Stuffed sweet and crunchy "spirit crumble" by Alain Passard
I flip through cookbooks , I buy little but to be honest the purchase of it was obvious. A cookbook of a great leader without a photo but only illustrated with collages, which in a very religious (as they often evoke stained glass collages) pay tribute to vegetables, I do could that adhering.
This book is by Alain Passard that throughout the 108 pages and 48 recipes, this love vegetables but also fruits, a very beautiful poetic texts and collages made by himself.
Sometimes the recipe inspired the collage but the opposite occurred, the mixture of colors boosting the imagination of the chef.
Pineapple in olive oil, honey and lemon green beans
, fishing white and fresh almonds
Greengage salted butter and orange
Beetroot with lavender and ripe with a fork.
Diamond in each page.
I immediately fell for the latest recipe book. Small stuffed sweet and crunchy "spirit crumble." Few ingredients, and all easy to find, 15 minutes preparation and 30 minutes of cooking.
I already loved the tomato
12 flavors of the same leader and the spirit remains the same. A shell filled with flavors that burst in the mouth with association unlikely but surprisingly the passion fruit and basil. Tart, crisp, everyone will not like.
It also gives you an idea of recipes for parties, delicious little nuts to taste pre-dessert or sweets.
Stuffed sweet and crunchy "spirit crumble" (4 persons - 8 stuffed)
1 apple 40 g raspberry jam
leaves 6 sprigs basil 4
passion fruit
30 g almonds slivered toasted hazelnuts 2
salted butter 10 g sugar (one teaspoon)
30g brown sugar (a tablespoon convex)
1 / 2 vanilla bean 1 pinch cinnamon
20 g ground almonds (infidelity on my part I put in the ground hazelnuts)
Cut the peeled apple into small dés.Ciselez basil. In a skillet, melt the butter with jam, sugar, half vanilla and cinnamon. Add the apples and cook over low heat a few minutes. The apples should remain crisp and just be colorful and spicy. Cut fruit of passion in half and pour the pulp in the apple mixture. Keep the shells for filling. Add the almonds that you have previously made toast in the stuffing. Adjust the sugar if all seems too tart.
fill your shells with the stuffing of apple and passion fruit by small domes protruding from the hull. Mix with fingertips ground almonds and brown sugar. Sprinkle this powder your stuffed. Place in a dish containing a little water.
cook your stuffed 25 to 30 minutes at 180 ° C. Let rest a bit before sprinkling of sugar ice.
Garnish with small basil leaf. A warm taste preference.
To end on a musical note, I could see them in concert The Bewitched Hands, young group of Reims who have stuck to the festival of Inrocks. I love their album that wraps around the office or at home, but seeing them live, gave me the hope that they can explode on the international stage ... Congratulations to them.
PS: For those interested, LCD soundsystem was great but frustrating (1 hour concert). James Murphy is my god.