LA POIRE

by Cedric Grolet, Le Meurice, Paris

Cedric Grolet, Le Meurice, Paris

World's Best Restaurant Pastry Chef 2017

WHIPPED PEAR GANACHE

Ingredients:

75g

Gelatine Solution

1650g

Ravifruit Pear Puree

300g

Callebaut Velvet White Couverture 33%, melted

312.5g

Callebaut Mycryo Cocoa Butter, melted

10g

Xanthan Gum

500g

Bulla Pure Cream (35%), hot

500g

Mascarpone

3347.5g

Total Weight

Method:

  1. Heat the pear puree in a saucepan. Pour in the gelatine and the white couverture.
  2. Add the melted cocoa butter and xanthan and mix for 2 minutes.
  3. Add the cream and mascarpone and mix together. Store until needed.

PEAR JELLY

Ingredients:

600g

Ravifruit Pear Puree

25g

Sugar

10g

Agar Agar

20g

Lemon Juice

655g

Total Weight

Method:

  1. Heat the pear puree in a saucepan.
  2. Stir in the mixture of sugar and agar agar then add the lemon juice. Store in the fridge.
  3. Once cool, mix for 3 minutes.

PEAR INSERT

Ingredients:

Equipment:

400g

Williams Pear/ Packham Pear

Half Sphere 4.5cm Moulds

QS

Olive Oil

QS

Icing Sugar

400g

Conference Pears/ Corrella Pear

600g

Pear Jelly (recipe above)

25g

Lemon Juice

1g

Juniper Berries, ground

1426g

Total Weight

Method:

  1. Peel the Williams pears and cut them into irregular cubes. Place them on a baking tray, drizzle with olive oil and icing sugar and bake at 250°C for 5 minutes.
  2. Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
  3. Peel the Conference pears and dice them.
  4. Mix the raw and cooked pears into the pear jelly then add the juniper berries. Pour the mixture into the half sphere 4.5cm moulds.
  5. Place in the freezer.

YELLOW COATING

Ingredients:

500g

Callebaut Velvet White Couverture 33%

500g

Callebaut Mycryo Cocoa Butter

QS

Yellow Colouring

1000g

Total Weight

Method:

  1. Melt the cocoa butter with the chocolate and mix to combine.
  2. Add the yellow colouring and mix.

CHOCOLATE COATING

Ingredients:

500g

Cacao Barry Ocoa Pur Noir 70%

500g

Callebaut Mycryo Cocoa Butter

1000g

Total Weight

Method:

  1. Melt the cocoa butter with the chocolate and mix to combine.

ALMOND GREEN COATING

Ingredients:

200g

Callebaut Velvet White Couverture 33%

25g

Callebaut Milk Chocolate

275g

Callebaut Cocoa Butter

10g

Green Colouring

5g

Yellow Colouring

515g

Total Weight

Method:

  1. Melt the cocoa butter with the chocolate and mix to combine.
  2. Add the colouring and mix. Use the coating at approximately 40°C.

*stem of the pear in milk + dark cornet

Ingredients:

75g

Gelatine Solution

1650g

Ravifruit Pear Puree

300g

Callebaut Velvet White Couverture 33%, melted

312.5g

Callebaut Mycryo Cocoa Butter, melted

10g

Xanthan Gum

500g

Bulla Pure Cream (35%), hot

500g

Mascarpone

3347.5g

Total Weight

Method:

  1. Heat the pear puree in a saucepan. Pour in the gelatine and the white couverture.
  2. Add the melted cocoa butter and xanthan and mix for 2 minutes.
  3. Add the cream and mascarpone and mix together. Store until needed.

PEAR JELLY

Ingredients:

600g

Ravifruit Pear Puree

25g

Sugar

10g

Agar Agar

20g

Lemon Juice

655g

Total Weight

Method:

  1. Heat the pear puree in a saucepan.
  2. Stir in the mixture of sugar and agar agar then add the lemon juice. Store in the fridge.
  3. Once cool, mix for 3 minutes.

PEAR INSERT

Ingredients:

Equipment:

400g

Williams Pear/ Packham Pear

Half Sphere 4.5cm Moulds

QS

Olive Oil

QS

Icing Sugar

400g

Conference Pears/ Corrella Pear

600g

Pear Jelly (recipe above)

25g

Lemon Juice

1g

Juniper Berries, ground

1426g

Total Weight

Method:

  1. Peel the Williams pears and cut them into irregular cubes. Place them on a baking tray, drizzle with olive oil and icing sugar and bake at 250°C for 5 minutes.
  2. Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
  3. Peel the Conference pears and dice them.
  4. Mix the raw and cooked pears into the pear jelly then add the juniper berries. Pour the mixture into the half sphere 4.5cm moulds.
  5. Place in the freezer.

YELLOW COATING

Ingredients:

500g

Callebaut Velvet White Couverture 33%

500g

Callebaut Mycryo Cocoa Butter

QS

Yellow Colouring

1000g

Total Weight

Method:

  1. Melt the cocoa butter with the chocolate and mix to combine.
  2. Add the yellow colouring and mix.

CHOCOLATE COATING

Ingredients:

500g

Cacao Barry Ocoa Pur Noir 70%

500g

Callebaut Mycryo Cocoa Butter

1000g

Total Weight

Method:

  1. Melt the cocoa butter with the chocolate and mix to combine.

ALMOND GREEN COATING

Ingredients:

200g

Callebaut Velvet White Couverture 33%

25g

Callebaut Milk Chocolate

275g

Callebaut Cocoa Butter

10g

Green Colouring

5g

Yellow Colouring

515g

Total Weight

Method:

  1. Melt the cocoa butter with the chocolate and mix to combine.
  2. Add the colouring and mix. Use the coating at approximately 40°C.

*stem of the pear in milk + dark cornet

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