Calamondin

By Chef Loi Ming Ai

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Ingredients

For 63 servings

Lime Sablé

110 g Debic Crème Butter

80 g icing sugar

40 g almond powder

200 g flour

1 nos lime zest

40 g whole egg

Lime Pain de Gènes

312.5 g almond paste 60%

234 g whole egg

62.5 g egg yolk

47 g flour

3 g baking powder

141 g Debic Crème Butter

1 limes, the zest

Calamansi Cremeux

150 g calamansi puree

60 g glucose syrup

200 g whole egg

100 g sugar

48 g gelatin mass

150 g Debic Crème Butter

Ginger Light Diplomat

400 g crème patisserie

600 g Debic Cream Cheese

132 g gelatin mass

2 limes, the zest

180 g ginger puree

620 g Debic Stand & Overrun

210 g meringue base

Crème Patisserie

450 g milk

50 g Debic Whipping Cream 35%

100 g sugar

100 g egg yolk

50 g cornstarch

50 g Debic Crème Butter

Swiss meringue

100 g egg white

75 g glucose syrup

75 g inverted sugar

Mango Glaze

325 g water

50 g sugar (1)

3 g pectin nh

525 g sugar (2)

15 g inverted sugar

150 g gelatin mass

160 g mango puree

75 g cocoa butter

Preparation

Lime Sablé

Mix Crème Butter, icing sugar, almond powder, flour and lime zest until sandy texture

Add whole egg and mix briefly

Store in the refrigerator

Roll out at 2 mm thickness and cut out circles of 7 cm diameter

Bake at 160˚C for 25 minutes

Lime Pain de Gènes

Blend almond paste with whole egg and egg yolk in a robot coupe

Pour over a mixing bowl with a whisk attachment and whip up the mixture to the ribbon stage

Gently fold in the flour, baking powder, melted Crème Butter and lime zest

Spread into a rectangle ring (37 x 28.5 cm) and bake at 170˚C for 10 minutes

Calamansi Cremeux

Cook a crème Anglaise (83°C) with calamansi puree, glucose syrup, whole egg and sugar in a saucepan

Melt in the gelatin mass and emulsify with the Crème Butter

Ginger Light Diplomat

Warm up the crème patisserie and blend with the melted gelatin mass

Emulsify with the Cream Cheese, lime zest and ginger puree

Once the mixture has cooled down to 30˚C, fold in the meringue base and the Stand & Overrun

Crème Patisserie

Mix milk, Whipping Cream 35%, sugar, egg yolk, cornstarch, and Crème Butter in a saucepan to make a crème patisserie

Swiss Meringue

Gently warm up the egg whites and sugar over a warm water bath and stir until the sugar is dissolved

Whip this mixture in a stand mixer until it forms bright white, fluffy peaks

Mango Glaze

Heat the water to 45˚C in a saucepan

Add sugar-pectin mix and continue to cook until boiling

Gradually add in sugar (2) and inverted sugar, continue to cook syrup to 68 Brix

Add in gelatin mass, then emulsify with cocoa butter

At 40˚C, blend in puree

Used at 65 Brix

Assembly

Pour calamansi cremeux over the lime pain de gene in the ring and freeze for an hour in the blast freezer

Un-mould from the ring and cut the insert to 4 x 4 cm squares

Pipe a layer of ginger light diplomat into silicon moulds (SF163) and press the frozen insert into it

Pipe the remaining ginger light diplomat into half sphere silicon moulds (SF005) and freeze for an hour in the blast freezer

Remove the product with the insert from the moulds and glaze with a mango glaze and transfer it onto the lime sable

Spray the other half spheres with a layer of white cocoa butter and place it on the top

Decorate the finished dessert with Capello and button chocolate garnishes