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Berries with Creme Anglais
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Difficulty:
moderate
Difficulty
Preparation:
40 min.
Preparation
ready in 55 min.
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Ingredients
for
4
- For the sauce
- 1 Vanilla bean (seeds scraped out)
- ⅞ cup milk
- ⅞ cup cream
- 4 Tbsps sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3 egg yolks
- For the compote
- 3 ⅓ cups mixed Berry (e. g. currants, blueberries, raspberries and strawberries)
- ⅜ cup Red currant juice
- ⅜ cup Cherry juice
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 1 pc unwaxed Orange peel
- ½ stick cinnamon
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Preparation steps
1.
Put the vanilla pod and seeds in a pan with the milk, cream and 2 tbsp sugar. Bring to the boil, then take off the heat.
2.
In a mixing bowl, beat the eggs with the remaining sugar and the egg yolks. Whisk over a pan of hot water. Slowing stir in the hot vanilla cream and use a spatula to keep stirring the mixture from the edge to the centre of the bowl until the sauce is nice and creamy. Strain through a sieve and leave to cool.
3.
Prepare the berries, cutting the strawberries into halves or quarters depending on size.
4.
Whisk the cornflour with 3-4 tbsp redcurrant juice. Put the rest of the redcurrant juice in a pan with the cherry juice and sugar. Add the orange peel and cinnamon and bring to the boil. Stir in the cornflour mixture and simmer gently over a low heat for around 2 minutes. Pour through a sieve into a large bowl. Add the berries and stir in once, carefully. Spoon the compote into dessert bowls and leave to cool.
5.
Pour the custard over before serving.
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