Dec 5, 2021

christmas recipes:Yann Couvreur's log with lime and coconut

Specially designed for Notre Temps by the famous pastry chef Yann Couvreur, this delicious lime and coconut log offers a zest of freshness to our New Year's Eve menus.

christmas recipesYann Couvreur's log with lime and coconut


Ingredients

For 4 to 6 people/ Preparation: 2 h 30/ Refrigeration: 1 night Cooking: 25 min 4 h for meringues.


The dacquoise coco:


27 g egg white (1 small egg white)

27 g semolina sugar

27 g icing sugar

11 g T55 flour

10 g almond powder

10 g roasted grated coconut

The French meringue:


20 g egg white (1 small egg white)

20 g semolina sugar

20 g icing sugar

10 g grated coconut


The ganache mounted coconut:


18 ml 34 ml 35% MG cream

1/4 gelatin sheet

18 g white chocolate

16 ml Malibu (optional)

4 g roasted grated coconut

Lime gel:


73 g lime pulp

10 ml Malibu (optional)

15 g sugar • 2 g agaragar

2 g pectin (in MSG)

1 g lime zest


Lime mousse:


33 ml lime juice

17 g sugar

22 g egg (1/2 beaten egg)

15 g egg yolk (1 small egg yolk)

1 sheet of gelatin

1 g lime zest

5 g butter

80 ml 35% MG cream

The log heel:


32 g white chocolate

The décor:


3 g lime powder

Preparation

1. The coconut dacquoise

Heat the egg white with the semolina sugar to 60°C, mount everything, then add the previously mixed icing sugar, flour, almond powder, and coconut. Spread the preparation between two strips 0.5 cm high. Cook for 7 min at 170 °C (th. 5-6).

2. The French meringue

Mount the egg white, add the sugar as you go. Once the meringue is mounted, stir in the icing sugar.

Fill a piping bag and form domes of different sizes, sprinkle with grated coconut before cooking for 4 hours at 60 °C (th. 2).

3. The ganache mounted coconut

Heat 18 ml of cream, add the hydrated gelatin, pour three times over the melted white chocolate. Mix and add the Malibu (optional), then the rest of the cream, finish with the grated coconut.

4. Lime gel

Heat the lemon pulp with the Malibu (optional), add sugar, agar-agar, pectin. Hold the boil for 2 min, let cool completely, then mix with the lemon zest.

5. Lime mousse

Heat the lime juice to 83°C in a water bath with the sugar, egg, and egg yolk. Mix with the hydrated gelatin, lemon peel, and butter, then add the whipped cream. Distribute the foam in the bottom of a log mold.

6. The log heel

Melt the chocolate over low heat, mold the heels.


7. Assembly

Spread half of the lime gel in the bottom of an insert mold, block, pour the coconut mounted ganache (keep some for the decor), block, finish with the rest of the gel (keep a little for the decor), block again. In the log mold containing the foam, place the insert (with the gel, ganache, gel mount) in the center. Add the dacquoise, smooth to the brim with the foam.

Reserve one night in the freezer.


8. The décor

Unmold the next day.

Using a pocket filled with excess ganache, form zebra on top of the log, add gel pellets, and then with the help of a Chinese, sift with lime powder. Add the meringues and heels on each side.


A tip from the chef: 'As with all pastries, it is necessary to respect the cooking times, I also recommend preparing the log the day before, then slipping it into the freezer. The next day, take it out 15 minutes before tasting and arrange on it the meringues and the decoration, the whole will hold better.' If you hesitate on the choice of the drink, Yann Couvreur simply recommends 'a good citrus tea to bring out the freshness of the lemon!'

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