Hans - Food For Thought No. 10

Ingredients for 8 to 10 Persons:

1. 1l cream
2. 300ml of pureed and sieved mango
3. 6 whole eggs, 4 egg yolks
4. Lemon juice
5. Lemon zest
6. 100 g sugar
7. 1 vanilla pod
8. crystallized brown sugar

Preparation:

• Blend eggs and sugar until the mixture becomes almost white
• Put cream into a casserole and start heating
• Slice the vanilla pod in half, scrape out the seeds, and put seeds and pods into the cream
• Pour the boiling cream into the egg-sugar mixture by gentle whisking
• Add mango puree, lemon juice and lemon zest
• Pour the mixture into flat dishes
• Bake the mixture in a steam oven at 90⁰, or in a bain marie at 140⁰ until firm
• Refrigerate overnight
• Sprinkle brown sugar over the crème and glaze either in a salamander or with a blow torch

Bon Appetit!