Banana/ Passion Fruit / Chocolate by Marcio Baltazar
How do the desserts at the two Michelin-starred Ocean look and taste? Fabulous! Marcio Baltazar, one of the best Portuguese pastry chefs, and the head pastry chef of the two Michelin-starred Ocean in Algarve, is sharing one of his signature recipes.
Chocolate and passion fruit icecream
158g passion fruit puree
71g powdered milk
143g inverted sugar
10g Stabilizer
428g 65% Cacao Barry Haiti Chocolate
160g Sugar
Mix the puree with the powdered milk and the inverted sugar
Heat it at 45º and mix the sugar and the stabilizer
Cook it at 85º and add the chocolate. Allow it to emulsify
Let it rest for 12h, emulsionate again and put it in pacojet cups
Almond and Sesame Gianduja
200g sugar
200g almond
50g sesame
400g Cacao Barry 34% Zephyr chocolate
Slightly toast the almonds while at the same time making a dried caramel
Pore the toasted almonds over the caramel and let it rest
When it is cold, break it in small pieces and grind it in the Bimby until it becomes a smooth and even paste
Add the 34% Zephyr chocolate and mix at an average speed for 10 minutes
Lower the temperature in the kitchen bench at 26º and place it in boxes at the average temperature
Passion Fruit Crumble
100g Sugar
200g Butter
300g Flour
60g Passion Fruit pulp ***
Mix the sugar and the flour in the Bimby, add the cold butter in cubes and the passion fruit pulp
Use the batter program until it acquires a sand-like texture
Freeze it and then cook it at 140º for 8 minutes
*** Defrost the passion fruit puree over a cloth inside the refrigerator for 3 days, It will separate the water from the pupl. 1 kg of puree has about 80g of pulp with a very intense flavour
Banana from Madeira and Rum
Banana from Madeira****
250g Water
250g Brown sugar
120g Rum from Madeira
Make a syrup and add the rum
After it’s cold, pore it over the bananas and vacuum seal it for 6 hours
When you’re about to serve it, cook the banana for a while with the syrup and let it rest in the oven at 60º
**** the banana has to be completely black on the ouside, só it you have to wait a fez weeks. It’s very healthy.
Other ingredients:
Dried Madagascar Banana
Roasted Sesame
Micro basil leaves
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