Elle & Vire Recipes
by Adrien Duraffourd

Recipe Mont-blanc Vacherin

For
15 pieces
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To prepare this dish

Ingredient list
LIME MERINGUE
200 g pasteurized egg whites
200 g caster sugar
100 g lime juice
6 g dried powdered egg white
200 g icing sugar
BLACKCURRANT SORBET
250 g blackcurrant puree
33 g atomised glucose
5 g gellan
5 g inverted sugar
113 g caster sugar
315 g water
BLACKCURRANT SAUCE
200 g blackcurrant puree
25 g caster sugar
5 g pectin NH
YUZU MOCHI
79 g Shiratamako (sweet rice flour)
5 g yuzu puree
15 g granulated sugar
64 g water
YUZU SYRUP
125 g caster sugar
250 g water
38 g yuzu puree
CHESTNUT CREAM
60 g Performance Universal Cream 35% fat
55 g water
65 g caster sugar
16 g gelatine (200 bloom)
80 g cold water
600 g chestnut spread
VANILLA CURD
500 g Excellence whipping cream 35% fat
75 g caster sugar
120 g pasteurized egg whites
4 g gelatin 200 Bloom
20 g mineral water
4 pce/s Vanilla bean
WHIPPED CREAM
1000 g Excellence whipping cream 35% fat
80 g caster sugar
CIGARETTE PASTE SNOW FLAKES DECORATION
100 g Elle & Vire gourmet butter 80% fat salted
100 g icing sugar
100 g blanc d'œuf frais
100 g T45 flour
Elle & Vire products used

The recipe,
step by step

  1. 1

    LIME MERINGUE

    Whip the egg white while adding the caster sugar and the egg whites powder, alternating with the lime juice.

    When it is fully whipped, add the sieved icing sugar.

  2. 2

    BLACKCURRANT SORBET

    Bring all the ingredients to the boil, let set and freeze in Pacojet® bowl.

    Blend with the Pacojet® machine.

  3. 3

    BLACKCURRANT SAUCE

    Bring to the boil the blackcurrant puree and at 60°C, add the caster sugar with pectin NH.

    Leave to cool and blend.

  4. 4

    YUZU MOCHI

    Mix all the ingredients together into a dough. Separate the dough into balls, with 5 g for one ball.

    Poached into boiling water and cool down in ice water. 

    Keep in the yuzu syrup.

  5. 5

    YUZU SYRUP

    Bring to the boil both the sugar and the water.

    Leave to cool. Add the yuzu puree, and mix well.

  6. 6

    CHESTNUT CREAM

    Soak the gelatin with the cold water. Bring the cream, the water, the caster sugar to boil.

    Add gelatin and mix with the chestnut spread.

  7. 7

    VANILLA CURD

    Soak the gelatin with the cold water. Heat the cream with the vanilla beans, pour over the mix egg yolk with caster sugar.

    Cook up to 84°C and add the soaked gelatin. Leave to cool down and pour over the cassis confit.

    Leave to freeze.

  8. 8

    WHIPPED CREAM

    Mix together the cold cream with the caster sugar.

    Whip in a mixing bowl.

    While mixing cover the bowl with a plastic film in order to keep the cold air inside the bowl for an optimum whipping rate.

  9. 9

    CIGARETTE PASTE SNOW FLAKES DECORATION

    Cream the butter and the icing sugar.

    Add half of the tempered egg white.

    Add the flour and finish with the remaining of egg white. 

  10. 10

    ASSEMBLY

    On a plate pipe a large dot of whipped cream and secure a upside down meringue dome.

    Pipe inside the blackcurrant sorbet and cover with the cigarette paste snowflakes decoration.

    Place over the glazed vanilla curd. 

    Pipe over the glazed vanilla curd in a mountain motion the chestnut cream and around it some dotes of whipped cream that represent clouds.

    Add some dotes of blackcurrant sauce, candied chestnut pieces and a gold leaf at the top.

    At the front of the Mont-Blanc, pipe some dotes of whipped cream that represent the clouds, more blackcurrant sauce, frozen blackcurrants, and some yuzu mochi.


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