest of the hole with the blueberry foam. Turn the mould over the ring of diced pear. The heat of your hand will release it from the metal mould. Place a small dot of gel on top and place a pear crisp on top, using a fine sieve dust with blueberry serbet, serve straight away.

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