
Photo: Jakob Fridholm/Image Bank Sweden
| Sorbet of apple juice from Tranaholm with butter confit on Aroma apple and cardamom crispy biscuit |
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Recipe type: Dessert
Author: Paul Svensson
Serves: 10
This recipe was created by top Swedish chef Paul Svensson in partnership with Swedish Menu. Paul Svensson is known for his work as creative leader at the Michelin-starred restaurants Fredsgatan 12 and Bon Lloc in Stockholm. Svensson also represented Sweden in the most prestigious chef competition in the world, the Bocuse d’Or, in 2003, where he came in fifth place.
- Apple confit:
- 4 Aroma apple or Gravenstein
- 400g sugar
- 400g butter
- 1dl Tranaholm apple juice
- Crispy biscuit:
- 8 feuilles de brick pastry sheets
- 3 green apples
- icing sugar
- Sorbet:
- 2 liters Tranaholm apple juice
- 1kg sugar syrup
- 200g glucose
- 2 gelatin sheets, soaked
- 20 whole cinnamon
- Crumbs:
- 500g butter
- 500g flour
- 200g almond flour
- 2 tablespoons cardamom
- 200g sugar
- Assembly:
- 3 green apples, frozen
Apple confit:
- Peel Aroma apples and cut into thick wedges.
- Bring the butter and sugar to the boil and let it caramelize (at 118-121°C/244-250°F).
- Add the juice and the apple wedges. Boil until the apple wedges are soft and springy.
Crispy apple biscuit:
- Brush feuilles de brick pastry sheets with melted butter.
- Slice the green apples thinly over and sprinkle with icing sugar.
- Cover with another sheet feuilles de brick, brushed with melted butter.
- Bake in pressure between two plates at 150°C/300°F until they are crisp and golden.
- Cut into wedges.
Sorbet:
- Bring the apple juice to the boil with cinnamon and let the gelatin melt in it.
- Mix with the remaining ingredients and run in an ice cream machine.
Crumbs:
- Run all the ingredients in a food processor and spread out on a baking sheet.
- Bake in oven at 160°C/320°F until crisp and golden. Let dry on paper.
Assembly:
- Serve the apple wedges with cardamom crumbs, crispy biscuits and apple juice sorbet and freshly coarsely grated frozen apple.
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Tranaholms Musteri is a family business run by Stefan and Heli Lövström in Östhammar just outside Uppsala in Uppland. They have been filling bottles with delicious juice made from their own fruit since 2006. No additives are used as they feel that quality is more important than quantity.
You can order their products from Swedish Menu.