Paris Brest Amsterdam

Servings 6 pieces

Ingredients
  

Croustillant

  • 300 g unsalted butter
  • 360 g brown cassonade sugar
  • 360 g flour T55/patisserie flour

Choux batter:

  • 250 g whole milk
  • 250 g water
  • 220 g butter
  • 5 g salt
  • 10 g sugar
  • 8 g invert sugar
  • 275 g flour
  • 5 pieces eggs

Hazelnut muslin:

  • 0.5 liter whole milk
  • 200 g sugar
  • 80 g egg yolk
  • 70 g custard powder
  • 160 g hazelnut praline paste See recipe for this
  • 260 g unsalted butter

Finish

  • creme de patisserie
  • 1 pcs passion fruit
  • powdered sugar
  • chocolate decoration
  • nougatine cookies
  • 12 pcs hazelnuts
  • 175 g caramel 175 g sugar and 40 ml water

Instructions
 

Croustillant

  • Mix the soft butter with the cassonade sugar and flour in the food processor or mixing bowl. Use a dough hook and mix until homogeneous, if necessary knead by hand. Then place the mixture between two baking papers and roll out with a rolling pin until it is as thin as possible. (Make the croustillant a day in advance and store in plastic wrap in the refrigerator. If you use it right away, it can become grainy)

Puff rings

  • Preheat the oven to 250 degrees hot air. Let the butter for the tiger print / croustillant come to room temperature. For the choux batter; Bring the milk together with the water, butter, salt, sugar and invert sugar to the boil over medium heat. dissolve in 1 liter of water and then add lemon juice.For this recipe you can also use caster sugar instead of invert sugar.) Then add the flour and reduce the heat to low. Stir the mixture dry with a spatula. Once the mixture feels like a dry ball of dough, place in food processor or mixing bowl and mix with a dough hook at medium speed. Then add the eggs one at a time, adding the next egg only when the batter has fully incorporated the egg. Spoon the batter into a piping bag with a smooth nozzle if desired.
  • Line a baking tray with baking paper, grease the baking paper with 20 grams of melted butter and dust with flour (By greasing the baking paper with melted butter and then dusting with flour, you ensure that the choux does not spread). Make an impression in the flower with a round object so that the puffs have the same nice round shape. Pipe the choux batter into a ring shape on the baking tray, making sure you make two layers so that the choux is nice and high.
  • Preheat the oven to 250 degrees hot air.
  • Place the croustillant dough between two baking papers and roll out with a rolling pin into a thin sheet. Then let it set briefly in the freezer for convenience. Cut circles out of the croustillant with the same round object that was used for the shape of the puffs. With a smaller round shape, cut another circle from the center to create a ring shape and place the ring of croustillant on the choux batter.
  • Slide the puffs into the preheated oven and turn the oven off. Leave the puffs in it for 10 minutes. Then turn the oven to 160 degrees and let the puffs bake for another 10 minutes.
  • The puffs should be really golden brown before you take them out of the oven. Do not open the oven while baking or they will collapse.

Hazelnut muslin

  • Let the butter come to room temperature. Put the milk together with 200 grams of the sugar in a saucepan and slowly bring to the boil.
  • In a large bowl, mix the rest of the sugar with the pudding powder, praline paste and egg yolks. Add a splash of milk, if desired, to blend until smooth.
  • Once the milk is boiling add to the egg yolk mixture and stir briefly. Then put everything back in the pan and put on low heat. Stir with a whisk until a thick pudding is formed. Then remove from the heat and place in a bowl. Cover with plastic wrap, press the foil well onto the pudding and let it cool down to about 40 degrees.
  • Mix the cooled pudding with a dough hook in the food processor or mixing bowl and add the butter in cubes.
  • It is important that the butter is at room temperature, otherwise there is a chance that the butter will curdle.
  • Then put the muslin in a piping bag with a serrated mouth and let it cool in the refrigerator.

Finish

  • Cut the choux rings in half with a bread knife and fill the choux with a layer of crème de patisserie.
  • Cut the passion fruit in half and scoop a small amount of the passion fruit onto the crème de patisserie with a spoon.
  • Then pipe the muslin in nice tufts on the crème de patisserie and place the other half of the choux ring on top.
  • Decorate the choux rings with some icing sugar, mousseline, chocolate decoration and nougatine cookies.
  • To finish it off you can make a nice decoration of hazelnut. To do this, make caramel; put 175 grams of sugar and 40 ml of water in a pan and bring to the boil. Meanwhile, stir well until the sugar has dissolved. Once the mixture boils, stop stirring and wait for the mixture to turn golden
Source: Roger van Damme
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Poached devil fish and a beurre blanc with capers

Servings 4 persons

Ingredients
  

  • 4 devil fish wings
  • 3 dl fish stock
  • pepper
  • salt
  • 2 sprigs thyme
  • 2 dl white wine
  • 2 dl white wine vinegar
  • 2 dl water
  • 1 shallot
  • 1 sprigs thyme
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 dash cream
  • 60 g apple capers
  • 150 g butter

Instructions
 

poached devil fish

  • Heat the fish fumet.
  • Preheat the oven to 180°C.
  • Season the fish on both sides with salt and pepper. Place the wings in the baking dish.
  • Pour over the fish fumet. Add a few sprigs of thyme. Spread a few knobs of butter over the fish.
  • Cover the baking dish with aluminum foil and poach the fish in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes. Check if the fish is ready by poking it.

beurre blanc

  • In a saucepan, bring the white wine, white wine vinegar and water to the boil for the 'reduction'.
  • Peel the shallot and cut into half rings. Add the shallot to the liquid and season with salt, pepper, a sprig of thyme and a bay leaf. Let it boil down.
  • Strain the reduction and put it back on the fire. Let it boil down further. Add a splash of cream.
  • Remove the stems and finely chop the capers.
  • Cut the cold butter into cubes and stir with a whisk through the reduction until it becomes a nice, lightly bound sauce. Season with salt and pepper. Add the chopped capers.
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Black pudding, apple compote and red onion jam

Servings 4 persons

Ingredients
  

  • 8 pieces small black pudding boudin noir, backed before serving see recipe

Apple compote

  • 4 pieces gold reinets
  • 10 g butter
  • 0.5 stick cinnamon
  • 1 pcs star anise
  • 10 g butter
  • 0.5 tbsp honey

Red onion jam

  • 10 g butter
  • 600 g red onions
  • 20 pieces silver onions
  • 1 dl port
  • grenadine to taste
  • balsamic vinegar to taste

Caramelized apple or quince

  • 2 pieces Granny Smiths or quince
  • 15 g butter
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • Gravy with ginger and honey
  • 10 g butter
  • apple peels and cores
  • 2 tbsp pineapple in small cubes
  • 1 tbsp rosemary honey
  • 1 tbsp chopped ginger
  • 1 pcs star anise
  • lemon juice to taste
  • 80 g gravy from pork or lamb
  • 10 g butter
  • 2 tbsp pineapple in small cubes

Decor

  • 12 slices caramelized Granny Smith
  • 4 slices dried quince or Royal Gala apples
  • 1 tbsp chopped rosemary

Instructions
 

  • A few minutes before service you bake the black puddings in butter.

Dried apple or quince

  • Cut the fruit into thin slices with the mandolin. Sprinkle with icing sugar and place in the food dryer or oven at 80°C until dry and crispy.

Apple compote

  • Peel and cut the apples into quarters. Keep the shells and chambers.
  • Place the apple in a saucepan with the butter, lemon juice and spices. Place over a gentle heat until the apples are mashed into a purée. Add some water if it is boiling too dry. Then mash with a fork.

Red onion jam

  • Slice the onions and caramelize with a little brown sugar with the butter. Add the pearl onions with the red port. Reduce until all liquid has evaporated. Then add the balsamic vinegar and grednadine. Simmer until the pearl onions are soft. Season with salt and pepper and a little more vinegar if needed.

Caramelized apples

  • Peel and quarter the apples and caramelize with the butter and honey. Add the chopped rosemary and let it cook for a while.
  • Gravy with ginger and honey
  • Boil the peels and cores of the apples with honey, star anise and ginger with some water. Then add the pork or lamb gravy and reduce. Add butter, lemon juice and the pineapple brunoise, let it boil and set aside.

Decor

  • Lay the apple compote in a ring on a plate. Put a spoonful of onion jam on top.
  • Arrange the sausages, caramelized apples and apple slices around it.
  • Spoon the gravy and finish with the dried apple slices. Sprinkle with some lemon zest and serve.
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Baguette à l'ancienne

Ingredients
  

  • 1 kg flour type 55 or 65 Best is Farine Tradition
  • 750 g water
  • 2 g dry yeast
  • 20 g salt

Instructions
 

  • First weigh the water and then the flour.
  • Mix water and flour with a spoon and finally with wet hands. The lumps should be out, do not knead.
  • Let this dough stand for 45 minutes under a cloth or plastic, which should not touch the dough, otherwise it will stick to it. After this autolysis you first mix the salt through the dough and then the dry yeast.
  • When the dough is well mixed, transfer it to a container, seal it and put it in the fridge overnight.
  • The next morning, take the dough out of the fridge and dump it onto your workbench. Fold the dough over twice to make it firmer. Then put back in the container and seal, put back in the fridge for a few hours.
  • Remove the dough from the refrigerator and turn it over again. Let it rise outside the fridge for a few hours.
  • Preheat the oven to the highest setting. Place a stone in the oven you are going to bake on.
  • Sprinkle some flour on the work surface and spread the dough on it.
  • Place baking paper on a shooter and sprinkle with semolina.
  • Cut off pieces of dough with a pastry cutter and place on the baking paper.
  • Score the dough with a sharp knife and bake in the oven. Immediately put a glass of hot water in the oven to create steam. Quickly close the oven and lower the temperature to 220°C. Turn off the fan for the first 10 minutes, if you have one. After these 10 minutes, bake with the fan on for another 10 to 15 minutes, so 20-25 in total. Let cool on a rack.
Source: Issa Niemeijer
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Black pudding and autumn fruits with pumpkin

Servings 6 persons

Ingredients
  

  • 800 g black pudding
  • 6 pieces pears firm peeled and whole
  • 6 pieces golden rennet small peeled, cut in half
  • 3 pieces quinces core removed and cut into wedges
  • 100 g fat
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp calvados
  • 2 pinches cinnamon
  • 0.5 pieces pumpkin in cubes of 1 cm

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 150°C.
  • Put the pumpkin cubes in a baking tray with some olive oil and bake them in the oven until they are soft.
  • Melt half the fat over low heat and add the quinces. Bake them for about 10 minutes until golden brown.
  • Dip the pears and apples in the cinnamon and add to the quinces.
  • Add the sugar and pumpkin to the fruit when it has softened. Then flambé with the calvados. Season with salt and pepper.
  • Heat the rest of the fat in another frying pan and fry the black puddings in it.
  • Serve the sausage with the fruit and the pumpkin with the cooking liquid.
Inspiration: Stéphane Reynaud, Pork & Sons
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Black pudding sausage

Servings 2 kg

Ingredients
  

  • 1 kg pork belly
  • 1 liter pork blood
  • 40 g sea salt
  • 2 tsp mace grinded
  • 1 tsp black pepper grinded
  • 3 tsp mustard powder grinded
  • 5 pieces cloves grinded
  • 1,5 tsp allspice grinded
  • 50 g rusk grinded
  • 150 g shalot chopped
  • 1 piece porc intestine diameter 30-32 mm

Instructions
 

  • Make sure the meat and the meat grinder are very cold. Place them in the fridge for half an hour before processing.
  • Saute the shallots in some butter or lard.
  • Grind the meat on the 8 mm plate. In a cold mixing bowl, mix the meat with all the herbs and spices, the rusk crumbs and the fried shallots.
  • Add the blood little by little until the meat and rusk have absorbed the blood well. The sausage meat is now quite runny and ready to be squeezed into the gut.
  • Tie the beginning of the casing closed and pull the entire casing over the mouth of the sausage stopper or funnel. Fill the casing with the sausage meat and tie another knot in the casing at the end.
  • Portion the sausage with butcher's twine into pieces of about 15 cm.
  • Then put the whole sausage in a pan of water with salt. Bring the water to a boil and let it simmer for about 15 minutes until the core temperature of the sausage is 72°C. Then quickly cool them back in ice water.
Source: Sam Levie
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Beurre blanc

Servings 200 gram

Ingredients
  

  • 2 pieces pieces of shallot finely chopped
  • 3 tbsp white wine vinegar
  • 4 tbsp white wine
  • 2 tbsp cold water
  • 200 g butter cold and cut into pieces
  • salt
  • pepper
  • cayenne pepper

Instructions
 

  • Melt a piece of butter in the pan and fry the shallots over low heat.
  • Then add the vinegar, wine and water and bring to a boil over low heat.
  • Now gradually beat in the butter. Always melt some butter and then the next batch. Continue until you have a nice emulsion.
  • Season with salt, pepper, cayenne pepper and lemon juice, if desired.
  • Finally, strain the sauce to remove the shallots. The sauce is now ready to use.
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Hunters sauce

Ingredients
  

  • 200 g mushrooms
  • 100 g butter
  • 40 g shallot chopped
  • 4 dl dry white wine
  • 4 dl veal stock or veal gravy for a strong sauce
  • 1 tbsp tbsp chopped parsley
  • 1 tsp tsp tarragon minced

Instructions
 

  • Cut the mushrooms into slices. Heat half the butter in a shallow pan and sauté the mushrooms for 1 minute over medium heat. Add the shallot and sauté for another 1 minute, being careful not to discolour the shallot.
  • Place in a sieve and drain the cooking liquid.
  • Return to the pan, deglaze with the wine and reduce by half over medium heat. Add the veal stock or gravy and simmer gently for 15-20 minutes, until the sauce is thick enough to stick to a spoon.
  • Remove the pan from the heat and whisk in the remaining butter and spices. Check the taste and add salt and pepper if needed.
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Ingredients
  

  • 3 kg veal shoulder
  • 10 cl Arachide oil
  • 150 g Butter
  • 50 g Garlic
  • 3 branch thym
  • 2 g Pepper black
  • 3 l chicken stock
  • 75 g Butter
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 pinch Pepper
  • INSTRUCTIES

Instructions
 

  • Cut the meat into 2 cm cubes. Fry them in hot oil over high heat. Do not stir at first, let the bottom brown well, then turn. Immediately scrape the crusts off the bottom. When the meat is completely browned all over, put it in a sieve to drain the oil.
  • Place the butter in the pan, the crushed garlic cloves, thyme and the crushed pepper. When the butter starts to foam, return the meat to the pan. Then pour over the liquid (water or chicken stock) until the meat is just covered. Reduce until completely dry and repeat this step.
  • Then add more water and reduce until half of the moisture has evaporated. Skim well every time. Then drain through a fine sieve and collect the gravy. Then set aside for further processing.
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Tomato coulis

Servings 4 personen

Ingredients
  

  • 1,5 dl olive oil
  • 2 cloves garlic squashed
  • 60 g sjalots chopped
  • 1 pcs bouquet garni
  • 750 g ripe tomatoes or canned tomatoes
  • 1 tblsp tomato paste
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 6 pcs pepper corns squashed
  • salt

Instructions
 

  • In a heavy-bottomed saucepan, heat the olive oil with the garlic, shallot and bouquet garni. After 2 minutes, add the tomatoes and tomato paste, sugar and peppercorns. Simmer gently for about 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
  • Remove the bouquet garni and whiz the contents of the pan in a blender until smooth. Season with salt and pepper.
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