Elle & Vire Recipes
by Keiko Nagae

Recipe Tangy Fruit - Filled Kouign Amann

To prepare this dish

Ingredient list
Raspberry pépin
750 g raspberry nibs
230 g sugar
12 g pectin NH
40 g lemon juice
Kouign Amann
1 kg Gruau flour (high gluten flour)
30 g salt
30 g salt
650 g water
1 kg Extra dry butter 84% fat - 1kg sheet
700 g fine sugar
Elle & Vire products used

The recipe,
step by step

  1. 1

    Raspberry pépin

    Place the crushed raspberries in a saucepan and heat gently. Mix the sugar and pectin and shower over the raspberries. Add the lemon juice and stir while cooking. Once the mixture has thickened nicely, pour into a 2-cm-high frame.

    Leave to set in the refrigerator. Cut into 2-cm strips 1cm shorter than the mould you are using.

  2. 2

    Kouign Amann

    Place the flour and salt in a bowl. Dilute the yeast in the warm water (45 °C/113 °F). Pour over the flour and mix slowly. Beat for 4 minutes at lowest speed, then for 1 min at 2nd speed. Prove for 30 min at 20-22 °C (68-72 °F).

    Push down and leave the dough to cool (30 min in refrigerator). Roll out the dough in a rectangle, spread the butter over 2/3 of the surface. Fold into three (fold the non-buttered third onto the butter, then fold the remaining third on top). Roll out, sprinkle on the sugar, and fold into three. Leave in a cool place for 30 minutes. Give a double turn, then a single turn. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 4 mm.

  3. 3

    Assembly

    Cut the Kouign Amann dough so that it will fit the mould. Place the strip of raspberry pépin on the dough. Put a little dough on either side (to prevent the raspberry from leaking out).

    Roll up. Place in an ingot-shaped mould to 3/4 height (closure at the top). Flatten the upper surface. Allow to prove at 26-28 °C (79-82 °F) for 1h30 minutes.

    Place a sheet of greaseproof paper and a metal plate on the top, bake in a convection oven at 180 °C (356 °F) for approx. 40 minutes.

  4. 4

    Decoration

    Arrange the red berries artistically on the Kouign Amann and garnish with a few leaves of gold foil


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