In 2016, I left oil rigs for a planetary mixer and have never regretted this decision. My philosophy is simple: desserts are more than food. Desserts are a child of the pastry chef’s love and the nature. Modern European desserts are my line of work; I cook them for to-go sales and à la carte serving. My goal is to popularize this category of desserts in Russia.
Ingredients
(for 6 servings)
- Sable (shortbread cookies)
- (15 servings)
- GRANDPRO Tart margarine 70 g
- Powdered sugar 38 g
- Almond flour 13 g
- Salt 1 г
- Egg melange 20 g
- Wheat flour 100 g
- White chocolate (25.9% cocoa butter) 30 g
- Sage gel
- (15 servings)
- Water 110 g
- Sage 4 g
- Agar agar 0,5 g
- Xanthan gum 0,1 g
- Sugar 9 g
- Guzman lime food coloring 0,1 g
- Apple sage cream
- (6 servings)
- Agrobar apple puree 82 g
- Milk 3.2% fat 82 g
- Sugar 32 g
- Egg yolks 22 g
- Gelatin mass 220 bloom 10 g
- Fresh sage (leaves) 6 g
- White chocolate (25.9% cocoa butter) 63 g
- GRANDPRO Cream margarine 17 g
- Strawberry compote
- (6 servings)
- Agrobar strawberry puree 132 g
- Pectin NH 3 g
- Sugar 63 g
- Fresh strawberries 114 g
- Citric acid 2 g
- Italian meringue
- (6 servings)
- Water 80 g
- Sugar 160 g
- Egg whites 80 g
- Tuile
- (6 servings)
- Water 45 g
- Vegetable oil (odorless) 20 g
- Guzman «Christmas Red» food coloring 0,1 g
- Сборка десерта
- Sage gel 8 g
- Sable shortbread cookies 18 g
- Apple and sage cream 52 g
- Strawberry compote 52 g
- Italian meringue 40 g
- Fresh strawberries 10 g
- Fresh sage 4 g
- Tuile 5 g
cooking
Sable (shortbread cookies)
- Put GRANDPRO Tart margarine, powdered sugar, almond flour, and salt in a bowl of a mixer and whip using spatula nozzle.
- Add egg melange bit by bit, stirring each portion until smooth.
- Add wheat flour and knead the dough until smooth.
- Put the dough between two sheets of parchment paper (60×40 cm) and roll it in 2-mm layer. Put in a refrigerator for stabilization (6 hours at least).
- Cut circles from the dough using 8-cm cooking ring; prick the blanks with a fork and put to a freezer (24˚С) for 15 minutes.
- Put a silicone hemisphere mold Silikomart SF002 70 mm (base up) on a baking sheet.
- Preheated an oven to 165˚C (top and bottom heating).Place the blanks on the mold in a staggered order and bake for 24 minutes.
- Cool the cookies and grease them with melted white chocolate. Let it congeal.
Sage gel
- Make a decoction of water and sage; let it brew for 1 hour and strain.
- Cool, add agar agar, xanthan gum, sugar and food coloring, then blend.
- Heat and boil for 2 minutes.
- Let it congeal, and then punch in food processor.
- Transfer to a gravy boat.
Apple sage cream
- Cook creme anglaise from apple puree, milk, sugar, and yolks (85˚C).
- Dissolve the gelatin mass in it and add sage leaves.
- Stir and it pour on the white chocolate. Grind with a blender.
- Cool to 35–40˚C, add cold GRANDPRO Cream margarine, and emulsify.
- Pour the cream into food container and stabilize in a refrigerator.
- Stir the cream with a spatula and transfer to a pastry bag.
Strawberry compote
- Heat strawberry puree to 32C in a saucepan.
- Mix pectin with sugar and pour it in the strawberry puree.
- Bring to a boil and add strawberries, chopped in 1×1-cm cubes.
- Boil for 30 seconds, add citric acid and cool.
Italian meringue
- Make syrup from water and sugar (boil to 119˚C).
- Start whipping egg whites (to the “beer foam” state), pour syrup in a thin stream.
- Blend meringue at a high speed.
- Transfer to a pastry bag.
Tuile
- Combine all the ingredients and blend.
- Bake in a hot frying pan until the water evaporates.
- Put it on a paper napkin to remove excess oil.
Assembling the dessert
- Put 2/3 of sage gel from the saucepan on a serving dish; smack it slightly with a spoon to get a splash effect.
- Put apple sage cream on а sablé, spread evenly with a spoon.
- Put strawberry compote and clean with a spatula.
- Put the tartlets on the gel with the wide side down.
- Put Italian meringue on the sablé in a spiral form; make a nice texture.
- Garnish the dish with the remaining sage gel, Italian meringue, fresh strawberries and sage. Decorate with a tuile.