Matcha tea tart, white chocolate cream flavored with tonka, kumquat textures and raspberry sorbet with mint
Almond Biscuit
Ingredients:
• 240g of butter
• 180g powdered sugar
• 60g almond powder
• 470g flour 55%
• 100g egg yolk
Cream with Matcha Tea
Ingredients:
• 200g cream
• 26g glucose in syrup
• 3g gelatin
• 340g white chocolate
• 400g cream
• 10g of Matcha tea
Kumquat cream
Ingredients:
• 120g of kumquat puree
• 3g gelatin
• 150g eggs
• 150g of sugar
• 150g of butter
White Chocolate Cream with Tonka
Ingredients:
• 112g cream
• 26g glucose in syrup
• 175g white chocolate
• 330g cream
• 10g tonka bean
Kumquat Gel
Ingredients:
• 100g Kumquat puree
• 100g Water
• 100g Sugar
• 10g Lazaris kumquat liqueur
• 3g Agar agar
Strawberry confit
Ingredients:
• 100g Strawberries
• 20g Sugar
• 20g Merlin gin Lazaris
Sorbet Raspberry - Mint
Ingredients:
• 500g Raspberry puree
• 50g Sugar
• 50g Glucose in syrup
• 15g Mint
Caramelized White Chocolate
Ingredients:
• 450g White chocolate
• 225g Water
• 490g Sugar
Method
For the Almond Cookie
Place butter, powdered sugar, almond powder, flour in the mixer bowl and beat with the whisk until it becomes powder. At the end, add the yolk and beat until it comes together and becomes a dough.
Shape the cookie and bake at 165 C for 10 minutes.
For the Matcha Tea Cream
Soak the gelatin sheet in cold water. Place the 200 g of cream in a saucepan together with the glucose and the matcha tea and heat them up. Remove from the heat, add the gelatin and pour the mixture into the chocolate. Mix until well combined. At the end, add the 400 g of cream directly from the refrigerator and combine. Leave the mixture for 24 hours in the refrigerator and the next day beat it in the mixer with the wire until it swells.
For the Kumquat Cream
Place the gelatin in cold water. Put the kumquat puree in a saucepan and heat it. In a bowl, we have joined eggs with sugar and transferred them to the pot with the kumquat puree. Cook until the mixture reaches 82 C. Remove from the pot and add the gelatin. Finally, add the butter.
For the Cream with White Chocolate and Tonka
Place the 112 g of cream with the grated tonka bean in a saucepan. Heat the mixture a little and remove from heat, covering the pot with cling film for 15 minutes. When the time has passed, strain the mixture, and add it to the chocolate mixture together with the glucose and combine.
Finally, add the 330 g of cream and leave for 12 hours in the refrigerator.
For the Gel Kumquat
Place kumquat puree, water, sugar, liqueur in a pot and heat it up a little, add agar agar and let it boil. Spread the mixture on a pan and let it cool.
For the Strawberry Confit
Place strawberries, sugar and alcohol in a bowl and leave them overnight in the refrigerator.
For the Fragrant Raspberry Sorbet
Place the raspberry puree and the mint in a saucepan. Heat it up and leave it covered with film for 15 minutes so that it is fragrant. Remove the mint from the puree and add sugar and glucose. Boil the mixture for 1 minute, remove it from the heat and transfer it to the refrigerator for one night and then put it in the ice cream machine.
For the Caramelized White Chocolate
Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie. We make a syrup with the water and sugar and bring it to 141 C. Transfer the syrup to the white chocolate and mix quickly.
Setting up a plate
Place the almond biscuit on the plate and alternately put the 3 creams. Place kumquat jelly cubes on top of the creams and strawberry confit in between. We also use kumquat spoon sweet in Lazaris rings and Lazaris kumquat jam. Next to the almond biscuit, put some white caramelized chocolate and place the raspberry-mint sorbet.
Thanks to pastry chef Marialena Lyri for the recipe.