
Avocado with coffee, milk chocolate, and pistachio
A composed modernist plated dessert built from multiple components: coffee meringue, avocado sorbet, coconut panna cotta, coffee ganache, mixed citrus fruit gel, pistachio sponge cake and sweet avocado crème.
Ingredients
| 200 g | coffee (coffee meringue) | |
| 11 g | egg white powder (coffee meringue) | |
| 0.2 g | xanthan gum (coffee meringue) | |
| 75 g | sugar water (coffee meringue) | |
| 50 g | castor sugar (coffee meringue) | |
| 400 g | avocado flesh (avocado sorbet) | |
| 600 ml | water (avocado sorbet) | |
| 1 | lime (avocado sorbet) | |
| 100 g | Pro Sorbet (avocado sorbet) | |
| 140 g | sugar (avocado sorbet) | |
| 0.5 tsp | 2.5 ml | Maldon salt (avocado sorbet) |
| 400 g | coconut cream (coconut panna cotta) | |
| 50 g | sugar (coconut panna cotta) | |
| 200 g | whipping cream (coconut panna cotta) | |
| 8 g | gelatin leaves (coconut panna cotta) | |
| 275 g | cream (coffee ganache) | |
| 30 g | water (coffee ganache) | |
| 145 g | butter (coffee ganache) | |
| 145 g | glucose syrup (coffee ganache) | |
| 15 g | instant coffee (coffee ganache) | |
| 1250 g | milk chocolate (coffee ganache) | |
| 1000 g | lemon, lime or orange juice (citrus fruit gel) | |
| 250 g | sugar water 1:1 (citrus fruit gel) | |
| 14 g | agar agar (citrus fruit gel) | |
| 4 g | citras (citrus fruit gel) | |
| 250 g | sugar (pistachio sponge cake) | |
| 500 g | pistachio nuts (pistachio sponge cake) | |
| 600 g | egg white (pistachio sponge cake) | |
| 80 g | tempura flour (pistachio sponge cake) | |
| 500 g | avocados (sweet avocado crème) | |
| 250 ml | water (sweet avocado crème) | |
| 80 g | glucose (sweet avocado crème) | |
| 160 g | sugar (sweet avocado crème) | |
| 3 g | citric acid powder (sweet avocado crème) | |
| 5 g | Maldon salt (sweet avocado crème) | |
| â | marigolds (finishing) | |
| â | ground pistachio (finishing) |
Instructions
Coffee meringue:
- Combine all ingredients, except the sugar, using a stick blender. Allow the mixture to rest for 2 hours.
- Beat up the mixture to stiff peaks using a planetary mixer with whisk attachment.
- Whisk in the sugar, then place the mixture into a piping bag with a round nozzle.
- Place silicone mats onto baking trays.
- Allow to dry for 2-3 hours (depending on size) in an oven or drying cabinet at approximately 75°C.
- Store in an air-tight container with silicone granules.
Avocado sorbet:
- Mix all the ingredients in the blender until smooth.
- Turn the mixture into ice cream using an ice cream maker or Pacojet.
Coconut panna cotta:
- Heat the coconut cream and sugar and reduce by half.
- Add the whipping cream and bring back to the boil.
- Soak the gelatin in cold water.
- Dissolve the gelatin in the warm coconut mixture and set aside to cool.
- Pour the mixture into a mould and allow to set in the refrigerator.
Coffee ganache:
- Bring the cream, water, butter, glucose syrup and instant coffee to a boil.
- Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the chocolate until you have a smooth mass.
- Pour the ganache into a mould or onto a plate covered with baking paper.
- Allow to set.
- Cut or punch out into the desired shape.
Mixed citrus fruit gel:
- Squeeze the juice from the citrus fruit of your preference. Add a little zest if desired.
- Bring all the ingredients to the boil and pour through a fine-meshed sieve.
- Set to cool and allow to gel.
- Put through the blender until you have a lustrous jelly.
Pistachio sponge cake:
- In a blender, blend the sugar and pistachio until smooth.
- Add the egg whites and tempura flour and blend until smooth.
- Transfer to a siphon and aerate with two cartridges.
- Shake well and spray into paper cups.
- Fill the cups by no more than 30%, as they will rise considerably.
- Cook them in the microwave at full power for 50 seconds.
- Let the cups cool upside-down and then cut them open to turn out the cakes.
Sweet avocado crème:
- Bring the water to the boil.
- Combine all other ingredients in a blender and add the boiling water.
- Blend at high speed until smooth.
- Strain through a fine sieve and transfer to a squeeze bottle.
- Store in the refrigerator.
Finishing and presentation:
- Place the coconut panna cotta on the plate.
- Make a perfect quenelle from the coffee and milk chocolate ganache and place to the bottom right of the panna cotta.
- Finish the plate with three pieces of the pistachio sponge cake.
- Pipe the sweet avocado crème and citrus gel on the plate around the panna cotta and ganache.
- Carefully add three coffee meringues.
- Sprinkle a little coarsely ground pistachio over the plate.
- Make a quenelle from the avocado sorbet and place on top of the ground pistachio.
- Finish with edible marigolds, such as lemon gem and orange gem, to finish the plate.