Roasted Pineapple With Lemongrass Chiboost

Serves: 5

Kendrick Gleason

1 January 1970

Based on User reviews:

58

Spice

53

Sweetness

49

Sourness

41

mins

Prep time (avg)

5.1

Difficulty

Ingredients:

40 g

Butter

2 cups

Milk

200 g

Sugar

Directions:

1

Roasted Pineapple: Melt the butter in a large saucepan and add the seeded vanilla bean

2

Add the granulated and the light brown sugar, stirring continuously

3

Add the diced pineapple

4

Cook the mixture until the pineapple is translucent, about 10 to 20 minutes

5

Lemongrass Pastry Cream: Pour the milk in a large pot on high heat

6

Clean and slice the lemongrass and add to the milk and bring to a boil

7

Turn off heat

8

Let steep for 1 hour

9

Add seeded vanilla bean

10

Bring to a boil again

11

Take out the vanilla bean and strain the mixture through a sieve into a mixing bowl

12

Combine sugar, pastry flour and yolks and temper by adding in the hot liquid slowly

13

This mixture will form a stiff pastry cream

14

Whisk rapidly over low flame for 1 minute

15

Put mixture in a blender

16

Blend out lumps

17

Italian Meringue: Heat the sugar (123 degrees C) to soft-ball stage

18

Whip egg whites until stiff peaks form and then pour in the hot sugar

19

Continue whipping the mixture together until stiff peaks form

20

Fold the Italian Meringue into the lemongrass pastry cream

21

Pipe the mixture into round flexible molds

22

Freeze the molds overnight

23

Take the molds out of the freezer 3 hours before serving

24

Once the cream begins to thaw, turn the mold upside down and remove the formed cream onto the center of a plate

25

Garnish the plate with the roasted pineapple mixture

26

For added presentation, sprinkle sugar on top and torch