Perle de Tahiti
Recipe by Johanna le Pape
I. COMPOSITION
- Lime shortcrust
- Mango confit
- Vanilla-coconut ganache
- White glaze
- White chocolate decoration
II. LIME SHORTCRUST
- 110 g Butter
- 75 g Sugar
- 45 g Egg yolk
- 3 g Salt
- ½ pc Lime
- 150 g Rice Flour
- 3 g Baking soda
- 70 g Deodorized Cocoa Butter
- 1 g Silver glitter
PROCESS
- Mix the butter with the sugar.
- Add the egg yolk, the salt, the zest of the lime, the rice flour and the baking soda.
- Spread between 2 parchment papers at 4 mm thickness. Bake at 170°C for 10 min.
- Let cool and cut the biscuit as a cube of 0.5 cm/0.5 cm.
- Add the melted Deodorized Cocoa Butter and mix.
- Spread 550 g on a baking tray 30/40. Bake 3 min at 170°C.
- Freeze and cut with a 3 cm round cutter.
- Brush with the silver glitter.
III. MANGO CONFIT
- 300 g Mango
- 20 g Coconut sugar
- 4 g Pectin
- 5 g Mint
- 100 g Mango brunoise
PROCESS
- Wash, peel and cut the mango.
- Mix the fruit pulp.
- In a pot, heat the pulp and add the pectin mixed with the coconut sugar.
- Bring to a boil.
- Let cool in the freezer and then add the chopped mint and the mango brunoise.
IV. VANILLA – COCONUT GANACHA
- 150 g Coconut milk
- 1 pc Vanilla bean
- 1 g Fine salt
- 20 g Gelatine mass
- 50 g Obsession 30 Belgian white chocolate
- 350 g Cream 35%
PROCESS
- Heat the coconut milk with the vanilla bean and the salt. Infuse for 1 hour.
- Strain and boil again.
- Add the gelatine and pour over the white chocolate.
- Then, add the whipping cream. Mix and strain.
- Keep in the refrigerator for 24 hours.
- With the whip of an electric mixer, slowly beat the ganache to reach a Chantilly consistency.
IV. WHITE GLAZE
- 150 g Water
- 300 g Sugar
- 300 g Glucose syrup
- 150 g Gelatine mass
- QS Silver glitter
PROCESS
- In a saucepan, cook the water, the sugar, the glucose syrup to 103°C.
- Pour over the gelatine mass.
- Stir and add the silver glitter.
- Mix and set in the fridge overnight.
- Use the glaze at around 38°C.