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Frozen Prickly Pear Mousse with Hazelnut Beef Fat Praline
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Ingredients
Prickly Pear Frozen Mousse
Beef Fat Praline
Wattleseed Meringue
Milk Skin
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Steps
- Preheat oven to 160C.
- For the Prickly Pear Frozen Mousse, place egg yolks into the bowl of a stand mixer and whisk on medium speed.
- Place sugar and 50ml water into a small saucepan. Bring to a simmer and brush down the inside of the saucepan with a wet pastry brush. Cook until syrup reaches 118C on a sugar thermometer. Reduce mixer speed to low and pour syrup down the side of the bowl of yolk mixture, whisking continuously until cool.
- Whisk cream to stiff peaks then fold in prickle pear juice, vinegar and salt. Mix into egg mixture until just combined. Spoon into 8 silicon cupcake moulds, level surface and freeze until firm, about 5 hours.
- For the Beef Fat Praline, place beef fat into a saucepan over medium heat and cook fat has rendered. Strain through a fine sieve and 50g set aside.
- Place hazelnuts onto a tray and roast until golden, about 15 minutes. Remove from oven and set aside on a lined tray.
- Place sugar into a small frypan and place over medium heat to melt to an amber coloured caramel. Pour over hazelnuts and set aside to cool. Break into shards.
- Place praline, butter, rendered fat and salt into a food processor and process until smooth.
- For the Wattleseed Meringue, place eggwhite into the bowl of a stand mixer and whisk to soft peaks in a stand mixer. Whisk in sugar and salt gradually until stiff peaks form and continue mixing until sugar has dissolved. Spread onto 2 lined large flat trays as thinly as possible. Sprinkle with wattleseed and bake until dry, about 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and set aside to cool and crisp.
- Reduce oven to 120C.
- For the Milk Skins, place milk into a large frypan and bring to the boil. Remove from the heat and set aside for 10 minutes. Lay a sheet of baking paper onto the surface then lift off paper with the milk skin attached. Return milk to the boil and repeat process.
- Place paper with skins onto baking trays and cook for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and set aside to cool and crisp.
- To serve, spoon Beef Fat Praline onto plates. Add a Prickly Pear Frozen Mousse, Wattleseed Meringue and some Milk Skin shards.