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Croquants Of Almond And Orange With Orange And Grapefruit In A Mint Cream Sauce

Ingredients
For the Tuiles
250 grams blanched Almonds
250 grams Castor Sugar
250 grams Egg White
1 whole Egg
100 grams Flour
375 grams Burnt Butter
For the Creme Patissiere
1/2 litre Milk
3 Egg Yolks
1 whole Egg
100 grams Sugar
65 grams Flour
For the Fruit Cream
1 Grapefruit without skin and cut into rough dice
1 Orange without skin and cut into rough dice
1 bunch Mint finely chopped
250 ml Cream

Method

For the Tuiles:

Put all ingredients together except the last. Stir gently and finally add the burnt butter. Spread on a cooking tray in small rounds and bake at 180C for approximately 8 minutes.

For the Creme Patissiere:

Boil the milk.

Whip the eggs and sugar together then add the flour and the hot milk, cook again, then chill.

For the Fruit Cream:

Mix everything together in a blender and then add the cream.

Strain and keep cold.

The garnish consists of 6 grapefruit and 5 oranges which have all been carefully peeled and pithed then cut into nice segments.

Layer the croquants with the fruit cream and arrange the segments around.

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