Lotus Leaf

Lotus Leaf

Level:
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Hazelnut Praliné

Used products: Hazelnut Praliné

  • 0.9 oz
    Piémont hazelnuts
  • 0.9 oz
    sugar
  • 0.3 oz
    water
  • 7.7 gr
    salt

Preparation: Hazelnut Praliné

Roast hazelnuts at 150°C for 15 minutes.
Mix together sugar, salt and water, and heat up to 120°C.
Add hazelnuts and make into grainy mixture.
Caramelise and pour onto tray. Leave to cool and crush slightly.

Ganache Passion Fruit Banana Alunga™ 100 g/tray

Used products: Ganache Passion Fruit Banana Alunga™ 100 g/tray

Preparation: Ganache Passion Fruit Banana Alunga™ 100 g/tray

Boil together passion fruit puree, banana fruit puree, invert sugar and glucose.
Leave to cool to 70°C, pour over chocolate and emulsify.
Add dry butter at 35°C.

Assembly

Spray thin layer of green chocolate at 26°C into moulds.
Temper Cacao Barry® milk chocolate couverture Lactée Supérieure 38% cocoa and mould two praline trays.
Fill one praline tray with ganache passion fruit banana Alunga™, fill the other with crunchy hazelnut praliné and leave to crystallise at 6°C for 20 minutes.
Put on gloves and carefully assemble two halves together.